Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam Practice Test Instant Access

Question 1

You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few weeks. Where can you store the file so it is in the default execution path and persists across sessions?

A~/bin

BCloud Storage

C/google/scripts

D/usr/local/bin

Answer : D

https://medium.com/google-cloud/no-localhost-no-problem-using-google-cloud-shell-as-my-full-time-development-environment-22d5a1942439

Question 2

Your web application uses Google Kubernetes Engine to manage several workloads. One workload requires a consistent set of hostnames even after pod scaling and relaunches.

Which feature of Kubernetes should you use to accomplish this?

AStatefulSets

BRole-based access control

CContainer environment variables

DPersistent Volumes

Answer : A

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateful-application/basic-stateful-set/

Question 3

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.

What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?

AReplace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.

BDowngrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.

CResize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.

DContainerize the micro services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.

Answer : C

Question 4

You have deployed an application to Kubernetes Engine, and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to

make the Cloud SQL database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are notified that the

application is reporting database connection issues. Your company policies require a post-mortem. What should you do?

AUse gcloud sql instances restart.

BValidate that the Service Account used by the Cloud SQL proxy container still has the Cloud Build Editor role.

CIn the GCP Console, navigate to Stackdriver Logging. Consult logs for Kubernetes Engine and Cloud SQL.

DIn the GCP Console, navigate to Cloud SQL. Restore the latest backup. Use kubect1 to restart all pods.

Answer : C

Question 5

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints. They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs. Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?

AThey should enable Google Stackdriver Debugger on the application code to show errors in the code.

BThey should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.

CThey should run the end-to-end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is working as intended.

DThey should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release causes to latency.

Answer : B

Question 6

You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as a new instances in a different project in the US-East region. What steps must you take?

AUse the Linux dd and netcat command to copy and stream the root disk contents to a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region.

BCreate a snapshot of the root disk and select the snapshot as the root disk when you create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region.

CCreate an image file from the root disk with Linux dd command, create a new disk from the image file, and use it to create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region

DCreate a snapshot of the root disk, create an image file in Google Cloud Storage from the snapshot, and create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region using the image file for the root disk.

Answer : D

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36441423/migrate-google-compute-engine-instance-to-a-different-region

Question 7

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets Mountkirk's technical requirement for storing game activity in a time series database service?

ACloud Bigtable

BCloud Spanner

CBigQuery

DCloud Datastore

Answer : A

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/getting-started-with-time-series-trend-predictions-using-gcp

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