Deploying and Implementing a Cloud Solution

You want to create a Compute Engine instance with a default machine type of n1-standard-1, using the latest Debian 11 image, with a 50GB boot disk, in the us-central1-a zone. Which gcloud command accomplishes this?

You have a managed instance group (MIG) with instances that need to run a startup script to configure monitoring agents. You created the instance template without a startup script. Which action should you take to add the startup script?

An organization needs to deploy a containerized web application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and expose it to the internet with a static IP address. The cluster is regional, with 3 nodes. Which sequence of kubectl commands achieves this?

You deployed a Cloud Run service with gcloud run deploy --image gcr.io/my-project/my-image --platform managed --region us-central1 --allow-unauthenticated. Users report intermittent 503 errors. What is the most likely cause?

You are managing a Cloud Functions deployment that processes messages from a Pub/Sub topic. You need to ensure the function can read messages from the topic and acknowledge them. Which IAM role should you assign to the function's service account?

You need to create a Cloud Storage bucket with the default storage class for frequently accessed data in the us-west1 region. Which command creates the bucket?

You need to deploy an application that requires a regional MySQL database with automated backups, high availability, and failover. You also need to store static assets that are publicly accessible. Which TWO Google Cloud services should you use?

You are using Terraform to manage a GKE cluster. After running 'terraform apply', the cluster is created. Later, you manually delete the cluster via the Cloud Console. What should you do next to align your Terraform state with the actual infrastructure?

You need to allow SSH access to a Compute Engine instance. Which method is the recommended way to manage SSH keys for multiple users?

You are deploying a high-traffic web application on GKE. You need to automatically scale the number of pods based on CPU utilization. Which THREE steps are required to set up Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)?

You need to deploy a Cloud Function that is triggered by HTTP requests. You want to pass configuration parameters to the function at deployment time. Which approach should you use?

You are using gsutil to upload files to a Cloud Storage bucket. You need to set the storage class of the objects to Nearline. Which TWO methods can you use?

You are managing a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. You need to import a SQL dump file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. The file is 10GB. Which command should you use?

You created a Cloud Run service from source code using gcloud run deploy --source . --region us-central1 --platform managed. Where can you view the build logs and runtime logs?

You need to create a Cloud Storage bucket with a retention policy that prevents object deletion for 30 days. Which TWO steps are necessary?

A developer is deploying a containerized application on Cloud Run. The application needs to be invoked by external HTTPS requests without requiring authentication. Which flag should be included in the 'gcloud run deploy' command?

An engineer wants to create a Compute Engine instance with a specific machine type, a custom network subnet, and a startup script. Which gcloud command correctly creates such an instance?

A team is using Terraform to manage infrastructure. They want to store the Terraform state file remotely in a GCS bucket for team collaboration. Which Terraform backend configuration is correct?

A Cloud Function needs to be triggered whenever a message is published to a Pub/Sub topic. Which 'gcloud functions deploy' command flag is required to set the trigger?

An organization has strict security policies requiring that all Compute Engine instances use OS Login for SSH access instead of metadata-based SSH keys. Which two actions must be taken to enforce this for all new instances? (Choose two.)

A company wants to deploy a microservice on GKE. The deployment requires 3 replicas, and the service must be accessible via a fixed public IP address. Which Kubernetes resource should be used to expose the deployment?

Which gcloud command creates a regional GKE cluster named 'my-cluster' with 3 nodes per zone in the 'us-central1' region?

An engineer needs to migrate a large on-premises database to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. The database is 500 GB and can tolerate a few hours of downtime. The migration must minimize manual intervention. Which approach should the engineer use?

A developer is using Cloud Functions with HTTP trigger. The function needs to process a request payload and return a response. What is the correct way to send a JSON response from the function?

An organization wants to use Cloud Storage to host a static website. The bucket name must match the domain name. They already own the domain 'example.com' and want to serve the site from 'www.example.com'. Which bucket name should they create?

Which kubectl command is used to view the logs of a specific pod named 'my-pod'?

A company is using a managed instance group (MIG) with autoscaling based on CPU utilization. The application is memory-intensive, and the team notices that new instances are not being created quickly enough during traffic spikes. What should the engineer do to improve responsiveness?

A team is deploying a web application on Cloud Run. The application needs to be available globally with low latency, and the team wants to use a custom domain with an SSL certificate. Which TWO actions are required to achieve this?

An engineer needs to allow an external IP address (203.0.113.5) to access a Compute Engine instance that only has an internal IP. The instance is in a VPC with Cloud NAT. Which TWO steps are necessary to enable this access?

A company wants to set up a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance with automated backups and a read replica for disaster recovery. Which THREE features or configurations should be enabled?

A developer wants to create a Compute Engine instance with the default Debian 11 image, a 50 GB boot disk, and in a specific subnet. Which command should be used?

A company has a managed instance group (MIG) with a fixed number of instances. They want to add an autoscaling policy that scales based on CPU utilization, with a target utilization of 60%. Which command should be used to update the MIG?

A DevOps engineer needs to deploy a containerized application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using a Deployment YAML file. The cluster is already created and kubectl is configured. Which command should they use to create the deployment?

A team is using Terraform to manage Google Cloud resources. They want to store the Terraform state file in a Cloud Storage bucket to enable collaboration. Which Terraform backend configuration should be used?

A data scientist wants to deploy a Python function that processes messages from a Pub/Sub topic whenever a new message arrives. The function should be stateless and run in a serverless environment. Which deployment command should be used?

A developer needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket with the 'Nearline' storage class in the 'us-east1' region for storing data that is accessed less than once a month. Which command should be used?

A company wants to allow unauthenticated HTTP invocations of a container deployed on Cloud Run. Which flag should be included in the 'gcloud run deploy' command?

A Cloud SQL for MySQL instance needs to be created with the following requirements: MySQL 8.0, db-n1-standard-2 tier, in us-central1, with root password 'secret'. Which command meets these requirements?

An engineer needs to view the logs generated by a Cloud Run service to troubleshoot a recent deployment. Which service should they use?

A company wants to deploy a containerized application on Cloud Run that is built from source code in a local directory. They want Cloud Run to automatically build the container image using Cloud Build. Which command should be used?

A developer needs to make a Cloud Storage bucket publicly readable for all users. Which command should be used to set the appropriate IAM binding?

An engineer wants to create a regional GKE cluster with 3 nodes by default. Which command should be used?

A company wants to deploy a web application that receives high traffic and requires automatic scaling based on CPU usage, with zero-downtime deployments. The application is containerized. Which TWO services should be considered? (Choose 2 correct answers.)

A DevOps engineer is responsible for deploying a new microservice to GKE. They need to expose the service externally on a static IP address and scale based on HTTP request load. Which THREE resources must be created? (Choose 3 correct answers.)

A company wants to migrate an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL with minimal downtime. The database is 500 GB. Which TWO steps should be taken? (Choose 2 correct answers.)

A company wants to deploy a containerized application on Google Cloud that automatically scales to zero when not in use, and they want to minimize operational overhead. They also need to avoid managing any underlying infrastructure such as Kubernetes clusters or VMs. Which service should they use?

A developer wants to create a Compute Engine instance with the default Debian 11 image, 50 GB boot disk, in the us-west1-a zone, and attach it to the default VPC subnet. Which command should they run?

A DevOps engineer is configuring a managed instance group (MIG) for a stateless web application. They want to ensure that when new instances are created via rolling update or autoscaling, a startup script runs to install security patches and deploy the latest application code from a Cloud Storage bucket. What is the BEST way to achieve this?

A developer needs to create a zonal GKE cluster with 3 nodes of type e2-standard-4 in zone us-central1-a. Which command should they use?

After deploying a Kubernetes Deployment named 'web-app', a developer wants to expose it externally on a static IP address. Which kubectl command should they use?

A team is deploying a microservice to Cloud Run that needs to process messages from Pub/Sub. The service should only be invocable by Pub/Sub push deliveries, not by unauthenticated HTTP requests. What should the team do?

You want to deploy a Cloud Function triggered by HTTP requests. The function is written in Node.js and the entry point function is named 'helloHttp'. Which command should you use?

An administrator needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket in the US multi-region with the 'nearline' storage class. Which command should they use?

A company wants to migrate an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL. They need to import an existing SQL dump file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Which command should they use?

An engineer is using Terraform to manage GCP resources. They want to store the Terraform state file remotely so that the team can collaborate. Which backend configuration should they use?

A developer wants to make objects in a Cloud Storage bucket publicly readable. They want to grant access to allUsers with the objectViewer role. Which command should they use?

A team needs to set up autoscaling for a managed instance group based on CPU utilization. They want the average CPU across the group to stay around 60%. Which autoscaling policy configuration should they use?

A company is deploying a microservice on Cloud Run. They want to ensure that the service can handle high traffic spikes by allowing multiple concurrent requests per container instance. They also want to minimize cold starts. Which two settings should they configure? (Choose two.)

A DevOps engineer is creating a GKE cluster for a production workload that requires high availability and resilience to zone failures. They also need to deploy a stateless application that can scale based on CPU usage. Which two actions should they take? (Choose two.)

A developer wants to deploy a Cloud Run service from source code in a local directory. Which two commands or steps are necessary? (Choose two.)

A developer needs to create a Compute Engine VM with 4 vCPUs, 15 GB of memory, and a Debian 10 boot disk. Which gcloud compute instances create command is correct?

An organization wants to deploy a containerized web application on Google Cloud with minimum operational overhead. The application should scale to zero when not in use and only incur costs when serving requests. Which service should they choose?

A team is using Terraform to manage Google Cloud infrastructure. They want to store Terraform state files in a remote backend that supports locking to prevent concurrent modifications. Which backend should they use?

A DevOps engineer needs to deploy a containerized microservice to Cloud Run that processes messages from Pub/Sub. The service must authenticate to Google Cloud APIs using a service account. Which Cloud Run deployment command should they use to ensure the service uses a specific service account?

An engineer deployed a new version of their application on GKE using a Deployment. Users report that the new version has a bug. The engineer wants to quickly revert to the previous version. How can they achieve this?

A company wants to create a Cloud Storage bucket to store archival data that is accessed infrequently (less than once a year). The data must be stored at the lowest possible cost. Which storage class should they choose?

A developer created a Cloud Function with HTTP trigger. When they send a POST request to the function's URL, they get a 403 Forbidden error. The function is deployed with --allow-unauthenticated flag? What is the most likely cause?

An organization needs to deploy a regional Cloud SQL MySQL instance with 4 vCPUs and 15 GB of memory. The instance should be highly available within a single region. Which gcloud command should they use?

A company's application running on Compute Engine uses a startup script to install software. The script is failing intermittently. The engineer wants to view the startup script output for a specific instance to debug. How can they access the startup script logs?

A data analyst wants to import a SQL dump file from a Cloud Storage bucket into an existing Cloud SQL database. Which command should they use?

An engineer needs to create a GKE cluster with 3 nodes of machine type e2-medium in the us-central1 region. Which command should they use?

A team is using Terraform to deploy infrastructure. They want to ensure that the Terraform state file is encrypted at rest using a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK). What should they configure?

A company wants to deploy a stateless web application on Google Cloud. The application should automatically scale based on CPU utilization and distribute traffic across instances. Which TWO services can meet these requirements?

An organization needs to deploy a containerized application on GKE that requires persistent storage. The storage must be highly available across zones within a region. Which THREE components are required to achieve this?

A developer wants to deploy a Cloud Function that is triggered by messages in a Pub/Sub topic. Which TWO flags are required in the gcloud functions deploy command?

A developer wants to create a Compute Engine instance with the container-optimized OS image in the default network. Which command should they use?

An engineer needs to SSH into a Compute Engine instance using OS Login. What must be enabled first?

A company has a managed instance group (MIG) with an autoscaler based on CPU utilization. The MIG is not scaling up even though CPU utilization is consistently above 80%. The instances are running a batch processing workload that takes several minutes to finish. What is the most likely cause?

An organization wants to deploy a containerized web application on GKE. They need the application to be accessible from the internet via a stable IP address. Which service type should they use when exposing the deployment?

A team wants to use Cloud Run to deploy a container that processes messages from a Pub/Sub topic. The container is stateless and the workload is expected to have irregular traffic spikes with high concurrency. Which scaling configuration is most appropriate?

Which gcloud command is used to deploy a Cloud Function triggered by HTTP requests?

A company wants to store archival data that is accessed less than once a year. The data must be preserved for 10 years. Which Cloud Storage storage class is most cost-effective?

A team is using Terraform to manage GCP infrastructure. They want to store the state file in a Cloud Storage bucket with versioning enabled. Which backend configuration is correct?

A developer wants to run a one-time query on a large dataset stored in Cloud Storage using BigQuery without loading the data into a table. Which feature should they use?

An administrator needs to create a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance with 16 vCPUs and 60 GB of memory. Which tier should they specify?

Which kubectl command lists all pods in the current namespace?

A company has a Cloud Run service that needs to access a Cloud SQL database. What is the recommended way to connect securely?

A company wants to deploy a stateless microservice on GCP. The service experiences unpredictable traffic bursts and must scale to zero when idle to minimize costs. Which two services meet these requirements?

A data engineering team wants to create a Cloud Storage bucket for storing sensitive analytics data. They require encryption at rest with customer-managed keys (CMEK) and want to restrict access to a specific service account. Which three steps are necessary?

A developer is deploying a new application on GKE and needs to configure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA). Which two resources are required for HPA to work correctly?

An engineer needs to create a Compute Engine instance with a specific custom subnet, an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image, and a 50 GB boot disk. The engineer also wants to run a startup script that installs Apache. Which gcloud command should the engineer use to create this instance?

A team is creating a managed instance group (MIG) for a stateless web application. They need to ensure that instances are automatically replaced if they become unhealthy and that new instances are rolled out gradually with no downtime during updates. Which set of configurations should they use?

An engineer is deploying a containerized application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and needs to expose it to the internet with a static external IP address. The cluster is in a VPC-native configuration. Which approach should the engineer take to meet this requirement?

A developer wants to deploy a containerized application on Cloud Run from a source code repository, without building a container image manually. The application is written in Node.js and includes a Dockerfile. Which command should the developer use to deploy directly from source?

A company wants to store backup files that are accessed only a few times per year, with retrieval times of up to a few hours. The files must be stored at the lowest possible cost. Which Cloud Storage storage class should the company use?

An engineer needs to create a Cloud SQL MySQL instance with 4 vCPUs, 15 GB of RAM, and a root password. The instance should be in the us-east1 region. Which command should the engineer run?

An engineer wants to deploy a Python function that processes messages from a Pub/Sub topic. The function should be triggered whenever a message is published to the topic. Which command should the engineer use to deploy the function?

A team is using Terraform to manage Google Cloud resources. They want to store the Terraform state file in a Cloud Storage bucket to enable collaboration. The bucket is in project 'state-project'. Which backend configuration should they use?

An administrator needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket in the US with the Nearline storage class and make objects publicly readable via IAM. Which gcloud command should they use to create the bucket?

An engineer deployed a container to Cloud Run but the service is not receiving traffic. The engineer checks the logs and finds no errors. The container listens on port 8080. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

An engineer is configuring a GKE cluster and wants to enable Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) for a deployment named 'web-frontend'. The deployment currently has 3 replicas. The engineer wants to automatically scale the number of pods based on CPU utilization, targeting 50% average CPU utilization. Which command should the engineer run?

A developer needs to SSH into a Compute Engine instance that has OS Login enabled. The developer's Google account is already granted the roles/compute.osLogin role. Which command should the developer use to connect?

An engineer is using gsutil to upload a large number of files to a Cloud Storage bucket. The upload is proceeding very slowly. Which two actions could improve the upload performance? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to GKE. The application consists of multiple microservices that need to communicate with each other. The team wants to manage traffic routing, implement canary deployments, and provide SSL termination. Which three Google Cloud services should they consider using together? (Choose three.)

An engineer is deploying a Cloud Function that processes files uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. The function needs to be triggered by new object creation events. The engineer has already written the function code. Which commands should the engineer run to create the bucket and deploy the function with the correct trigger? (Choose two.)

An engineer needs to create a Compute Engine instance with 4 vCPUs, 16 GB of memory, and a 100 GB boot disk using the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS image. Which gcloud command accomplishes this?

A company has a managed instance group (MIG) of web servers behind a load balancer. They want to deploy a new version of the application with zero downtime and the ability to roll back quickly if issues arise. Which update strategy should they use?

A developer wants to deploy a containerized application to Cloud Run that should be publicly accessible over the internet. The container image is stored in Container Registry. Which gcloud command should they use?

A team is using Terraform to manage Google Cloud resources. They want to store the Terraform state file in a Cloud Storage bucket with versioning enabled. Which backend configuration should they use?

An organization needs to deploy a Cloud Function that processes messages from a Pub/Sub topic and writes results to BigQuery. The function must be triggered by every message published to the topic. Which deployment command is correct?

A developer needs to upload a large number of files from their local machine to a Cloud Storage bucket. Which command should they use?

A company wants to run a stateful application on Compute Engine with persistent storage that can be attached to another instance in case of failure. Which storage option should they use?

A DevOps engineer needs to create a GKE cluster with 3 nodes per zone in us-central1-a and us-central1-b, with nodes of type e2-standard-2. The cluster should be regional. Which command is correct?

An organization needs to import a SQL dump file from a Cloud Storage bucket into an existing Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. Which command should they use?

A company runs a web application on Compute Engine instances behind a load balancer. They want to automatically scale the number of instances based on CPU utilization. Which two resources must they create? (Choose TWO.)

A developer wants to deploy a containerized application to GKE and expose it externally via a load balancer. Which three kubectl commands are needed? (Choose THREE.)

An engineer needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket for storing sensitive financial data that must be encrypted at rest using a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) stored in Cloud KMS. Which two actions are required? (Choose TWO.)

A company wants to deploy a new application on Google Cloud that requires a regional managed instance group with automatic scaling based on HTTP load. Which two resources must they create? (Choose TWO.)

A DevOps engineer is setting up a CI/CD pipeline that deploys a containerized application to Cloud Run. The application source code is in a Cloud Source Repository. Which three steps are required to deploy from source? (Choose THREE.)

A company has a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance that needs to be replicated to a different region for disaster recovery. Which two actions should they take? (Choose TWO.)

A developer wants to deploy a containerized application on Google Cloud that automatically scales to zero when not in use and charges only for request processing time. The application is stateless and can be triggered by HTTP requests. Which compute option meets these requirements?

An engineer needs to create a Compute Engine VM instance with the following specifications: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB memory, running the latest Debian 11 image, a 50 GB boot disk, and attached to a specific subnet. Which command should be used?

A team is deploying a containerized microservice on GKE. They want to ensure the service is externally accessible via a stable IP address and can automatically scale the number of pods based on CPU utilization. Which TWO actions should they perform?

An organization wants to migrate on-premises databases to Cloud SQL. They have a PostgreSQL database and a MySQL database. They require high availability with automatic failover and regional resilience. Which THREE steps should they take?