Google ACE Practice Test 42 — 15 Questions

Question 1

An engineer wants to view the current IAM policy for a project. Which TWO commands will accomplish this?

Accepted Answer

gcloud projects get-iam-policy my-project --format json. The gcloud projects get-iam-policy command retrieves the IAM policy for a project. The gcloud projects get-ancestors-iam-policy retrieves policies from ancestors, not the project itself. The other commands are for different purposes.

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gcloud resource-manager folders get-iam-policy my-folder

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gcloud iam service-accounts get-iam-policy my-sa@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

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gcloud projects get-ancestors-iam-policy my-project

Question 2

An engineer needs to view the current IAM policy for a project in JSON format to analyze bindings. Which command should be used?

Accepted Answer

gcloud projects get-iam-policy my-project --format json. The command gcloud projects get-iam-policy PROJECT_ID --format json retrieves the IAM policy for the project in JSON format. Other commands either get policies for different resources or use a different format.

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gcloud resource-manager folders get-iam-policy my-project --format json

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gcloud projects get-iam-policy my-project --format yaml

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gcloud iam policies get my-project --format json

Question 3

An engineer needs to allow HTTP traffic from the internet to a set of Compute Engine instances that have the network tag 'web-server'. The instances are in a VPC with a default firewall rule that denies all ingress. Which command creates the required firewall rule?

Accepted Answer

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-http --allow tcp:80 --source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags web-server. The rule must allow TCP port 80 from source 0.0.0.0/0 to instances with target tag 'web-server'. The correct command uses '--allow tcp:80', '--source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0', and '--target-tags web-server'. Priority can be default (1000).

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gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-http --allow tcp:80 --source-tags web-server

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gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-http --allow tcp:80 --source-ranges web-server

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gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-http --allow http --target-tags web-server

Question 4

A company has multiple VPC networks in their project. They want Compute Engine instances in one VPC to communicate with instances in another VPC using internal IP addresses. Which feature should they use?

Accepted Answer

VPC Network Peering. VPC Peering allows connectivity between two VPC networks using internal IPs. VPN is for on-premises connectivity. Cloud NAT is for outbound internet access. Firewall rules control traffic but do not enable routing between VPCs.

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Cloud NAT

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Cloud VPN

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Firewall rules

Question 5

Which command is used to view the current IAM policy for a Google Cloud project in JSON format?

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gcloud projects get-iam-policy [PROJECT_ID] --format json. The 'gcloud projects get-iam-policy' command retrieves the IAM policy for a project. The '--format json' flag outputs it in JSON. The other options are for other resources or wrong scope.

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gcloud compute instances get-iam-policy [INSTANCE]

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gcloud organizations get-iam-policy [ORG_ID]

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gcloud iam service-accounts get-iam-policy [SERVICE_ACCOUNT]

Question 6

A developer needs to store a database password in Secret Manager and then allow a Compute Engine instance to access it. The instance uses the default compute engine service account. Which role should be granted to the service account?

Accepted Answer

roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor. To access the secret version's payload, the service account needs the 'secretmanager.secretAccessor' role on the secret (or project). That role allows accessing secret versions. roles/secretmanager.admin is too broad. roles/cloudsql.client is for Cloud SQL, not Secret Manager. roles/viewer does not allow access to secret payloads.

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roles/cloudsql.client

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roles/secretmanager.admin

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roles/viewer

Question 7

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?

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Cloud SQL (MySQL). Cloud SQL with MySQL provides managed MySQL with high availability (regional) and automated backups. Cloud Storage can host static assets publicly.

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Bigtable

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Cloud Filestore

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Cloud Spanner

Question 8

A DevOps team needs to grant a CI/CD service account the ability to create secrets in Secret Manager. Which role should be assigned?

Accepted Answer

roles/secretmanager.admin. The roles/secretmanager.admin role grants full control, including creating secrets. roles/secretmanager.secretCreator does not exist; the admin role includes create permission.

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roles/secretmanager.secretCreator

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roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor

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roles/secretmanager.viewer

Question 9

A company wants to organize their GCP resources into a hierarchy to separate development, staging, and production environments. Which THREE resources can be used to create this separation?

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Folders. GCP resource hierarchy includes Organization, Folders, Projects, and Resources. Folders can be used to group projects (e.g., dev folder, prod folder). Projects are the containers for resources. Labels are metadata tags but not part of the hierarchy. Billing accounts are separate from the hierarchy. IAM policy is not a resource for separation.

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Billing accounts

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Labels

Question 10

Match each Google Cloud service to its primary purpose.

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Compute Engine: Provides virtual machines for running workloads.. Google Cloud services each have a specific purpose: Compute Engine for VMs, Cloud Storage for object storage, Cloud SQL for managed relational databases, and BigQuery for data warehousing. Distractors swap these definitions.

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Compute Engine: Managed relational database service.

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Cloud Storage: Data warehousing for analytics.

Question 11

Match each IAM role to its typical access level.

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Viewer: Read-only access to resources. IAM roles in GCP have predefined permissions: Viewer (read-only), Editor (read/write but no IAM), Owner (full control). Security Admin is a separate role for managing security policies.

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Security Admin: Read-only access to resources

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Viewer: Full access including IAM management

Question 12

You need to view the current gcloud configuration settings, including the active account, project, and compute region. Which TWO commands can you use? (Choose two.)

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gcloud config list. gcloud config list displays all configuration properties. gcloud info provides detailed information, including configuration.

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gcloud config describe

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gcloud projects list

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gcloud auth list

Question 13

An organization has a VPC with instances in two subnets: subnet-a (10.0.1.0/24) and subnet-b (10.0.2.0/24). They want to allow HTTP traffic from any instance in subnet-a to any instance in subnet-b. What firewall rule should be created?

Accepted Answer

An ingress rule on subnet-b allowing traffic from 10.0.1.0/24 on TCP port 80. Firewall rules are defined with direction and source/target. To allow inbound traffic to subnet-b from subnet-a, an ingress rule with source range 10.0.1.0/24 is needed.

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An egress rule on subnet-b allowing traffic to 10.0.1.0/24 on TCP port 80

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An ingress rule on subnet-a allowing traffic to 10.0.2.0/24 on TCP port 80

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An egress rule on subnet-a allowing traffic to 10.0.2.0/24 on TCP port 80

Question 14

You are setting up a new GCP project for a microservices application. You need to select which APIs to enable. Which THREE APIs are likely required? (Choose 3)

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cloudbuild.googleapis.com. For a microservices application on Kubernetes, you need the Kubernetes Engine API (container.googleapis.com), and often the Cloud Build API (cloudbuild.googleapis.com) for CI/CD and Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com) as a dependency for GKE. Cloud Storage API is not necessarily required unless using Cloud Storage. BigQuery is for analytics.

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storage.googleapis.com

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bigquery.googleapis.com

Question 15

A company wants to set up a new GCP project and ensure that only approved APIs can be used. Which two steps should they take? (Choose TWO)

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Use an organization policy to restrict the set of allowed APIs. To restrict API usage, you can disable unapproved APIs and use organization policies to enforce restrictions.

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Create a custom role with permissions to enable APIs

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Set a budget to limit API usage costs

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Assign the Owner role to the project