Google ACE Planning and Configuring a Cloud Solution — All Questions With Answers

Question 1mediummultiple choice

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A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application has unpredictable traffic patterns and long-running connections. The team wants to minimize operational overhead and only pay for resources when the application is processing requests. Which compute option should they choose?

Question 2easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket for storing archival data that will be accessed less than once a year. The data must be stored durably and cost-effectively. Which storage class should the engineer use?

Question 3mediummultiple choice

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A company plans to run a stateful application on Compute Engine that requires high random I/O performance and the ability to resize the persistent disk without downtime. The application is running on a Linux VM. Which persistent disk type and configuration should the engineer choose?

Question 4hardmultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL to host a database. The database must be accessible from a Compute Engine VM in the same region but in a different VPC network (VPC-A). The company does not want to use public IP addresses or VPN. What should the engineer do to enable connectivity?

Question 5easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to deploy a containerized web application that receives HTTP requests and should scale to zero when not in use. The application is stateless and has a lightweight container image. Which Google Cloud compute service should be used?

Question 6mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to set up a hybrid network between their on-premises data center and Google Cloud. They need a highly available VPN connection with 99.99% SLA. Which VPN solution should they choose?

Question 7mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a batch analytics workload on Compute Engine that runs for 3 hours every night. The workload is fault-tolerant and can be disrupted. Which pricing model should the engineer use to minimize cost?

Question 8hardmultiple choice

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An engineer is designing a VPC for a multi-tier application. The application has web servers that need direct internet access, and a private database tier that must not have public IP addresses. The database tier needs outbound internet access to download updates. Which network configuration should the engineer implement?

Question 9mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to run a MongoDB database on Compute Engine. The database requires high-throughput, low-latency storage that can survive VM failures. Which disk type and configuration is most appropriate?

Question 10mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to use Cloud Functions to process events from Cloud Storage when new objects are uploaded. They need the function to run in a specific VPC network for tight security. Which Cloud Functions generation supports VPC connectivity?

Question 11easymultiple choice

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An organization needs a NoSQL document database with real-time synchronization across multiple client devices. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Question 12hardmultiple choice

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A company is running a stateful application on a Compute Engine instance with a 200 GB persistent disk. They want to reduce costs by moving the disk to a lower-cost storage class, but the disk is currently in use. They plan to take a snapshot of the disk and create a new disk from the snapshot with the new storage class. However, they need minimal downtime. What is the correct approach?

Question 13mediummulti select

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A company runs a critical application on Compute Engine that requires static IP addresses and must be highly available across zones. The application uses a stateful backend. Which TWO steps should the engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose 2)

Question 14hardmulti select

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A company is using Cloud Functions (2nd gen) to process high-volume events from Pub/Sub. The function needs to write results to a Cloud Storage bucket. The security team requires that the function uses a service account with the least privilege. Which THREE roles should the engineer assign to the function's service account? (Choose 3)

Question 15easymulti select

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A company wants to analyze terabytes of structured data using SQL queries. The data is stored in CSV files in Cloud Storage. Which TWO Google Cloud services can be used together to query the data directly without loading it into a database? (Choose 2)

Question 16easymultiple choice

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A company wants to run a stateless containerized web application that scales to zero when not in use. The application receives HTTP requests and must be billed only for the resources consumed during request processing. Which Google Cloud compute service is most appropriate?

Question 17easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to creare a Cloud Storage bucket with the storage class that automatically moves objects to a lower-cost storage class after 30 days. Which storage class should be used?

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a batch job every night that processes data from a Cloud Storage bucket and writes results to BigQuery. The job runs on a Compute Engine VM. To minimize costs, what is the best practice for the VM?

Question 20mediummultiple choice

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A developer is using Cloud Functions (Gen 2) which is based on Cloud Run. They need to handle events from Cloud Storage when a new object is uploaded. Which event type should they use?

Question 21mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to provide outbound internet access to private Compute Engine instances that do not have external IP addresses. The instances must be able to download updates from the internet. Which service should be configured?

Question 22mediummultiple choice

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A DevOps engineer is using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of a Compute Engine VM running 24/7 for one month. The engineer selects a machine type and adds sustained use discounts. What is the correct way to apply sustained use discounts in the calculator?

Question 23hardmultiple choice

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A company runs a global web application with a Cloud SQL (MySQL) database in the us-east1 region. To improve read performance for users in Europe, they want to offload read traffic to a replica in europe-west1. The replica must be kept in sync with the primary within seconds. Which Cloud SQL configuration should be used?

Question 24hardmultiple choice

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A company wants to migrate an on-premises PostgreSQL database to Google Cloud. They need a managed database service with high availability and automatic failover. The application uses many stored procedures and extensions specific to PostgreSQL. Which service should they choose?

Question 25hardmultiple choice

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A team is using BigQuery for analytics. They have a constant query workload and want to reduce costs by switching from on-demand pricing to a flat-rate reservation. They have purchased a BigQuery flat-rate reservation. What additional step is required to use the reservation?

Question 26easymultiple choice

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A company wants to run a stateful application that requires persistent storage on individual VMs. The VMs are not part of a managed instance group. Which Google Cloud storage option is best for this use case?

Question 27mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud via a dedicated, high-bandwidth connection with low latency. They anticipate consistent high traffic. Which connectivity option should they use?

Question 28mediummulti select

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A company wants to migrate a monolithic application to run on Google Cloud. The application consists of multiple services that communicate via REST APIs. The company wants to use managed services and minimize operational overhead. Which two compute services should they consider? (Choose two.)

Question 29hardmulti select

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A company has a Compute Engine VM instance that needs to access a Cloud Storage bucket. The VM uses a service account with the Storage Object Admin role. However, the VM is unable to upload objects. Which two possible causes should be investigated? (Choose two.)

Question 30mediummulti select

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A company wants to run a containerized application on Google Cloud with minimal operational overhead. The application is stateless and can tolerate cold starts. Which three compute services should they consider? (Choose three.)

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

Question 32easymultiple choice

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An engineer is tasked with creating a new VPC network for a production environment. The company requires the VPC to support multiple regions and allow custom IP address ranges for each subnet. Which VPC network mode should the engineer use?

Question 33mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a containerized web application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. The team wants to minimize costs by scaling down to zero when idle, but also needs to handle burst traffic quickly. Which GKE mode should they choose?

Question 34hardmultiple choice

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An organization needs to run a batch analytics job daily that processes 500 GB of data stored in Cloud Storage. The job runs for 2 hours each day and can tolerate occasional failures. The team wants to minimize compute costs. Which compute option is most cost-effective?

Question 35easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket that stores data for only 30 days and then automatically deletes it. Which feature should be used to achieve this?

Question 36mediummultiple choice

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A company has a private VPC with instances that have only internal IP addresses. These instances need to download updates from the internet. Which Google Cloud service should they use to provide outbound internet connectivity?

Question 37hardmultiple choice

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An organization wants to migrate its on-premises MySQL database to Google Cloud. The database is 2 TB and used by a critical application with read replicas for reporting. The team needs minimal downtime and the ability to fail back if needed. Which migration approach should they use?

Question 38easymultiple choice

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A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. The primary instance is in us-central1. They need to automate failover to a different region with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 seconds. Which configuration should they choose?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to run a stateless HTTP web application that experiences highly variable traffic, including periods of zero traffic. The application is packaged as a Docker container. The team wants to minimize operational overhead and pay only for resources consumed during request processing. Which Google Cloud compute service is the best fit?

Question 40mediummultiple choice

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An organization stores sensitive data in Cloud Storage. They need to ensure that objects are encrypted at rest using a key that they manage and rotate themselves. Which Cloud Storage encryption option should they use?

Question 41hardmultiple choice

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A developer is deploying a Cloud Function that processes messages from a Pub/Sub topic. The function takes 10 minutes to complete each message. The developer needs to ensure that messages are not lost if the function fails. Which Cloud Function generation and configuration should they use?

Question 42mediummultiple choice

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A team is setting up a new project and wants to estimate the monthly cost of running a Compute Engine VM with 4 vCPUs, 16 GB memory, and a 100 GB persistent disk, using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. The VM will run for 12 hours every day for a month. Which discount type will automatically apply to reduce the cost based on usage?

Question 43mediummulti select

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A company is deploying a multi-region application on Compute Engine and needs to configure network security. Which two steps should they take to restrict access to only required traffic? (Choose 2)

Question 44hardmulti select

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An organization wants to migrate a 5 TB on-premises MongoDB database to Google Cloud. They need to minimize latency for write operations and support global users with strong consistency. Which three services or tools should they consider for this migration? (Choose 3)

Question 45easymulti select

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A developer wants to deploy a new application on Google Cloud. The application consists of a frontend service that serves web traffic and a backend service that processes images. Both services need to be containerized. Which two compute options are serverless and support container deployment? (Choose 2)

Question 46mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

Question 47easymultiple choice

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A developer wants to deploy a containerized web application that receives HTTP requests and can scale to zero when not in use. The application is stateless and has a startup time of less than 2 seconds. Which Google Cloud compute option is the most cost-effective?

Question 48mediummultiple choice

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An organisation requires a managed relational database for an online transaction processing (OLTP) application with strong consistency, automated backups, and a 99.95% SLA. The database size is expected to be under 10 TB. Which service meets these requirements at the lowest cost?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to run a batch job that processes files from a Cloud Storage bucket and writes results to BigQuery. The job runs once daily and can take up to 30 minutes. Which compute option is the most cost-effective and requires the least operational overhead?

Question 50hardmultiple choice

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A company has a VPC in auto mode and wants to create a VPN connection to an on-premises network using HA VPN. The on-premises VPN gateway supports only a single public IP address. Which configuration step is required to establish a functional HA VPN tunnel?

Question 51easymultiple choice

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A user wants to estimate the monthly cost of running a Compute Engine VM with 8 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and a 100 GB persistent disk in us-central1 for one year. They plan to use the VM 24/7. Which tool should they use?

Question 52mediummultiple choice

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An application running on Compute Engine needs to be accessible from the internet on port 443. The instance has an internal IP only. Which steps are necessary to allow internet traffic?

Question 53hardmultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and wants to reduce costs for a development environment that is only used for 8 hours a day (Monday-Friday). The database is under 100 GB and does not require high availability. Which action is the most cost-effective?

Question 54easymultiple choice

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Which Google Cloud service is a fully managed, serverless data warehouse for analytics at petabyte scale, with built-in machine learning capabilities and automatic scaling?

Question 55mediummultiple choice

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A team needs to deploy a microservice that processes events from Pub/Sub and writes the results to Firestore. The service is stateless and should not incur cost when idle. The expected load is low but can spike unpredictably. Which compute service is the most cost-effective and operationally simple?

Question 56hardmultiple choice

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A company has a GKE Autopilot cluster and wants to run a stateful application that requires persistent volumes with high read/write throughput. The application is deployed in a single region and does not require multi-region redundancy. Which storage option is the best choice for the persistent volumes?

Question 57mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to set up a hybrid cloud connection between their on-premises data center and Google Cloud VPC. They need high availability (99.99% SLA) and support for dynamic routing. Which connection method should they use?

Question 58mediummulti select

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A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application consists of a web frontend, a business logic layer, and a MySQL database. They want to minimise operational overhead and use managed services where possible. Which two services should they choose? (Choose TWO.)

Question 59mediummulti select

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A development team wants to deploy a containerized microservice that requires GPU acceleration for inference. They want to minimize cost while maintaining the ability to scale to zero when not in use. Which two services meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

Question 60hardmulti select

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A company needs to store and analyze large amounts of log data (hundreds of terabytes) with occasional SQL queries. The data is rarely accessed after 30 days and must be kept for compliance for 7 years. They want to minimize storage costs. Which three actions should they take? (Choose THREE.)

Question 61mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

Question 62easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to run a stateless HTTP-based containerized application that scales to zero when not in use and charges only for request processing time. They do not want to manage any underlying infrastructure. Which compute option should they choose?

Question 63hardmultiple choice

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A company has a VPC with an auto-mode network and wants to connect two on-premises data centers to their Google Cloud environment using Cloud VPN tunnels. They need high availability and must use the same VPC network. Which architecture meets these requirements?

Question 64mediummultiple choice

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A development team needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket that will store sensitive financial data. The bucket must be encrypted with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) and must have versioning enabled. Which command correctly creates this bucket?

Question 65mediummultiple choice

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A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application requires persistent storage and must be highly available with automatic failover across zones. The workload has a moderate number of reads and writes. Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question 66easymultiple choice

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A startup wants to run a small, event-driven application that processes files uploaded to Cloud Storage. The function should be triggered by object finalize events and should have a maximum execution time of 10 minutes. Which compute option is most cost-effective and easy to manage?

Question 67mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to run a batch job every hour on a Compute Engine VM. The VM should be terminated after the job completes to save costs. The job is run from a script inside a custom container image stored in Container Registry. Which approach is the most cost-effective?

Question 68hardmultiple choice

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An organization needs to deploy a microservices application on Google Kubernetes Engine. Each microservice has different resource requirements, and the team wants to optimize costs by using a mix of spot (preemptible) and regular nodes. They also need to ensure that critical services run on regular nodes. Which GKE feature allows this separation?

Question 69mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to migrate an on-premises PostgreSQL database to Google Cloud. They require automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and a 99.95% availability SLA. Which service should they choose?

Question 70easymultiple choice

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A team is building a mobile app backend that requires real-time data synchronization across devices and offline support. The data model is simple and document-based. Which database service should they use?

Question 71hardmultiple choice

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A company wants to use Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running a Compute Engine instance for a web server. They plan to use a n2-standard-4 machine with a 100 GB SSD persistent disk and commit to a 1-year term. Which discount type should they include in the estimate?

Question 72mediummultiple choice

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A company has a VPC with custom mode and needs to connect to an on-premises network via HA VPN. They have two on-premises VPN devices, each with a static public IP address. What is the correct way to configure the HA VPN gateway on Google Cloud?

Question 73mediummulti select

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A company has a Compute Engine instance that needs to access the internet for software updates, but the instance only has an internal IP address. Which TWO steps are required to enable outbound internet connectivity while keeping the instance private?

Question 74hardmulti select

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An organization needs to run a batch analytics job on BigQuery every night that processes terabytes of data. The job is critical and must complete within a specific time window. To optimize costs, they are considering using flat-rate pricing but want to minimize commitment risk. Which THREE factors should they evaluate?

Question 75easymulti select

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A company is deploying a web application on Compute Engine and wants to distribute traffic across multiple instances in different zones for high availability. They also need to terminate SSL/TLS at the load balancer. Which TWO services should they use together?

Question 76mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to use Cloud Run to deploy a containerized API that requires up to 8 GB of memory per request. The API experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. They want to minimize cost while ensuring fast cold starts. Which configuration should they use?

Question 77hardmultiple choice

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A company has a Cloud Storage bucket that stores sensitive files. They want to ensure that objects are automatically deleted after 30 days to comply with data retention policies. Additionally, they need to keep a copy of all object deletions for audit purposes. Which combination of bucket settings should they use?

Question 78easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to run a one-time SQL query against a large dataset stored in Cloud Storage in Parquet format. The query result will be used for ad-hoc analysis. They want to minimize cost and avoid provisioning any servers. Which service should they use?

Question 79mediummulti select

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A company plans to deploy a containerized application on GKE Autopilot. They want to ensure high availability by running multiple replicas across different zones. They also need to expose the application via a load balancer with SSL termination. Which THREE resources should they create?

Question 80easymultiple choice

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A company wants to store event logs from multiple applications in a centralized location for future analysis. The logs are written frequently (thousands per second) and need to be retained for 90 days. The data is write-once, read-rarely. Which storage class and lifecycle rule combination is most cost-effective?

Question 81mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning a lift-and-shift migration of an on-premises monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application runs on a single server and requires a specific kernel module that is not supported by Google Cloud's container-optimized OS. Which compute service should they use?

Question 82easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to deploy a containerized web application that experiences unpredictable traffic patterns, including long periods of no traffic. They want to minimize costs and only pay for resources when the application is serving requests. Which Google Cloud compute service is most suitable?

Question 83hardmultiple choice

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A company is migrating a PostgreSQL database to Cloud SQL. They need high availability with automatic failover and a read replica for reporting queries that must not impact the primary. Which Cloud SQL configuration should they choose?

Question 84mediummultiple choice

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An organization has a VPC with private instances that need outbound internet access for software updates. The instances have no external IP addresses. Which Google Cloud service should be configured?

Question 85easymultiple choice

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A data analyst needs to run complex analytical queries on a large dataset (10 TB) stored in Cloud Storage. They want to use a serverless query engine that charges based on the amount of data processed. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Question 86mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store and serve user-generated content such as images and videos. The data must be accessible globally with low latency. Which Google Cloud storage service should they use?

Question 87mediummulti select

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A company needs to deploy a web application on Google Cloud that requires high availability across multiple regions. Select TWO services that can help achieve this.

Question 88hardmulti select

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A company wants to migrate a large on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL with minimal downtime. Which TWO steps should they take?

Question 1mediummultiple choice

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A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application has unpredictable traffic patterns and long-running connections. The team wants to minimize operational overhead and only pay for resources when the application is processing requests. Which compute option should they choose?

Question 2easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket for storing archival data that will be accessed less than once a year. The data must be stored durably and cost-effectively. Which storage class should the engineer use?

Question 3mediummultiple choice

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A company plans to run a stateful application on Compute Engine that requires high random I/O performance and the ability to resize the persistent disk without downtime. The application is running on a Linux VM. Which persistent disk type and configuration should the engineer choose?

Question 4hardmultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL to host a database. The database must be accessible from a Compute Engine VM in the same region but in a different VPC network (VPC-A). The company does not want to use public IP addresses or VPN. What should the engineer do to enable connectivity?

Question 5easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to deploy a containerized web application that receives HTTP requests and should scale to zero when not in use. The application is stateless and has a lightweight container image. Which Google Cloud compute service should be used?

Question 6mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to set up a hybrid network between their on-premises data center and Google Cloud. They need a highly available VPN connection with 99.99% SLA. Which VPN solution should they choose?

Question 7mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a batch analytics workload on Compute Engine that runs for 3 hours every night. The workload is fault-tolerant and can be disrupted. Which pricing model should the engineer use to minimize cost?

Question 8hardmultiple choice

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An engineer is designing a VPC for a multi-tier application. The application has web servers that need direct internet access, and a private database tier that must not have public IP addresses. The database tier needs outbound internet access to download updates. Which network configuration should the engineer implement?

Question 9mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to run a MongoDB database on Compute Engine. The database requires high-throughput, low-latency storage that can survive VM failures. Which disk type and configuration is most appropriate?

Question 10mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to use Cloud Functions to process events from Cloud Storage when new objects are uploaded. They need the function to run in a specific VPC network for tight security. Which Cloud Functions generation supports VPC connectivity?

Question 11easymultiple choice

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An organization needs a NoSQL document database with real-time synchronization across multiple client devices. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Question 12hardmultiple choice

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A company is running a stateful application on a Compute Engine instance with a 200 GB persistent disk. They want to reduce costs by moving the disk to a lower-cost storage class, but the disk is currently in use. They plan to take a snapshot of the disk and create a new disk from the snapshot with the new storage class. However, they need minimal downtime. What is the correct approach?

Question 13mediummulti select

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A company runs a critical application on Compute Engine that requires static IP addresses and must be highly available across zones. The application uses a stateful backend. Which TWO steps should the engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose 2)

Question 14hardmulti select

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A company is using Cloud Functions (2nd gen) to process high-volume events from Pub/Sub. The function needs to write results to a Cloud Storage bucket. The security team requires that the function uses a service account with the least privilege. Which THREE roles should the engineer assign to the function's service account? (Choose 3)

Question 15easymulti select

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A company wants to analyze terabytes of structured data using SQL queries. The data is stored in CSV files in Cloud Storage. Which TWO Google Cloud services can be used together to query the data directly without loading it into a database? (Choose 2)

Question 16easymultiple choice

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A company wants to run a stateless containerized web application that scales to zero when not in use. The application receives HTTP requests and must be billed only for the resources consumed during request processing. Which Google Cloud compute service is most appropriate?

Question 17easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to creare a Cloud Storage bucket with the storage class that automatically moves objects to a lower-cost storage class after 30 days. Which storage class should be used?

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a batch job every night that processes data from a Cloud Storage bucket and writes results to BigQuery. The job runs on a Compute Engine VM. To minimize costs, what is the best practice for the VM?

Question 20mediummultiple choice

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A developer is using Cloud Functions (Gen 2) which is based on Cloud Run. They need to handle events from Cloud Storage when a new object is uploaded. Which event type should they use?

Question 21mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to provide outbound internet access to private Compute Engine instances that do not have external IP addresses. The instances must be able to download updates from the internet. Which service should be configured?

Question 22mediummultiple choice

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A DevOps engineer is using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of a Compute Engine VM running 24/7 for one month. The engineer selects a machine type and adds sustained use discounts. What is the correct way to apply sustained use discounts in the calculator?

Question 23hardmultiple choice

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A company runs a global web application with a Cloud SQL (MySQL) database in the us-east1 region. To improve read performance for users in Europe, they want to offload read traffic to a replica in europe-west1. The replica must be kept in sync with the primary within seconds. Which Cloud SQL configuration should be used?

Question 24hardmultiple choice

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A company wants to migrate an on-premises PostgreSQL database to Google Cloud. They need a managed database service with high availability and automatic failover. The application uses many stored procedures and extensions specific to PostgreSQL. Which service should they choose?

Question 25hardmultiple choice

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A team is using BigQuery for analytics. They have a constant query workload and want to reduce costs by switching from on-demand pricing to a flat-rate reservation. They have purchased a BigQuery flat-rate reservation. What additional step is required to use the reservation?

Question 26easymultiple choice

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A company wants to run a stateful application that requires persistent storage on individual VMs. The VMs are not part of a managed instance group. Which Google Cloud storage option is best for this use case?

Question 27mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud via a dedicated, high-bandwidth connection with low latency. They anticipate consistent high traffic. Which connectivity option should they use?

Question 28mediummulti select

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A company wants to migrate a monolithic application to run on Google Cloud. The application consists of multiple services that communicate via REST APIs. The company wants to use managed services and minimize operational overhead. Which two compute services should they consider? (Choose two.)

Question 29hardmulti select

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A company has a Compute Engine VM instance that needs to access a Cloud Storage bucket. The VM uses a service account with the Storage Object Admin role. However, the VM is unable to upload objects. Which two possible causes should be investigated? (Choose two.)

Question 30mediummulti select

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A company wants to run a containerized application on Google Cloud with minimal operational overhead. The application is stateless and can tolerate cold starts. Which three compute services should they consider? (Choose three.)

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

Question 32easymultiple choice

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An engineer is tasked with creating a new VPC network for a production environment. The company requires the VPC to support multiple regions and allow custom IP address ranges for each subnet. Which VPC network mode should the engineer use?

Question 33mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a containerized web application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. The team wants to minimize costs by scaling down to zero when idle, but also needs to handle burst traffic quickly. Which GKE mode should they choose?

Question 34hardmultiple choice

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An organization needs to run a batch analytics job daily that processes 500 GB of data stored in Cloud Storage. The job runs for 2 hours each day and can tolerate occasional failures. The team wants to minimize compute costs. Which compute option is most cost-effective?

Question 35easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket that stores data for only 30 days and then automatically deletes it. Which feature should be used to achieve this?

Question 36mediummultiple choice

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A company has a private VPC with instances that have only internal IP addresses. These instances need to download updates from the internet. Which Google Cloud service should they use to provide outbound internet connectivity?

Question 37hardmultiple choice

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An organization wants to migrate its on-premises MySQL database to Google Cloud. The database is 2 TB and used by a critical application with read replicas for reporting. The team needs minimal downtime and the ability to fail back if needed. Which migration approach should they use?

Question 38easymultiple choice

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A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. The primary instance is in us-central1. They need to automate failover to a different region with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 seconds. Which configuration should they choose?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to run a stateless HTTP web application that experiences highly variable traffic, including periods of zero traffic. The application is packaged as a Docker container. The team wants to minimize operational overhead and pay only for resources consumed during request processing. Which Google Cloud compute service is the best fit?

Question 40mediummultiple choice

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An organization stores sensitive data in Cloud Storage. They need to ensure that objects are encrypted at rest using a key that they manage and rotate themselves. Which Cloud Storage encryption option should they use?

Question 41hardmultiple choice

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A developer is deploying a Cloud Function that processes messages from a Pub/Sub topic. The function takes 10 minutes to complete each message. The developer needs to ensure that messages are not lost if the function fails. Which Cloud Function generation and configuration should they use?

Question 42mediummultiple choice

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A team is setting up a new project and wants to estimate the monthly cost of running a Compute Engine VM with 4 vCPUs, 16 GB memory, and a 100 GB persistent disk, using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. The VM will run for 12 hours every day for a month. Which discount type will automatically apply to reduce the cost based on usage?

Question 43mediummulti select

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A company is deploying a multi-region application on Compute Engine and needs to configure network security. Which two steps should they take to restrict access to only required traffic? (Choose 2)

Question 44hardmulti select

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An organization wants to migrate a 5 TB on-premises MongoDB database to Google Cloud. They need to minimize latency for write operations and support global users with strong consistency. Which three services or tools should they consider for this migration? (Choose 3)

Question 45easymulti select

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A developer wants to deploy a new application on Google Cloud. The application consists of a frontend service that serves web traffic and a backend service that processes images. Both services need to be containerized. Which two compute options are serverless and support container deployment? (Choose 2)

Question 46mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

Question 47easymultiple choice

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A developer wants to deploy a containerized web application that receives HTTP requests and can scale to zero when not in use. The application is stateless and has a startup time of less than 2 seconds. Which Google Cloud compute option is the most cost-effective?

Question 48mediummultiple choice

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An organisation requires a managed relational database for an online transaction processing (OLTP) application with strong consistency, automated backups, and a 99.95% SLA. The database size is expected to be under 10 TB. Which service meets these requirements at the lowest cost?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to run a batch job that processes files from a Cloud Storage bucket and writes results to BigQuery. The job runs once daily and can take up to 30 minutes. Which compute option is the most cost-effective and requires the least operational overhead?

Question 50hardmultiple choice

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A company has a VPC in auto mode and wants to create a VPN connection to an on-premises network using HA VPN. The on-premises VPN gateway supports only a single public IP address. Which configuration step is required to establish a functional HA VPN tunnel?

Question 51easymultiple choice

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A user wants to estimate the monthly cost of running a Compute Engine VM with 8 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and a 100 GB persistent disk in us-central1 for one year. They plan to use the VM 24/7. Which tool should they use?

Question 52mediummultiple choice

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An application running on Compute Engine needs to be accessible from the internet on port 443. The instance has an internal IP only. Which steps are necessary to allow internet traffic?

Question 53hardmultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and wants to reduce costs for a development environment that is only used for 8 hours a day (Monday-Friday). The database is under 100 GB and does not require high availability. Which action is the most cost-effective?

Question 54easymultiple choice

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Which Google Cloud service is a fully managed, serverless data warehouse for analytics at petabyte scale, with built-in machine learning capabilities and automatic scaling?

Question 55mediummultiple choice

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A team needs to deploy a microservice that processes events from Pub/Sub and writes the results to Firestore. The service is stateless and should not incur cost when idle. The expected load is low but can spike unpredictably. Which compute service is the most cost-effective and operationally simple?

Question 56hardmultiple choice

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A company has a GKE Autopilot cluster and wants to run a stateful application that requires persistent volumes with high read/write throughput. The application is deployed in a single region and does not require multi-region redundancy. Which storage option is the best choice for the persistent volumes?

Question 57mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to set up a hybrid cloud connection between their on-premises data center and Google Cloud VPC. They need high availability (99.99% SLA) and support for dynamic routing. Which connection method should they use?

Question 58mediummulti select

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A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application consists of a web frontend, a business logic layer, and a MySQL database. They want to minimise operational overhead and use managed services where possible. Which two services should they choose? (Choose TWO.)

Question 59mediummulti select

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A development team wants to deploy a containerized microservice that requires GPU acceleration for inference. They want to minimize cost while maintaining the ability to scale to zero when not in use. Which two services meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

Question 60hardmulti select

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A company needs to store and analyze large amounts of log data (hundreds of terabytes) with occasional SQL queries. The data is rarely accessed after 30 days and must be kept for compliance for 7 years. They want to minimize storage costs. Which three actions should they take? (Choose THREE.)

Question 61mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

Question 62easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to run a stateless HTTP-based containerized application that scales to zero when not in use and charges only for request processing time. They do not want to manage any underlying infrastructure. Which compute option should they choose?

Question 63hardmultiple choice

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A company has a VPC with an auto-mode network and wants to connect two on-premises data centers to their Google Cloud environment using Cloud VPN tunnels. They need high availability and must use the same VPC network. Which architecture meets these requirements?

Question 64mediummultiple choice

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A development team needs to create a Cloud Storage bucket that will store sensitive financial data. The bucket must be encrypted with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) and must have versioning enabled. Which command correctly creates this bucket?

Question 65mediummultiple choice

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A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application requires persistent storage and must be highly available with automatic failover across zones. The workload has a moderate number of reads and writes. Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question 66easymultiple choice

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A startup wants to run a small, event-driven application that processes files uploaded to Cloud Storage. The function should be triggered by object finalize events and should have a maximum execution time of 10 minutes. Which compute option is most cost-effective and easy to manage?

Question 67mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to run a batch job every hour on a Compute Engine VM. The VM should be terminated after the job completes to save costs. The job is run from a script inside a custom container image stored in Container Registry. Which approach is the most cost-effective?

Question 68hardmultiple choice

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An organization needs to deploy a microservices application on Google Kubernetes Engine. Each microservice has different resource requirements, and the team wants to optimize costs by using a mix of spot (preemptible) and regular nodes. They also need to ensure that critical services run on regular nodes. Which GKE feature allows this separation?

Question 69mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to migrate an on-premises PostgreSQL database to Google Cloud. They require automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and a 99.95% availability SLA. Which service should they choose?

Question 70easymultiple choice

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A team is building a mobile app backend that requires real-time data synchronization across devices and offline support. The data model is simple and document-based. Which database service should they use?

Question 71hardmultiple choice

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A company wants to use Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running a Compute Engine instance for a web server. They plan to use a n2-standard-4 machine with a 100 GB SSD persistent disk and commit to a 1-year term. Which discount type should they include in the estimate?

Question 72mediummultiple choice

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A company has a VPC with custom mode and needs to connect to an on-premises network via HA VPN. They have two on-premises VPN devices, each with a static public IP address. What is the correct way to configure the HA VPN gateway on Google Cloud?

Question 73mediummulti select

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A company has a Compute Engine instance that needs to access the internet for software updates, but the instance only has an internal IP address. Which TWO steps are required to enable outbound internet connectivity while keeping the instance private?

Question 74hardmulti select

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An organization needs to run a batch analytics job on BigQuery every night that processes terabytes of data. The job is critical and must complete within a specific time window. To optimize costs, they are considering using flat-rate pricing but want to minimize commitment risk. Which THREE factors should they evaluate?

Question 75easymulti select

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A company is deploying a web application on Compute Engine and wants to distribute traffic across multiple instances in different zones for high availability. They also need to terminate SSL/TLS at the load balancer. Which TWO services should they use together?

Question 76mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to use Cloud Run to deploy a containerized API that requires up to 8 GB of memory per request. The API experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. They want to minimize cost while ensuring fast cold starts. Which configuration should they use?

Question 77hardmultiple choice

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A company has a Cloud Storage bucket that stores sensitive files. They want to ensure that objects are automatically deleted after 30 days to comply with data retention policies. Additionally, they need to keep a copy of all object deletions for audit purposes. Which combination of bucket settings should they use?

Question 78easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to run a one-time SQL query against a large dataset stored in Cloud Storage in Parquet format. The query result will be used for ad-hoc analysis. They want to minimize cost and avoid provisioning any servers. Which service should they use?

Question 79mediummulti select

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A company plans to deploy a containerized application on GKE Autopilot. They want to ensure high availability by running multiple replicas across different zones. They also need to expose the application via a load balancer with SSL termination. Which THREE resources should they create?

Question 80easymultiple choice

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A company wants to store event logs from multiple applications in a centralized location for future analysis. The logs are written frequently (thousands per second) and need to be retained for 90 days. The data is write-once, read-rarely. Which storage class and lifecycle rule combination is most cost-effective?

Question 81mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning a lift-and-shift migration of an on-premises monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application runs on a single server and requires a specific kernel module that is not supported by Google Cloud's container-optimized OS. Which compute service should they use?

Question 82easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to deploy a containerized web application that experiences unpredictable traffic patterns, including long periods of no traffic. They want to minimize costs and only pay for resources when the application is serving requests. Which Google Cloud compute service is most suitable?

Question 83hardmultiple choice

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A company is migrating a PostgreSQL database to Cloud SQL. They need high availability with automatic failover and a read replica for reporting queries that must not impact the primary. Which Cloud SQL configuration should they choose?

Question 84mediummultiple choice

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An organization has a VPC with private instances that need outbound internet access for software updates. The instances have no external IP addresses. Which Google Cloud service should be configured?

Question 85easymultiple choice

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A data analyst needs to run complex analytical queries on a large dataset (10 TB) stored in Cloud Storage. They want to use a serverless query engine that charges based on the amount of data processed. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Question 86mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to store and serve user-generated content such as images and videos. The data must be accessible globally with low latency. Which Google Cloud storage service should they use?

Question 87mediummulti select

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A company needs to deploy a web application on Google Cloud that requires high availability across multiple regions. Select TWO services that can help achieve this.

Question 88hardmulti select

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