Google ACE Setting Up a Cloud Solution Environment — 40 Questions

Question 1

A new engineer needs to set up the gcloud CLI on their local machine and authenticate with a user account. Which command should they run after installing the SDK?

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gcloud init. The 'gcloud init' command initializes the SDK, sets properties, and runs auth login. Alternatively, 'gcloud auth login' only authenticates without setting project/defaults.

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gcloud auth application-default login

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gcloud config set account

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gcloud auth login

Question 2

A startup wants to create a new GCP project for development. They've already created a billing account. Which command can they use to create the project?

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gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID. The 'gcloud projects create' command creates a new project. The billing association is separate, but the project can be created without billing immediately.

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gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

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gcloud alpha projects create

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gcloud resource-manager projects create

Question 3

An organization wants to enforce a policy that disables the creation of VMs with external IPs across all projects. Which resource hierarchy level should the policy be attached to for maximum coverage?

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Organization. Organization policies can be applied at the organization level to affect all projects and folders underneath. This ensures the policy covers all resources.

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Project

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Resource (VM)

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Folder

Question 4

A company wants to track costs for each department by using labels on resources. What is the next step after labeling resources to view costs per label?

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View billing reports filtered by label. Labels are key-value pairs attached to resources. To view cost breakdown, you can use billing reports or export to BigQuery and query by label.

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Export billing to Cloud Storage and analyze

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Create a billing account budget

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Use the Cost Table in Cloud Console

Question 5

An engineer needs to enable the Compute Engine API for a project using the CLI. Which command should they run?

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gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com. The 'gcloud services enable' command enables APIs in a project. The service name for Compute Engine is compute.googleapis.com.

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gcloud compute enable

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gcloud services enable compute

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gcloud api enable compute.googleapis.com

Question 6

A team is using gcloud configurations to manage multiple projects. They want to create a new configuration for a production project. How can they achieve this?

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Run 'gcloud config configurations create prod' then 'gcloud config set project prod-project'. Manage configurations with 'gcloud config configurations create' and then set properties. Switching is done with 'gcloud config configurations activate'.

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Run 'gcloud init' and select 'Create a new configuration'

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Run 'gcloud config set project prod-project' with a flag to create new config

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Edit the gcloud config file manually

Question 7

A junior engineer accidentally deleted a project. Later, they realize they need to restore it. What must be true for project deletion to be reversible?

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The billing account must have been disabled before deletion. Deleted projects are retained for 30 days and can be recovered if the billing account is not disabled. However, deletion requires billing to be disabled first as a safety measure.

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The user must have the Owner role at the organization level

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The project must be within the first 7 days of creation

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The project must not have any active resources

Question 8

An organization needs to separate development, staging, and production environments using the GCP resource hierarchy. Which approach is most effective?

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Create folders for dev, staging, and prod under the organization, then place projects in each folder. Using folders under the organization node allows isolating environments, and organization policies can be applied at the folder level for governance.

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Use labels on projects to denote environment, but keep all in one folder

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Create separate projects for each environment without folders

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Create a single project and use separate VPC networks per environment

Question 9

A Cloud Shell user wants to persist Terraform state files across sessions. What is the best approach?

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Store them in the home directory ($HOME). Cloud Shell provides a persistent 5GB home directory. Storing state files there ensures they persist across sessions.

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Store them in /tmp

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Store them in a Cloud Storage bucket and mount via gcsfuse

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Store them on the instance's local SSD

Question 10

An administrator wants to set up a budget alert that triggers at 50%, 90%, and 100% of the monthly spending limit. What is the correct way to configure this?

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Create one budget with three threshold rules: 50%, 90%, 100%. Budget alerts can have multiple threshold rules with different percentages. You can create a single budget with three threshold rules.

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Create a budget with a single threshold of 100% and rely on Cloud Monitoring

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Use Cloud Billing reports to manually track

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Create three separate budgets, each with a single threshold

Question 11

An engineer is setting up Cloud Identity for a new domain. What is a prerequisite for creating a Cloud Identity account?

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Domain verification. Cloud Identity requires domain verification to prove ownership. This is done via DNS TXT record or other methods.

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A G Suite account

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A billing account

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An existing Google Cloud project

Question 12

A company wants to grant a contractor read-only access to all Compute Engine instances in a specific project, but no other resources. Which IAM role should be assigned?

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roles/compute.viewer. Predefined roles like 'compute.viewer' provide read-only access to Compute Engine resources. The basic 'Viewer' role would also grant read access to other services, which is not desired.

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roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1

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roles/viewer

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roles/iam.securityReviewer

Question 13

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

Question 14

An engineer needs to choose a location for a new GCP project's resources to maximize availability and minimize latency for users in Europe and Asia. Which three actions should they take? (Choose THREE)

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Use a global load balancer to distribute traffic. Using multiple regions, load balancing, and a global resource like Cloud CDN can help achieve high availability and low latency.

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Set the project default region to us-central1

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Use a single zone in europe-west1 for simplicity

Question 15

A team wants to export GCP billing data for detailed analysis using SQL. Which three steps are necessary? (Choose THREE)

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Create a BigQuery dataset. Billing export to BigQuery requires enabling BigQuery, creating a dataset, and configuring the export from billing.

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Enable Cloud Billing API

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Create a Cloud Storage bucket

Question 16

A new engineer wants to set up their local environment to interact with Google Cloud. Which command initializes the gcloud CLI and configures the project, region, and zone?

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gcloud init. The 'gcloud init' command initializes the SDK, sets default project, region, and zone interactively. 'gcloud auth login' only handles authentication. 'gcloud config set' sets individual properties but doesn't initialize. 'gcloud auth application-default login' is for application default credentials.

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gcloud auth login

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gcloud auth application-default login

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gcloud config set project my-project

Question 17

Your organization has multiple Google Cloud projects. You want to separate development and production environments. Which resource hierarchy structure is recommended?

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Use folders under the organization node to separate dev and prod projects.. Using folders under an organization node allows grouping projects by environment. Folders support IAM policies and org policies, enabling environment separation. Projects alone cannot nest; folders provide the logical grouping.

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Create two separate organizations.

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Use labels on projects to differentiate environments.

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Use a single project with separate VPC networks.

Question 18

A team member accidentally deleted a GCP project. You need to recover it. What must be true for a successful recovery within the 30-day window?

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The project can be restored within 30 days if you have the necessary permissions and the billing account is active.. A deleted project can be restored within 30 days only if the billing account is still active and you have ownership. The project must be undeleted via the Cloud Console or API. Billing must be enabled; if billing was disabled before deletion, you must re-enable it first.

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The project can be restored only if billing was disabled prior to deletion.

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The billing account must be re-associated after undeletion.

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The project can be restored only if it was deleted by the owner.

Question 19

You want to enable the Kubernetes Engine API for your project using the command line. Which gcloud command should you use?

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gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com. 'gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com' enables the required API. 'gcloud auth login' authenticates. 'gcloud config set' sets project. 'gcloud container clusters create' creates a cluster but doesn't enable the API.

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gcloud container clusters create my-cluster

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gcloud config set project my-project

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gcloud auth login

Question 20

You need to grant a user the ability to create and manage Compute Engine instances in a specific project. You want to follow the principle of least privilege. Which IAM role should you assign?

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roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1. roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1 provides full control over Compute Engine instances but not other services. roles/editor is broader. roles/owner is too permissive. roles/compute.admin includes all compute resources, not just instances.

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roles/compute.admin

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roles/editor

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roles/owner