Google ACE Setting Up a Cloud Solution Environment — All Questions With Answers

Question 1easymultiple choice

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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?

Question 2easymultiple choice

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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?

Question 3mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 4mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 5mediummultiple choice

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

Question 6hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 7hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 8mediummultiple choice

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

Question 9easymultiple choice

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

Question 10mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 11mediummultiple choice

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

Question 12hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 13mediummulti select

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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)

Question 14hardmulti select

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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)

Question 15mediummulti select

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

Question 16easymultiple choice

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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?

Question 17easymultiple choice

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

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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

Question 20mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 21hardmultiple choice

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Your organization wants to enforce that all Compute Engine instances are created only in us-central1 and europe-west1. You need to implement this constraint across all projects in the organization. What should you do?

Question 22hardmultiple choice

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Your company wants to track costs per department. Each department has its own project. You need to set up a budget alert in the billing account for each project. What is the most efficient approach?

Question 23easymultiple choice

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You are using Cloud Shell and need to access a file you created two weeks ago. What is the persistence behavior of Cloud Shell home directories?

Question 24mediummultiple choice

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Your organization uses Cloud Identity to manage users. A new employee joins and needs access to a GCP project. What is the correct sequence to grant access?

Question 25hardmultiple choice

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You are configuring a new project and need to enable the Compute Engine API. However, the command 'gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com' fails with a permission error. Your user has the role roles/editor on the project. What is the likely cause?

Question 26mediummultiple choice

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You need to list all projects in your organization using the gcloud CLI. Which command is correct?

Question 27easymultiple choice

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You want to switch between multiple GCP projects frequently using the gcloud CLI. What is the recommended approach?

Question 28mediummulti select

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Your company has a production project and a development project. You want to ensure that no one can delete the production project accidentally. Which TWO actions should you take? (Choose 2)

Question 29mediummulti select

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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)

Question 30hardmulti select

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Your organization uses GCP organizations with multiple folders. You need to assign a team the ability to create projects only in a specific folder. Which THREE steps should you take? (Choose 3)

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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You create a new Google Cloud project using the Cloud Console. After creating the project, you need to enable the Compute Engine API. What is the correct command to do this using the Cloud Shell?

Question 32easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to separate its development and production environments using Google Cloud resource hierarchy. What is the recommended approach?

Question 33hardmultiple choice

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You are setting up billing for a new GCP project. You want to receive an alert when the projected cost for the month exceeds 80% of your budget. You also want to be notified if the actual cost reaches 100%. Which budget alert thresholds should you set?

Question 34mediummultiple choice

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You want to use gcloud CLI to set the default project to 'my-project' and the default compute zone to 'us-central1-a'. Which two gcloud config commands should you run?

Question 35mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple Google Cloud projects and wants to track costs by department. They have already applied labels to resources with key 'department'. What is the next step to view costs grouped by department?

Question 36easymultiple choice

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You need to install the Google Cloud SDK on a Linux machine. Which command should you use to add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source?

Question 37mediummultiple choice

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You are managing a project and need to create a custom IAM role that allows only the permissions compute.instances.list and compute.instances.get. What is the correct way to create this role using gcloud?

Question 38hardmultiple choice

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A team is using Cloud Shell to manage resources. They notice that their home directory is persistent across sessions, but they want to ensure that configuration files and scripts are also available after they stop and restart Cloud Shell. What should they do?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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You want to set up a budget alert for a GCP project. You need to receive a notification when the forecasted cost exceeds $1000 and when the actual cost exceeds $1000. Which budget amount should you set?

Question 40easymultiple choice

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A developer wants to use gcloud CLI with application default credentials (ADC) to authenticate to Google APIs from their local machine. Which command should they run first?

Question 41mediummultiple choice

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You need to delete a GCP project, but the deletion fails with an error. What is the most likely cause?

Question 42hardmultiple choice

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You are setting up a new organization in Google Cloud. You want to restrict the regions where resources can be created to comply with data residency requirements. What should you do?

Question 43mediummulti select

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A company wants to manage multiple Google Cloud projects and enforce consistent security policies across all of them. Which TWO resources should they use? (Choose two.)

Question 44mediummulti select

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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.)

Question 45hardmulti select

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You are designing a resource hierarchy for a company with three departments: Engineering, Sales, and HR. Each department should have its own projects, and policies should be applied at the department level. Which THREE steps should you take? (Choose three.)

Question 46easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to create a new GCP project using the Cloud SDK. They have already installed and initialized gcloud with a user account that has Billing Account Administrator and Project Creator roles. Which command creates the project 'my-new-project'?

Question 47easymultiple choice

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A company wants to organize its Google Cloud resources. They have multiple departments (Engineering, Finance, Marketing) and want to apply common policies at the department level. Which resource hierarchy level should they use to create folders for each department?

Question 48mediummultiple choice

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An engineer is setting up Cloud Shell for the first time. They notice that their home directory persists across sessions. How much storage is allocated to the home directory in Cloud Shell?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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A team wants to enable Compute Engine API in their project using gcloud. Which command should they run?

Question 50mediummultiple choice

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An engineer wants to ensure that no one in their organization can create VMs with public IP addresses. Which Google Cloud tool should they use to enforce this restriction?

Question 51mediummultiple choice

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A developer needs to authenticate to Google Cloud from their local machine to run application code that reads from Cloud Storage. They use a service account. Which gcloud command should they use to obtain application credentials?

Question 52hardmultiple choice

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An organization has multiple GCP projects and wants to centralize billing analysis across all projects. They need to export detailed billing data (e.g., cost per SKU per project) to a BigQuery dataset. Which billing export option should they configure?

Question 53hardmultiple choice

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An engineer tries to delete a project using the Cloud Console but the option is greyed out. The engineer has the Project Owner role. What is the most likely reason?

Question 54mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to set up a budget alert at 50% and 90% of their projected monthly spending. Which service should they use?

Question 55easymultiple choice

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What is the basic role that grants full control over all resources in a GCP project?

Question 56hardmultiple choice

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An engineer needs to give a data analyst access to run BigQuery queries but prevent them from viewing or modifying data in Cloud Storage. The analyst should be able to create new datasets. Which IAM role should the engineer assign at the project level?

Question 57mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to manage multiple GCP projects with different configurations (e.g., different regions and accounts) on the same workstation. Which gcloud feature should they use to switch between these configurations?

Question 58mediummulti select

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An engineer is setting up a new GCP project for a containerized application. They need to enable the required APIs. Which TWO APIs must be enabled to deploy and manage a Kubernetes cluster and build container images?

Question 59hardmulti select

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A startup wants to control costs across multiple GCP projects. They want to track spending by department and set budget alerts. Which THREE actions should they take?

Question 60mediummulti select

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An administrator needs to create a custom IAM role that allows listing projects and viewing billing accounts. Which TWO permissions should be included?

Question 61easymultiple choice

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A new engineer is setting up their GCP environment for the first time. They have a billing account and need to create a new project for development. What is the correct order of steps?

Question 62mediummultiple choice

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You are a project owner and need to grant a colleague the ability to create and manage Compute Engine instances, but restrict them from deleting any resources. Which IAM role should you assign?

Question 63hardmultiple choice

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An organization has multiple Google Cloud projects and wants to enforce a policy that all Compute Engine instances must use a specific set of approved machine types. Which tool should be used to implement this constraint?

Question 64easymultiple choice

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Which gcloud command is used to set the default project for a configuration profile?

Question 65mediummultiple choice

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

Question 66mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to track costs by department and project. They have multiple GCP projects used by different teams. Which feature should they use to categorize costs?

Question 67hardmultiple choice

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An organization wants to enforce that all projects under a specific folder have a set of constraints, such as disabling default network creation and requiring shielded VMs. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Question 68easymultiple choice

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Which of the following is true about Cloud Shell?

Question 69mediummultiple choice

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An engineer wants to authenticate to Google Cloud using their own user credentials and also set up application default credentials for a local development environment. Which sequence of gcloud auth commands should they use?

Question 70mediummultiple choice

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You need to delete a Google Cloud project. What prerequisite must be met before the project can be deleted?

Question 71hardmultiple choice

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A multinational corporation requires that all GCP resources across multiple projects are tagged with a key-value pair 'environment: production' and 'environment: development'. They want to enforce that any resource created without the appropriate label is automatically denied. How can this be achieved?

Question 72easymultiple choice

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What is the purpose of the gcloud init command?

Question 73mediummulti select

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An organization wants to set up a budget alert for a GCP project. Which TWO options can be configured as alert thresholds?

Question 74hardmulti select

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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?

Question 75mediummulti select

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An engineer needs to enable the Cloud Build API and the Kubernetes Engine API for a project. Which TWO commands should they run?

Question 76easymultiple choice

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A new engineer needs to enable the Compute Engine API for a project using the gcloud command-line tool. Which command should they run?

Question 77mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to manage GCP resources for multiple teams using a hierarchy of folders and projects. They need to apply a uniform policy that restricts the regions where VM instances can be created across all projects in a folder. Which approach should they use?

Question 78mediummultiple choice

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A developer wants to authenticate to GCP from their local machine using their own user account to run gcloud commands that interact with a project. They have already installed the Cloud SDK. Which command should they use to authenticate with their Google account?

Question 79hardmultiple choice

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After creating a new GCP project, an engineer attempts to delete it using `gcloud projects delete PROJECT_ID` but receives an error. What is the most likely cause?

Question 80mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to track and forecast GCP spending across different departments. They have already set up labels on resources to indicate the department. Which additional step should they take to analyze costs by department in BigQuery?

Question 81hardmultiple choice

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A developer is using Cloud Shell and wants to ensure that their gcloud configuration persists after the Cloud Shell session ends. They have set the compute and access settings using `gcloud config set`. What should they do to keep these settings for future sessions?

Question 82easymulti select

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An organization is setting up a new GCP environment and needs to create a hierarchy that separates development, staging, and production workloads. Which two resources can be used to group projects for this purpose? (Choose TWO.)

Question 83mediummulti select

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A DevOps engineer wants to set up budget alerts for a GCP project so that the finance team is notified when costs reach 50% and 90% of the budget. Which two configurations are required? (Choose TWO.)

Question 84mediummulti select

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A developer wants to use Cloud Shell for managing GCP resources. Which three statements about Cloud Shell are true? (Choose THREE.)

Question 85hardmulti select

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An engineer needs to create a new project and set up the environment. They are using the gcloud command-line tool. Which two commands are required to create a project and link it to a billing account? (Choose TWO.)

Question 86hardmulti select

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A company has multiple GCP projects and wants to enforce a policy that prevents the creation of VMs with public IP addresses. Which three methods can be used to enforce this restriction? (Choose THREE.)

Question 87mediummulti select

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A developer needs to use gcloud CLI to manage multiple projects. They want to switch between configurations quickly. Which three commands are part of managing gcloud configuration profiles? (Choose THREE.)

Question 88easymulti select

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A Cloud Architect needs to understand the GCP resource hierarchy to set up proper access control. Which three resources are part of the GCP resource hierarchy? (Choose THREE.)

Question 1easymultiple choice

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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?

Question 2easymultiple choice

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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?

Question 3mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 4mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 5mediummultiple choice

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

Question 6hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 7hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 8mediummultiple choice

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

Question 9easymultiple choice

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

Question 10mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 11mediummultiple choice

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

Question 12hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 13mediummulti select

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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)

Question 14hardmulti select

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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)

Question 15mediummulti select

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

Question 16easymultiple choice

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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?

Question 17easymultiple choice

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

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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

Question 20mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 21hardmultiple choice

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Your organization wants to enforce that all Compute Engine instances are created only in us-central1 and europe-west1. You need to implement this constraint across all projects in the organization. What should you do?

Question 22hardmultiple choice

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Your company wants to track costs per department. Each department has its own project. You need to set up a budget alert in the billing account for each project. What is the most efficient approach?

Question 23easymultiple choice

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You are using Cloud Shell and need to access a file you created two weeks ago. What is the persistence behavior of Cloud Shell home directories?

Question 24mediummultiple choice

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Your organization uses Cloud Identity to manage users. A new employee joins and needs access to a GCP project. What is the correct sequence to grant access?

Question 25hardmultiple choice

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You are configuring a new project and need to enable the Compute Engine API. However, the command 'gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com' fails with a permission error. Your user has the role roles/editor on the project. What is the likely cause?

Question 26mediummultiple choice

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You need to list all projects in your organization using the gcloud CLI. Which command is correct?

Question 27easymultiple choice

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You want to switch between multiple GCP projects frequently using the gcloud CLI. What is the recommended approach?

Question 28mediummulti select

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Your company has a production project and a development project. You want to ensure that no one can delete the production project accidentally. Which TWO actions should you take? (Choose 2)

Question 29mediummulti select

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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)

Question 30hardmulti select

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Your organization uses GCP organizations with multiple folders. You need to assign a team the ability to create projects only in a specific folder. Which THREE steps should you take? (Choose 3)

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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You create a new Google Cloud project using the Cloud Console. After creating the project, you need to enable the Compute Engine API. What is the correct command to do this using the Cloud Shell?

Question 32easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to separate its development and production environments using Google Cloud resource hierarchy. What is the recommended approach?

Question 33hardmultiple choice

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You are setting up billing for a new GCP project. You want to receive an alert when the projected cost for the month exceeds 80% of your budget. You also want to be notified if the actual cost reaches 100%. Which budget alert thresholds should you set?

Question 34mediummultiple choice

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You want to use gcloud CLI to set the default project to 'my-project' and the default compute zone to 'us-central1-a'. Which two gcloud config commands should you run?

Question 35mediummultiple choice

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A company has multiple Google Cloud projects and wants to track costs by department. They have already applied labels to resources with key 'department'. What is the next step to view costs grouped by department?

Question 36easymultiple choice

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You need to install the Google Cloud SDK on a Linux machine. Which command should you use to add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source?

Question 37mediummultiple choice

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You are managing a project and need to create a custom IAM role that allows only the permissions compute.instances.list and compute.instances.get. What is the correct way to create this role using gcloud?

Question 38hardmultiple choice

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A team is using Cloud Shell to manage resources. They notice that their home directory is persistent across sessions, but they want to ensure that configuration files and scripts are also available after they stop and restart Cloud Shell. What should they do?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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You want to set up a budget alert for a GCP project. You need to receive a notification when the forecasted cost exceeds $1000 and when the actual cost exceeds $1000. Which budget amount should you set?

Question 40easymultiple choice

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A developer wants to use gcloud CLI with application default credentials (ADC) to authenticate to Google APIs from their local machine. Which command should they run first?

Question 41mediummultiple choice

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You need to delete a GCP project, but the deletion fails with an error. What is the most likely cause?

Question 42hardmultiple choice

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You are setting up a new organization in Google Cloud. You want to restrict the regions where resources can be created to comply with data residency requirements. What should you do?

Question 43mediummulti select

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A company wants to manage multiple Google Cloud projects and enforce consistent security policies across all of them. Which TWO resources should they use? (Choose two.)

Question 44mediummulti select

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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.)

Question 45hardmulti select

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You are designing a resource hierarchy for a company with three departments: Engineering, Sales, and HR. Each department should have its own projects, and policies should be applied at the department level. Which THREE steps should you take? (Choose three.)

Question 46easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to create a new GCP project using the Cloud SDK. They have already installed and initialized gcloud with a user account that has Billing Account Administrator and Project Creator roles. Which command creates the project 'my-new-project'?

Question 47easymultiple choice

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A company wants to organize its Google Cloud resources. They have multiple departments (Engineering, Finance, Marketing) and want to apply common policies at the department level. Which resource hierarchy level should they use to create folders for each department?

Question 48mediummultiple choice

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An engineer is setting up Cloud Shell for the first time. They notice that their home directory persists across sessions. How much storage is allocated to the home directory in Cloud Shell?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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A team wants to enable Compute Engine API in their project using gcloud. Which command should they run?

Question 50mediummultiple choice

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An engineer wants to ensure that no one in their organization can create VMs with public IP addresses. Which Google Cloud tool should they use to enforce this restriction?

Question 51mediummultiple choice

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A developer needs to authenticate to Google Cloud from their local machine to run application code that reads from Cloud Storage. They use a service account. Which gcloud command should they use to obtain application credentials?

Question 52hardmultiple choice

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An organization has multiple GCP projects and wants to centralize billing analysis across all projects. They need to export detailed billing data (e.g., cost per SKU per project) to a BigQuery dataset. Which billing export option should they configure?

Question 53hardmultiple choice

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An engineer tries to delete a project using the Cloud Console but the option is greyed out. The engineer has the Project Owner role. What is the most likely reason?

Question 54mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to set up a budget alert at 50% and 90% of their projected monthly spending. Which service should they use?

Question 55easymultiple choice

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What is the basic role that grants full control over all resources in a GCP project?

Question 56hardmultiple choice

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An engineer needs to give a data analyst access to run BigQuery queries but prevent them from viewing or modifying data in Cloud Storage. The analyst should be able to create new datasets. Which IAM role should the engineer assign at the project level?

Question 57mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to manage multiple GCP projects with different configurations (e.g., different regions and accounts) on the same workstation. Which gcloud feature should they use to switch between these configurations?

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An engineer is setting up a new GCP project for a containerized application. They need to enable the required APIs. Which TWO APIs must be enabled to deploy and manage a Kubernetes cluster and build container images?

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A startup wants to control costs across multiple GCP projects. They want to track spending by department and set budget alerts. Which THREE actions should they take?

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An administrator needs to create a custom IAM role that allows listing projects and viewing billing accounts. Which TWO permissions should be included?

Question 61easymultiple choice

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A new engineer is setting up their GCP environment for the first time. They have a billing account and need to create a new project for development. What is the correct order of steps?

Question 62mediummultiple choice

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You are a project owner and need to grant a colleague the ability to create and manage Compute Engine instances, but restrict them from deleting any resources. Which IAM role should you assign?

Question 63hardmultiple choice

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An organization has multiple Google Cloud projects and wants to enforce a policy that all Compute Engine instances must use a specific set of approved machine types. Which tool should be used to implement this constraint?

Question 64easymultiple choice

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Which gcloud command is used to set the default project for a configuration profile?

Question 65mediummultiple choice

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

Question 66mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to track costs by department and project. They have multiple GCP projects used by different teams. Which feature should they use to categorize costs?

Question 67hardmultiple choice

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An organization wants to enforce that all projects under a specific folder have a set of constraints, such as disabling default network creation and requiring shielded VMs. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Question 68easymultiple choice

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Which of the following is true about Cloud Shell?

Question 69mediummultiple choice

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An engineer wants to authenticate to Google Cloud using their own user credentials and also set up application default credentials for a local development environment. Which sequence of gcloud auth commands should they use?

Question 70mediummultiple choice

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You need to delete a Google Cloud project. What prerequisite must be met before the project can be deleted?

Question 71hardmultiple choice

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A multinational corporation requires that all GCP resources across multiple projects are tagged with a key-value pair 'environment: production' and 'environment: development'. They want to enforce that any resource created without the appropriate label is automatically denied. How can this be achieved?

Question 72easymultiple choice

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What is the purpose of the gcloud init command?

Question 73mediummulti select

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An organization wants to set up a budget alert for a GCP project. Which TWO options can be configured as alert thresholds?

Question 74hardmulti select

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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?

Question 75mediummulti select

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An engineer needs to enable the Cloud Build API and the Kubernetes Engine API for a project. Which TWO commands should they run?

Question 76easymultiple choice

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A new engineer needs to enable the Compute Engine API for a project using the gcloud command-line tool. Which command should they run?

Question 77mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to manage GCP resources for multiple teams using a hierarchy of folders and projects. They need to apply a uniform policy that restricts the regions where VM instances can be created across all projects in a folder. Which approach should they use?

Question 78mediummultiple choice

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A developer wants to authenticate to GCP from their local machine using their own user account to run gcloud commands that interact with a project. They have already installed the Cloud SDK. Which command should they use to authenticate with their Google account?

Question 79hardmultiple choice

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After creating a new GCP project, an engineer attempts to delete it using `gcloud projects delete PROJECT_ID` but receives an error. What is the most likely cause?

Question 80mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to track and forecast GCP spending across different departments. They have already set up labels on resources to indicate the department. Which additional step should they take to analyze costs by department in BigQuery?

Question 81hardmultiple choice

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A developer is using Cloud Shell and wants to ensure that their gcloud configuration persists after the Cloud Shell session ends. They have set the compute and access settings using `gcloud config set`. What should they do to keep these settings for future sessions?

Question 82easymulti select

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An organization is setting up a new GCP environment and needs to create a hierarchy that separates development, staging, and production workloads. Which two resources can be used to group projects for this purpose? (Choose TWO.)

Question 83mediummulti select

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A DevOps engineer wants to set up budget alerts for a GCP project so that the finance team is notified when costs reach 50% and 90% of the budget. Which two configurations are required? (Choose TWO.)

Question 84mediummulti select

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A developer wants to use Cloud Shell for managing GCP resources. Which three statements about Cloud Shell are true? (Choose THREE.)

Question 85hardmulti select

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An engineer needs to create a new project and set up the environment. They are using the gcloud command-line tool. Which two commands are required to create a project and link it to a billing account? (Choose TWO.)

Question 86hardmulti select

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A company has multiple GCP projects and wants to enforce a policy that prevents the creation of VMs with public IP addresses. Which three methods can be used to enforce this restriction? (Choose THREE.)

Question 87mediummulti select

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A developer needs to use gcloud CLI to manage multiple projects. They want to switch between configurations quickly. Which three commands are part of managing gcloud configuration profiles? (Choose THREE.)

Question 88easymulti select

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A Cloud Architect needs to understand the GCP resource hierarchy to set up proper access control. Which three resources are part of the GCP resource hierarchy? (Choose THREE.)