Google ACE Setting Up a Cloud Solution Environment Practice Test 4 — 15 Questions

Question 1

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'?

Accepted Answer

gcloud projects create my-new-project. The correct command to create a project is 'gcloud projects create'. It creates a new project with the specified ID.

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gcloud config set project my-new-project

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gcloud alpha projects create my-new-project

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gcloud init my-new-project

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

Folder. Folders under an organization node allow grouping projects and applying policies at that level.

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Organization node

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Resource

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Project

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

5 GB. Cloud Shell provides 5 GB of persistent home directory storage.

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10 GB

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1 GB

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20 GB

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com. The command 'gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com' enables the Compute Engine API.

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gcloud compute enable api

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gcloud services list --enabled

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gcloud api enable compute

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

Organization policies. Organization policies (Org Policies) allow setting constraints at the organization, folder, or project level to restrict configurations.

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Labels

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IAM roles

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Quotas

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=KEY_FILE. The command 'gcloud auth application-default login' obtains user credentials for Application Default Credentials (ADC). For a service account, they would use 'gcloud auth activate-service-account' or set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.

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gcloud auth login

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gcloud config set account service-account@project.iam.gserviceaccount.com

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gcloud auth application-default login

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

Export detailed billing data to BigQuery. The standard usage cost export to BigQuery provides detailed billing data for analysis.

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Export to CSV to Cloud Storage

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Export to Cloud Billing report

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Export to a Pub/Sub topic

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

The billing account is still linked to the project. To delete a project, billing must be disabled first. The project might have an active billing account.

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The engineer does not have proper permissions

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The billing account is disabled

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The project has active resources

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Cloud Billing budgets. Cloud Billing budgets allow setting budget amounts and alerts at specified thresholds.

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Cost breakdown reports

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Cloud Scheduler

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Cloud Monitoring alerts

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Owner. The Owner role (roles/owner) grants full access, including the ability to manage roles and billing.

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Editor

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Viewer

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Admin

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

roles/bigquery.dataEditor. The role roles/bigquery.dataEditor allows creating datasets and querying data, but does not grant any Cloud Storage permissions.

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roles/storage.objectViewer

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roles/bigquery.dataOwner

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roles/bigquery.user

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

Configuration profiles. Configuration profiles allow setting different sets of properties (project, region, account) and switching between them with 'gcloud config configurations activate'.

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Environment variables

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gcloud init each time

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Multiple gcloud installations

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

cloudbuild.googleapis.com. Kubernetes Engine API and Cloud Build API are needed for cluster management and building images.

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compute.googleapis.com

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bigquery.googleapis.com

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cloudfunctions.googleapis.com

Question 14

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?

Accepted Answer

Assign labels to resources indicating department. Using labels, budgets, and billing export enables tracking and alerts.

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Use Cloud Monitoring to track costs

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Create separate billing accounts for each department

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

billing.accounts.list. resourcemanager.projects.list and billing.accounts.list allow these actions.

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billing.accounts.create

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resourcemanager.projects.create

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resourcemanager.projects.delete