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Question 1easymultiple choice
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A team wants to receive an email alert when the average CPU utilization of VMs in a managed instance group exceeds 80% for more than 5 minutes. What should they create in Cloud Monitoring?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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A team wants logs from their Python application running on a Compute Engine VM to appear in Cloud Logging. What must be installed on the VM?

Question 3mediummultiple choice
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A security analyst needs to retrieve all Cloud Logging entries with severity ERROR or higher across all resource types in the current project. Which log query correctly filters these entries?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A managed instance group (MIG) is running 4 VMs with a CPU autoscaling target of 60%. A traffic spike drives average CPU to 90%. How does the autoscaler respond?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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A load balancer is routing traffic to a VM where the application process has crashed, but the VM itself is still running. What prevents the load balancer from continuing to send traffic to this instance?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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A microservices application has intermittent high latency. The team wants to identify which specific service-to-service call in the request chain is causing the slowdown. Which Cloud Operations tool is designed for this?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A Go service is consuming significantly more CPU than expected. The team suspects an inefficient function but doesn't know which one. Which Cloud Operations tool identifies CPU hotspots in production code?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A team wants proactive alerting if their public HTTPS endpoint returns a non-2xx HTTP status code or becomes unreachable — before users report it. Which Cloud Monitoring capability provides this?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a stable production workload on 20 n2-standard-8 VMs that run continuously year-round. Which pricing commitment maximizes cost savings on these VMs?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A GKE Deployment must be updated to a new container image version with zero downtime — old Pods should be replaced gradually, not all at once. Which update strategy should be configured?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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A Cloud Run service has been running for weeks. A sudden spike in 5xx errors appears in Cloud Monitoring. The team wants to view the actual request logs to identify which endpoint is failing. Where should they look?

Question 12hardmultiple choice
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A managed instance group serves production traffic. During a rolling update to a new VM template, 30% of instances become unhealthy (failing health checks). The update has not completed yet. What should the team do to immediately restore service?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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A team wants to automatically restart any GKE Pod that fails a liveness probe three consecutive times. The probe should check HTTP GET /healthz on port 8080, starting after 30 seconds and checking every 10 seconds. Which Pod spec configuration implements this?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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A production GKE cluster is running low on node resources. Pods are in Pending state because no node has sufficient CPU or memory. Without deleting existing Pods, what is the fastest way to resolve this?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A billing report shows a Compute Engine VM has been running unused for 3 months. The team wants to stop it to save costs but needs the VM's disk data preserved for potential future use. What should they do?

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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A team needs to export all Cloud Logging entries from a production GCP project to a BigQuery dataset for long-term analysis and compliance. The export must be near-real-time and include future log entries automatically. Which approach achieves this?

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps team monitors a Cloud SQL instance and notices its CPU is consistently above 85% for several hours. The instance handles a critical production database. What should be the team's immediate action?

Question 18easymultiple choice
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A Cloud Run service handles payment processing. A monitoring alert shows the service is experiencing 3-second P99 latency, up from its normal 200ms. The team wants to find the slowest individual requests in the last hour. Which tool provides per-request latency data?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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A cost-conscious team notices their GKE cluster's node pools have consistently high memory utilization (>90%) while CPU remains at 30%. Pods are occasionally OOMKilled. What should they do to balance resource efficiency and stability?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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A GKE node pool has an autoscaler configured with min=2, max=10 nodes. After a sustained traffic surge, the cluster scaled to 10 nodes. Traffic drops overnight to its normal level, but the cluster remains at 10 nodes after 4 hours. What is the most likely reason?

Question 21easymultiple choice
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A team's GCP project is approaching its monthly budget. They want to receive an email alert when spending reaches 80% and 100% of the $500 monthly budget. Which GCP feature sends these budget alerts?

Question 22mediummultiple choice
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A team's application emits a custom business metric (orders per minute) via its code. They want to display this metric on a Cloud Monitoring dashboard and alert when it drops below 50 orders per minute. What must be done first?

Question 23mediummultiple choice
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An operations team wants to count how many times the string 'PaymentFailure' appears in application logs per minute and alert when it exceeds 10 occurrences. Cloud Monitoring doesn't have a native metric for this log pattern. What is the correct approach?

Question 24hardmultiple choice
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A platform team wants to define a formal service level objective (SLO) for their API: 99.9% of requests must succeed (HTTP 2xx) over a 30-day rolling window. Which Cloud Monitoring feature tracks this?

Question 25hardmultiple choice
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A GKE cluster running Kubernetes 1.27 needs to be upgraded to 1.29. The cluster has a stateful workload with a PodDisruptionBudget requiring at least 2 out of 3 replicas running at all times. What is the correct upgrade sequence?

Question 26easymultiple choice
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A team wants to create a consistent backup of a Compute Engine VM's boot disk before applying a major OS patch. The backup should be usable to restore the disk to a new VM if the patch fails. What is the recommended approach?

Question 27mediummultiple choice
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A team stores application log archives in a Cloud Storage bucket. Logs older than 90 days should automatically move to Coldline storage, and logs older than 365 days should be deleted. Which feature automates this?

Question 28mediummultiple choice
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A BigQuery table in a data pipeline receives daily data loads. To control storage costs, the team wants table data older than 180 days to be automatically deleted at the table level, not the dataset level. How should this be configured?

Question 29mediummultiple choice
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A monitoring alert fires at 3 AM — the team's GKE Pods are being evicted. Investigation shows node memory is at 98%. Pods without resource requests are being evicted first. What is the long-term fix to prevent evictions?

Question 30easymultiple choice
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A team needs a database backup job to run every day at 2 AM UTC. The job calls an HTTP endpoint to trigger the backup. The endpoint requires no complex orchestration — just a timed HTTP call. Which GCP service handles this most simply?

Question 31hardmultiple choice
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A production GKE service processes payments and must maintain at least 3 replicas running at all times, even during node upgrades or Pod evictions. How should this be enforced?

Question 32mediummultiple choice
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A team discovers their Cloud Logging costs are unexpectedly high. The majority of costs come from verbose DEBUG-level logs from a development service in production. They want to stop storing DEBUG logs without modifying the application. What is the solution?

Question 33mediummultiple choice
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A GKE node pool has auto-repair enabled. A node becomes unresponsive (not ready) for 10 minutes. What action does GKE's auto-repair feature take?

Question 34mediummultiple choice
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A Cloud SQL production instance experiences a spike in connections during business hours, causing 'too many connections' errors. The application uses 50 microservices each maintaining 10 connections. What is the recommended solution to reduce connection count without rewriting the application?

Question 35mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps team deploys a MIG (Managed Instance Group) with autohealing configured. The health check probes `/health` on port 8080 with a 30-second initial delay. After deployment, new VMs are failing the health check and being immediately recreated — causing a restart loop. What is the most likely cause?

Question 36hardmultiple choice
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A team's Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance is running out of disk space. Automated storage increase is disabled. A monitoring alert fires at 90% disk usage. What is the fastest safe action to increase storage?

Question 37mediummultiple choice
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A Kubernetes namespace is shared by multiple teams. The platform team wants to ensure no single team's workloads can consume more than 10 CPU cores and 20 GB memory in that namespace. Which Kubernetes resource enforces this constraint?

Question 38mediummultiple choice
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A team stores sensitive configuration files in Cloud Storage that internal services download at startup. External partners occasionally need time-limited access to specific files without creating GCP accounts. Which feature grants temporary access without modifying bucket permissions?

Question 39mediummultiple choice
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A Cloud CDN cache is serving stale content after a website update. New files were deployed to Cloud Storage but CDN is still serving the old versions to some users. What is the fastest way to force CDN to serve the updated content?

Question 40easymultiple choice
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A team's GKE application is running out of memory due to a memory leak. Pods are restarting with OOMKilled status. As an immediate measure before a code fix is available, what kubectl action provides the most insight into which container is leaking?

Question 41mediummultiple choice
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A team needs to roll out a configuration change to a MIG (Managed Instance Group) — updating the instance template to set a new environment variable. They want to validate the change on 1 VM before rolling it out to all 20 VMs. Which MIG update type supports this?

Question 42mediummultiple choice
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Your GKE application's pods are being evicted frequently during periods of high traffic. You notice that pods without resource requests are being evicted first. The nodes are running at ~85% memory utilization. What should you do to reduce pod eviction?

Question 43easymultiple choice
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You need to check the CPU and memory utilization of all pods running in the `production` namespace. Which command provides this information?

Question 44hardmultiple choice
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Your application running on GKE is experiencing intermittent 500 errors. You want to create an alert that fires when the 99th percentile latency exceeds 2 seconds OR when the error rate (5xx responses) exceeds 1% of all requests over a 5-minute window. You have Cloud Monitoring configured with the application exporting metrics via OpenTelemetry. What should you create in Cloud Monitoring?

Question 45mediummultiple choice
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A Cloud SQL instance's disk is at 95% capacity. The application is experiencing write failures. You need to resolve this immediately with no downtime. What should you do?

Question 46mediummultiple choice
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You need to monitor a Cloud Run service for errors and receive a PagerDuty notification when the number of 5xx errors exceeds 10 in any 5-minute window. Which Cloud Monitoring feature should you use?

Question 47hardmultiple choice
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Your Dataflow streaming pipeline is consuming messages from Pub/Sub but the pipeline's throughput has dropped significantly. Cloud Monitoring shows the `pubsub/subscription/oldest_unacked_message_age` metric is growing. The pipeline has enough workers. What is the most likely bottleneck, and how should you address it?

Question 48easymultiple choice
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A GKE pod's container is frequently crashing and restarting. You need to view the logs from the previous container instance (before the last crash) to diagnose the crash cause. Which command retrieves these logs?

Question 49mediummultiple choice
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Your organization uses Cloud Storage for storing backups. You want to automatically delete backup objects that are older than 30 days to control costs. You also want objects between 7 and 30 days old to use Nearline storage class for lower cost. Which Cloud Storage feature manages both requirements in a single configuration?

Question 50hardmultiple choice
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You are managing a GKE cluster that runs a mixed workload: latency-sensitive web services and batch data processing jobs. The batch jobs run for hours and consume significant CPU/memory. During batch peaks, the web services experience CPU throttling. What is the best configuration to prevent batch jobs from impacting web service latency?

Question 51mediummultiple choice
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You notice that your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance's `pg_stat_activity` shows many connections in `idle in transaction` state, and the connection count is near the max_connections limit. Application threads are blocking waiting for connections. What is the most effective solution to manage database connections for a GKE-hosted application?

Question 52mediummultiple choice
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Your application is deployed on GKE and experiencing increased latency. You suspect a memory leak causing the JVM to run frequent garbage collection cycles. Cloud Monitoring shows high memory usage but you need to understand the garbage collection behavior over time. Which GCP tool provides JVM-level profiling including memory allocation data?

Question 53easymultiple choice
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A Compute Engine VM's boot disk is nearly full and the application is failing. You want to snapshot the disk first (for safety), then resize it online. What is the correct sequence of gcloud commands?

Question 54hardmultiple choice
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Your Cloud SQL for MySQL primary instance in `us-central1` has failed. Cloud SQL HA automatically fails over to the standby. After the failover, your application is experiencing intermittent connection errors. What is the most likely cause and solution?

Question 55mediummultiple choice
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You need to transfer 50 TB of data from an AWS S3 bucket to Cloud Storage. The data must be transferred within 48 hours, and the network bandwidth between AWS and GCP is limited to 1 Gbps. Which GCP service manages this transfer efficiently?

Question 56mediummultiple choice
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Your GKE cluster nodes are running an older kernel version with a known vulnerability. You need to update all nodes to use the latest node image with the patched kernel without any downtime. The cluster has a Surge Upgrade configuration of `max-surge: 1, max-unavailable: 0`. What happens during the node upgrade?

Question 57easymultiple choice
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You need to verify that a Compute Engine VM in `us-central1` can reach an on-premises server at IP `10.1.2.3` over a Cloud VPN connection. The VPN tunnel appears UP but you're unsure if routing is correct. Which GCP tool can test this connectivity?

Question 58hardmultiple choice
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A managed instance group (MIG) is configured with autohealing using a health check. During a rolling update, several VMs become unhealthy before the new application version starts responding to health checks. The MIG deletes and recreates these VMs repeatedly, causing a deployment loop. How should you fix this?

Question 59mediummultiple choice
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Your application writes structured JSON logs to stdout from a Cloud Run service. You want to query logs in Cloud Logging to find all requests where the `user_id` field equals `12345`. Which log query syntax finds these entries?

Question 60mediummultiple choice
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You need to create a dashboard in Cloud Monitoring that shows: (1) Cloud Run request count per second, (2) Cloud Run p99 latency, (3) GKE pod CPU utilization, and (4) Cloud SQL query duration — all on a single screen. Which Cloud Monitoring feature enables this multi-service overview?

Question 61hardmultiple choice
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You are on-call and receive a PagerDuty alert: `Cloud SQL CPU utilization > 90% for 15 minutes`. Checking `pg_stat_activity`, you find 200 connections with many in `idle` state and 15 queries running for > 5 minutes each. The long queries are table scans on a 500 GB unindexed table. What should you do IMMEDIATELY to restore service, and what is the root cause fix?

Question 62mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to set up a VPC network with a subnet, firewall rule allowing SSH, and a Compute Engine instance in that subnet.

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Steps
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Question 63mediumdrag order
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Arrange the steps to create a Cloud Pub/Sub topic, subscription, and publish a message.

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Question 64mediummatching
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Match each GCP networking concept to its description.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Virtual private cloud network

Regional IP address range within a VPC

Outbound internet access for private instances

Distributes traffic across instances

Content delivery network for low-latency delivery

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Match each Cloud Monitoring resource to its purpose.

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Concepts
Matches

Measurable data point from a resource

Notification based on a condition

Customizable view of metrics

Monitors availability of a service

Metric derived from log entries

Question 66easymultiple choice
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A company is using Cloud Run for a stateless application. The application sometimes fails with HTTP 503 errors when traffic spikes. Which action should the team take to improve reliability?

Question 67easymultiple choice
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You need to monitor the CPU utilization across all instances in a managed instance group. What is the most efficient way to create an alerting policy?

Question 68easymultiple choice
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A developer deployed a new version of a Compute Engine instance but the startup script fails to run. The developer needs to debug the startup script. Which step should be taken first?

Question 69mediummultiple choice
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An organization has a VPC with subnets in us-central1 and europe-west1. They want to allow traffic from a specific on-premises IP range to reach a Compute Engine instance in europe-west1, but only through a single Cloud VPN tunnel attached to the us-central1 gateway. What configuration is required?

Question 70mediummultiple choice
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A company is using BigQuery for analytics. They notice that queries are slow and expensive. The data is loaded daily into a single table. Which action would most improve performance and reduce cost?

Question 71mediummultiple choice
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A developer receives a "Permission 'cloudfunctions.functions.call' denied" error when trying to invoke a Cloud Function from another service. What is the most likely cause?

Question 72hardmultiple choice
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A team manages multiple Kubernetes Engine clusters across different projects. They need to enforce that all clusters have the same security policies, including private cluster settings and workload identity. Which approach is most scalable?

Question 73hardmultiple choice
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A company uses Cloud DNS for internal DNS resolution. They recently added a new VPC and need to ensure that instances in this VPC can resolve private DNS names that are hosted in another project. What must be configured?

Question 74hardmultiple choice
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An application running on Compute Engine writes logs to a local file. The operations team wants to centralize these logs in Cloud Logging with minimal code changes. What is the recommended approach?

Question 75mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A team has this IAM policy on a Cloud Storage bucket. The bucket contains sensitive data. Which action should the team take immediately?

Exhibit

{
  "bindings": [
    {
      "role": "roles/storage.objectAdmin",
      "members": [
        "user:admin@example.com",
        "serviceAccount:sa@project.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
      ]
    },
    {
      "role": "roles/storage.objectViewer",
      "members": [
        "allUsers"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Question 76hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An engineer runs this command and sees the output. The instance is unable to reach the internet. What is the most likely reason?

Network Topology
zone=us-central1-aformat="yaml(networkInterfaces)"Command output:networkInterfaces:- ipAddress: 10.128.0.2network: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/my-project/global/networks/defaultsubnetwork: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/my-project/regions/us-central1/subnetworks/default
Question 77mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The Terraform plan above returns the error: Error: "member" is required. What is the issue?

Exhibit

resource "google_project_iam_member" "project" {
  project = "my-project"
  role    = "roles/editor"
  members = ["user:john@example.com"]
}
Question 78easymulti select
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Which TWO actions should be taken to reduce latency for users accessing a global application hosted on Compute Engine? (Choose two.)

Question 79hardmulti select
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Which THREE configurations are required to allow a Compute Engine instance in VPC A (without external IP) to send emails through a third-party SMTP server on the internet? (Choose three.)

Question 80easymulti select
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Which TWO practices help ensure the reliability of a Cloud Functions deployment? (Choose two.)

Question 81easymultiple choice
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A DevOps team notices that a Compute Engine instance running a critical application has been terminated unexpectedly. The team wants to ensure the instance restarts automatically if it stops. Which configuration should they use?

Question 82mediummultiple choice
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A company is using Cloud Storage to store sensitive data. They want to enforce that objects are automatically deleted after 90 days. Which configuration should they use?

Question 83hardmultiple choice
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A company's Google Kubernetes Engine cluster has experienced a sudden increase in latency. The team suspects a misconfigured node pool is causing resource contention. They want to verify the node's resource usage. Which command or tool should they use?

Question 84mediummultiple choice
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A developer has deployed a Cloud Run service but receives a 503 error when accessing it. The service logs show 'The request was aborted because there was no available instance.' What is the most likely cause?

Question 85easymultiple choice
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A small business is deploying a web application on Compute Engine and wants to ensure high availability. They have set up two instances in different zones behind a TCP load balancer. What should they also configure to detect and route traffic away from unhealthy instances?

Question 86hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a batch job on Compute Engine that processes large files from Cloud Storage. The job is taking longer than expected. The instances are using standard persistent disks. Which change would most likely improve I/O performance?

Question 87easymultiple choice
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A developer is using Cloud Build to deploy a containerized application to Cloud Run. The deployment fails with an error 'Permission denied' when pulling the container from Container Registry. What is the most likely cause?

Question 88mediummultiple choice
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A company wants to monitor the CPU utilization of their Compute Engine instances and receive an alert if utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which services should they combine?

Question 89hardmultiple choice
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A team is using Terraform to manage infrastructure in Google Cloud. After running terraform apply, they receive an error: 'Error 409: Resource already exists'. The team needs to resolve this without deleting and recreating the resource. What should they do?

Question 90mediummulti select
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Which TWO actions should a DevOps engineer take to reduce egress costs when transferring large amounts of data from Compute Engine to Cloud Storage in the same region?

Question 91hardmulti select
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Which THREE options are valid methods to authenticate a service account when making calls to Google Cloud APIs from a Compute Engine instance?

Question 92easymulti select
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Which TWO statements are true about Cloud IAM roles?

Question 93mediummultiple choice
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An organization has deployed a Compute Engine VM instance running a web server. The web server is not responding to HTTP requests from the internet. The firewall rules allow ingress traffic on port 80 and 443 from any source (0.0.0.0/0). The VM has a public IP address and is in a VPC network with default subnets. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

Question 94easymultiple choice
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A company is running a batch processing job on Compute Engine every night. The job usually completes in 2 hours, but recently it has been taking over 4 hours. The CPU utilization on the VM is consistently below 20%. What is the most likely cause?

Question 95hardmulti select
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Which THREE are best practices for monitoring and alerting in Google Cloud?

Question 96mediummultiple choice
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Your company runs a critical web application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with a regional cluster. The application uses a Cloud SQL instance for database. Recently, users have been experiencing intermittent connection timeouts. The application logs show database connection errors, but the Cloud SQL instance's CPU and memory usage are low. The GKE cluster and Cloud SQL are in the same region. You notice that the Cloud SQL instance is configured with a private IP address. What is the most likely cause of the timeouts?

Question 97hardmultiple choice
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Your organization uses Cloud Functions to process messages from a Pub/Sub topic. Each function processes a single message and writes results to BigQuery. Recently, the function has been timing out and the Pub/Sub subscription's unacknowledged message count is growing rapidly. The function's memory is set to 256 MB and timeout is 60 seconds. The function logs show occasional 'memory limit exceeded' errors. You suspect that the function is leaking memory when processing large messages. What should you do to resolve the issue while minimizing cost and complexity?

Question 98easymultiple choice
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A new developer has just started at your company and has been given access to a project. They need to deploy a Cloud Run service, but they receive an error: 'Permission run.services.create denied.' The developer's IAM role is 'roles/cloudrun.viewer'. What is the most appropriate action to grant the developer the minimum necessary permissions to deploy Cloud Run services?

Question 99mediummultiple choice
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Your company runs a data processing pipeline on Cloud Dataproc. The pipeline reads data from Cloud Storage, processes it with Spark, and writes results to BigQuery. Recently, the pipeline has been failing with errors indicating insufficient disk space on the worker nodes. The cluster is configured with standard worker nodes with 100 GB of standard persistent disk. The data size being processed has grown from 50 GB to 150 GB. What is the most cost-effective way to resolve the disk space issue?

Question 100easymulti select
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Which THREE actions are recommended to ensure the successful operation of a Compute Engine instance running a production workload?

Question 101mediummultiple choice
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A developer reports that a Cloud Run service is returning 503 errors intermittently. Based on the log entry, what is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
{
  "textPayload": "The request failed because the instance 'my-service-abc' is not ready. The instance is being started.",
  "resource": {
    "type": "cloud_run_revision",
    "labels": {
      "service_name": "my-service",
      "revision_name": "my-service-00001-zuv"
    }
  }
}
```
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Your company runs a stateful web application on a managed instance group (MIG) in us-central1 across three zones. The application uses a TCP health check on port 8080. Recently, instances have been recreated frequently due to health check failures, though the application logs show no errors and instances are accessible via SSH. The firewall rules allow traffic from the health check ranges (130.211.0.0/22 and 35.191.0.0/16) to port 8080. You have verified that the application is listening on 0.0.0.0:8080. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the health check failures?

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