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1

A startup wants to reduce capital expenditure on hardware and scale its application globally with minimal latency. Which cloud deployment model should they choose?

2

A retail company experiences sudden traffic spikes during holiday sales. They want to automatically add or remove compute capacity to handle the load without manual intervention. Which Google Cloud feature should they use?

3

A company is migrating its on-premises Oracle database to Google Cloud. They want to minimize licensing costs and use a fully managed database service with high availability. Which database should they choose?

4

A financial services firm must comply with PCI DSS and wants to run workloads on Google Cloud. They need to isolate their production environment from development and enforce granular access controls. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

5

A media streaming company wants to reduce latency for users worldwide by serving content from edge locations. They also want to offload traffic from their origin servers. Which Google Cloud service should they implement?

6

An organization wants to use machine learning to analyze customer feedback but has no ML expertise. They need a service that can train custom models with minimal coding. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

7

A healthcare startup is building a HIPAA-compliant application on Google Cloud. They need to encrypt data at rest and manage their own encryption keys. Which service should they use for key management?

8

A company runs a batch processing workload every night that takes 60 minutes on a single n1-standard-32 VM. They want to reduce costs by using preemptible VMs but need the job to complete within 90 minutes. The job can be parallelized if necessary. Which approach is most cost-effective?

9

A data analytics firm wants to query data across Cloud Storage and BigQuery without moving the data. They need a single SQL interface. Which Google Cloud service enables this?

10

A company wants to reduce its carbon footprint by using cloud infrastructure powered by renewable energy. Which Google Cloud sustainability commitment is most relevant?

11

A company is evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO) for migrating a legacy application to Google Cloud. Which cost should they include in the cloud TCO calculation that is often overlooked?

12

A customer wants to run a containerized application on Google Cloud with zero downtime during updates and the ability to roll back quickly. Which service and deployment strategy should they use?

13

A company wants to store data across multiple regions for disaster recovery and comply with data residency requirements in the European Union. Which TWO Google Cloud features should they use?

14

A financial company wants to run sensitive workloads on Google Cloud while ensuring data never leaves a specific geographic boundary and meets strict compliance requirements. Which THREE Google Cloud services should they combine?

15

A retail company runs a web application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). They want to automatically scale the application based on custom metrics (e.g., number of items in a shopping cart). Which TWO resources should they configure?

16

A startup wants to launch a new application quickly and only pay for the compute resources they use, avoiding upfront hardware purchases. Which cloud benefit best supports this goal?

17

A company runs a batch job that processes data every night. The job can tolerate interruptions and currently runs on a dedicated on-premises server that is underutilized. They want to migrate to Google Cloud and minimise compute cost. Which compute option is most cost-effective?

18

A retail company experiences sudden traffic spikes during flash sales. Their on-premises infrastructure often runs out of capacity, causing downtime. They are migrating to Google Cloud and need to automatically handle traffic spikes without manual intervention. Which approach should they take?

19

A company wants to reduce its carbon footprint and has committed to using 100% renewable energy for its cloud infrastructure. Which Google Cloud value proposition directly supports this goal?

20

A financial services firm must keep sensitive data on-premises due to regulatory requirements but wants to use Google Cloud's AI/ML services for analytics on that data. Which deployment model should they adopt?

21

A company currently runs its applications in a co-location data centre with a 5-year contract for hardware. They are considering migrating to Google Cloud to avoid the upcoming hardware refresh cycle. Which business driver is most directly addressed by this migration?

22

A company uses a legacy on-premises database and wants to migrate to Google Cloud with minimal changes to application code. They need a fully managed relational database that supports MySQL compatibility and automatic failover. Which service should they choose?

23

A multinational corporation wants to serve content to users worldwide with low latency. They plan to use Google Cloud's content delivery network and points of presence. Which cloud benefit enables this?

24

A company wants to use machine learning models but has no in-house data science team. They need a service that allows them to train custom models using their own data without managing infrastructure. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

25

An organisation needs to securely connect its on-premises data centre to Google Cloud with high bandwidth and low latency for hybrid cloud workloads. They want a dedicated, private connection that does not traverse the public internet. Which solution should they use?

26

A start-up wants to quickly build and deploy a web application using managed services to avoid operational overhead. They need a serverless compute platform that automatically scales and charges only for execution time. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

27

A company is migrating its on-premises workloads to Google Cloud and wants to understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) savings. Which costs are typically LOWER in the cloud compared to on-premises?

28

A company is adopting a multi-cloud strategy to avoid vendor lock-in and use best-of-breed services. Which TWO statements accurately describe multi-cloud? (Choose 2)

29

A company wants to reduce its on-premises data centre footprint and improve disaster recovery by migrating to Google Cloud. Which THREE Google Cloud features directly support improved disaster recovery? (Choose 3)

30

A company wants to use Google Cloud to innovate faster by leveraging managed services. Which TWO benefits are directly associated with using managed services? (Choose 2)

31

A startup wants to launch a new web application globally with minimal upfront investment and the ability to scale automatically based on traffic. Which cloud deployment model best meets these requirements?

32

A company wants to reduce its carbon footprint by running workloads on Google Cloud. Which Google Cloud commitment directly supports this goal?

33

What is a key business benefit of moving from a capital expenditure (CapEx) model for IT infrastructure to an operational expenditure (OpEx) model like pay-as-you-go cloud computing?

34

An enterprise is planning to migrate its on-premises data center to Google Cloud to avoid a hardware refresh cycle. The migration must minimize application changes. Which migration strategy should they prioritize?

35

A media company needs to deliver video content to users worldwide with low latency. They want to cache content at edge locations. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

36

Which cloud benefit allows a company to automatically add or remove computing resources based on demand, avoiding both over-provisioning and under-provisioning?

37

A company is evaluating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for migrating from on-premises to Google Cloud. Which cost is typically reduced or eliminated in the cloud?

38

An organization wants to use Google Cloud's AI/ML services to build a custom image recognition model without managing the underlying infrastructure. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

39

A retailer experiences traffic spikes during holiday sales. They want to ensure their website can handle the load without performance degradation. Which cloud characteristic is most relevant?

40

A company wants to connect its on-premises data center to Google Cloud securely and with low latency. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

41

A financial services company must comply with regulations requiring data residency within the EU. They want to run workloads on Google Cloud. Which action should they take?

42

Which Google Cloud commitment to open source has enabled portability for containerized applications across different cloud providers?

43

A company is considering migrating its on-premises workloads to Google Cloud. Which TWO are common business drivers for cloud adoption? (Choose TWO.)

44

A company wants to modernize its legacy monolithic application by adopting microservices on Google Cloud. They need to ensure high availability and manage service-to-service communication. Which THREE Google Cloud services should they use? (Choose THREE.)

45

An organization wants to achieve a zero-trust security model on Google Cloud. Which TWO Google Cloud security capabilities support this goal? (Choose TWO.)

46

A startup wants to launch a new mobile app globally. They expect user traffic to be unpredictable and want to only pay for the compute resources they use. Which cloud benefit BEST addresses this need?

47

A financial services company must comply with strict data residency regulations. They want to run sensitive workloads on-premises while using Google Cloud for burst analytics. Which deployment model should they choose?

48

A retail company migrated its e-commerce platform to Google Cloud. During a flash sale, the application experiences high latency. The architecture uses managed instance groups with autoscaling based on CPU utilization. The database is Cloud SQL with read replicas. What is the MOST likely cause of the latency?

49

An organization wants to reduce its carbon footprint by using Google Cloud. Which of the following statements about Google Cloud's sustainability efforts is correct?

50

A company wants to run containerized applications on Google Cloud without managing the underlying infrastructure. Which service should they use?

51

A media company stores video files on-premises and wants to migrate them to Google Cloud for processing and transcoding. The files are accessed by a legacy on-premises application that cannot be modified. Which migration strategy should they use?

52

A company is evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO) for moving its on-premises data center to Google Cloud. Which of the following costs should they include in the cloud TCO assessment?

53

A developer needs to add machine learning capabilities to their application without training models from scratch. Which Google Cloud service provides pre-trained models via API?

54

A company uses multiple public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for different workloads. They want to centralize monitoring and logging. Which Google Cloud service can aggregate logs from all clouds?

55

A gaming company uses Google Cloud to run a multiplayer game. They use Compute Engine VMs with GPUs for game servers. During peak hours, latency increases. They want to automatically add more game server instances based on the number of concurrent players. Which scaling approach should they use?

56

A company wants to adopt a zero-trust security model for accessing Google Cloud resources. Which Google Cloud technology BEST supports this approach?

57

An organization wants to ensure its data is encrypted at rest and in transit by default on Google Cloud. Which statement is correct?

58

A company is migrating a legacy application to Google Cloud. The application has variable traffic and requires reliable, low-latency database access. The team wants to minimize operational overhead. Which TWO services should they consider for the database tier? (Choose two.)

59

A company runs a web application on Compute Engine. They want to improve availability by distributing traffic across multiple regions and automatically failing over if one region becomes unhealthy. Which TWO services should they combine? (Choose two.)

60

A company wants to reduce its cloud spending by optimizing storage costs for infrequently accessed data. Which THREE Google Cloud storage classes should they consider? (Choose three.)

61

A company wants to reduce its on-premises data center footprint by moving workloads to Google Cloud. They need to maintain low-latency connectivity between their remaining on-premises equipment and their Google Cloud VPC. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

62

A startup wants to launch a new application and expects unpredictable traffic patterns. They want to avoid upfront hardware costs and only pay for resources they use. Which cloud deployment model best meets their needs?

63

A retail company experiences traffic spikes during holiday sales. They need to automatically scale their web application instances based on CPU utilization. Which Google Cloud service should they configure?

64

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. They want to reduce operational overhead while maintaining the ability to run the application without rewriting code. Which migration strategy should they use?

65

A global e-commerce platform needs to serve content with low latency to users worldwide. They want to cache static content at edge locations near users. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

66

A company wants to use machine learning to analyze customer reviews without building and training models from scratch. They need a pre-trained model that can classify sentiment. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

67

A financial services company must comply with strict data residency regulations. They need to store customer data in a specific geographic region and ensure it never leaves that region. Which Google Cloud feature should they use?

68

A company runs a web application on Compute Engine. They want to reduce costs by committing to a 1-year contract for their VM usage. Which pricing model should they use?

69

A company wants to allow its employees to securely access internal applications without a traditional VPN. They want to use Google's zero-trust security model. Which Google Cloud product should they implement?

70

A data analytics team needs to run complex SQL queries on a large dataset stored in Cloud Storage (CSV files). They want a serverless solution that does not require managing infrastructure. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

71

A company is moving a sensitive database to Cloud SQL. They need to encrypt data at rest using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and rotate the key every 30 days. How should they set this up?

72

A company wants to run containerized applications on Google Cloud without managing the underlying VMs or orchestrator. Which compute service should they choose?

73

Which TWO statements are benefits of using a multi-cloud strategy? (Choose 2)

74

Which THREE factors should be included when calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) for an on-premises data center compared to Google Cloud? (Choose 3)

75

Which TWO statements accurately describe Google Cloud's sustainability commitments? (Choose 2)

76

A financial services company needs to migrate its on-premises data center to Google Cloud to reduce operational overhead and improve scalability. They have a mix of legacy and modern applications. Which approach should they use to minimize migration risk while accelerating their digital transformation?

77

A company wants to reduce its total cost of ownership (TCO) by migrating from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud. Their current on-premises servers are underutilized during off-peak hours. Which Google Cloud feature directly addresses this waste by aligning costs with actual usage?

78

A retail company experiences sudden traffic spikes during flash sales. Their on-premises infrastructure often runs out of capacity, causing website slowdowns. Which cloud characteristic directly solves this problem?

79

A company wants to migrate its on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to Google Cloud. They want to minimize operational overhead and avoid vendor lock-in. Which TWO Google Cloud services should they consider? (Choose 2)

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A global e-commerce company is moving its user-facing application to Google Cloud to improve performance for customers worldwide. They need low-latency content delivery and fast DNS resolution. Which TWO Google Cloud services should they use? (Choose 2)

81

A startup wants to build a new application using Google Cloud's AI/ML services without hiring data scientists. They need to integrate pre-trained models for image recognition and natural language processing. Which THREE Google Cloud services should they use? (Choose 3)

82

A company wants to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy to keep sensitive data on-premises while taking advantage of Google Cloud for analytics. Which TWO Google Cloud products enable this architecture? (Choose 2)

83

A company is migrating a large on-premises Oracle database to Google Cloud. They want to reduce licensing costs and modernize the architecture. Which THREE strategies should they consider? (Choose 3)

84

A media company needs to store and serve video files globally with high availability and low latency. They also need to process these videos using transcoding. Which THREE Google Cloud services should they use? (Choose 3)

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