Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture

A company wants to migrate its on-premises monolithic application to Google Cloud with minimal changes. They plan to run it on a virtual machine with a predictable workload that runs 24/7 for a one-year commitment. Which compute option is MOST cost-effective?

A company is building a microservices architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and needs to ensure each microservice can only access specific Cloud Storage buckets. IAM permissions should be assigned at the pod level, not at the node level. What is the recommended approach?

A company deploys a global application on Cloud Run and uses Cloud SQL for user data. They need sub-10ms read latency for frequently accessed user profiles across regions. Traffic is unpredictable but consistently high. The database must support strong consistency. Which approach meets these requirements?

A company wants to run a stateful application on Google Kubernetes Engine that requires persistent storage with high read/write performance from multiple pods simultaneously. Which storage option should they use?

A company needs to store archival data that is accessed less than once a year and must be retained for 10 years for compliance. The data retrieval time is not critical. Which Cloud Storage class is MOST cost-effective?

A company deploys a web application on Compute Engine behind a global HTTP(S) Load Balancer. Users report intermittent 502 errors. Investigation shows backend instances are healthy. What is the MOST likely cause?

A company is migrating its on-premises data center to Google Cloud. They need a dedicated, low-latency, high-bandwidth connection between their on-premises network and VPC. They anticipate consistent traffic above 10 Gbps. Which connectivity option should they choose?

A company wants to run a containerized application that scales down to zero when not in use and only incurs costs when requests are being processed. They do not want to manage infrastructure. Which compute service should they use?

A company needs to run a batch job that processes data stored in Cloud Storage. The job runs once per day and takes about 2 hours on 8 vCPUs. Cost is the primary concern, and the job can be interrupted. Which compute option is MOST cost-effective?

A company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL and wants to achieve a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 1 minute for a regional disaster. Which configuration should they use?

A company is designing a microservices architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). They need to expose a set of internal microservices to other services within the same VPC, but not to the internet. Which GKE service type should they use?

A company wants to implement an event-driven architecture where uploads to a Cloud Storage bucket trigger processing in a serverless function. The function must process each object within a few seconds and handle bursts of thousands of uploads. Which service should they use?

A company is moving a legacy application to Google Cloud. The application uses a PostgreSQL database and must be re-platformed with minimal code changes. They require high availability across zones and automatic failover within the same region. Which TWO database services meet these requirements? (Choose 2.)

A company wants to run a stateful workload on GKE that requires persistent storage with low latency and high IOPS. They need to use the fastest available storage and are willing to lose data if the pod is rescheduled. Which THREE options should they consider? (Choose 3.)

A company wants to run containerized applications on Google Cloud with minimal operational overhead. They prefer to use a serverless container platform. Which TWO compute options should they consider? (Choose 2.)

A startup wants to run a containerized web application that scales to zero when not in use and charges only for request processing time. Which compute service is most appropriate?

A financial services company must run a PostgreSQL database with strong consistency across three regions. They need to support high write throughput and require automatic failover with zero data loss. Which database service should they choose?

An organization wants to establish a dedicated, low-latency connection between their on-premises data center and GCP with a guaranteed SLA of 99.99% uptime. They anticipate high bandwidth usage but want to avoid per-GB egress charges. Which connectivity option should they choose?

A media company runs a stateless web application on Compute Engine behind an HTTP(S) load balancer. They want to automatically replace unhealthy VMs and maintain a fixed number of running instances across two zones. What should they use?

A company needs to store archival data that is accessed less than once a year, with retrieval times of up to 12 hours acceptable. The data must be kept for 10 years for compliance. What is the most cost-effective Cloud Storage solution?

A developer needs to build a serverless event-driven application that responds to Cloud Storage object uploads by processing the file and storing results in Firestore. Which compute service is the best fit?

Which Google Cloud service provides a fully managed, auto-scaling environment for running stateless HTTP(S) web applications using a variety of supported programming languages?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises Oracle database to GCP with minimal changes. They require a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database that offers high performance for analytics and AI workloads. Which service should they choose?

A global e-commerce platform uses Cloud Spanner for product inventory and wants to reduce costs. They notice that read replicas are underutilized and that most queries are single-key reads. Which configuration change will reduce costs while maintaining availability?

A company runs batch processing jobs nightly that can tolerate interruptions. They want to minimize compute costs for these jobs. Which Compute Engine machine type and provisioning model is most cost-effective?

A developer needs to cache session state for a web application to reduce latency. The cache must be highly available and support sub-millisecond access times. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

A company wants to deploy a containerized microservices application on GCP with minimal operational overhead. They need automatic scaling, no node management, and pay only for requested resources. Which compute option is most appropriate?

A company runs a web application on GKE and wants to expose it to the internet using a global HTTP(S) load balancer with Cloud CDN. Which TWO GCP resources are required to configure this setup? (Choose TWO.)

A company needs to design a disaster recovery strategy for a critical application running on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 5 minutes, and the recovery time objective (RTO) is 30 minutes. Which THREE actions should they take to meet these objectives? (Choose THREE.)

A company is migrating a monolithic application to a microservices architecture on GCP. They want to use an event-driven approach to decouple services and ensure reliable message delivery. Which TWO services should they use for inter-service communication? (Choose TWO.)

A startup wants to deploy a containerized web application that scales automatically to zero when not in use, and only pays for resources consumed during request processing. Which compute service should they choose?

A company runs a batch processing workload that can tolerate interruptions. The job runs for 4 hours every night and can be restarted from checkpoints. They want to minimize compute costs. Which Compute Engine machine configuration is MOST cost-effective?

A financial services company needs a globally distributed relational database that supports strong consistency across regions, with multi-region writes and sub-10ms latency for most queries. The database must also support SQL and ACID transactions. Which database should they choose?

A developer wants to run a stateless HTTP API that automatically scales based on incoming request traffic. The API is packaged as a Docker container. They want to minimize operational overhead and only pay for resources when the API is handling requests. Which service should they use?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Google Cloud. They want to minimize application changes and need a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database with high performance for OLTP workloads. Which service is MOST suitable?

A media streaming company wants to serve video content globally with low latency. They plan to cache static objects (thumbnails, manifest files) at edge locations, while dynamic API requests are handled by a backend in a single region. Which combination should they use?

A company runs a critical application on Compute Engine and needs a disaster recovery strategy with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 1 minute. The application state is stored on persistent disks. Which solution meets these requirements?

Which Google Cloud service provides a fully managed, serverless data warehouse for petabyte-scale analytics using SQL?

A company wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a dedicated, high-bandwidth, low-latency connection that has a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99% uptime. Which connectivity option should they choose?

A data analytics team needs to run complex SQL queries on a large dataset stored in Cloud Storage (CSV files). The queries are ad-hoc and require fast execution. The data is updated daily. Which Google Cloud service should they use to query the data directly in Cloud Storage with minimal setup?

An e-commerce company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL for its transactional database. They need to run complex analytical queries on the same data without impacting OLTP performance. The analytical queries should be run on a read replica with minimal lag. Which solution is BEST?

A company wants to deploy a microservices architecture on Google Cloud. They need a service mesh to manage traffic, security, and observability across services. They also want to run workloads on both GKE and Compute Engine. Which solution should they use?

A company is moving a legacy monolithic application to a microservices architecture on Google Cloud. They want to minimize operational overhead and automatically scale each service independently. Which TWO compute services should they consider? (Choose two.)

A company wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy for a critical application running on Compute Engine with state stored on persistent disks. They need an RTO of less than 15 minutes and an RPO of less than 1 hour. Which TWO steps should they take? (Choose two.)

A company needs to store and serve large media files (each up to 5 GB) to users globally. The files are accessed infrequently (once a quarter) but must be available with low latency. Which THREE Cloud Storage classes and features should they consider? (Choose three.)

A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

A startup wants to deploy a containerised web application that auto-scales based on HTTP request traffic, with no infrastructure management. They expect unpredictable traffic spikes. Which compute service is most suitable?

A company has a legacy monolithic application running on-premises that must be migrated to Google Cloud with minimal changes. The application uses a SQL Server database and has strict licensing constraints. Which migration approach and storage service is most appropriate?

A media company uses Cloud CDN with an HTTP(S) Load Balancer to serve video content from Cloud Storage. After a month, they notice increased costs due to high cache miss rates. Analysis shows that many requests include a unique query parameter for analytics tracking. What is the most effective way to improve cache hit ratio while preserving analytics data?

A company wants to run batch processing workloads that can be interrupted and resumed, at the lowest possible cost. The jobs are fault-tolerant and can handle preemption. They also need predictable pricing for a baseline amount of compute. Which combination of compute options should they use?

A developer needs to deploy a Python script that processes images uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. The script should run only when new objects are created, and should scale automatically with no idle costs. Which GCP service is most appropriate?

An e-commerce company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL for their transactional database. During a recent load test, the database experienced high latency under write-heavy workloads. The team needs to improve write performance without changing the application. Which action is most effective?

A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for a critical application running on Compute Engine with a regional managed instance group (MIG) and an HTTP load balancer. They require an RTO of 10 minutes and RPO of 1 hour. The application state is stored in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. What is the most cost-effective approach?

A company uses Cloud Storage to store sensitive customer data. They must ensure that data at rest is encrypted with a customer-managed key that is automatically rotated every 90 days. Which Cloud Storage configuration should they use?

A company wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a dedicated, high-bandwidth, low-latency connection that supports Service Level Agreements (SLAs) up to 99.99% availability. Which connectivity option should they choose?

A team is migrating a stateful application to GKE. The application requires persistent storage with ReadWriteMany (RWX) access across multiple pods. Which Kubernetes volume type should they use to meet this requirement on GKE?

A company has a production GKE cluster running in Autopilot mode. They need to use a DaemonSet for a logging agent that must run on every node. However, they find that the DaemonSet pods are not being scheduled. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to use a multi-cloud strategy to avoid vendor lock-in and run workloads on both Google Cloud and AWS. They need to manage Kubernetes clusters across both environments consistently. Which TWO Google Cloud services can help achieve this?

A company runs a latency-sensitive web application on Compute Engine with a managed instance group (MIG) behind an HTTP load balancer. They want to reduce latency for users in Europe and Asia. Which THREE actions should they take?

A global financial services company needs to store transaction data with strong consistency across multiple regions, low latency (single-digit milliseconds), and the ability to scale writes horizontally. They also require SQL query capabilities. Which TWO database services meet these requirements?

A startup wants to deploy a containerized web application with zero server management and automatic scaling based on HTTP requests. They expect very low traffic initially but want to scale to thousands of requests per second without configuration changes. Which compute service is most appropriate?

A company runs a batch processing job every night that takes 4 hours on a single n2-standard-8 VM. They are willing to accept up to 2 minutes of additional completion time in exchange for significant cost savings. The job is fault-tolerant and can be restarted if interrupted. Which compute option should they use?

A media company stores raw video files in a Cloud Storage bucket with Standard storage class. The files are accessed frequently for the first 30 days after upload, then rarely after that. Compliance requires retention of all files for 7 years. They want to minimise storage costs while ensuring files are retrievable within 24 hours of a request. Which storage strategy meets these requirements?

A company needs a relational database that can scale horizontally across multiple regions, supports ACID transactions, and provides strong global consistency. Which Google Cloud database should they choose?

A financial services company wants to migrate a legacy monolithic Java application to Google Cloud with minimal changes to the code. They plan to containerise the application but want to avoid managing Kubernetes clusters. The application requires persistent storage and must be reachable via an internal IP address within the VPC. Which compute service should they use?

An e-commerce company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL to handle user sessions. During Black Friday sales, the database experiences high read latency and connection timeouts. The traffic pattern shows 95% read operations and 5% write operations. They need to improve read performance without significant architectural changes. Which action should they take?

A gaming company needs to store player session data that is frequently updated and requires strong consistency within a single region. The data model is simple key-value with few attributes. They expect up to 1 million concurrent players, each performing 10 writes per second. Which database is most suitable?

A company wants to run a legacy application on Google Cloud that requires a specific operating system version and kernel tuning. The application is not containerised and cannot be easily modified. Which compute service should they use?

A company is deploying a multi-region web application that must provide sub-second read latency globally for a small dataset (under 100 MB) that is updated infrequently. They want a fully managed service that caches data close to users. Which service should they use?

A company uses GKE Standard with node pools of preemptible VMs for batch jobs. They notice that during preemption events, pods take several minutes to become ready on new nodes because container images are large. They need to reduce startup time. Which approach is most effective?

A company needs to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a dedicated, low-latency connection that provides a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99% uptime. They anticipate high bandwidth usage (10 Gbps). Which connectivity option should they choose?

A company runs a critical application on Compute Engine that must remain available even if an entire zone fails. They have configured a managed instance group across three zones with autoscaling based on CPU utilization. The application state is stored in a Cloud SQL instance. Which additional step should they take to ensure high availability?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. They want to minimise changes while taking advantage of cloud benefits. Which TWO migration strategies are most appropriate? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs a multi-region application on GKE that requires low-latency access to a shared dataset that is read-heavy and updated frequently. They need a storage solution that supports strong consistency and can scale write throughput. Which TWO Google Cloud services meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application running on Compute Engine with data in Cloud SQL. They require a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 minutes. Which THREE actions should they take? (Choose THREE.)

A startup is building a serverless application that processes events from Cloud Storage buckets. Each event triggers a Python function that resizes images. Which GCP compute service is MOST suitable for this event-driven workload?

A company wants to migrate an on-premises MySQL database to GCP with minimal downtime and support for automated failover in case of a zone outage. Which GCP service should they use?

An e-commerce company is experiencing traffic spikes during flash sales. Their application runs on Compute Engine instances behind a TCP load balancer. They want to automatically scale the number of instances based on CPU utilization. Which configuration is required?

A financial services company requires a globally distributed relational database with strong consistency and horizontal scalability to serve a multi-region banking application. Write conflicts are rare. Which database should they choose?

A company wants to save costs on batch-processing workloads that can be interrupted and resumed. The workloads run on Compute Engine VMs and tolerate occasional failures. Which VM pricing model is MOST cost-effective?

A media company stores large video files that are accessed infrequently (once a quarter) and must be retained for 10 years for compliance. They want to minimize storage cost. Which Cloud Storage class should they use?

A company is running a containerized application on Cloud Run and needs to handle long-running requests that may exceed Cloud Run's default timeout. They also need to use WebSocket connections. What should they do?

A global gaming company deploys a leaderboard service using Cloud Spanner with a single-region configuration. They need a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 seconds and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 minute in the event of a regional outage. What should they do?

A company is running a stateful application on Compute Engine with local SSDs for low-latency writes. They want to perform a rolling update without losing data stored on the local SSDs. Which strategy is MOST appropriate?

A company uses Cloud Storage for analytics data with lifecycle policies to move objects from Standard to Coldline after 30 days and delete after 365 days. They notice that objects are being deleted after 30 days instead of 365. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a dedicated, low-latency, and highly available connection. They need bandwidth of 10 Gbps. Which option should they choose?

An organization wants to deploy a containerized microservices architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and minimize operational overhead. They do not need to manage the node infrastructure and are willing to accept some limitations on node configuration. Which GKE mode should they choose?

A company is migrating a legacy Java application to GCP. The application currently runs on a single on-premises server with a MySQL database. They want to minimize changes to the application code but take advantage of GCP managed services. Which TWO approaches should they consider? (Choose 2)

A company wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy for their critical workloads on GCP. They require an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. Which THREE components should they include in their architecture? (Choose 3)

A company runs a batch analytics job every hour on BigQuery. The job processes terabytes of data and the results are stored in Cloud Storage. The job must complete within 30 minutes. Which TWO actions can reduce query execution time? (Choose 2)

A company needs to store petabytes of time-series IoT sensor data and query it with single-digit millisecond latency at millions of reads per second. The data has a simple key-value structure with timestamps. Which Google Cloud database is MOST appropriate?

A company wants to run a containerized web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. They want to pay only for resources used during request processing, with no idle cost. Which compute service should they choose?

A financial services company is migrating a monolithic Java application to Google Cloud. They want to minimize changes to the application code but take advantage of managed services. They plan to run the application on a VM with a specific OS configuration that is not supported by App Engine. Which migration strategy should they use?

A company runs a batch processing workload on Compute Engine that executes nightly. The job is fault-tolerant and can withstand interruptions. The job uses 500 vCPUs and runs for 4 hours each night. Which compute option is MOST cost-effective?

A startup is building a mobile app backend that requires real-time data synchronization across multiple users. They need a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database that scales automatically and supports offline persistence. Which database should they choose?

A company has a global user base and wants to serve static content (images, videos, CSS) with low latency from edge locations. They also want to protect their origin server from traffic spikes. Which combination of services should they use?

A company is migrating a legacy e-commerce platform to GKE. The application consists of several stateless microservices and a stateful database. They want to minimize operational overhead for the database while ensuring high availability across zones. Which database option should they choose?

A company needs to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a dedicated, low-latency, and highly available connection. They require at least 10 Gbps throughput and want to avoid internet-based VPN. Which connectivity option should they choose?

A company is running a critical application on Compute Engine that must be highly available. They want to distribute traffic across multiple instances in different zones and automatically redirect traffic if a zone fails. Which load balancing solution should they use?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to a microservices architecture on GKE. They want to gradually shift traffic from the monolith to the new services. They also need to route requests based on headers (e.g., for A/B testing). Which GKE feature should they use?

A company needs to store archival data that is accessed less than once a year. They want the lowest storage cost possible, but they can accept a retrieval time of up to 24 hours. Which Cloud Storage class should they use?

A company runs a global SaaS application on Google Cloud using Cloud Spanner. They need to ensure disaster recovery with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 5 seconds and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero. Which configuration should they use?

A company is designing a microservices application on Google Cloud. They want to use an event-driven architecture where services communicate asynchronously. They need to reliably handle high-throughput events and ensure that each event is processed at least once. Which TWO services should they use together?

A company wants to migrate a large on-premises relational database to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL with minimal downtime. They need to ensure data consistency during the migration. Which THREE steps should they take?

A company is building a web application on GKE. They want to automatically scale the number of pods based on HTTP request rate. Which TWO resources should they configure?

A company is migrating an on-premises monolithic Java application to Google Cloud. They want to minimize changes to the code while gaining some cloud benefits like autoscaling and managed infrastructure. They plan to eventually refactor to microservices. Which compute option BEST fits their current needs?

A company requires a globally distributed relational database with strong consistency across regions and automatic replication. They need to support SQL queries and have a write throughput of 100,000 writes per second. Which Google Cloud database meets these requirements?

A company is running a stateful web application on Compute Engine. They want to achieve high availability by distributing traffic across multiple zones in a region. Which TWO steps should they take? (Choose TWO.)

A company wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with high availability and bandwidth up to 10 Gbps. They need a dedicated connection with a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Which TWO options should they consider? (Choose TWO.)

A company is building a serverless event-driven application that processes messages from Pub/Sub and stores results in Firestore. Which THREE Google Cloud services should they use together to implement this architecture? (Choose THREE.)

A company wants to store infrequently accessed archival data that must be retained for 7 years. They need low storage cost and retrieval times of a few hours are acceptable. Which TWO storage classes should they consider? (Choose TWO.)

A company runs a web application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with a Deployment of 5 replicas. They notice that one of the cluster nodes has failed, but the workload remains available. Which THREE GKE features are responsible for maintaining availability? (Choose THREE.)

A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. They are using the Regional Cloud SQL tier. Which TWO actions should they take? (Choose TWO.)

An engineering team is deploying a microservices application on Google Cloud. They want to use a service mesh for observability, traffic management, and security. They are considering Anthos Service Mesh (ASM). Which THREE components are part of ASM? (Choose THREE.)

A company needs to run batch processing jobs that can tolerate interruptions. They want to minimize costs. Which TWO compute options should they consider? (Choose TWO.)