Google PCA Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability — All Questions With Answers

Question 1mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a dedicated private connection that provides 99.99% availability and supports up to 100 Gbps bandwidth. They have a colocation facility near a Google Cloud region. Which connectivity option should they choose?

Question 2mediummultiple choice

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An organization needs to run a stateful application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) where the nodes are fully managed by Google and the application workload SLAs are guaranteed. They want to minimize operational overhead. Which GKE mode should they use?

Question 3hardmultiple choice

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A financial services company runs a critical PostgreSQL database on Cloud SQL. They need to ensure automatic failover to a replica in another zone within the same region with minimal data loss. What configuration should they choose?

Question 4easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to create a custom dashboard in Cloud Monitoring to track the 99th percentile latency of their application over the last 7 days. Which type of metric should they use?

Question 5mediummultiple choice

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A team is implementing a canary deployment for a microservice on GKE using traffic splitting. They want to gradually shift 1% of traffic to a new version, monitor for errors, and then increase the percentage. Which tool or configuration should they use?

Question 6mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to receive alerts when their Cloud SQL instance's CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. They want to send the alert to both email and a Pub/Sub topic for further processing. What should they do?

Question 7easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to view the last 100 lines of a log file from a Compute Engine instance without leaving the Google Cloud Console. Which tool should they use?

Question 8mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a critical application on Compute Engine and wants to automate recovery in case of a zone failure by redeploying instances in another zone. They have a startup script that configures the application. What is the simplest way to achieve zone failover?

Question 9hardmultiple choice

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An engineering team wants to perform load testing on their new microservices-based application deployed on GKE. They need a tool that can simulate thousands of concurrent users, generate detailed performance metrics, and integrate with Cloud Monitoring. Which tool should they use?

Question 10easymultiple choice

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A company needs to retain object versions in Cloud Storage for 90 days to protect against accidental deletion or modification. After 90 days, versions should be deleted. What feature should they enable?

Question 11mediummultiple choice

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A team is migrating a monolithic application to microservices on GKE. They want to gradually shift users to the new microservices version while keeping the old monolithic version running. They need to route a small percentage of users based on a cookie. Which traffic management approach should they use?

Question 12hardmultiple choice

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An organization uses Cloud Spanner with a multi-region configuration to achieve 99.999% availability for their global user base. They notice an increase in write latency during peak hours. Which action would MOST effectively reduce write latency?

Question 13mediummulti select

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A company wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for their Cloud SQL for MySQL databases. They need to be able to recover to a specific point in time (within seconds) in case of accidental data deletion. Which TWO actions should they take? (Choose TWO.)

Question 14easymulti select

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An engineer needs to troubleshoot a production issue on a Compute Engine instance. They suspect the instance is running out of memory. Which THREE actions should they take to diagnose the problem? (Choose THREE.)

Question 15hardmulti select

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A company is designing a highly available architecture for a web application using Google Cloud. They need to ensure that the application remains available even if an entire Google Cloud region experiences an outage. Which THREE components should they include in their architecture? (Choose THREE.)

Question 16mediummultiple choice

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Your company has a production Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance in us-central1 with automated backups enabled. You need to ensure that if the zone fails, the database automatically fails over to a standby in a different zone with minimal downtime. What should you do?

Question 17easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a dedicated 10 Gbps link. They require high availability and have budget for two physically diverse connections. Which solution should they choose?

Question 18hardmultiple choice

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Your team uses Cloud Deploy to manage canary deployments on GKE. You want to automatically roll back a release if the error rate increases by more than 5% within 10 minutes after the canary receives 10% of traffic. Which approach meets this requirement?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. The instance is in us-east1. You need to be able to recover the database to a specific second in time within the past 7 days in the event of a regional outage. What should you do?

Question 20easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to view the last 100 lines of logs from a specific Compute Engine instance in real time to debug an application issue. Which command should they use?

Question 21mediummultiple choice

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Your company runs a multi-region Cloud Spanner instance for a global financial application. The SLA requirement is 99.999% availability. You need to ensure that the database remains available during a regional outage. What configuration should you use?

Question 22hardmultiple choice

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Your organization uses Cloud Logging to collect logs from all GCP projects. The security team wants to be alerted when a specific IAM policy change (e.g., granting roles/compute.admin to a user) occurs in any project. They need near real-time notification via email and a ticketing system. What should you do?

Question 23mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to perform load testing on a new microservice deployed on GKE. They need to simulate thousands of concurrent users with realistic traffic patterns. They also want to monitor latency and error rates during the test. Which Google Cloud tool should they use?

Question 24easymultiple choice

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You need to automatically roll back a GKE deployment if a new version causes a spike in 5xx errors. The deployment uses a canary strategy with Istio traffic splitting. What should you do?

Question 25mediummultiple choice

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Your company runs a stateful application on GKE that stores data in persistent volumes backed by Compute Engine persistent disks. You need to back up the application data and the Kubernetes resource configurations (deployments, services, etc.) for disaster recovery. Which tool should you use?

Question 26hardmultiple choice

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An e-commerce platform uses Cloud Spanner for order processing. The operations team notices that a recent schema change caused a spike in latency. They need to quickly revert to the previous schema without losing any data. What is the fastest way to achieve this?

Question 27mediummultiple choice

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Your company uses HA VPN to connect on-premises to Google Cloud. You need to ensure the VPN connection meets a 99.99% SLA. Which configuration is required?

Question 28mediummulti select

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Your company uses Cloud Storage to store critical documents. You need to prevent accidental deletion or modification of objects for a retention period of 5 years. Which TWO features should you use?

Question 29hardmulti select

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Your organization runs a microservices application on GKE Autopilot. You want to implement a gradual rollout of a new version with the ability to compare performance metrics between the old and new versions. Which TWO approaches should you combine?

Question 30mediummulti select

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You need to set up monitoring and alerting for a critical service that must maintain an error rate below 0.1%. You want to be notified if the error rate exceeds this threshold over a 5-minute window. Which THREE components should you configure?

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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Your company plans to connect an on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a Dedicated Interconnect. You need to ensure high availability for the connection. What is the minimum configuration required to meet a 99.99% SLA for Dedicated Interconnect?

Question 32easymultiple choice

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Your organization wants to use Cloud SQL for a MySQL database with automatic failover in the event of a zone outage. Which configuration should you choose?

Question 33mediummultiple choice

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You need to monitor the performance of a production Cloud Run service and set an alert when the p99 latency exceeds 500 ms over a 5-minute window. Which combination of Cloud Monitoring resources should you use?

Question 34hardmultiple choice

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Your company uses Cloud Spanner in a multi-region configuration to achieve 99.999% availability. You need to understand the impact of a regional failure on read and write availability. Which statement is correct?

Question 35mediummultiple choice

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Your team uses a GKE cluster with Autopilot mode. You want to ensure that your workloads can tolerate a node failure without manual intervention. What should you do?

Question 36easymultiple choice

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You want to create a log-based alert in Cloud Logging that triggers when a specific error message appears in application logs. What is the first step?

Question 37hardmultiple choice

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Your company runs a production application on Compute Engine instances behind a managed instance group (MIG). You need to perform a rolling update with canary testing, gradually shifting traffic to the new version only if performance metrics are healthy. Which approach should you use?

Question 38mediummultiple choice

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Your organization stores critical financial data in Cloud Storage. You need to ensure that if an object is deleted or overwritten, you can recover it within 30 days. What feature should you enable?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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Your team uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL for an e-commerce application. You want to perform point-in-time recovery (PITR) to recover from a logical error that occurred 10 minutes ago. Which prerequisites are required?

Question 40easymultiple choice

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You need to run a load test against a web application hosted on Compute Engine. Which tool is recommended for generating HTTP traffic and measuring performance?

Question 41mediummultiple choice

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Your company uses Cloud VPN (HA VPN) to connect to Google Cloud. You need to achieve a 99.99% SLA for the VPN connection. What configuration is required?

Question 42hardmultiple choice

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Your team is following an incident management process. After resolving a major incident, you are tasked with conducting a postmortem. What is the PRIMARY goal of the postmortem process in Google Cloud's recommended approach?

Question 43mediummulti select

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You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application running on GKE. You need to back up the cluster's state and application data. Which TWO services should you use together? (Choose 2)

Question 44hardmulti select

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Your company wants to implement a canary deployment for a microservice running on GKE. You need to gradually shift traffic from the stable version to the canary version while monitoring error rates. Which THREE components or practices should you use? (Choose 3)

Question 45easymulti select

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You need to enable high availability for a new Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. Which TWO configurations must you set? (Choose 2)

Question 46mediummultiple choice

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A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) plan for their Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. They need to recover the database to a specific point in time within the last 7 days, with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 1 hour. Which feature should they use?

Question 47mediummultiple choice

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An organization is using Cloud Interconnect to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud. They need to ensure 99.99% availability for their connection. Which configuration meets this requirement?

Question 48hardmultiple choice

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During a load test, an application running on GKE experiences high latency and errors. You suspect the issue is due to insufficient cluster resources. Which gcloud command should you use to quickly check the current resource utilization of all nodes in the cluster?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to implement canary deployments on GKE to gradually roll out a new version of a microservice. They need to route a small percentage of traffic to the new version initially. Which tool can they use to achieve traffic splitting?

Question 50easymultiple choice

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You are configuring a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to notify your SRE team when the error rate of a service exceeds 5% over a 5-minute window. Which type of metric evaluation should you use?

Question 51mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Storage to store backup files. They need to retain backups for 7 years and must be able to recover deleted or overwritten files within that period. Which Cloud Storage feature should they enable?

Question 52hardmultiple choice

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An application running on GKE Autopilot is experiencing intermittent failures due to resource limits. The team wants to ensure that the application always has enough CPU and memory without manual node management. What should they do?

Question 53easymultiple choice

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To achieve a 99.999% availability SLA for a globally distributed application using Cloud Spanner, which configuration is required?

Question 54mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning a phased migration of their on-premises database to Cloud SQL. They want to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which approach should they use?

Question 55mediummultiple choice

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You are responsible for post-incident reviews. After a major outage, your team identifies that the root cause was a misconfiguration in a deployment pipeline that caused an incorrect rollout. Which step should be included in the postmortem process?

Question 56easymultiple choice

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You need to create a Cloud Logging sink that exports logs to a BigQuery dataset for long-term analysis. Which destination type should you specify?

Question 57hardmultiple choice

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An application running on Compute Engine is experiencing increased latency. You suspect a network bottleneck due to high egress traffic. Which gcloud command can you use to quickly check the network egress traffic for a specific VM instance?

Question 58mediummulti select

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A company is deploying a critical application on GKE and needs to ensure high availability for the Kubernetes control plane and etcd data. Which TWO approaches should they implement? (Choose TWO.)

Question 59mediummulti select

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An organization needs to implement a change management process for a mission-critical application on GKE. They want to validate performance before full rollout and be able to roll back quickly. Which THREE practices should they adopt? (Choose THREE.)

Question 60hardmulti select

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A company is designing a DR strategy for their GKE workloads. They need to back up application data and cluster configuration. Which THREE resources should they include in their backup plan? (Choose THREE.)

Question 61mediummultiple choice

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A company has a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance in a single zone. To achieve high availability, they want to ensure automatic failover with zero data loss and minimal downtime. Which configuration should they use?

Question 62mediummultiple choice

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An organization needs to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a 99.99% SLA and up to 10 Gbps throughput. They have a supported partner for network connectivity. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question 63hardmultiple choice

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A company runs a microservices application on GKE Autopilot. They want to implement canary deployments where a new version of a service receives 10% of traffic. Which approach should they use?

Question 64easymultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Logging to capture application logs. They need to alert when the number of errors exceeds 100 in a 5-minute window. Which type of alert should they create?

Question 65mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning a migration from on-premises to Google Cloud. They want to ensure minimal downtime and the ability to roll back quickly if issues arise. Which deployment strategy should they use?

Question 66mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Spanner in a multi-region configuration. They want to ensure the highest availability with an SLA of 99.999%. Which configuration supports this?

Question 67easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to list all Compute Engine instances in a project using the command line. Which gcloud command should they use?

Question 68hardmultiple choice

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A company runs a critical application on GKE with etcd for configuration storage. They want to back up etcd data for disaster recovery. Which tool should they use?

Question 69easymultiple choice

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A company wants to test the performance of a new web application under high load. They need a tool that can generate traffic from multiple regions. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Question 70mediummultiple choice

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An organization uses Cloud Storage to store critical documents. They want to protect against accidental deletion or overwriting of objects. Which feature should they enable?

Question 71mediummultiple choice

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A company has a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance with automated backups enabled. They need to recover the database to a specific point in time within the last hour. Which feature should they use?

Question 72hardmultiple choice

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A company has two on-premises data centers connected to Google Cloud via two Dedicated Interconnect connections (each 10 Gbps) from different providers. They want to achieve the highest availability for connectivity. Which configuration should they use?

Question 73mediummulti select

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A company wants to set up monitoring and alerting for their application running on GKE. They need to receive alerts via email and also trigger an automated remediation workflow. Which TWO components should they use? (Choose two.)

Question 74mediummulti select

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A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for their Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database. They need to ensure that they can recover from a regional outage with minimal data loss. Which TWO strategies should they implement? (Choose two.)

Question 75hardmulti select

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A company uses GKE with Istio for service mesh. They want to implement a canary deployment for a critical service with fine-grained traffic splitting. Which THREE components should they configure? (Choose three.)

Question 76mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to connect its on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a consistent 10 Gbps bandwidth and a 99.99% availability SLA. They already have a Dedicated Interconnect connection, but need to ensure high availability. What should they do?

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Question 77easymultiple choice

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A team is deploying a new microservice on GKE Autopilot. They want to ensure the workload has a 99.9% availability SLA without managing nodes. Which GKE mode should they use?

Question 78mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL for its transactional database. They need to ensure automatic failover in case of a zonal outage with minimal data loss. What configuration should they use?

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Question 79hardmultiple choice

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An e-commerce platform uses Cloud Spanner in a multi-region configuration. They want to achieve the highest possible availability SLA. Which deployment configuration should they choose?

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Question 80easymultiple choice

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A DevOps team wants to monitor custom application metrics and set up an alert that triggers when the error rate exceeds 1% over a 5-minute window. Which Cloud Monitoring features should they use?

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Question 81mediummultiple choice

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After a production incident, a team wants to conduct a postmortem to identify root causes and document actions to prevent recurrence. Which steps are part of Google's recommended postmortem process?

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Question 82mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and needs to recover a database to a specific point in time within the last week, down to the second. Which feature should they enable?

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Question 83mediummultiple choice

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A team needs to run load tests against their application deployed on GKE to validate performance under peak traffic. They want to simulate 100,000 concurrent users generating HTTP requests. Which tool should they use?

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Question 84hardmultiple choice

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An organization wants to implement a canary deployment in GKE, directing 5% of traffic to a new version and 95% to the stable version. They want to use Google Cloud's managed service mesh for traffic splitting. Which approach should they use?

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Question 85easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to view the logs of a specific Compute Engine instance in near real-time from the command line. Which gcloud command should they use?

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Question 86mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to set up automated failover between two on-premises data centers and Google Cloud using Cloud VPN. They require a 99.99% SLA for the VPN connection. What configuration should they use?

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Question 87hardmultiple choice

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A financial services company uses Cloud Storage to store sensitive transaction records. They need to ensure that objects cannot be deleted or overwritten for a retention period of 7 years, even by the bucket owner. Which feature should they enable?

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Question 88mediummulti select

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A company wants to back up their GKE cluster's etcd data and persistent volumes for disaster recovery. They are evaluating Velero. Which two components does Velero require to perform backups? (Choose two.)

Question 89hardmulti select

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An organization wants to implement a change management strategy for a microservices application on GKE, allowing gradual rollouts and immediate rollback if issues arise. Which three practices should they adopt? (Choose three.)

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Question 90mediummulti select

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A team needs to set up alerting for a production service. They want to receive notifications when the 99th percentile latency exceeds 500ms for 5 minutes. Which two Cloud Monitoring components are required? (Choose two.)

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Question 91easymultiple choice

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A company wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a 99.99% SLA using encrypted tunnels over the public internet. Which connectivity solution should they choose?

Question 92mediummultiple choice

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Your organization runs a production Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. You need to ensure that if the primary zone fails, the database automatically fails over to a standby with no data loss. Which configuration should you use?

Question 93mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Monitoring to track the performance of their application. They want to create an alert that triggers when the 99th percentile latency exceeds 500ms over a rolling 5-minute window. Which type of SLO and alert should they use?

Question 94hardmulti select

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An e-commerce platform runs on GKE with Autopilot. The team wants to perform a canary deployment where 10% of traffic goes to a new version. They need to monitor the canary's error rate and latency, and automatically roll back if thresholds are exceeded. Which TWO services or features should they use together?

Question 95mediummulti select

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A company uses Cloud Storage to store critical documents. They need to protect against accidental deletion or overwrite of objects, and also retain deleted objects for at least 30 days. Which THREE features should they enable?

Question 96hardmulti select

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A company has a Cloud Spanner multi-region configuration serving a global user base. They observe increased latency during regional outages. They want to improve read availability and reduce read latency across regions. Which TWO actions should they take?

Question 1mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a dedicated private connection that provides 99.99% availability and supports up to 100 Gbps bandwidth. They have a colocation facility near a Google Cloud region. Which connectivity option should they choose?

Question 2mediummultiple choice

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An organization needs to run a stateful application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) where the nodes are fully managed by Google and the application workload SLAs are guaranteed. They want to minimize operational overhead. Which GKE mode should they use?

Question 3hardmultiple choice

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A financial services company runs a critical PostgreSQL database on Cloud SQL. They need to ensure automatic failover to a replica in another zone within the same region with minimal data loss. What configuration should they choose?

Question 4easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to create a custom dashboard in Cloud Monitoring to track the 99th percentile latency of their application over the last 7 days. Which type of metric should they use?

Question 5mediummultiple choice

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A team is implementing a canary deployment for a microservice on GKE using traffic splitting. They want to gradually shift 1% of traffic to a new version, monitor for errors, and then increase the percentage. Which tool or configuration should they use?

Question 6mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to receive alerts when their Cloud SQL instance's CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. They want to send the alert to both email and a Pub/Sub topic for further processing. What should they do?

Question 7easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to view the last 100 lines of a log file from a Compute Engine instance without leaving the Google Cloud Console. Which tool should they use?

Question 8mediummultiple choice

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A company runs a critical application on Compute Engine and wants to automate recovery in case of a zone failure by redeploying instances in another zone. They have a startup script that configures the application. What is the simplest way to achieve zone failover?

Question 9hardmultiple choice

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An engineering team wants to perform load testing on their new microservices-based application deployed on GKE. They need a tool that can simulate thousands of concurrent users, generate detailed performance metrics, and integrate with Cloud Monitoring. Which tool should they use?

Question 10easymultiple choice

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A company needs to retain object versions in Cloud Storage for 90 days to protect against accidental deletion or modification. After 90 days, versions should be deleted. What feature should they enable?

Question 11mediummultiple choice

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A team is migrating a monolithic application to microservices on GKE. They want to gradually shift users to the new microservices version while keeping the old monolithic version running. They need to route a small percentage of users based on a cookie. Which traffic management approach should they use?

Question 12hardmultiple choice

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An organization uses Cloud Spanner with a multi-region configuration to achieve 99.999% availability for their global user base. They notice an increase in write latency during peak hours. Which action would MOST effectively reduce write latency?

Question 13mediummulti select

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A company wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for their Cloud SQL for MySQL databases. They need to be able to recover to a specific point in time (within seconds) in case of accidental data deletion. Which TWO actions should they take? (Choose TWO.)

Question 14easymulti select

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An engineer needs to troubleshoot a production issue on a Compute Engine instance. They suspect the instance is running out of memory. Which THREE actions should they take to diagnose the problem? (Choose THREE.)

Question 15hardmulti select

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A company is designing a highly available architecture for a web application using Google Cloud. They need to ensure that the application remains available even if an entire Google Cloud region experiences an outage. Which THREE components should they include in their architecture? (Choose THREE.)

Question 16mediummultiple choice

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Your company has a production Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance in us-central1 with automated backups enabled. You need to ensure that if the zone fails, the database automatically fails over to a standby in a different zone with minimal downtime. What should you do?

Question 17easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to connect their on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a dedicated 10 Gbps link. They require high availability and have budget for two physically diverse connections. Which solution should they choose?

Question 18hardmultiple choice

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Your team uses Cloud Deploy to manage canary deployments on GKE. You want to automatically roll back a release if the error rate increases by more than 5% within 10 minutes after the canary receives 10% of traffic. Which approach meets this requirement?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. The instance is in us-east1. You need to be able to recover the database to a specific second in time within the past 7 days in the event of a regional outage. What should you do?

Question 20easymultiple choice

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A developer needs to view the last 100 lines of logs from a specific Compute Engine instance in real time to debug an application issue. Which command should they use?

Question 21mediummultiple choice

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Your company runs a multi-region Cloud Spanner instance for a global financial application. The SLA requirement is 99.999% availability. You need to ensure that the database remains available during a regional outage. What configuration should you use?

Question 22hardmultiple choice

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Your organization uses Cloud Logging to collect logs from all GCP projects. The security team wants to be alerted when a specific IAM policy change (e.g., granting roles/compute.admin to a user) occurs in any project. They need near real-time notification via email and a ticketing system. What should you do?

Question 23mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to perform load testing on a new microservice deployed on GKE. They need to simulate thousands of concurrent users with realistic traffic patterns. They also want to monitor latency and error rates during the test. Which Google Cloud tool should they use?

Question 24easymultiple choice

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You need to automatically roll back a GKE deployment if a new version causes a spike in 5xx errors. The deployment uses a canary strategy with Istio traffic splitting. What should you do?

Question 25mediummultiple choice

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Your company runs a stateful application on GKE that stores data in persistent volumes backed by Compute Engine persistent disks. You need to back up the application data and the Kubernetes resource configurations (deployments, services, etc.) for disaster recovery. Which tool should you use?

Question 26hardmultiple choice

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An e-commerce platform uses Cloud Spanner for order processing. The operations team notices that a recent schema change caused a spike in latency. They need to quickly revert to the previous schema without losing any data. What is the fastest way to achieve this?

Question 27mediummultiple choice

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Your company uses HA VPN to connect on-premises to Google Cloud. You need to ensure the VPN connection meets a 99.99% SLA. Which configuration is required?

Question 28mediummulti select

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Your company uses Cloud Storage to store critical documents. You need to prevent accidental deletion or modification of objects for a retention period of 5 years. Which TWO features should you use?

Question 29hardmulti select

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Your organization runs a microservices application on GKE Autopilot. You want to implement a gradual rollout of a new version with the ability to compare performance metrics between the old and new versions. Which TWO approaches should you combine?

Question 30mediummulti select

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You need to set up monitoring and alerting for a critical service that must maintain an error rate below 0.1%. You want to be notified if the error rate exceeds this threshold over a 5-minute window. Which THREE components should you configure?

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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Your company plans to connect an on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a Dedicated Interconnect. You need to ensure high availability for the connection. What is the minimum configuration required to meet a 99.99% SLA for Dedicated Interconnect?

Question 32easymultiple choice

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Your organization wants to use Cloud SQL for a MySQL database with automatic failover in the event of a zone outage. Which configuration should you choose?

Question 33mediummultiple choice

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You need to monitor the performance of a production Cloud Run service and set an alert when the p99 latency exceeds 500 ms over a 5-minute window. Which combination of Cloud Monitoring resources should you use?

Question 34hardmultiple choice

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Your company uses Cloud Spanner in a multi-region configuration to achieve 99.999% availability. You need to understand the impact of a regional failure on read and write availability. Which statement is correct?

Question 35mediummultiple choice

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Your team uses a GKE cluster with Autopilot mode. You want to ensure that your workloads can tolerate a node failure without manual intervention. What should you do?

Question 36easymultiple choice

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You want to create a log-based alert in Cloud Logging that triggers when a specific error message appears in application logs. What is the first step?

Question 37hardmultiple choice

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Your company runs a production application on Compute Engine instances behind a managed instance group (MIG). You need to perform a rolling update with canary testing, gradually shifting traffic to the new version only if performance metrics are healthy. Which approach should you use?

Question 38mediummultiple choice

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Your organization stores critical financial data in Cloud Storage. You need to ensure that if an object is deleted or overwritten, you can recover it within 30 days. What feature should you enable?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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Your team uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL for an e-commerce application. You want to perform point-in-time recovery (PITR) to recover from a logical error that occurred 10 minutes ago. Which prerequisites are required?

Question 40easymultiple choice

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You need to run a load test against a web application hosted on Compute Engine. Which tool is recommended for generating HTTP traffic and measuring performance?

Question 41mediummultiple choice

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Your company uses Cloud VPN (HA VPN) to connect to Google Cloud. You need to achieve a 99.99% SLA for the VPN connection. What configuration is required?

Question 42hardmultiple choice

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Your team is following an incident management process. After resolving a major incident, you are tasked with conducting a postmortem. What is the PRIMARY goal of the postmortem process in Google Cloud's recommended approach?

Question 43mediummulti select

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You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application running on GKE. You need to back up the cluster's state and application data. Which TWO services should you use together? (Choose 2)

Question 44hardmulti select

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Your company wants to implement a canary deployment for a microservice running on GKE. You need to gradually shift traffic from the stable version to the canary version while monitoring error rates. Which THREE components or practices should you use? (Choose 3)

Question 45easymulti select

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You need to enable high availability for a new Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. Which TWO configurations must you set? (Choose 2)

Question 46mediummultiple choice

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A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) plan for their Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. They need to recover the database to a specific point in time within the last 7 days, with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 1 hour. Which feature should they use?

Question 47mediummultiple choice

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An organization is using Cloud Interconnect to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud. They need to ensure 99.99% availability for their connection. Which configuration meets this requirement?

Question 48hardmultiple choice

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During a load test, an application running on GKE experiences high latency and errors. You suspect the issue is due to insufficient cluster resources. Which gcloud command should you use to quickly check the current resource utilization of all nodes in the cluster?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to implement canary deployments on GKE to gradually roll out a new version of a microservice. They need to route a small percentage of traffic to the new version initially. Which tool can they use to achieve traffic splitting?

Question 50easymultiple choice

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You are configuring a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to notify your SRE team when the error rate of a service exceeds 5% over a 5-minute window. Which type of metric evaluation should you use?

Question 51mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Storage to store backup files. They need to retain backups for 7 years and must be able to recover deleted or overwritten files within that period. Which Cloud Storage feature should they enable?

Question 52hardmultiple choice

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An application running on GKE Autopilot is experiencing intermittent failures due to resource limits. The team wants to ensure that the application always has enough CPU and memory without manual node management. What should they do?

Question 53easymultiple choice

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To achieve a 99.999% availability SLA for a globally distributed application using Cloud Spanner, which configuration is required?

Question 54mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning a phased migration of their on-premises database to Cloud SQL. They want to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency. Which approach should they use?

Question 55mediummultiple choice

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You are responsible for post-incident reviews. After a major outage, your team identifies that the root cause was a misconfiguration in a deployment pipeline that caused an incorrect rollout. Which step should be included in the postmortem process?

Question 56easymultiple choice

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You need to create a Cloud Logging sink that exports logs to a BigQuery dataset for long-term analysis. Which destination type should you specify?

Question 57hardmultiple choice

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An application running on Compute Engine is experiencing increased latency. You suspect a network bottleneck due to high egress traffic. Which gcloud command can you use to quickly check the network egress traffic for a specific VM instance?

Question 58mediummulti select

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A company is deploying a critical application on GKE and needs to ensure high availability for the Kubernetes control plane and etcd data. Which TWO approaches should they implement? (Choose TWO.)

Question 59mediummulti select

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An organization needs to implement a change management process for a mission-critical application on GKE. They want to validate performance before full rollout and be able to roll back quickly. Which THREE practices should they adopt? (Choose THREE.)

Question 60hardmulti select

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A company is designing a DR strategy for their GKE workloads. They need to back up application data and cluster configuration. Which THREE resources should they include in their backup plan? (Choose THREE.)

Question 61mediummultiple choice

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A company has a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance in a single zone. To achieve high availability, they want to ensure automatic failover with zero data loss and minimal downtime. Which configuration should they use?

Question 62mediummultiple choice

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An organization needs to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a 99.99% SLA and up to 10 Gbps throughput. They have a supported partner for network connectivity. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question 63hardmultiple choice

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A company runs a microservices application on GKE Autopilot. They want to implement canary deployments where a new version of a service receives 10% of traffic. Which approach should they use?

Question 64easymultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Logging to capture application logs. They need to alert when the number of errors exceeds 100 in a 5-minute window. Which type of alert should they create?

Question 65mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning a migration from on-premises to Google Cloud. They want to ensure minimal downtime and the ability to roll back quickly if issues arise. Which deployment strategy should they use?

Question 66mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Spanner in a multi-region configuration. They want to ensure the highest availability with an SLA of 99.999%. Which configuration supports this?

Question 67easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to list all Compute Engine instances in a project using the command line. Which gcloud command should they use?

Question 68hardmultiple choice

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A company runs a critical application on GKE with etcd for configuration storage. They want to back up etcd data for disaster recovery. Which tool should they use?

Question 69easymultiple choice

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A company wants to test the performance of a new web application under high load. They need a tool that can generate traffic from multiple regions. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Question 70mediummultiple choice

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An organization uses Cloud Storage to store critical documents. They want to protect against accidental deletion or overwriting of objects. Which feature should they enable?

Question 71mediummultiple choice

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A company has a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance with automated backups enabled. They need to recover the database to a specific point in time within the last hour. Which feature should they use?

Question 72hardmultiple choice

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A company has two on-premises data centers connected to Google Cloud via two Dedicated Interconnect connections (each 10 Gbps) from different providers. They want to achieve the highest availability for connectivity. Which configuration should they use?

Question 73mediummulti select

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A company wants to set up monitoring and alerting for their application running on GKE. They need to receive alerts via email and also trigger an automated remediation workflow. Which TWO components should they use? (Choose two.)

Question 74mediummulti select

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A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for their Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database. They need to ensure that they can recover from a regional outage with minimal data loss. Which TWO strategies should they implement? (Choose two.)

Question 75hardmulti select

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A company uses GKE with Istio for service mesh. They want to implement a canary deployment for a critical service with fine-grained traffic splitting. Which THREE components should they configure? (Choose three.)

Question 76mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to connect its on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a consistent 10 Gbps bandwidth and a 99.99% availability SLA. They already have a Dedicated Interconnect connection, but need to ensure high availability. What should they do?

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Question 77easymultiple choice

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A team is deploying a new microservice on GKE Autopilot. They want to ensure the workload has a 99.9% availability SLA without managing nodes. Which GKE mode should they use?

Question 78mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for MySQL for its transactional database. They need to ensure automatic failover in case of a zonal outage with minimal data loss. What configuration should they use?

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Question 79hardmultiple choice

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An e-commerce platform uses Cloud Spanner in a multi-region configuration. They want to achieve the highest possible availability SLA. Which deployment configuration should they choose?

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Question 80easymultiple choice

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A DevOps team wants to monitor custom application metrics and set up an alert that triggers when the error rate exceeds 1% over a 5-minute window. Which Cloud Monitoring features should they use?

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Question 81mediummultiple choice

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After a production incident, a team wants to conduct a postmortem to identify root causes and document actions to prevent recurrence. Which steps are part of Google's recommended postmortem process?

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Question 82mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and needs to recover a database to a specific point in time within the last week, down to the second. Which feature should they enable?

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Question 83mediummultiple choice

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A team needs to run load tests against their application deployed on GKE to validate performance under peak traffic. They want to simulate 100,000 concurrent users generating HTTP requests. Which tool should they use?

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Question 84hardmultiple choice

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An organization wants to implement a canary deployment in GKE, directing 5% of traffic to a new version and 95% to the stable version. They want to use Google Cloud's managed service mesh for traffic splitting. Which approach should they use?

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Question 85easymultiple choice

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An engineer needs to view the logs of a specific Compute Engine instance in near real-time from the command line. Which gcloud command should they use?

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Question 86mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to set up automated failover between two on-premises data centers and Google Cloud using Cloud VPN. They require a 99.99% SLA for the VPN connection. What configuration should they use?

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Question 87hardmultiple choice

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A financial services company uses Cloud Storage to store sensitive transaction records. They need to ensure that objects cannot be deleted or overwritten for a retention period of 7 years, even by the bucket owner. Which feature should they enable?

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Question 88mediummulti select

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A company wants to back up their GKE cluster's etcd data and persistent volumes for disaster recovery. They are evaluating Velero. Which two components does Velero require to perform backups? (Choose two.)

Question 89hardmulti select

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An organization wants to implement a change management strategy for a microservices application on GKE, allowing gradual rollouts and immediate rollback if issues arise. Which three practices should they adopt? (Choose three.)

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Question 90mediummulti select

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A team needs to set up alerting for a production service. They want to receive notifications when the 99th percentile latency exceeds 500ms for 5 minutes. Which two Cloud Monitoring components are required? (Choose two.)

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Question 91easymultiple choice

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A company wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a 99.99% SLA using encrypted tunnels over the public internet. Which connectivity solution should they choose?

Question 92mediummultiple choice

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Your organization runs a production Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. You need to ensure that if the primary zone fails, the database automatically fails over to a standby with no data loss. Which configuration should you use?

Question 93mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Cloud Monitoring to track the performance of their application. They want to create an alert that triggers when the 99th percentile latency exceeds 500ms over a rolling 5-minute window. Which type of SLO and alert should they use?

Question 94hardmulti select

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An e-commerce platform runs on GKE with Autopilot. The team wants to perform a canary deployment where 10% of traffic goes to a new version. They need to monitor the canary's error rate and latency, and automatically roll back if thresholds are exceeded. Which TWO services or features should they use together?

Question 95mediummulti select

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A company uses Cloud Storage to store critical documents. They need to protect against accidental deletion or overwrite of objects, and also retain deleted objects for at least 30 days. Which THREE features should they enable?

Question 96hardmulti select

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A company has a Cloud Spanner multi-region configuration serving a global user base. They observe increased latency during regional outages. They want to improve read availability and reduce read latency across regions. Which TWO actions should they take?