20+ practice questions focused on Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure — one of the most tested topics on the Google Professional Cloud Architect exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure PracticeA team is using Cloud Functions with a Cloud Storage trigger. They notice that sometimes the function does not execute after a file is uploaded. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: Cloud Functions requires that the function be deployed in the same region as the Cloud Storage bucket for event-driven triggers. If the region of the function differs from the bucket's region, the trigger will not deliver events, causing the function not to execute. This is a common misconfiguration that is often overlooked.
You need to collect and analyze logs from multiple projects in a centralized BigQuery dataset for auditing. Which THREE steps are required? (Choose 3)
Explanation: To centralize logs from multiple projects into a single BigQuery dataset for auditing, the required steps are: (1) Use an aggregated sink at the organization or folder level to collect logs from all projects (option B) – this allows a single sink to route logs from all child projects. (2) Grant the Cloud Logging service account the 'bigquery.dataEditor' role on the dataset (option C) to permit writing logs. (3) Create a log exclusion filter to remove sensitive data (option D) – this is necessary for compliance when auditing logs to prevent exporting personally identifiable or confidential information. Per-project sinks (option E) are an alternative to an aggregated sink, not an additional requirement. VPC Flow Logs (option A) are a separate log source and not specifically required for centralizing logs to BigQuery.
A company has a Shared VPC with a service project hosting GKE clusters. The GKE nodes need to access Cloud SQL instances in the host project. The team wants to avoid public IP and use Private Service Access. They have configured a VPC peering between the host VPC and the service producer VPC for Cloud SQL. However, the GKE pods cannot reach the Cloud SQL instance. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The most likely cause is that the service project is not authorized in the Cloud SQL instance. After configuring Private Service Access (VPC peering) between the host VPC and the service producer VPC, you must explicitly authorize the service project's VPC network in the Cloud SQL instance's private network configuration. Without this authorization, connection attempts from GKE pods will fail. Option B is incorrect because Private Service Connect is not required; VPC peering is sufficient for connectivity once authorization is granted. Option A is incorrect because the Cloud SQL instance is configured with a private IP via Private Service Access. Option D is incorrect because firewall rules in the host VPC do not block traffic over VPC peering by default; the issue is authorization, not firewall rules.
An engineer needs to provision a GKE cluster with a node pool that uses preemptible VMs to reduce costs. Which gcloud command should they use?
Explanation: The --preemptible flag when creating a node pool makes all nodes in that pool preemptible. The other options either don't exist or are incorrect.
A company uses Cloud Deployment Manager to manage infrastructure. They want to roll back to a previous deployment state after a failed update. What is the recommended approach?
Explanation: Deployment Manager stores the deployment manifests. You can use an update with a previous manifest to revert to a known good state. Deleting and recreating is not a rollback. Partial updates are not supported directly.
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