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Google Professional Cloud Architect Practice Test

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Q1Manage and provision cloud infrastructuremedium
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A company is deploying a new application on Compute Engine. They need to ensure that the application can automatically recover from a zone failure. What is the best approach?

Create a managed instance group with instances in multiple zones.Correct
BUse a global load balancer in front of a single instance.
CCreate a single VM in a single zone and rely on live migration.
DUse Cloud Storage to store application state and restore from a snapshot.

A managed instance group (MIG) with instances in multiple zones provides automatic recovery from a zone failure by distributing instances across zones and using auto-healing to recreate failed instances. If one zone becomes unavailable, the load balancer routes traffic to healthy…Read full explanation

Q2Manage and provision cloud infrastructurehard
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An organization has multiple projects in Google Cloud and wants to centralize logging and monitoring for all projects. They need to aggregate logs from all projects into a single project for analysis. Which approach should they use?

AExport logs from each project to a Cloud Storage bucket and then import them into BigQuery.
BEnable Cloud Audit Logs for all projects and view them from the central project.
CInstall the Stackdriver agent on all VMs and point them to the central project.
Create a logs sink in each project that exports logs to a BigQuery dataset in the central project.Correct

Option D is correct because Google Cloud's logs sink feature allows you to route logs from multiple source projects to a centralized BigQuery dataset in a single destination project. This approach aggregates logs efficiently without requiring agents or manual import steps, and it…Read full explanation

Q3Manage and provision cloud infrastructureeasy
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A developer needs to deploy a containerized application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with minimal operational overhead. They want to automatically scale the number of pods based on CPU utilization. Which GKE feature should they use?

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.Correct
BNode auto-repair.
CVertical Pod Autoscaler.
DCluster Autoscaler.

The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) is the correct choice because it automatically scales the number of pod replicas in a GKE deployment based on observed CPU utilization (or other custom metrics). This directly meets the requirement of scaling pods with minimal operational overh…Read full explanation

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