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How to approach drag and drop ordering questions

Drag-and-drop ordering questions ask you to arrange steps, commands, or events into the correct sequence. They test procedural knowledge — can you execute a Cisco IOS configuration task in the right order? These appear across Cisco, CompTIA, AWS, and Microsoft exams.

Quick answer

Drag and Drop Ordering Questions questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Practice set

Practice scenarios

Question 1mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to set up a VPC network peering between two projects in Google Cloud into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 2mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to migrate a Compute Engine VM to a different region using a snapshot into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 3mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to configure a Cloud Load Balancer with a backend service consisting of Compute Engine instances into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 4mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to set up a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance with high availability into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 5mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to set up a Cloud VPN tunnel between Google Cloud and an on-premises network into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 6mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to implement a disaster recovery plan using Cloud Storage and Cloud Functions in the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 7mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to deploy a containerized application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using a Deployment into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
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Question 8mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to recover a Cloud SQL instance from a backup into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
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Question 9mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to configure IAM roles for a service account to access Cloud Storage from a Compute Engine instance into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
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Question 10mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to set up a shared VPC in Google Cloud for a multi-project environment into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
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1Step 1
2Step 2
3Step 3
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