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What the exam tests

What to know about Manage implementation of cloud architecture

Cloud concepts questions usually test the service model (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) and deployment model (public/private/hybrid/community) appropriate for a given scenario.

IaaS, PaaS and SaaS responsibilities and examples.

Public, private, hybrid and community cloud deployment models.

On-premises vs cloud trade-offs: cost, control, scalability.

How cloud connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute) work.

Watch out for

Common Manage implementation of cloud architecture exam traps

  • ▸IaaS gives you infrastructure control; SaaS gives you only the application.
  • ▸Hybrid cloud combines on-premises and public cloud — not two public clouds.
  • ▸Cloud does not automatically mean cheaper or more secure.
  • ▸Management responsibility shifts with each service model (IaaS → PaaS → SaaS).

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Manage implementation of cloud architecture questions

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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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Your team has deployed a microservices application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with multiple services communicating via internal ClusterIP services. You notice that some requests between services are failing intermittently with 'connection refused' errors. The services are defined with readiness probes. What is the most likely cause?

Question 2hardmultiple choice
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An organization is running a stateful workload on Compute Engine with a single persistent disk. They want to migrate to a regional persistent disk for higher availability. The disk is 500 GB and currently 80% full. They need zero downtime during the migration. What is the recommended approach?

Question 3easymultiple choice
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A company is planning to deploy a global web application on Google Cloud. They expect low latency for users worldwide and need to serve static content (images, CSS) as well as dynamic API responses. Which architecture should they use?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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You are designing a CI/CD pipeline for a containerized application on Google Cloud. The application is built with Cloud Build, stored in Container Registry, and deployed to GKE. The team wants to ensure that only images that pass vulnerability scanning are deployed. What should you do?

Question 5hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a data analytics platform on Google Cloud using BigQuery, Dataflow, and Cloud Storage. They notice that Dataflow jobs are failing with 'out of memory' errors for certain large pipelines. The pipelines process variable amounts of data, sometimes spiking 10x normal. Which strategy should they use to handle these spikes cost-effectively?

Question 6easymultiple choice
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A startup wants to deploy a web application on Google Cloud with a MySQL database. They anticipate low traffic initially but want the ability to scale seamlessly. They also want to minimize operational overhead. Which combination of services should they choose?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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Your organization has a policy that all Compute Engine instances must have specific labels (env, team, cost-center) applied. You want to enforce this automatically when instances are created. What should you do?

Question 8mediummulti select
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Which TWO statements are true about Google Cloud HTTPS Load Balancers?

Question 9hardmulti select
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Which THREE actions can help reduce costs for a BigQuery workload that runs frequent, ad-hoc analytical queries on a large dataset?

Question 10hardmultiple choice
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An engineer runs the command above. A few days later, the instance becomes unresponsive. Upon investigation, you find that the boot disk is 100 GB and 95% full. The data disk is 500 GB and only 20% full. What is the most likely cause of the unresponsiveness?

Network Topology
image-family=ubuntu-2004-ltsimage-project=ubuntu-os-cloudzone=us-central1-a \machine-type=n1-standard-4 \boot-disk-size=100GB \boot-disk-type=pd-ssd \create-disk=name=data-diskRefer to the exhibit.```
Question 11easymultiple choice
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You are reviewing an IAM policy for a Cloud Storage bucket. Alice is a member of the data-team group. What level of access does Alice have to objects in this bucket?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
```
{
  "bindings": [
    {
      "role": "roles/storage.objectViewer",
      "members": [
        "user:alice@example.com",
        "serviceAccount:sa-bucket@project.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
      ]
    },
    {
      "role": "roles/storage.objectAdmin",
      "members": [
        "group:data-team@example.com"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 12hardmultiple choice
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Your company runs a critical application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in us-central1. The application consists of a frontend deployment with 3 replicas and a backend statefulset with 5 replicas using persistent volumes (SSD). Recently, the team noticed that during a regional outage in us-central1, the application became completely unavailable. They want to design a multi-region architecture that can survive a regional failure with RPO of 1 hour and RTO of 30 minutes. The application is stateless on the frontend but the backend stores critical data on persistent disks. The backend can operate in a read-only mode from a secondary region if needed. They have a limited budget and want to minimize ongoing costs. Which approach should they take?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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A company is migrating a monolithic application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application currently runs on a single Compute Engine instance and stores session state in local memory. The migration must support horizontal scaling and high availability. What should the company do to manage session state in the new architecture?

Question 14easymultiple choice
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A company runs a batch processing workload on Compute Engine instances in a managed instance group (MIG). The job is CPU-intensive and takes approximately 4 hours to complete. The company wants to reduce costs without sacrificing performance. Which action should they take?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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An organization has deployed a multi-region Cloud Spanner instance for a global application. The application is experiencing high latency for read requests from a specific region. The team has verified that the application is using stale reads and the data distribution is even. What is the most likely cause of the high latency?

Question 16mediummultiple choice
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A company is using Cloud Load Balancing to distribute traffic to a managed instance group (MIG) of web servers. The web servers are currently running in us-central1. To improve availability, the company plans to add a second MIG in us-west1. What must be done to ensure traffic is automatically routed to the closest healthy backend?

Question 17hardmulti select
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A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application running on Compute Engine. The application uses a PostgreSQL database and stores files on persistent disks. The recovery time objective (RTO) is 4 hours, and the recovery point objective (RPO) is 1 hour. Which two actions should the company take?

Question 18hardmultiple choice
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Your company runs a containerized microservices application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with a regional cluster. The application consists of a frontend service, a backend API service, and a background worker service that processes messages from Cloud Pub/Sub. The worker service uses a Deployment with 3 replicas. Recently, the team noticed that the worker service is frequently failing with 'ContainerCreating' errors. The error message in the pod events is: 'Failed to pull image "gcr.io/my-project/my-worker:latest": rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded'. The image is stored in Container Registry in the same project. The cluster nodes are n1-standard-2 VMs with 10 GB of disk space. The team has confirmed that the image exists and that the nodes have internet access. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

Question 19mediummulti select
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Your organization is moving a legacy monolithic application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application currently runs on a single virtual machine with a local MySQL database. You need to design a cloud-native architecture that improves scalability and reliability. Which two actions should you take? (Choose TWO.)

Question 20easymultiple choice
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Your company runs a critical application on Compute Engine instances in a managed instance group across three zones. The application writes logs to local disk. You are asked to improve the reliability of log retention and ensure logs are available in case of instance failure. You have already configured a health check that automatically recreates instances. However, after a recent zonal outage, logs from the affected instances were lost. You need to implement a solution that preserves logs even when instances are terminated. What should you do?

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