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01
Today’s
Exam registration

02 Practice questions

agenda
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Exam Registration,

01
Rescheduling
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Go to the Google Cloud certification page

Click here to start

https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-engineer

https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-architect
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Kryterion Website - Login

Forgot your login?

Email Kryterion support:

support@kryteriononline.com

Login with existing

account

https://webassessor.com/googlecloud

Kryterion support:

Website: https://kryterion.force.com/support/s/contactsupport

Email: support@kryteriononline.com
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Check with your

organization if in doubt
of the correct email to
Thomas use

Cruise Mapother IV Different input options for

personal email and
tom@gmail.com organization/company email.

e.g. john@gmail.com,
john@yourcompany.com

Different input options

tom@yourcompany.com for legal name and name
you want on certificate.
e.g.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV,
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
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Register for an exam

Click here

… or here
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Select the ACE Certification

Click here to expand Take exam from

the section o ce/home/other
location

Go to a
Kryterion testing
center
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Kryterion Test Center (Onsite Proctored)

Enter search criteria

Select a location

Click Select
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Choose Date and Time

Pick and date and
time

Scroll to
bo om Click Select
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Applying the Voucher Code

Paste voucher code
here and click Apply

Total Price will

be zero

Check Out
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Rescheduling
● Login to the webassessor site. Click “My Assessments” to see your current exam
registrations. Next to it, there will be a “Reschedule/Cancel”
● There’s a rescheduling/late fee if you update registrations in less than …
○ 72 hours for onsite exams scheduled at a testing center.
○ 24 hours for online proctored exams taken remotely.

Rescheduling:
https://support.google.com/cloud-certification/answer/9908049?hl=en

Kryterion support Website:

https://kryterion.force.com/support/s/contactsupport

Kryterion support Email:

support@kryteriononline.com
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Exam Identification

Kryterion Test Center:

● Bring two forms of ID with

name (spelled correctly)
and photo.

Online:

● One photo ID

In general, just keep ready two IDs ready if needed.

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FAQs
● Can I change from remote proctored to onsite proctored?
○ Yes, contact Kryterion support.
● Can I take the exam in my office?
○ Yes, if it is a quiet place and you won’t have people coming and going.
● But my office has glass walls!
○ No - you can’t take your test there.
● But I can’t get a quiet room at home!
○ Choose onsite (test center) proctored.
● How many attempts are allowed with one voucher?
○ Only one.
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FAQs
● What is the passing score?
○ Google doesn’t publish this information.
● Will we get a subject based score of how many answers we got right/wrong?
○ No. Only a PASS/FAIL result.
● Can I install the exam software on company machine?
○ Try it.
○ It is not uncommon for companies to install policy software which blocks
unauthorized applications to be installed.
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Taking the exam at Kryterion?

● Arrive early.
● Show your photo IDs at the reception.
● Show your exam registration email.
● Keep bags, mobiles, watch, headphones, items in your pocket in a locker.
● A person will walk you to a computer and they will start your exam for you.
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Taking the exam remotely?

● Exam is delivered via a software controlled by

kryterion proctors.
● Days before the exam, setup the “New Secure
Browser” software on your computer by following
steps on the webassessor site.
● Setup your biometrics profile.
● Do not wait until the last moment for this - you will
increase your stress/anxiety just before the exam.

Online proctoring
https://kryterion.force.com/support/s/topic/0TO1W000000I5h3WAC/online-proctoring?
language=en_US
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Check Connectivity, Mic, Camera (for remote)

If your computer does not

have mic or a webcam, or if
your network connectivity is
bad, or if your company
does not allow you to install
software, choose to take
the exam in a testing center
(i.e. onsite proctored).

https://www.kryterion.com/systemcheck/

System check: https://www.kryterion.com/systemcheck/

We recommend that you use a personal computer and network, as office devices
might have administrative restrictions that prohibit the installation and use of the
required software, or might block the use of a webcam.
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Just before the Exam (for remote)

● Inform everyone that you need the

room exclusively.
○ No one cannot walk in, offer you
food, ask you anything, etc.
● Clear the table of any electronics,
books, watches, mobiles, pen, paper,
etc.
● Your face and the room needs to be
well lit.
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Just before the Exam (for remote)

● No external monitor, USBs, devices,

etc.
● Don’t wear earphones, bluetooth
headsets, smart watches, etc.
● No watch is allowed
○ Will see a timer when you
start the exam
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It is time to start the exam (for remote)

● Close all windows except the secure browser used for the exam
● Login to the webassessor site.
● Launch button becomes enabled about 10 or 15 minutes before the exam.
○ Before that it will say “Reschedule/Cancel”
● Once the process launches, follow the instructions …
○ Agree to Terms and Conditions, enable camera and microphone if not already,
take photo of your face, etc.
● Proctor will appear in a while.
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Starting the Exam (for remote)

● When the proctor arrives:
○ Show your government ID to the camera.
○ Lift your laptop/camera and turn it slowly around the room showing
walls, ceiling, floor, area under desk, chair, etc.
○ With a reflective surface or a mobile phone’s front facing camera, show
a reflection of your computer screen, keyboard etc.
■ Once done, put your mobile phone, IDs, etc. away and show the
proctor where you placed them.
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Qn. 2 of 40 Time Left: 1:20:52

Question # Timer
and total

Click to mark
question for review

Mark for Review Previous Next

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Qn. 40 of 40 Time Left: 0:03:40

Click here to review

marked questions

Mark for Review Previous Review Submit

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Time Left: 0:02:30

1 11 * 21 31
Marked questions
2 12 22 32
have an “*”
3* 13 23 33 *
4 14 24 34 *
5 15 * 25 35
6 16 26 36
7 17 27 37 *
8* 18 28 * 38
9 19 29 * 39
10 20 30 * 40

Submit
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Types of Questions

● Multiple choice questions, single or multiple answer

○ Question will indicate # of answers required if more than one

Single Multiple
answer answer
question question
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Post Exam

● A PASS/FAIL confirmation is displayed shortly after clicking the Submit button

● A final confirmation is emailed after the exam within a few days
● Can check exam pass/fail status on https://www.webassessor.com/
○ Login to your account and click the “My Assessments” button
○ Scroll down to see your result
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02 Practice Questions
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Exam Taking Strategy

● Answer every question
○ An empty answer is zero points - never leave a question unanswered
● Prioritize your time
○ 120 minutes, 50-60 questions means ≈ 2 minutes per question including review
○ Do not get stuck in a single question! Mark for review and move on
■ You want to be sure to answer all questions before time expires
● When all questions are answered, review maked questions if time allows
○ Spend time on questions that require more thought
■ Once complete, you can review all the questions if time remains
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Evaluating questions & answers during the exam

The first group of questions that follow will review

techniques to use while evaluating questions and
answers during the exam

After that you get to put your skills to the test!

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Question: You have a large number of files in a directory to copy to Cloud

Storage. You want to parallelize it. Which command should you use?

A. gcloud -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

B. gcloud -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
C. gsutil -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
D. gsutil -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
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Question: You have a large number of files in a directory to copy to Cloud

Storage. You want to parallelize it. Which command should you use?

A. gcloud -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

B. gcloud -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
C. gsutil -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
D. gsutil -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

Recognize that some answers have

duplicate segments.
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Question: You have a large number of files in a directory to copy to Cloud

Storage. You want to parallelize it. Which command should you use?

A. gcloud -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

B. gcloud -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
C. gsutil -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
D. gsutil -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

Ignore those segments entirely.

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Question: You have a large number of files in a directory to copy to Cloud

Storage. You want to parallelize it. Which command should you use?

A. gcloud -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

B. gcloud -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
C. gsutil -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
D. gsutil -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

Look for groups of segments.

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Question: You have a large number of files in a directory to copy to Cloud

Storage. You want to parallelize it. Which command should you use?

A. gcloud -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

B. gcloud -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
C. gsutil -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
D. gsutil -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

Eliminate the incorrect group.

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Question: You have a large number of files in a directory to copy to Cloud

Storage. You want to parallelize it. Which command should you use?

A. gcloud -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket

B. gcloud -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
C. gsutil -m cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
D. gsutil -p cp -r dir gs://company-name/bu/project/my-bucket
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Question: Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help

their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different
version of software libraries. You want to enable the developers to keep
their development environment in sync with the various production
services. Which technology should you choose?
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Question: Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help

their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different
version of software libraries. You want to enable the developers to keep
their development environment in sync with the various production
services. Which technology should you choose?

Start visualizing what’s going on

What options comes to mind first?

Elastic Loads = autoscaling

Various production services = portability
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Question: Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help

their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different
version of software libraries. You want to enable their developers to keep
their development environment in sync with the various production
services. Which technology should you choose?

Think about these before you answer the question:

If you had to pick a compute option for microservices workloads, what
would it be?

What comes to mind first?

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Question: Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help

their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different
version of software libraries. You want to enable their developers to keep
their development environment in sync with the various production
services. Which technology should you choose?

1) Look for your solution

A. Bare Metal Machines 2) Eliminate obvious wrong
B. Containers options
C. Individual Laptops
D. Virtual machines
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Question: Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help

their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different
version of software libraries. You want to enable their developers to keep
their development environment in sync with the various production
services. Which technology should you choose?

1) Look for your solution

A. Bare Metal Machines 2) Eliminate obvious wrong
B. Containers options
C. Individual Laptops Ridiculous option.
D. Virtual machines
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Question: Your company wants to deploy several microservices to help

their system handle elastic loads. Each microservice uses a different
version of software libraries. You want to enable their developers to keep
their development environment in sync with the various production
services. Which technology should you choose?

1) Look for your solution

A. Bare Metal Machines A fringe case 2)Eliminate obvious wrong
B. Containers Best option
options
C. Individual Laptops Ridiculous option.
3)Verify the answer is BEST -
D. Virtual machines An option, but not the best
Containers are Portable
and supported in
autoscaling environments
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Question: Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They
want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and
test the serverless analytics features available to them there, while also
retaining that data as a long-term disaster recovery backup. Which two
steps should they take? (choose two)
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Question: Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They
want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and
test the serverless analytics features available to them there, while also
retaining that data as a long-term disaster recovery backup. Which two
steps should they take? (choose two)

Start visualizing what’s going on

1. Low risk = minimal effort
2. Serverless
3. Analytics
4. 100 TB
5. Long term disaster recovery
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Question: Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They
want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and
test the serverless analytics features available to them there, while also
retaining that data as a long-term disaster recovery backup. Which two
steps should they take? (choose two)
Think about these before you answer the question:
Which database is used for serverless analytics?
Which storage option is used for long term storage?
Which storage option would be good for storing backup files - e.g. zip
files?

Which 2 services come to mind immediately?

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Question: Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They
want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and
test the serverless analytics features available to them there, while also
retaining that data as a long-term disaster recovery backup. Which two
steps should they take? (choose two)
A. Load logs into BigQuery.
Recall
B. Load logs into Cloud SQL. 1. Low risk = minimal effort
C. Import logs into Cloud Logging. 2. Serverless
D. Insert logs into Cloud Bigtable. 3. Analytics
4. 100 TB
E. Upload log files into Cloud Storage. 5. Long term disaster
recovery

1) Look for your solutions

2) Eliminate obvious wrong options
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Question: Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They
want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and
test the serverless analytics features available to them there, while also
retaining that data as a long-term disaster recovery backup. Which two
steps should they take? (choose two)
A. Load logs into BigQuery. Analytics keyword
Recall
B. Load logs into Cloud SQL. Not serverless 1. Low risk = minimal effort
C. Import logs into Cloud Logging. Not long term storage 2. Serverless
3. Analytics
D. Insert logs into Cloud Bigtable. Not best
4. 100 TB
E. Upload log files into Cloud Storage. Long term storage 5. Long term disaster
recovery

1) Look for your solutions

2) Eliminate obvious wrong options
3) Verify your answers are BEST
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Question: You want to set up a real-time analytics platform for a new

game. Which combination of Google technologies will be suitable?

Keyword … What are you looking for?

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Question: You want to set up a real-time analytics platform for a new

game. Which combination of Google technologies will be suitable?

Keyword … What are you looking for?

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Question: You want to set up a real-time analytics platform for a new

game. Which combination of Google technologies will be suitable?

1) Look for the keyword solution

2) Confirm nothing is better
A. Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery
B. Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub
C. Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL
D. Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage
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Question: You want to set up a real-time analytics platform for a new

game. Which combination of Google technologies will be suitable?

1) Look for the keyword solution

2) Confirm nothing is better
A. Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery Winner
B. Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub No analytics at all
C. Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL No mention of Hadoop (for Dataproc)
D. Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage Possible, but not the best choice
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Question: Your company has a mission-critical application that serves

users globally. You need to select a transactional, relational data storage
system for this application. Which two products should you choose?
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Question: Your company has a mission-critical application that serves

users globally. You need to select a transactional, relational data storage
system for this application. Which two products should you choose?

Think about these before you answer the question:

Which database services are transactional and relational?
Which of them are global?
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Question: Your company has a mission-critical application that serves

users globally. You need to select a transactional, relational data storage
system for this application. Which two products should you choose?

A. BigQuery
B. Cloud SQL
C. Cloud Spanner
D. Cloud Bigtable
E. Cloud Datastore
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Question: Your company has a mission-critical application that serves

users globally. You need to select a transactional, relational data storage
system for this application. Which two products should you choose?

A. BigQuery Don’t need to know the right answer!

B. Cloud SQL Just eliminate the wrong ones!
C. Cloud Spanner
D. Cloud Bigtable
E. Cloud Datastore

But confirm the leftovers fit the question.

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Question: Your company has a mission-critical application that serves

users globally. You need to select a transactional, relational data storage
system for this application. Which two products should you choose?

A. BigQuery Not Transactional Don’t need to know the right answer!

B. Cloud SQL Just eliminate the wrong ones!
C. Cloud Spanner
D. Cloud Bigtable Not Relational
E. Cloud Datastore Not Relational

… but confirm what’s left fit the question.

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Google Certification Study Guides

● Optional study guides

● Contains technical content plus lots of practice questions
● These are not free and must be purchased
● Some of the practice questions shown on the next few
slides are from these books

Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

2nd edition published in 2022
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Google_Cloud_Certified_Professional_Clou/3Y
JlEAAAQBAJ

Associate Cloud Engineer Study guide

2nd edition coming out in 2023
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Official_Google_Cloud_Certified_Associat/2wG
QDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

If purchasing a book, get the most recent edition. A book that more than 2 years old
is like 10 years old in cloud years.
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Your company’s finance department is developing a new account management

application that requires transactions and the ability to perform relational
database operations using fully compliant SQL. Data storage options include:

A. Spanner and Cloud SQL

B. Firestore and Bigtable
C. Spanner and Cloud Storage
D. Firestore and Cloud SQL

Your company’s finance department is developing a new account management

application that requires transactions and the ability to perform relational database
operations using fully compliant SQL. Data store options in GCP include:
A. Spanner and Cloud SQL
B. Datastore and Bigtable
C. Spanner and Cloud Storage
D. Firestore and Cloud SQL

A. Only Spanner and Cloud SQL databases support transactions and have a SQL
interface. Firestore has transactions but does not support fully compliant SQL; it has a
SQL-like query language. Cloud Storage does not support transactions or SQL.
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Your company’s finance department is developing a new account management

application that requires transactions and the ability to perform relational
database operations using fully compliant SQL. Data storage options include:

A. Spanner and Cloud SQL

B. Firestore and Bigtable
C. Spanner and Cloud Storage
D. Firestore and Cloud SQL

Your company’s finance department is developing a new account management

application that requires transactions and the ability to perform relational database
operations using fully compliant SQL. Data store options in GCP include:
A. Spanner and Cloud SQL
B. Datastore and Bigtable
C. Spanner and Cloud Storage
D. Datastore and Cloud SQL

A. Only Spanner and Cloud SQL databases support transactions and have a SQL
interface. Datastore has transactions but does not support fully compliant SQL; it has
a SQL-like query language. Cloud Storage does not support transactions or SQL.
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You have been hired as a consultant to a startup in the Internet of Things (IoT)
space. The startup will stream large volumes of data into GC. The data needs to
be filtered, transformed, and analyzed before being stored in Firestore. A good
option for the stream processing component is:

A. Cloud Dataproc
B. Cloud Dataflow
C. Cloud Endpoints
D. Cloud Interconnect

You have been hired as a consultant to a startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space.
The startup will stream large volumes of data into GCP. The data needs to be filtered,
trans- formed, and analyzed before being stored in GCP Datastore. A good option for
the stream processing component is:
A. Dataproc
B. Cloud Dataflow
C. Cloud Endpoints
D. Cloud Interconnect

B. Cloud Dataflow allows for stream and batch processing of data and is well suited
for this kind of ETL work. Dataproc is a managed Hadoop and Spark service that is
used for big data analytics. Cloud Endpoints is an API service, and Cloud
Interconnect is a network service.
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You have been hired as a consultant to a startup in the Internet of Things (IoT)
space. The startup will stream large volumes of data into GC. The data needs to
be filtered, transformed, and analyzed before being stored in Firestore. A good
option for the stream processing component is:

A. Cloud Dataproc
B. Cloud Dataflow
C. Cloud Endpoints
D. Cloud Interconnect

You have been hired as a consultant to a startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space.
The startup will stream large volumes of data into GCP. The data needs to be filtered,
trans- formed, and analyzed before being stored in Firestore. A good option for the
stream processing component is:
A. Dataproc
B. Cloud Dataflow
C. Cloud Endpoints
D. Cloud Interconnect

B. Cloud Dataflow allows for stream and batch processing of data and is well suited
for this kind of ETL work. Dataproc is a managed Hadoop and Spark service that is
used for big data analytics. Cloud Endpoints is an API service, and Cloud
Interconnect is a network service.
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You have been asked to set up network security in a virtual private cloud. Your
company wants to have multiple subnetworks and limit traffic between the
subnetworks. Which network security control would you use to control the flow of
traffic between subnets?

A. Identity access management

B. Router
C. Firewall rules
D. IP address table

You have been asked to set up network security in a virtual private cloud. Your
company wants to have multiple subnetworks and limit traffic between the
subnetworks. Which network security control would you use to control the flow of
traffic between subnets?
A. Identity access management
B. Router
C. Firewall rules
D. IP address table

Ans: C. Firewall rules in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are software-defined network
controls that limit the flow of traffic into and out of a network or subnetwork, so option
C is the correct answer. Routers are used to move traffic to appropriate destinations
on the network. Identity access management is used for authenticating and
authorizing users; it is not relevant to network controls between subnetworks. IP
address tables are not a security control.
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You have been asked to set up network security in a virtual private cloud. Your
company wants to have multiple subnetworks and limit traffic between the
subnetworks. Which network security control would you use to control the flow of
traffic between subnets?

A. Identity access management

B. Router
C. Firewall rules
D. IP address table

You have been asked to set up network security in a virtual private cloud. Your
company wants to have multiple subnetworks and limit traffic between the
subnetworks. Which network security control would you use to control the flow of
traffic between subnets?
A. Identity access management
B. Router
C. Firewall rules
D. IP address table

Ans: C. Firewall rules in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are software-defined network
controls that limit the flow of traffic into and out of a network or subnetwork, so option
C is the correct answer. Routers are used to move traffic to appropriate destinations
on the network. Identity access management is used for authenticating and
authorizing users; it is not relevant to network controls between subnetworks. IP
address tables are not a security control.
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You have an application that uses a Pub/Sub message queue to maintain a list of
tasks that are to be processed by another application. The application that
consumes messages from the Pub/Sub queue removes the message only after
completing the task. It takes approximately 10 seconds to complete a task. It is
not a problem if two or more VMs perform the same task. What is a cost-effective
configuration for processing this workload?

A. Use preemptible/spot VMs

B. Use standard VMs
C. Use DataProc
D. Use Spanner

You have an application that uses a Pub/Sub message queue to maintain a list of
tasks that are to be processed by another application. The application that consumes
messages from the Pub/Sub queue removes the message only after completing the
task. It takes approximately 10 seconds to complete a task. It is not a problem if two
or more VMs perform the same task. What is a cost-effective configuration for
processing this workload?
A. Use preemptible/spot VMs
B. Use standard VMs
C. Use DataProc
D. Use Spanner

Ans: A. This is a good use case for preemptible/spot VMs because they could reduce
the cost of running the second application without the risk of losing work. Since tasks
are deleted from the queue only after they are completed if a preemptible/spot VM is
shut down before completing the task, another VM can perform the task. Also, there is
no harm in running a task more than once, so if two VMs do the same task, it will not
adversely affect the output of the application. DataProc and Spanner are not
appropriate products for this task.
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You have an application that uses a Pub/Sub message queue to maintain a list of
tasks that are to be processed by another application. The application that
consumes messages from the Pub/Sub queue removes the message only after
completing the task. It takes approximately 10 seconds to complete a task. It is
not a problem if two or more VMs perform the same task. What is a cost-effective
configuration for processing this workload?

A. Use preemptible/spot VMs

B. Use standard VMs
C. Use DataProc
D. Use Spanner

You have an application that uses a Pub/Sub message queue to maintain a list of
tasks that are to be processed by another application. The application that consumes
messages from the Pub/Sub queue removes the message only after completing the
task. It takes approximately 10 seconds to complete a task. It is not a problem if two
or more VMs perform the same task. What is a cost-effective configuration for
processing this workload?
A. Use preemptible/spot VMs
B. Use standard VMs
C. Use DataProc
D. Use Spanner

Ans: A. This is a good use case for preemptible/spot VMs because they could reduce
the cost of running the second application without the risk of losing work. Since tasks
are deleted from the queue only after they are completed if a preemptible/spot VM is
shut down before completing the task, another VM can perform the task. Also, there is
no harm in running a task more than once, so if two VMs do the same task, it will not
adversely affect the output of the application. DataProc and Spanner are not
appropriate products for this task.
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A software engineer comes to you for a recommendation. She has implemented a

machine learning algorithm to identify cancerous cells in medical images. The
algorithm is computationally intensive, makes many mathematical calculations,
requires immediate access to large amounts of data, and cannot be easily
distributed over multiple servers.
What kind of Compute Engine configuration would you recommend?

A. High memory, high CPU

B. High memory, high CPU, GPU
C. Mid-level memory, high CPU
D. High CPU, GPU

A software engineer comes to you for a recommendation. She has implemented a

machine learning algorithm to identify cancerous cells in medical images. The
algorithm is computationally intensive, makes many mathematical calculations,
requires immediate access to large amounts of data, and cannot be easily distributed
over multiple servers. What kind of Compute Engine configuration would you
recommend?
A. High memory, high CPU
B. High memory, high CPU, GPU
C. Mid-level memory, high CPU
D. High CPU, GPU

Ans: B. A computationally intensive application obviously requires high CPUs, but the
fact that there are many mathematical calculations indicates that a GPU should be
used. You might consider running this in a cluster, but the work is not easily
distributed over multiple servers, so you will need to have a single server capable of
handling the load. Immediate access to large amounts of data indicates that a
high-memory machine should be recommended.
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A software engineer comes to you for a recommendation. She has implemented a

machine learning algorithm to identify cancerous cells in medical images. The
algorithm is computationally intensive, makes many mathematical calculations,
requires immediate access to large amounts of data, and cannot be easily
distributed over multiple servers.
What kind of Compute Engine configuration would you recommend?

A. High memory, high CPU

B. High memory, high CPU, GPU
C. Mid-level memory, high CPU
D. High CPU, GPU

A software engineer comes to you for a recommendation. She has implemented a

machine learning algorithm to identify cancerous cells in medical images. The
algorithm is computationally intensive, makes many mathematical calculations,
requires immediate access to large amounts of data, and cannot be easily distributed
over multiple servers. What kind of Compute Engine configuration would you
recommend?
A. High memory, high CPU
B. High memory, high CPU, GPU
C. Mid-level memory, high CPU
D. High CPU, GPU

Ans: B. A computationally intensive application obviously requires high CPUs, but the
fact that there are many mathematical calculations indicates that a GPU should be
used. You might consider running this in a cluster, but the work is not easily
distributed over multiple servers, so you will need to have a single server capable of
handling the load. Immediate access to large amounts of data indicates that a
high-memory machine should be recommended.
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An app for a finance company needs access to a database and a Cloud Storage
bucket. There is no predefined role that grants all the needed permissions
without granting some permissions that are not needed. You decide to create a
custom role. When defining custom roles, you should follow which of the following
principles?
A. Rotation of duties
B. Separation of duties
C. Defense in depth
D. Least privilege

An app for a finance company needs access to a database and a Cloud Storage
bucket. There is no predefined role that grants all the needed permissions without
granting some permissions that are not needed. You decide to create a custom role.
When defining custom roles, you should follow which of the following principles?
A. Rotation of duties
B. Least principle
C. Defense in depth
D. Least privilege

Ans: D. Users should have only the privileges that are needed to carry out their
duties. This is the principle of least privilege. Rotation of duties is another security
principle related to having different people perform a task at a different times. Defense
in depth is the practice of using multiple security controls to protect the same asset.
Option B is not a real security principal.
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An app for a finance company needs access to a database and a Cloud Storage
bucket. There is no predefined role that grants all the needed permissions
without granting some permissions that are not needed. You decide to create a
custom role. When defining custom roles, you should follow which of the following
principles?
A. Rotation of duties
B. Separation of duties
C. Defense in depth
D. Least privilege

An app for a finance company needs access to a database and a Cloud Storage
bucket. There is no predefined role that grants all the needed permissions without
granting some permissions that are not needed. You decide to create a custom role.
When defining custom roles, you should follow which of the following principles?
A. Rotation of duties
B. Least principle
C. Defense in depth
D. Least privilege

Ans: D. Users should have only the privileges that are needed to carry out their
duties. This is the principle of least privilege. Rotation of duties is another security
principle related to having different people perform a task at a different times. Defense
in depth is the practice of using multiple security controls to protect the same asset.
Option B is not a real security principal.
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Your client needs to store log files for an extended period of time for disaster recovery
purposes. At most, the files will be accessed once per year and will all have the same access
controls. What storage/access solution would you recommend?

A. Multi-region Cloud Storage Coldline with bucket level permissions

B. Regional Cloud Storage Coldline with fine grained permissions
C. Multi-region Cloud Storage Archive with bucket level permissions
D. Regional Cloud Storage Archive with bucket level permissions
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Your client needs to store log files for an extended period of time for disaster recovery
purposes. At most, the files will be accessed once per year and will all have the same access
controls. What storage/access solution would you recommend?

A. Multi-region Cloud Storage Coldline with bucket level permissions

B. Regional Cloud Storage Coldline with fine grained permissions
C. Multi-region Cloud Storage Archive with bucket level permissions
D. Regional Cloud Storage Archive with bucket level permissions
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To save money, your customer wants to shutdown all developer VMs after hours. What is the
best way to do this?

A. Always deploy preemptible VMs for developers, as they provide the largest discount
B. Assign labels to developer VMs and use Cloud Scheduler to run a Cloud Function to
shut them down.
C. Use Cloud Monitoring and create an alert to shut down VMs when no metrics are
received within a given time frame.
D. Create a cron job on each VM that starts at a specified time and shuts it down
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To save money, your customer wants to shutdown all developer VMs after hours. What is the
best way to do this?

A. Always deploy preemptible VMs for developers, as they provide the largest discount
B. Assign labels to developer VMs and use Cloud Scheduler to run a Cloud Function
to shut them down.
C. Use Cloud Monitoring and create an alert to shut down VMs when no metrics are
received within a given time frame.
D. Create a cron job on each VM that starts at a specified time and shuts it down
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Your client is going to do a “lift and shift” of several user-facing applications running on
VMs. They have several years of experience running the application and know its resource
needs. What do you recommend to optimize costs?

A. Use sustained use discounts

B. Use committed use discounts
C. Use preemptible machines
D. Use the free-tier of Compute Engine
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Your client is going to do a “lift and shift” of several user-facing applications running on
VMs. They have several years of experience running the application and know its resource
needs. What do you recommend to optimize costs?

A. Use sustained use discounts

B. Use committed use discounts
C. Use preemptible machines
D. Use the free-tier of Compute Engine
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You customer has deployed a web application using managed instance groups and load
balancing. The web app uses several microservices on the backend. The best option for
measuring reliability SLIs is:

A. Use Cloud Monitoring for Compute Engine instance failures

B. Use Cloud Monitoring for external HTTP(S) load balancer
C. Use Cloud Logging and export the appropriate log information daily to BigQuery to
analyze performance measures on an ongoing basis
D. Use Cloud Monitoring/Logging and add observability into your services so that you can
better understand your service performance and quickly identify issues
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You customer has deployed a web application using managed instance groups and load
balancing. The web app uses several microservices on the backend. The best option for
measuring reliability SLIs is:

A. Use Cloud Monitoring for Compute Engine instance failures

B. Use Cloud Monitoring for external HTTP(S) load balancer
C. Use Cloud Logging and export the appropriate log information daily to BigQuery to
analyze performance measures on an ongoing basis
D. Use Cloud Monitoring/Logging and add observability into your services so that
you can better understand your service performance and quickly identify issues
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Your client wants a connection between the on-premise data center and a Google Cloud
VPC. The estimated bandwidth needed is 100 Mbps. What do you recommend?

A. Carrier Peering
B. Direct Peering
C. Direct Interconnect
D. Partner Interconnect
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Your client want a connection between the on-premise data center and a Google Cloud VPC.
The estimated bandwidth needed is 100 Mbps. What do you recommend?

A. Carrier Peering
B. Direct Peering
C. Direct Interconnect
D. Partner Interconnect
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A music streaming service has outgrown its current implementation and needs to scale in
order to handle an estimated 700,000 events per second. Events include a user creating a
playlist, stating a song, ending a song, etc. They would like to do advanced analytics and
use machine learning to analyze user behavior and increase market share. They use Apache
Beam on-premise and would like something similar in the cloud. Developers would like to
query ML models using SQL.

A. Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery ML

B. Pub/Sub, Datastore, Dataproc
C. Pub/Sub, Bigtable, Tensorflow
D. Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Tensorflow
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A music streaming service has outgrown its current implementation and needs to scale in
order to handle an estimated 700,000 events per second. Events include a user creating a
playlist, stating a song, ending a song, etc. They would like to do advanced analytics and
use machine learning to analyze user behavior and increase market share. They use Apache
Beam on-premise and would like something similar in the cloud. Developers would like to
query ML models using SQL.

A. Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery ML

B. Pub/Sub, Datastore, Dataproc
C. Pub/Sub, Bigtable, Tensorflow
D. Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Tensorflow
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What would you do to achieve high availability for a company’s internal website running in in
Google Cloud, keeping costs in mind?

A. Nothing special. Google ensure high availability for all services.

B. Deploy the application to multiple zones in a region
C. Deploy the application to one zone in two regions
D. Deploy the application to multiple zones in two regions
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What would you do to achieve high availability for a company’s internal website running in in
Google Cloud?

A. Nothing special. Google ensure high availability for all services.

B. Deploy the application to multiple zones in a region
C. Deploy the application to one zone in two regions
D. Deploy the application to multiple zones in two regions
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For auditing purposes, your client want to analyze certain log records on a daily basis. They
want to automatically delete log files over 7 days old. What’s the best storage class to use,
how do you get the log records into Cloud Storage and how do you setup the auto-deletion?

A. Standard storage. Transfer the log records directly to Cloud Storage via a log sink.
Setup a retention policy to delete files >7 days old.
B. Standard storage. Export the log records to a csv file, then use gsutil to upload them
into Cloud Storage. Setup a retention policy to delete files >7 days old.
C. Nearline storage. Export the log records to a csv file, then use gsutil to upload them
into Cloud Storage. Setup a lifecycle policy to delete files >7 days old.
D. Standard storage. Transfer the log records directly to Cloud Storage via a log sink.
Setup a lifecycle policy to delete files >7 days old.
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For auditing purposes, your client want to analyze certain log records on a daily basis. They
want to automatically delete log files over 7 days old. What’s the best storage class to use,
how do you get the log records into Cloud Storage and how do you setup the auto-deletion?

A. Standard storage. Transfer the log records directly to Cloud Storage via a log sink.
Setup a retention policy to delete files >7 days old.
B. Standard storage. Export the log records to a csv file, then use gsutil to upload them
into Cloud Storage. Setup a retention policy to delete files >7 days old.
C. Nearline storage. Export the log records to a csv file, then use gsutil to upload them
into Cloud Storage. Setup a lifecycle policy to delete files >7 days old.
D. Standard storage. Transfer the log records directly to Cloud Storage via a log
sink. Setup a lifecycle policy to delete files >7 days old.
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A client wants to create a group of web servers fronted by a load balancer for use by
employees around the world. They are not concerned about network latency. They want
high availability at the lowest cost possible.

A. Create the web servers in multiple zones in a region closest to where most employees
are located. Have the load balancer use the Premium service tier.
B. Create the web servers in multiple regions, close to where employees are located. Have
the load balancer use the Standard service tier.
C. Create the web servers in a single zone in a region closest to where most employees
are located. Have the load balancer use the Standard service tier.
D. Create the web servers in multiple zones in a region closest to where most employees
are located. Have the load balancer use the Standard service tier.
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A client wants to create a group of web servers fronted by a load balancer for use by
employees around the world. They are not concerned about network latency. They want
high availability at the lowest cost possible.

A. Create the web servers in multiple zones in a region closest to where most employees
are located. Have the load balancer use the Premium service tier.
B. Create the web servers in multiple regions, close to where employees are located. Have
the load balancer use the Standard service tier.
C. Create the web servers in a single zone in a region closest to where most employees
are located. Have the load balancer use the Standard service tier.
D. Create the web servers in multiple zones in a region closest to where most
employees are located. Have the load balancer use the Standard service tier.

A. Ok, but should use Standard tier.

B. Deploying to multi regions increases costs, plus Standard tier is only for
regional deployments
C. No HA
D. Correct
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Your client needs to create several Compute Engine VMs which will house various MySQL
instances currently being used on-prem. Your customer will be making database backups nightly
and will use these to restore if a failure occurs. They want to do the move for the lowest possible
cost. You know you need to add a data disk to each VM. What else do you need to do?

A. Look at the size of the disks being used on-prem and make it 1.5 times bigger in order to
store the backups on the VM. Use regional disks for redundancy.
B. Look at the size of the databases being used on-prem and create a disk of the appropriate
size. Use regional disks for redundancy. Copy database backups to a Cloud Storage bucket.
C. Look at the size of the disks being used on-prem and create a zonal disk of the same size.
Copy database backups to a Cloud Storage bucket.
D. Look at the size of the databases being used on-prem and create a zonal disk of the
appropriate size. Copy database backups to a Cloud Storage bucket.
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Your client needs to create several Compute Engine VMs which will house various MySQL
instances currently being used on-prem. Your customer will be making database backups nightly
and will use these to restore if a failure occurs. They want to do the move for the lowest possible
cost. You know you need to add a data disk to each VM. What else do you need to do?

A. Look at the size of the disks being used on-prem and make it 1.5 times bigger in order to
store the backups locally. Use regional disks for redundancy.
B. Look at the size of the databases being used on-prem and create a disk of the appropriate
size. Use regional disks for redundancy. Copy database backups to a Cloud Storage bucket.
C. Look at the size of the disks being used on-prem and create a zonal disk of the same size.
Copy database backups to a Cloud Storage bucket.
D. Look at the size of the databases being used on-prem and create a zonal disk of the
appropriate size. Copy database backups to a Cloud Storage bucket.

A. No - using regional disk

B. No - using regional disk
C. No - should look at size of database, not the disk. Who knows why the disk is
the current size?
D. Correct
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Your client is going to implement a web based application using Managed Instance Groups that will
consist of 3 tiers: the frontend tier, a middle tier and a backend tier. Your client is very security
conscious and wants to be sure that nothing has access to the backend tier except for the middle
tier. What do you recommend?

A. Use VPC Service Controls. Put the backend tier on one project, and the other two tiers in
another project. Set up a perimeter around both projects
B. Use Firewall Rules based on service accounts. Attach one service account to the middle tier
systems and attach another one to the backend tier systems. Create an ingress firewall rule that
allows communications among systems using these service accounts.
C. Use Private Google Access to allow communication between the middle tier and the backend
tier, and nothing else.
D. Use Firewall Rules based on tags. Give the middle tier systems a tag of “mt” and the backend
tier systems a tag of “be”. Create an ingress firewall rule that allows access to systems with the
“be” tag from systems with the “mt” tag.
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Your client is going to implement a web based application using Managed Instance Groups that will
consist of 3 tiers: the frontend tier, a middle tier and a backend tier. Your client is very security
conscious and wants to be sure that nothing has access to the backend tier except for the middle
tier. What do you recommend?

A. Use VPC Service Controls. Put the backend tier on one project, and the other two tiers in
another project. Set up a perimeter around both projects
B. Use Firewall Rules based on service accounts. Attach one service account to the middle
tier systems and attach another one to the backend tier systems. Create an ingress
firewall rule that allows communications among systems using these service accounts.
C. Use Private Google Access to allow communication between the middle tier and the backend
tier, and nothing else.
D. Use Firewall Rules based on tags. Give the middle tier systems a tag of “mt” and the backend
tier systems a tag of “be”. Create an ingress firewall rule that allows access to systems with the
“be” tag from systems with the “mt” tag.

D would work, but it is not as secure as B.

Only certain people can assign service accounts to systems. Anyone who has
permission to create a VM can assign a tag to the VM.
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Your client wants a way to create repeatable deployments where configuration files could be
supplied for different environments, e.g., development, ops and production. They would like
to store the deployment files in a code repository, and have the deployment file
automatically applied when pushed to a certain branch in the repository. They want the
deployment files to work for both on-premise and GC deployments. What do you
recommend?

A. Terraform, Cloud Build, Git repository

B. Deployment Manager, Cloud Build, Git repository
C. Terraform, Cloud Workflow, Google Source Code Repository
D. Deployment Manager, Cloud Workflow, Google Source Code Repository
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Your client wants a way to create repeatable deployments where configuration files could be
supplied for different environments, e.g., development, ops and production. They would like
to store the deployment files in a code repository, and have the deployment file
automatically applied when pushed to a certain branch in the repository. They want the
deployment files to work for both on-premise and GC deployments. What do you
recommend?

A. Terraform, Cloud Build, Git repository

B. Deployment Manager, Cloud Build, Git repository
C. Terraform, Cloud Workflow, Google Source Code Repository
D. Deployment Manager, Cloud Workflow, Google Source Code Repository
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Your customer is converting an on-premises application to Google App Engine. They are
willing to make minor changes to the app. You will use Cloud Identity to synchronize users
and groups from their Active Directory. Users are required to login to the app. What
authentication strategy should they use?

A. Use Identity Aware Proxy

B. Use Private Google Access
C. Use VPC Service Controls
D. Use Binary Authorization
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Your customer is converting an on-premises application to Google App Engine. They are
willing to make minor changes to the app. You will use Cloud Identity to synchronize users
and groups from their Active Directory. Users are required to login to the app. What
authentication strategy should they use?

A. Use Identity Aware Proxy

B. Use Private Google Access
C. Use VPC Service Controls
D. Use Binary Authorization
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Your client is required to have a yearly audit of all the IAM changes that occurred over the
past year. What is the easiest (and least expensive) way to manage this process?

A. Create a alert on Log records that contain “setIamPolicy” and send an email to a
mailbox that is monitored by the auditing company.
B. Export Log records that contain “setIamPolicy” to BigQuery, and run a nightly job that
processes the information and appends the results to a BigQuery dataset. Give
auditors “view” access to this data.
C. Filter the log results that contain “setIamPolicy and send them to Cloud Storage via a
sink. Create a signed URL that auditors can used to access this data for a limited time.
D. Export Log records that contain “setIamPolicy” to Bigtable. Use Dataproc jobs to
process the data and store the result into Cloud Storage. Give auditors “view” access
to this data.
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Your client is required to have a yearly audit of all the IAM changes that occurred over the
past year. What is the easiest (and least expensive) way to manage this process?

A. Create a alert on Log records that contain “setIamPolicy” and send an email to a
mailbox that is monitored by the auditing company.
B. Export Log records that contain “setIamPolicy” to BigQuery, and run a nightly job that
processes the information and appends the results to a BigQuery dataset. Give
auditors “view” access to this data.
C. Filter the log results that contain “setIamPolicy” and send them to Cloud Storage
via a sink. Create a signed URL that auditors can used to access this data for a
limited time.
D. Export Log records that contain “setIamPolicy” to Bigtable. Use Dataproc jobs to
process the data and store the result into Cloud Storage. Give auditors “view” access
to this data.
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Your customer is creating a database application. The database will be hosted in Cloud SQL
and will be protected by a password. The application that will use the database is located in
Compute Engine. How do you store the password securely, while also allowing access to it
by the application?

A. Use Cloud Secret Manager

B. Use Cloud Key Management Service
C. Use Customer Supplied Encryption keys to access the Cloud Storage bucket which
contains the password
D. Use Customer Managed Encryption keys to access the Cloud Storage bucket which
contains the password
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Your customer is creating a database application. The database will be hosted in Cloud SQL
and will be protected by a password. The application that will use the database is located in
Compute Engine. How do you store the password securely, while also allowing access to it
by the application?

A. Use Cloud Secret Manager

B. Use Cloud Key Management Service
C. Use Customer Supplied Encryption keys to access the Cloud Storage bucket which
contains the password
D. Use Customer Managed Encryption keys to access the Cloud Storage bucket which
contains the password
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A customer has a monolithic application which has not been designed to allow incremental
rollout of new code. They have made updates to some of the code. They need to keep the
production environment on-line while updates are tested. What deployment strategy should
they use?

A. Blue/Green deployment
B. Canary deployment
C. Multivariate deployment
D. A/B deployment
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A customer has a monolithic application which has not been designed to allow incremental
rollout of new code. They have made updates to some of the code. They need to keep the
production environment on-line while updates are tested. What deployment strategy should
they use?

A. Blue/Green deployment
B. Canary deployment
C. Multivariate deployment
D. A/B deployment

Correct answer is A
Blue/Green deployment is the kind of deployment that allows developers to deploy
new code to an entire environment before switching traffic to it. Option D and Option B
are incorrect because they are incremental deployment strategies. Option C is not an
actual deployment strategy.
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A developer made a few changes to several microservices-based applications. After the

change, the department head received reports of longer response times and asked you to
look into the cause. You know that one API request can call other APIs. What is the best tool
for troubleshooting this?

A. Cloud Monitoring
B. Cloud Debugger
C. Cloud Profiler
D. Cloud Trace
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A developer made a few changes to several microservices-based applications. After the

change, the department head received reports of longer response times and asked you to
look into the cause. You know that one API request can call other APIs. What is the best tool
for troubleshooting this?

A. Cloud Monitoring
B. Cloud Debugger
C. Cloud Profiler
D. Cloud Trace
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Edward has created a Managed Instance Group in the region closest to his headquarters. He is using the
Standard network tier to reduce costs. Edward has just been told that he needs to implement a hot
standby for disaster recovery. What do you recommend?

A. Create another Managed Instance Group in another region using the same instance template as the
current one. Modify the backend of the current load balancer and add the new instance group to it.
B. Create another Managed Instance Group in another region using the same instance template as the
current one. Delete the existing load balancer and create a new one with both MIGs in the backend
and specify the Premium tier.
C. Create scripts to deploy a new Managed Instance Group in another region, along with a new load
balancer should the need arise.
D. Edward needs to explain to management that no additional action is required, as the existing
Managed Instance Group is already deployed in multiple zones in a Region. If something were to
happen in one zone, the others would not be impacted.
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Edward has created a Managed Instance Group in the region closest to his headquarters. He is using the
Standard network tier to reduce costs. Edward has just been told that he needs to implement a hot
standby for disaster recovery. What do you recommend?

A. Create another Managed Instance Group in another region using the same instance template as the
current one. Modify the backend of the current load balancer and add the new instance group to it.
B. Create another Managed Instance Group in another region using the same instance template
as the current one. Delete the existing load balancer and create a new one with both MIGs in
the backend and specify the Premium tier.
C. Create scripts to deploy a new Managed Instance Group in another region, along with a new load
balancer should the need arise.
D. Edward needs to explain to management that no additional action is required, as the existing
Managed Instance Group is already deployed in multiple zones in a Region. If something were to
happen in one zone, the others would not be impacted.
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Path to Service Excellence

Certification Advanced Solutions Training Delivery Readiness Index

Certification is just one step on your professional journey. Google Cloud also offers
our partners access to advanced solutions training, and a new quality-focused
program called Delivery Readiness Index (DRI) to help you achieve service
excellence with your customers.
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Benchmark your skills with DRI

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Packaged offerings to bridge specific capability gaps

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individual consultant

DRI helps to benchmark partner proficiency and capability at any point during
the customer journey however should be used primarily as a lead measure to
predict and prepare for partner delivery success.

DRI assesses and analyzes Partner Consultant GCP proficiency by creating a

DRI Profile inclusive of their GCP knowledge, skills, and experience.

With the DRI insights, we can prescriptively advise the partner project team on
the ground and bridge niche capability gaps.

DRI also takes action. For partner consultants, DRI generates a tailored L&D
plan that prescribes personalized learning, training, and skill development to
build GCP proficiency.
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