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Question 1

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.

B.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs.

C.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use federated data sources.

D.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs. Add an additional Compute Engine pre-emptible instance with 32 CPUs.

Question 2

TerramEarth has a legacy web application that you cannot migrate to cloud. However, you still want to build a cloud-native way to monitor the application. If the application goes down, you want the URL to point to a "Site is unavailable" page as soon as possible. You also want your Ops team to receive a notification for the issue. You need to build a reliable solution for minimum cost

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a scheduled job in Cloud Run to invoke a container every minute. The container will check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

B.

Create a cron job on a Compute Engine VM that runs every minute. The cron job invokes a Python program to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

C.

Create a Cloud Monitoring uptime check to validate the application URL If it fails, put a message in a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function to switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

D.

Use Cloud Error Reporting to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the "Site is unavailable" page, and notify the Ops team.

Question 3

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in Cloud Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file storage cost.

Which two actions should you take?

Options:

A.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Delete”.

B.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”.

C.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “90”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”.

D.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Delete”.

Question 4

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. A new architecture that writes all incoming data to

BigQuery has been introduced. You notice that the data is dirty, and want to ensure data quality on an

automated daily basis while managing cost.

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set up a streaming Cloud Dataflow job, receiving data by the ingestion process. Clean the data in a Cloud Dataflow pipeline.

B.

Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans it. Trigger it. Trigger the Cloud Function from a Compute Engine instance.

C.

Create a SQL statement on the data in BigQuery, and save it as a view. Run the view daily, and save the result to a new table.

D.

Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source. Schedule a daily job to clean the data.

Question 5

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with European GDPR regulation, TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from its European customers after a period of 36 months when it contains personal data. In the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and BigQuery. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

B.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action when with an Age condition of 36 months.

C.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

D.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

Question 6

TerramEarth has about 1 petabyte (PB) of vehicle testing data in a private data center. You want to move the data to Cloud Storage for your machine learning team. Currently, a 1-Gbps interconnect link is available for you. The machine learning team wants to start using the data in a month. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Request Transfer Appliances from Google Cloud, export the data to appliances, and return the appliances to Google Cloud.

B.

Configure the Storage Transfer service from Google Cloud to send the data from your data center to Cloud Storage

C.

Make sure there are no other users consuming the 1 Gbps link, and use multi-thread transfer to upload the data to Cloud Storage.

D.

Export files to an encrypted USB device, send the device to Google Cloud, and request an import of the data to Cloud Storage

Question 7

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You are asked to design a new architecture for the

ingestion of the data of the 200,000 vehicles that are connected to a cellular network. You want to follow

Google-recommended practices.

Considering the technical requirements, which components should you use for the ingestion of the data?

Options:

A.

Google Kubernetes Engine with an SSL Ingress

B.

Cloud IoT Core with public/private key pairs

C.

Compute Engine with project-wide SSH keys

D.

Compute Engine with specific SSH keys

Question 8

You are migrating a Linux-based application from your private data center to Google Cloud. The TerramEarth security team sent you several recent Linux vulnerabilities published by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). You need assistance in understanding how these vulnerabilities could impact your migration. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Open a support case regarding the CVE and chat with the support engineer.

B.

Read the CVEs from the Google Cloud Status Dashboard to understand the impact.

C.

Read the CVEs from the Google Cloud Platform Security Bulletins to understand the impact

D.

Post a question regarding the CVE in Stack Overflow to get an explanation

E.

Post a question regarding the CVE in a Google Cloud discussion group to get an explanation

Question 9

You have broken down a legacy monolithic application into a few containerized RESTful microservices. You want to run those microservices on Cloud Run. You also want to make sure the services are highly available with low latency to your customers. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create Cloud Endpoints that point to the services. Create a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance and attach the Cloud Endpoints to its backend.

B.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple regions Create serverless network endpoint groups pointing to the services. Add the serverless NE Gs to a backend service that is used by a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance.

C.

Cloud Run services to multiple regions. In Cloud DNS, create a latency-based DNS name that points to the services.

D.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create a TCP/IP global load balancer. Add the Cloud Run Endpoints to its backend service.

Question 10

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

The JencoMart security team requires that all Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is deployed using a least privilege model with separation of duties for administration between production and development resources. What Google domain and project structure should you recommend?

Options:

A.

Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one for development/test/staging and one for production. Each account should contain one project for every application.

B.

Create two G Suite accounts to manage users: one with a single project for all development applications and one with a single project for all production applications.

C.

Create a single G Suite account to manage users with each stage of each application in its own project.

D.

Create a single G Suite account to manage users with one project for the development/test/staging environment and one project for the production environment.

Question 11

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data. What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?

Options:

A.

Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual machines (VMs).

B.

Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service account keys for the VMs.

C.

Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed keys for the VMs

D.

Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Container Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs.

Question 12

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study

A few days after JencoMart migrates the user credentials database to Google Cloud Platform and shuts down the old server, the new database server stops responding to SSH connections. It is still serving database requests to the application servers correctly. What three steps should you take to diagnose the problem? Choose 3 answers

Options:

A.

Delete the virtual machine (VM) and disks and create a new one.

B.

Delete the instance, attach the disk to a new VM, and investigate.

C.

Take a snapshot of the disk and connect to a new machine to investigate.

D.

Check inbound firewall rules for the network the machine is connected to.

E.

Connect the machine to another network with very simple firewall rules and investigate.

F.

Print the Serial Console output for the instance for troubleshooting, activate the interactive console, and investigate.

Question 13

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart has built a version of their application on Google Cloud Platform that serves traffic to Asia. You want to measure success against their business and technical goals. Which metrics should you track?

Options:

A.

Error rates for requests from Asia

B.

Latency difference between US and Asia

C.

Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia

D.

Total visits and average latency for users in Asia

E.

The number of character sets present in the database

Question 14

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

JencoMart wants to move their User Profiles database to Google Cloud Platform. Which Google Database should they use?

Options:

A.

Cloud Spanner

B.

Google BigQuery

C.

Google Cloud SQL

D.

Google Cloud Datastore

Question 15

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

The migration of JencoMart’s application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is progressing too slowly. The infrastructure is shown in the diagram. You want to maximize throughput. What are three potential bottlenecks? (Choose 3 answers.)

Options:

A.

A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput

B.

A tier of Google Cloud Storage that is not suited for this task

C.

A copy command that is not suited to operate over long distances

D.

Fewer virtual machines (VMs) in GCP than on-premises machines

E.

A separate storage layer outside the VMs, which is not suited for this task

F.

Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure and GCP

Question 16

You need to optimize batch file transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games’ new Google Cloud solution.

The batch files contain game statistics that need to be staged in Cloud Storage and be processed by an extract

transform load (ETL) tool. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use gsutil to batch move files in sequence.

B.

Use gsutil to batch copy the files in parallel.

C.

Use gsutil to extract the files as the first part of ETL.

D.

Use gsutil to load the files as the last part of ETL.

Question 17

You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the defined business and technical

requirements. Mountkirk Games wants each regional game instance to be located in multiple Google Cloud

regions. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure a global load balancer connected to a managed instance group running Compute Engine

instances.

B.

Configure kubemci with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

C.

Configure a global load balancer with Google Kubernetes Engine.

D.

Configure Ingress for Anthos with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Question 18

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available. Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future.

B.

Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity.

C.

Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity.

D.

Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing additional player data in the database.

E.

Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities.

Question 19

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation. What should you advise?

Options:

A.

Identify self-contained applications with external dependencies as a first move to the cloud.

B.

Identify enterprise applications with internal dependencies and recommend these as a first move to the cloud.

C.

Suggest moving their in-house databases to the cloud and continue serving requests to on-premise applications.

D.

Recommend moving their message queuing servers to the cloud and continue handling requests to on-premise applications.

Question 20

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

As part of Dress4Win's plans to migrate to the cloud, they want to be able to set up a managed logging and monitoring system so they can handle spikes in their traffic load. They want to ensure that:

• The infrastructure can be notified when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and flow of usage throughout the day

• Their administrators are notified automatically when their application reports errors.

• They can filter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application across many hosts

Which Google StackDriver features should they use?

Options:

A.

Logging, Alerts, Insights, Debug

B.

Monitoring, Trace, Debug, Logging

C.

Monitoring, Logging, Alerts, Error Reporting

D.

Monitoring, Logging, Debug, Error Report

Question 21

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy. What should they do?

Options:

A.

Install the Stackdriver agent on all of the legacy web servers.

B.

In the Cloud Platform Console download the list of the uptime servers' IP addresses and create an inbound firewall rule

C.

Configure their load balancer to pass through the User-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring-UptimeChecks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)

D.

Configure their legacy web servers to allow requests that contain user-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring— UptimeChecks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)

Question 22

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?

Options:

A.

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Use Google Cloud Datastore to maintain metadata that maps each customer's ID and their image files.

B.

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Add custom metadata to the uploaded images in Cloud Storage that contains the customer's unique ID.

C.

Use a distributed file system to store customers' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Assign each customer a unique ID, which sets each file's owner attribute, ensuring privacy of images.

D.

Use a distributed file system to store customers' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Use a Google Cloud SQL database to maintain metadata that maps each customer's ID to their image files.

Question 23

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

The Dress4Win security team has disabled external SSH access into production virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The operations team needs to remotely manage the VMs, build and push Docker containers, and manage Google Cloud Storage objects. What can they do?

Options:

A.

Grant the operations engineers access to use Google Cloud Shell.

B.

Configure a VPN connection to GCP to allow SSH access to the cloud VMs.

C.

Develop a new access request process that grants temporary SSH access to cloud VMs when an operations engineer needs to perform a task.

D.

Have the development team build an API service that allows the operations team to execute specific remote procedure calls to accomplish their tasks.

Question 24

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has asked you to recommend machine types they should deploy their application servers to. How should you proceed?

Options:

A.

Perform a mapping of the on-premises physical hardware cores and RAM to the nearest machine types in the cloud.

B.

Recommend that Dress4Win deploy application servers to machine types that offer the highest RAM to CPU ratio available.

C.

Recommend that Dress4Win deploy into production with the smallest instances available, monitor them over time, and scale the machine type up until the desired performance is reached.

D.

Identify the number of virtual cores and RAM associated with the application server virtual machines align them to a custom machine type in the cloud, monitor performance, and scale the machine types up until the desired performance is reached.

Question 25

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?

Options:

A.

Create a dump of the on-premises MySQL master server, and then shut it down, upload it to the cloud environment, and load into a new MySQL cluster.

B.

Setup a MySQL replica server/slave in the cloud environment, and configure it for asynchronous replication from the MySQL master server on-premises until cutover.

C.

Create a new MySQL cluster in the cloud, configure applications to begin writing to both on-premises and cloud MySQL masters, and destroy the original cluster at cutover.

D.

Create a dump of the MySQL replica server into the cloud environment, load it into: Google Cloud Datastore, and configure applications to read/write to Cloud Datastore at cutover.

Question 26

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of database backup files. The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center. How should he proceed?

Options:

A.

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

B.

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

C.

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service Job to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

D.

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service job to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

Question 27

Dress4win has end to end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.

They want to ensure that the move of cloud does not introduce any new bugs.

Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?

Options:

A.

They should run the end to end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is working as

intended.

B.

They should enable google stack driver debugger on the application code to show errors in the code

C.

They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.

D.

They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release causes to latency

Question 28

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study

You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers' wait time for parts You decided to focus on reduction of the 3 weeks aggregate reporting time Which modifications to the company's processes should you recommend?

Options:

A.

Migrate from CSV to binary format, migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

B.

Migrate from FTP to streaming transport, migrate from CSV to binary format, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

C.

Increase fleet cellular connectivity to 80%, migrate from FTP to streaming transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

D.

Migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, develop machine learning analysis of metrics, and increase dealer local inventory by a fixed factor.

Question 29

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study

Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.

Have your engineers inspect the data for patterns, and then create an algorithm with rules that make operational adjustments automatically.

B.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and run locally to make operational adjustments automatically.

C.

Implement a Google Cloud Dataflow streaming job with a sliding window, and use Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to make operational adjustments automatically.

D.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and host in Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make operational adjustments automatically.

Question 30

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study

Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third parties to develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated authorization against this data. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Build or leverage an OAuth-compatible access control system.

B.

Build SAML 2.0 SSO compatibility into your authentication system.

C.

Restrict data access based on the source IP address of the partner systems.

D.

Create secondary credentials for each dealer that can be given to the trusted third party.

Question 31

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

The TerramEarth development team wants to create an API to meet the company's business requirements. You want the development team to focus their development effort on business value versus creating a custom framework. Which method should they use?

Options:

A.

Use Google App Engine with Google Cloud Endpoints. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.

B.

Use Google App Engine with a JAX-RS Jersey Java-based framework. Focus on an API for the public.

C.

Use Google App Engine with the Swagger (open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for the public.

D.

Use Google Container Engine with a Django Python container. Focus on an API for the public.

E.

Use Google Container Engine with a Tomcat container with the Swagger (Open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.

Question 32

Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles.

You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation.

Which two architecture should you consider?

Choose 2 answers:

Options:

A.

Treat every micro service call between modules on the vehicle as untrusted.

B.

Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space.

C.

Use a trusted platform module (TPM) and verify firmware and binaries on boot.

D.

Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles.

E.

Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy.

F.

Enclose the vehicle's drive electronics in a Faraday cage to isolate chips.

Question 33

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth has equipped unconnected trucks with servers and sensors to collet telemetry data. Next year they want to use the data to train machine learning models. They want to store this data in the cloud while reducing costs. What should they do?

Options:

A.

Have the vehicle’ computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, and store it in a Google Cloud storage (GCS) Nearline bucket.

B.

Push the telemetry data in Real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in Google BigQuery.

C.

Push the telemetry data in real-time to a streaming dataflow job that compresses the data, and store it in Cloud Bigtable.

D.

Have the vehicle's computer compress the data in hourly snapshots, a Store it in a GCS Coldline bucket.

Question 34

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the field to the cloud. This increases the volume to 20 million 600 byte records a second for 40 TB an hour. How should you design the data ingestion?

Options:

A.

Vehicles write data directly to GCS.

B.

Vehicles write data directly to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

C.

Vehicles stream data directly to Google BigQuery.

D.

Vehicles continue to write data using the existing system (FTP).

Question 35

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a vehicle in the development team to focus their failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data. Which architecture should you recommend?

A)

B)

C)

D)

Options:

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

Question 36

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.

Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption.

Options:

A.

Opex/capex allocation, LAN changes, capacity planning

B.

Capacity planning, TCO calculations, opex/capex allocation

C.

Capacity planning, utilization measurement, data center expansion

D.

Data Center expansion, TCO calculations, utilization measurement

Question 37

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as –is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?

Options:

A.

Web applications deployed using App Engine standard environment

B.

RabbitMQ deployed using an unmanaged instance group

C.

Hadoop/Spark deployed using Cloud Dataproc Regional in High Availability mode

D.

Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners services deployed on custom machine types

Question 38

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud.

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Stackdriver Trace to create a trace list analysis.

B.

Use Stackdriver Monitoring to create a dashboard on the project’s activity.

C.

Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy in all projects, and add the group of Administrators as a member.

D.

Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight.

Question 39

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in

Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements.

Considering Dress4Win’s business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Encrypt data with a customer-supplied encryption key when storing files in Cloud Storage.

B.

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Enable default storage encryption before storing files in Cloud Storage.

C.

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Utilize Google’s default encryption at rest when storing files in Cloud Storage.

D.

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements. Ensure that the default Cloud KMS key is set before storing files in Cloud Storage.

Question 40

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.

What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?

Options:

A.

Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.

B.

Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.

C.

Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.

D.

Containerize the micro services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.

Question 41

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in 1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?

Options:

A.

Migrate the web application layer to App Engine, and MySQL to Cloud Datastore, and NAS to Cloud Storage. Deploy RabbitMQ, and deploy Hadoop servers using Deployment Manager.

B.

Migrate RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to BigQuery, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage. Deploy Tomcat, and deploy Nginx using Deployment Manager.

C.

Implement managed instance groups for Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage.

D.

Implement managed instance groups for the Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Cloud Storage.

Question 42

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?

Options:

A.

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Deployment Manager to Compute Engine. Deploy a Cloud SQL server to replace MySQL. Deploy Jenkins using Cloud Deployment Manager.

B.

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Launcher. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Deployment Manager scripts.

C.

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a Cloud Datastore server to replace the MySQL server in a high-availability configuration. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

D.

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

Question 43

Your company has a stateless web API that performs scientific calculations. The web API runs on a single Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The cluster is currently deployed in us-central1. Your company has expanded to offer your API to customers in Asia. You want to reduce the latency for the users in Asia. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use a global HTTP(s) load balancer with Cloud CDN enabled

B.

Create a second GKE cluster in asia-southeast1, and expose both API’s using a Service of

type Load Balancer. Add the public Ips to the Cloud DNS zone

C.

Increase the memory and CPU allocated to the application in the cluster

D.

Create a second GKE cluster in asia-southeast1, and use kubemci to create a global HTTP(s) load balancer

Question 44

You want to enable your running Google Container Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application

changes.

What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add additional nodes to your Container Engine cluster using the following command:

gcloud container clusters resize CLUSTER_NAME --size 10

B.

Add a tag to the instances in the cluster with the following command:

gcloud compute instances add-tags INSTANCE --tags enable --autoscaling max-nodes-10

C.

Update the existing Container Engine cluster with the following command:

gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster --enable-autoscaling --min-nodes=1 --max-nodes=10

D.

Create a new Container Engine cluster with the following command:

gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster --enable-autocaling --min-nodes=1 --max-nodes=10

and redeploy your application.

Question 45

You are developing your microservices application on Google Kubernetes Engine. During testing, you want to validate the behavior of your application in case a specific microservice should suddenly crash. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add a taint to one of the nodes of the Kubernetes cluster. For the specific microservice, configure a pod anti-affinity label that has the name of the tainted node as a value.

B.

Use Istio’s fault injection on the particular microservice whose faulty behavior you want to simulate.

C.

Destroy one of the nodes of the Kubernetes cluster to observe the behavior.

D.

Configure Istio’s traffic management features to steer the traffic away from a crashing microservice.

Question 46

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants to set up a real-time analytics platform for their new game. The new platform must meet their technical requirements. Which combination of Google technologies will meet all of their requirements?

Options:

A.

Container Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL

B.

Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery

C.

Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Dataflow

D.

Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Dataflow

E.

Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataproc

Question 47

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study

Mountkirk Games needs to create a repeatable and configurable mechanism for deploying isolated application environments. Developers and testers can access each other's environments and resources, but they cannot access staging or production resources. The staging environment needs access to some services from production.

What should you do to isolate development environments from staging and production?

Options:

A.

Create a project for development and test and another for staging and production.

B.

Create a network for development and test and another for staging and production.

C.

Create one subnetwork for development and another for staging and production.

D.

Create one project for development, a second for staging and a third for production.

Question 48

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games' gaming servers are not automatically scaling properly. Last month, they rolled out a new feature, which suddenly became very popular. A record number of users are trying to use the service, but many of them are getting 503 errors and very slow response times. What should they investigate first?

Options:

A.

Verify that the database is online.

B.

Verify that the project quota hasn't been exceeded.

C.

Verify that the new feature code did not introduce any performance bugs.

D.

Verify that the load-testing team is not running their tool against production.

Question 49

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a thorough testing process for new versions of the backend before they are released to the public. You want the testing environment to scale in an economical way. How should you design the process?

Options:

A.

Create a scalable environment in GCP for simulating production load.

B.

Use the existing infrastructure to test the GCP-based backend at scale.

C.

Build stress tests into each component of your application using resources internal to GCP to simulate load.

D.

Create a set of static environments in GCP to test different levels of load — for example, high, medium, and low.

Question 50

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. Their architecture includes many small services that they want to be able to update and roll back quickly. Mountkirk Games has the following requirements:

• Services are deployed redundantly across multiple regions in the US and Europe.

• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.

• They can provide a single frontend IP for their fleet of services.

• Deployment artifacts are immutable.

Which set of products should they use?

Options:

A.

Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Compute Engine

B.

Google Cloud Storage, Google App Engine, Google Network Load Balancer

C.

Google Kubernetes Registry, Google Container Engine, Google HTTP(S) Load Balancer

D.

Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Question 51

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study.

Mountkirk Games wants you to design their new testing strategy. How should the test coverage differ from their existing backends on the other platforms?

Options:

A.

Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches.

B.

Unit tests are no longer required, only end-to-end tests.

C.

Tests should be applied after the release is in the production environment.

D.

Tests should include directly testing the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure.

Question 52

You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new connection design must support business-critical needs and meet the same network and security policy requirements. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection.

B.

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G.

C.

Add three new Cloud VPN connections.

D.

Add a new Carrier Peering connection.

Question 53

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for securely deploying workloads to Google Cloud. You also need to ensure that only verified containers are deployed using Google Cloud services. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Enable Binary Authorization on GKE, and sign containers as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

B.

Configure Jenkins to utilize Kritis to cryptographically sign a container as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

C.

Configure Container Registry to only allow trusted service accounts to create and deploy containers from the registry.

D.

Configure Container Registry to use vulnerability scanning to confirm that there are no vulnerabilities before deploying the workload.

Question 54

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for hybrid connectivity between EHR's on-premises systems and Google Cloud. You want to follow Google's recommended practices for production-level applications. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure two Partner Interconnect connections in one metro (City), and make sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.

B.

Configure two VPN connections from on-premises to Google Cloud, and make sure the VPN devices on-premises are in separate racks.

C.

Configure Direct Peering between EHR Healthcare and Google Cloud, and make sure you are peering at least two Google locations.

D.

Configure two Dedicated Interconnect connections in one metro (City) and two connections in another metro, and make sure the Interconnect connections are placed in different metro zones.

Question 55

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Your team is in charge of creating a

payment card data vault for card numbers used to bill tens of thousands of viewers, merchandise consumers,

and season ticket holders. You need to implement a custom card tokenization service that meets the following

requirements:

• It must provide low latency at minimal cost.

• It must be able to identify duplicate credit cards and must not store plaintext card numbers.

• It should support annual key rotation.

Which storage approach should you adopt for your tokenization service?

Options:

A.

Store the card data in Secret Manager after running a query to identify duplicates.

B.

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm stored in Firestore using Datastore mode.

C.

Encrypt the card data with a deterministic algorithm and shard it across multiple Memorystore instances.

D.

Use column-level encryption to store the data in Cloud SQL.

Question 56

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. The HRL development team

releases a new version of their predictive capability application every Tuesday evening at 3 a.m. UTC to a

repository. The security team at HRL has developed an in-house penetration test Cloud Function called Airwolf.

The security team wants to run Airwolf against the predictive capability application as soon as it is released

every Tuesday. You need to set up Airwolf to run at the recurring weekly cadence. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Set up Cloud Tasks and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

B.

Set up a Cloud Logging sink and a Cloud Storage bucket that triggers a Cloud Function.

C.

Configure the deployment job to notify a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function.

D.

Set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Confidential Computing to trigger a Cloud Function.

Question 57

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL is looking for a cost-effective

approach for storing their race data such as telemetry. They want to keep all historical records, train models

using only the previous season's data, and plan for data growth in terms of volume and information collected.

You need to propose a data solution. Considering HRL business requirements and the goals expressed by

CEO S. Hawke, what should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Firestore for its scalable and flexible document-based database. Use collections to aggregate race data

by season and event.

B.

Use Cloud Spanner for its scalability and ability to version schemas with zero downtime. Split race data

using season as a primary key.

C.

Use BigQuery for its scalability and ability to add columns to a schema. Partition race data based on

season.

D.

Use Cloud SQL for its ability to automatically manage storage increases and compatibility with MySQL. Use

separate database instances for each season.

Question 58

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Recently HRL started a new regional

racing league in Cape Town, South Africa. In an effort to give customers in Cape Town a better user

experience, HRL has partnered with the Content Delivery Network provider, Fastly. HRL needs to allow traffic

coming from all of the Fastly IP address ranges into their Virtual Private Cloud network (VPC network). You are

a member of the HRL security team and you need to configure the update that will allow only the Fastly IP

address ranges through the External HTTP(S) load balancer. Which command should you use?

Options:

A.

glouc compute firewall rules update hlr-policy \

--priority 1000 \

target tags-sourceiplist fastly \

--allow tcp:443

B.

gcloud compute security policies rules update 1000 \

--security-policy hlr-policy \

--expression "evaluatePreconfiguredExpr('sourceiplist-fastly')" \

--action " allow"

C.

gcloud compute firewall rules update

sourceiplist-fastly \

priority 1000 \

allow tcp: 443

D.

gcloud compute priority-policies rules update

1000 \

security policy from fastly

--src- ip-ranges"

-- action " allow"

Question 59

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent finance audit of cloud

infrastructure noted an exceptionally high number of Compute Engine instances are allocated to do video

encoding and transcoding. You suspect that these Virtual Machines are zombie machines that were not deleted

after their workloads completed. You need to quickly get a list of which VM instances are idle. What should you

do?

Options:

A.

Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for

analysis.

B.

Use the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that have the idle: true label set.

C.

Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.

D.

From the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the managed instance groups are

no longer responding to health check probes.

Question 60

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. HRL wants better prediction

accuracy from their ML prediction models. They want you to use Google’s AI Platform so HRL can understand

and interpret the predictions. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Explainable AI.

B.

Use Vision AI.

C.

Use Google Cloud’s operations suite.

D.

Use Jupyter Notebooks.