You have a Bigtable instance that consists of three nodes that store personally identifiable information (Pll) data. You need to log all read or write operations, including any metadata or configuration reads of this database table, in your company ' s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system. What should you do?
Your customer wants you to create a secure, publicly accessible website with autoscaling based on the compute instance CPU load. You want to enhance performance by storing static content in Cloud Storage. Which resources are needed to distribute the user traffic?
(You are deploying a web application using Compute Engine. You created a managed instance group (MIG) to host the application. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to implement a secure and highly available solution. What should you do?)
Your coworker has helped you set up several configurations for gcloud. You ' ve noticed that you ' re running commands against the wrong project. Being new to the company, you haven ' t yet memorized any of the projects. With the fewest steps possible, what ' s the fastest way to switch to the correct configuration?
You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups for 30 days. You want the Google-recommended solution with the least management overhead and the least number of services. What should you do?
You are running a web application on Cloud Run for a few hundred users. Some of your users complain that the initial web page of the application takes much longer to load than the following pages. You want to follow Google ' s recommendations to mitigate the issue. What should you do?
You’ve deployed a microservice called myapp1 to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below:

You need to refactor this configuration so that the database password is not stored in plain text. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You need to add a group of new users to Cloud Identity. Some of the users already have existing Google accounts. You want to follow one of Google ' s recommended practices and avoid conflicting accounts. What should you do?
Your company ' s security vulnerability management policy wonts 3 member of the security team to have visibility into vulnerabilities and other OS metadata for a specific Compute Engine instance This Compute Engine instance hosts a critical application in your Goggle Cloud project. You need to implement your company ' s security vulnerability management policy. What should you dc?
Youare configuring Cloud DNS. You want !to create DNS records to pointhome.mydomain.com,mydomain.com. andwww.mydomain.comto the IP address of your Google Cloud load balancer. What should you do?
(You are migrating your on-premises workload to Google Cloud. Your company is implementing its Cloud Billing configuration and requires access to a granular breakdown of its Google Cloud costs. You need to ensure that the Cloud Billing datasets are available in BigQuery so you can conduct a detailed analysis of costs. What should you do?)
You are managing resources in a Google Cloud project. A new service account needs the ability to invoke a Cloud Run service. You need to gain the permissions to modify IAM policies for service accounts while adhering to the principle of least privilege. What should you do?
Your continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) server can ' t execute Google Cloud actions in a specific project because of permission issues. You need to validate whether the used service account has the appropriate roles in the specific project. What should you do?
You are developing a new application and are looking for a Jenkins installation to build and deploy your source code. You want to automate the installation as quickly and easily as possible. What should you do?
You are deploying an application to a Compute Engine VM in a managed instance group. The application must be running at all times, but only a single instance of the VM should run per GCP project. How should you configure the instance group?
Your managed instance group raised an alert stating that new instance creation has failed to create new instances. You need to maintain the number of running instances specified by the template to be able to process expected application traffic. What should you do?
You are planning to migrate the following on-premises data management solutions to Google Cloud:
• One MySQL cluster for your main database
• Apache Kafka for your event streaming platform
• One Cloud SOL for PostgreSOL database for your analytical and reporting needs
You want to implement Google-recommended solutions for the migration. You need to ensure that the new solutions provide global scalability and require minimal operational and infrastructure management. What should you do?
You need to deploy a single stateless web application with a web interface and multiple endpoints. For security reasons, the web application must be reachable from an internal IP address from your company ' s private VPC and on-premises network. You also need to update the web application multiple times per day with minimal effort and want to manage a minimal amount of cloud infrastructure. What should you do?
You are monitoring an application and receive user feedback that a specific error is spiking. You notice that the error is caused by a Service Account having insufficient permissions. You are able to solve the problem but want to be notified if the problem recurs. What should you do?
Your finance team wants to view the billing report for your projects. You want to make sure that the finance team does not get additional permissions to the project. What should you do?
Your company wants to standardize the creation and management of multiple Google Cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code. You want to minimize the amount of repetitive code needed to manage the environment What should you do?
A colleague handed over a Google Cloud project for you to maintain. As part of a security checkup, you want to review who has been granted the Project Owner role. What should you do?
You are setting up a Windows VM on Compute Engine and want to make sure you can log in to the VM via RDP. What should you do?
You want to host your video encoding software on Compute Engine. Your user base is growing rapidly, and users need to be able 3 to encode their videos at any time without interruption or CPU limitations. You must ensure that your encoding solution is highly available, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate operations. What should you do?
You deployed an LDAP server on Compute Engine that is reachable via TLS through port 636 using UDP. You want to make sure it is reachable by clients over that port. What should you do?
You have a Compute Engine instance hosting a production application. You want to receive an email if the instance consumes more than 90% of its CPU resources for more than 15 minutes. You want to use Google services. What should you do?
You have a managed instance group comprised of preemptible VM ' s. All of the VM ' s keepdeleting and recreating themselves every minute. What is a possible cause of thisbehavior?
You want to deploy an application on Cloud Run that processes messages from a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Your organization is a financial company that needs to store audit log files for 3 years. Your organization has hundreds of Google Cloud projects. You need to implement a cost-effective approach for log file retention. What should you do?
You built an application on your development laptop that uses Google Cloud services. Your application uses Application Default Credentials for authentication and works fine on your development laptop. You want to migrate this application to a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) and set up authentication using Google- recommended practices and minimal changes. What should you do?
You are planning to migrate a database and a backend application to a Standard Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You need to prevent data loss and make sure there are enough nodes available for your backend application based on the demands of your workloads. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and minimize the amount of manual work required. What should you do?
You are deploying an application on Google Cloud that requires a relational database for storage. To satisfy your company ' s security policies, your application must connect to your database through an encrypted and authenticated connection that requires minimal management and integrates with Identity and Access Management (IAM). What should you do?
You have been asked to create robust Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity between a new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and a remote site. Key requirements include dynamic routing, a shared address space of 10.19.0.1/22, and no overprovisioning of tunnels during a failover event. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to set up a high availability Cloud VPN. What should you do?
You have one GCP account running in your default region and zone and another account running in a non-default region and zone. You want to start a new Compute Engine instance in these two Google Cloud Platform accounts using the command line interface. What should you do?
Your auditor wants to view your organization ' s use of data in Google Cloud. The auditor is most interested in auditing who accessed data in Cloud Storage buckets. You need to help the auditor access the data they need. What should you do?
You are the organization and billing administrator for your company. The engineering team has the Project Creator role on the organization. You do not want the engineering team to be able to link projects to the billing account. Only the finance team should be able to link a project to a billing account, but they should not be able to make any other changes to projects. What should you do?
You just installed the Google Cloud CLI on your new corporate laptop. You need to list the existing instances of your company on Google Cloud. What must you do before you run the gcloud compute instances list command?
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You have developed a web application that serves traffic for a local event and are expecting unpredictable traffic. You have containerized the application, and you now want to deploy the application on Google Cloud. You also want to minimize costs. What should you do?
Your company has an internal application for managing transactional orders. The application is used exclusively by employees in a single physical location. The application requires strong consistency, fast queries, and ACID guarantees for multi-table transactional updates. The first version of the application is implemented inPostgreSQL, and you want to deploy it to the cloud with minimal code changes. Which database is most appropriate for this application?
Your organization has three existing Google Cloud projects. You need to bill the Marketing department for only their Google Cloud services for a new initiative within their group. What should you do?
You need to verify that a Google Cloud Platform service account was created at a particular time. What should you do?
Your customer wants you to create a secure website with autoscaling based on the compute instance CPU load. You want to enhance performance by storing static content in Cloud Storage. Which resources are needed to distribute the user traffic?
Your company is moving its entire workload to Compute Engine. Some servers should be accessible through the Internet, and other servers should only be accessible over the internal network. All servers need to be able to talk to each other over specific ports and protocols. The current on-premises network relies on a demilitarized zone (DMZ) for the public servers and a Local Area Network (LAN) for the private servers. You need to design the networking infrastructure on
Google Cloud to match these requirements. What should you do?
You have production and test workloads that you want to deploy on Compute Engine. Production VMs need to be in a different subnet than the test VMs. All the VMs must be able to reach each other over internal IP without creating additional routes. You need to set up VPC and the 2 subnets. Which configuration meets these requirements?
Your development team has packaged and pushed a new container image to Artifact Registry. Due to design requirements, the application must be able to scale to zero. You need to take this image to production as quickly as possible while following the design requirements. What should you do?
You are building a backend service for an ecommerce platform that will persist transaction data from mobile and web clients. After the platform is launched, you expect a large volume of global transactions. Your business team wants to run SQL queries to analyze the data. You need to build a highly available and scalable data store for the platform. What should you do?
You want to permanently delete a Pub/Sub topic managed by Config Connector in your Google Cloud project. What should you do?
Your company ' s machine learning team requires a scalable and flexible platform to fine-tune large language models utilizing a large volume of proprietary data on Google Cloud. You are tasked with building a solution for this team. What should you do?
You are building a data lake on Google Cloud for your Internet of Things (loT) application. The loT application has millions of sensors that are constantly streaming structured and unstructured data to your backend in the cloud. You want to build a highly available and resilient architecture based on Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Your company has a 3-tier solution running on Compute Engine. The configuration of the current infrastructure is shown below.

Each tier has a service account that is associated with all instances within it. You need to enable communication on TCP port 8080 between tiers as follows:
• Instances in tier #1 must communicate with tier #2.
• Instances in tier #2 must communicate with tier #3.
What should you do?
You are analyzing Google Cloud Platform service costs from three separate projects. You want to use this information to create service cost estimates by service type, daily and monthly, for the next six months using standard query syntax. What should you do?
You are the project owner of a GCP project and want to delegate control to colleagues to manage buckets and files in Cloud Storage. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. Which IAM roles should you grant your colleagues?
Your company has developed a new application that consists of multiple microservices. You want to deploy the application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and you want to ensure that the cluster can scale as more applications are deployed in the future. You want to avoid manual intervention when each new application is deployed. What should you do?
You received a JSON file that contained a private key of a Service Account in order to get access to several resources in a Google Cloud project. You downloaded and installed the Cloud SDK and want to use this private key for authentication and authorization when performing gcloud commands. What should you do?
You have deployed an application on a Compute Engine instance. An external consultant needs to access the Linux-based instance. The consultant is connected to your corporate network through a VPN connection, but the consultant has no Google account. What should you do?
You are using Container Registry to centrally store your company’s container images in a separate project. In another project, you want to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You want to ensure that Kubernetes can download images from Container Registry. What should you do?
A team of data scientists infrequently needs to use a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster that you manage. They require GPUs for some long-running, non-restartable jobs. You want to minimize cost. What should you do?
(You are managing a stateful application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that can only have one replica. You recently discovered that the application becomes unstable at peak times. You have identified that the application needs more CPU than what has been configured in the manifest at these peak times. You want Kubernetes to allocate the application sufficient CPU resources during these peak times, while ensuring cost efficiency during off-peak periods. What should you do?)
Your company runs a variety of applications and workloads on Google Cloud and you are responsible for managing cloud costs. You need to identify a solution that enables you to perform detailed cost analysis You also must be able to visualize the cost data in multiple ways on the same dashboard What should you do?
You are planning to migrate your containerized workloads to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to determine which GKE option to use. Your solution must have high availability, minimal downtime, and the ability to promptly apply security updates to your nodes. You also want to pay only for the compute resources that your workloads use without managing nodes. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and minimize operational costs. What should you do?
You are defining a standard procedure for managing team access to hundreds of Google Cloud resources. Your organization uses Cloud Identity as its primary identity provider, and you want to base access on team membership. You need a solution that simplifies the process of granting and revoking access as individuals join and leave teams. Your solution must minimize administrative effort and follow Google-recommended security practices. What should you do?
During a recent audit of your existing Google Cloud resources, you discovered several users with email addresses outside of your Google Workspace domain.
You want to ensure that your resources are only shared with users whose email addresses match your domain. You need to remove any mismatched users, and you want to avoid having to audit your resources to identify mismatched users. What should you do?
You have deployed an application on a single Compute Engine instance. The application writes logs to disk. Users start reporting errors with the application. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?
You deployed a new application inside your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below.
You check the status of the deployed pods and notice that one of them is still in PENDING status:

You want to find out why the pod is stuck in pending status. What should you do?
You host a static website on Cloud Storage. Recently, you began to include links to PDF files on this site. Currently, when users click on the links to these PDF files, their browsers prompt them to save the file onto their local system. Instead, you want the clicked PDF files to be displayed within the browser window directly, without prompting the user to save the file locally. What should you do?
Your company has many legacy third-party applications that rely on a shared NFS server for file sharing between these workloads. You want to modernize the NFS server by using a Google Cloud managed service. You need to select the solution that requires the least amount of change to the application. What should you do?
You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a backend database. The application has a very predictable traffic pattern. You want to automatically scale up or down the number of Spanner nodes depending on traffic. What should you do?
You have just created a new project which will be used to deploy a globally distributed application. You will use Cloud Spanner for data storage. You want to create a Cloud Spanner instance. You want to perform the first step in preparation of creating the instance. What should you do?
Your projects incurred more costs than you expected last month. Your research reveals that a development GKE container emitted a huge number of logs, which resulted in higher costs. You want to disable the logs quickly using the minimum number of steps. What should you do?
You have an application that runs on Compute Engine VM instances in a custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Your company ' s security policies only allow the use to internal IP addresses on VM instances and do not let VM instances connect to the internet. You need to ensure that the application can access a file hosted in a Cloud Storage bucket within your project. What should you do?
You use Cloud Logging lo capture application logs. You now need to use SOL to analyze the application logs in Cloud Logging, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You are building a pipeline to process time-series data. Which Google Cloud Platform services should you put in boxes 1,2,3, and 4?

Your organization has created hundreds of service accounts for different applications hosted on-premises and in other clouds that use Google Cloud APIs. You need to audit the service account keys that have been created and identify the keys that are older than 90 days. What should you do?
You have an object in a Cloud Storage bucket that you want to share with an external company. The object contains sensitive data. You want access to the content to be removed after four hours. The external company does not have a Google account to which you can grant specific user-based access privileges. You want to use the most secure method that requires the fewest steps. What should you do?
You are a Google Cloud organization administrator. You need to configure organization policies and log sinks on Google Cloud projects that cannot be removed by project users to comply with your company ' s security policies. The security policies are different for each company department Each company department has a user with the Project Owner role assigned to their projects. What should you do?
You want to find out when users were added to Cloud Spanner Identity Access Management (IAM) roles on your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project. What should you do in the GCP Console?
You have a web application deployed as a managed instance group. You have a new version of the application to gradually deploy. Your web application is currently receiving live web traffic. You want to ensure that the available capacity does not decrease during the deployment. What should you do?
The sales team has a project named Sales Data Digest that has the ID acme-data-digest You need to set up similar Google Cloud resources for the marketing team but their resources must be organized independently of the sales team. What should you do?
You want to configure a solution for archiving data in a Cloud Storage bucket. The solution must be cost-effective. Data with multiple versions should be archived after 30 days. Previous versions are accessed once a month for reporting. This archive data is also occasionally updated at month-end. What should you do?
You need to manage a third-party application that will run on a Compute Engine instance. Other Compute Engine instances are already running with default configuration. Application installation files are hosted on Cloud Storage. You need to access these files from the new instance without allowing other virtual machines (VMs) to access these files. What should you do?
You created several resources in multiple Google Cloud projects. All projects are linked to different billing accounts. To better estimate future charges, you want to have a single visual representation of all costs incurred. You want to include new cost data as soon as possible. What should you do?
(Your company is migrating its workloads to Google Cloud due to an expiring data center contract. The on-premises environment and Google Cloud are not connected. You have decided to follow a lift-and-shift approach, and you plan to modernize the workloads in a future project. Several old applications connect to each other through hard-coded internal IP addresses. You want to migrate these workloads quickly without modifying the application code. You also want to maintain all functionality. What should you do?)
Your company uses BigQuery to store and analyze data. Upon submitting your query in BigQuery, the query fails with a quotaExceeded error. You need to diagnose the issue causing the error. What should you do?
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An external member of your team needs list access to compute images and disks in one of your projects. You want to follow Google-recommended practices when you grant the required permissions to this user. What should you do?
Your company plans to migrate its on-premises PostgreSQL database to Google Cloud. The workloads are demanding, requiring fast transactional and analytical performance. You need to select a fully managed database service on Google Cloud. Your solution must also be able to synchronously replicate and optimize the storage layer. What should you do?
Your company ' s management has chosen Google Cloud as its strategic cloud provider. You need to provision Google Cloud identities for all employees in the IT and Data departments but not to other departments. This access should automatically update when employees change departments, join, or leave the company. All employees are managed centrally in an LDAP directory, with one organizational unit (OU) for each department. What should you do?
Your development team needs a new Jenkins server for their project. You need to deploy the server using the fewest steps possible. What should you do?
You are running multiple microservices in a Kubernetes Engine cluster. One microservice is rendering images. The microservice responsible for the image rendering requires a large amount of CPU time compared to the memory it requires. The other microservices are workloads that are optimized for n1-standard machine types. You need to optimize your cluster so that all workloads are using resources as efficiently as possible. What should you do?
You are asked to set up application performance monitoring on Google Cloud projects A, B, and C as a single pane of glass. You want to monitor CPU, memory, and disk. What should you do?
All development (dev) teams in your organization are located in the United States. Each dev team has its own Google Cloud project. You want to restrict access so that each dev team can only create cloud resources in the United States (US). What should you do?
You installed the Google Cloud CLI on your workstation and set the proxy configuration. However, you are worried that your proxy credentials will be recorded in the gcloud CLI logs. You want to prevent your proxy credentials from being logged What should you do?
You are building an application that will run in your data center. The application will use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like AutoML. You created a service account that has appropriate access to AutoML. You need to enable authentication to the APIs from your on-premises environment. What should you do?
Your company is using Google Workspace to manage employee accounts. Anticipated growth will increase the number of personnel from 100 employees to 1.000 employees within 2 years. Most employees will need access to your company ' s Google Cloud account. The systems and processes will need to support 10x growth without performance degradation, unnecessary complexity, or security issues. What should you do?
Your company has embraced a hybrid cloud strategy where some of the applications are deployed on Google Cloud. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel connects your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Google Cloud with your company ' s on-premises network. Multiple applications in Google Cloud need to connect to an on-premises database server, and you want to avoid having to change the IP configuration in all of your applications when the IP of the database changes.
What should you do?
You want to enable your development team to deploy new features to an existing Cloud Run service in production. To minimize the risk associated with a new revision, you want to reduce the number ofcustomers who might be affected by an outage without introducing any development or operational costs to your customers. You want to follow Google-recommended practices for managing revisions to a service. What should you do9
You need to set a budget alert for use of Compute Engineer services on one of the three Google Cloud Platform projects that you manage. All three projects are linked to a single billing account. What should you do?
Your company is running a critical workload on a single Compute Engine VM instance. Your company ' s disaster recovery policies require you to backup the entire instance ' s disk data every day. The backups must be retained for 7 days. You must configure a backup solution that complies with your company ' s security policies and requires minimal setup and configuration. What should you do?
You are using the gcloud container clusters create app-cluster command to deploy a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster in a new Google Cloud project. The command fails with the following error:
ERROR: (gcloud.container.clusters.create) ResponseError: code=403, message=Kubernetes Engine API has not been used in the project before or it is disabled.
You need to resolve the issue. What should you do?
You are migrating a business critical application from your local data center into Google Cloud. As part of your high-availability strategy, you want to ensure that any data used by the application will be immediately available if a zonal failure occurs. What should you do?
You want to configure autohealing for network load balancing for a group of Compute Engine instances that run in multiple zones, using the fewest possible steps. You need to configure re-creation of VMs if they are unresponsive after 3 attempts of 10 seconds each. What should you do?
(Your company has a rapidly growing social media platform and a user base primarily located in North America. Due to increasing demand, your current on-premises PostgreSQL database, hosted in your United States headquarters data center, no longer meets your needs. You need to identify a cloud-based database solution that offers automatic scaling, multi-region support for future expansion, and maintains low latency.)
You need to create a new billing account and then link it with an existing Google Cloud Platform project. What should you do?
You are about to deploy a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system on Google Cloud. The application holds the full database in-memory for fast data access, and you need to configure the most appropriate resources on Google Cloud for this application. What should you do?
Your application is running on Google Cloud in a managed instance group (MIG). You see errors in Cloud Logging for one VM that one of the processes is not responsive. You want to replace this VM in the MIG quickly. What should you do?
You are deploying a web application using Compute Engine. You created a managed instance group (MIG) to host the application. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to implement a secure and highly available solution. What should you do?