Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect Exam

Front 1

Name 3 pricing innovations that make Google Cloud Platform the most cost effective public cloud.

Back 1

Sub-hour billing, sustained-use discounts, Compute Engine custom machine types.

Front 2

In addition to innovative pricing, name 3 benefits of using Google Cloud Platform for your cloud applications.

Back 2

Commitment to environmental responsibility, commitment to open source technologies, robust infrastructure.

Front 3

True of False: In Google Cloud IAM, if a policy gives you owner permissions at the project level, your access to an individual resource in the project may be restricted to viewer by applying a more restrictive policy to that resource.

Back 3

False: Policies are a union of the parent and the resource. If a parent policy is less restrictive, it overrides a more restrictive resource policy.

Front 4

All Google Cloud Platform resources are associated with a project.

Back 4

True: All Google Cloud Platform resources are associated with a project.

Front 5

Name 3 differences between the App engine Standard and App Engine Flexible Environments.

Back 5

The Flexible Environment allows SSH access, allows disk writes, and supports third-party binaries (also allows stack customization and background processes).

Front 6

True or False: Google Cloud Datastore supports ACID transactions.

Back 6

True: Google Cloud Datastore supports ACID transactions.

Front 7

You are developing an application that transcodes large video files. Which Google Cloud Platform storage option is the best choice for your application?

Back 7

Google Cloud Storage

Front 8

You manufacture devices with sensors and need to stream huge amounts of data from these devices to a storage option in the cloud. Which Google Cloud Platform option is the best choice for your application?

Back 8

Google Cloud Bigtable

Front 9

Name two reasons for developing applications using containers?

Back 9

Consistency across development, testing, production environments; Simpler to migrate workloads; Loose coupling; Agility.

Front 10

True or False: Kubernetes allows you to manage container clusters in multiple cloud providers.

Back 10

True: Kubernetes allows you to manage container clusters in multiple cloud providers.

Front 11

True or False: Google Cloud Platform provides a secure, high-speed container image storage service for use with Container Engine.

Back 11

Google Cloud Platform provides a secure, high-speed container image storage service for use with Container Engine.

Front 12

Name 3 robust networking services available to your applications on Google Cloud Platform.

Back 12

Firewall rules, subnetworks, HTTP(s) and network load balancing.

Front 13

Name 3 Compute Engine pricing innovations.

Back 13

Per-minute billing, custom machine types, preemptible instances.

Front 14

True or False: Google Cloud Load Balancing allows you to balance HTTP-based traffic across multiple compute engine regions.

Back 14

True: Google Cloud Load Balancing allows you to balance HTTP-based traffic across multiple Compute Engine regions.

Front 15

Name two use cases for Google Cloud Dataproc.

Back 15

Migrate on-premises Hadoop jobs to the cloud, data mining/analysis

Front 16

Name two use cases for Google Cloud Dataflow.

Back 16

ETL, orchestration.

Front 17

Name three use cases for Google machine learning platform.

Back 17

Fraud detection, sentiment analysis, content personalization.

Front 18

Which of the following are global resources?

(choose 2 of the available options)

-Snapshots

-Persistant disks

-Instances

-External IP addresses

-Firewall Rules

Back 18

Snapshots and Firewall rules

Front 19

You check the status of an instance and find it is TERMINATED. Which of the follow are likely causes? (select 2 of the available options).

- The instance is being migrated due to host maintenance

-You did not override the default availability policy for on host maintenance

-The instance is preemptible

-The instance is performing a periodic system update

-A project Owner has issued a shutdown command from within the operating system

Back 19

-The instance is preemptible

-A project Owner has issued a shutdown command from within the operating system

Front 20

True or False. In order to connect to an instance using SSH, a user must be assigned Owner permissions to a project or IAM role compute.instanceAdmin.

Back 20

False. In order to connect to an instance using ssh, a user must be assigned Owner permissions to a project or the IAM role compute.instanceAdmin. You can also manually provide a user access to an instance using an SSH key-pair for a linux account without requiring project access.

Owner and Editor permissions allow SSH connections.

Front 21

True or False. Instances in separate networks in the same project must use their external IP addresses to communicate.

Back 21

True. Instances attached to separate networks in the same project must use their external IP addresses to communicate.

Front 22

You have created a firewall rule to allow HTTP traffic to particular instances in your default network running HTTP servers, but the web pages are unreachable. Suggest possible troubleshooting steps.

Back 22

Software configuration issue, verifying instance software firewall, verify OS level configuration, verify network routes, make sure instance has been assigned an external IP address.

Front 23

Instance tags can be used to define which of the following network components? (select 2 of the available options)

- Which network an instance belongs to

- Network address translation of external to internal IP addresses

- Which firewall rules apply to an instance

- Which routes apply to an instance

- Mark an instance able to send traffic to the Internet

Back 23

-Which firewall rules apply to an instance

-Which routes apply to an instance

Front 24

Why would you create an image from an existing disk? (select 2 of the available options).

- To preserve the installation of specific software

- Because instances with attached disks have read-only storage

- Because persistant disks only retain information when they are attached to an instance

-To serve as the basis for other instances

Back 24

- To preserve the installation of specific software

- To serve as the basis for other instances

Front 25

Can you prevent the destruction of an attached persistent disk when the instance is deleted?

- Yes, use the --keep-disks option with the gcloud compute instances delete command

- Yes, deselect the option "Delete boot disk when instance is deleted' when creating an instance

- No, attached persistent disks are always associated with the lifetime of the instance.

Back 25

- Yes, use the --keep-disks option with the gcloud compute instances delete command

- Yes, deselect the option "Delete boot disk when instance is deleted' when creating an instance

Front 26

Which of the following are true?

- Local SSDs deliver the lowest latency

- Local SSDs can be attached to multiple instances

- Durability of persistent SSDs is not as good as standard persistent disks

- Persistent disks may be attached to multiple instances (shared storage)

- Persistent disks only store information when attached to an instance

- Persistent disks provide reliable and flexible instance block storage.

Back 26

- Local SSDs deliver the lowest latency

- Persistent disks may be attached to multiple instances (shared storage)

- Persistent disks provide reliable and flexible instance block storage.

Front 27

True or False. Once scopes are customized during instance creation, they cannot be modified even if the instance is stopped.

Back 27

True. Currently, the only way to modify instance scopes is to recreate the instance.

Front 28

True or False. User-defined service accounts can only be used with IAM roles.

Back 28

True. The default service accounts can be used with IAM roles and project roles.

Front 29

You need to migrate data from a persistent disk to another region. Reorder the following tasks:

1. Attach disk

2. Create disk

3. Create snapshot

4. Create instance

5. Unmount file system

Back 29

1. Unmount filesystem

2. Create snapshot

3. Create disk

4. Create instance

5. Attach disk

Front 30

Which of the following are use cases for snapshots? (select 2 of the available options)

-Use snapshots to migrate instance configuration including tags

-Use snapshots to migrate data to an instance in the same region

-Use snapshots to migrate data to a local solid state disk

-Use snapshots to migrate data from SSD to a standard persistent disk

Back 30

-Use snapshots to migrate data to an instance in the same region

-Use snapshots to migrate data from SSD to a standard persistent disk

Front 31

You are tasked with setting up storage for log files generated by a web site. They may be read only by one group of people and the retention policy mandates deletion after one month. Which of the following will you use to achieve these objectives? (select 2 of the available options)

- Locate storage in a specific region (EU, US, or Asia)

- The web option of gsutil

- Customized ACL settings

- The cron option of gsutil

- The lifecycle option of gsutil

Back 31

- Customized ACL settings

- The lifecycle option of gsutil

Front 32

Is it possible for two different Google Cloud Platform projects to each create a Cloud Storage bucket with the identifier gs://local-logs?

- Yes, identifiers must be unique within a project

- No, identifiers must be globally unique

- Yes, a long as the buckets are in different geographical region

Back 32

- No, identifiers must be globally unique

Front 33

Complete the table comparing managed and unmanaged instance groups.

Unmanaged instance groups

Zone-based?

Mix of instance types?

Resize method?

Use existing instances?

Managed instance groups

Zone-based?

Mix of instance types?

Resize method?

Use existing instances?

Back 33

Unmanaged instance groups:

Zone based- Yes

Mix of instance types- Yes

Resize method- By manually adding instances

Use existing instances- Yes

Managed instance groups:

Zone based- Yes

Mix of instance types- No

Resize method- Instruct instance group manager to resize from template

Use existing instances- No

Front 34

True or False. Cloud SQL instances can be accessed by Compute Engine instances from multiple regions.

Back 34

True. It is possible but increased latency will be an issue, as the traffic will have further travel between compute engine and cloud sql instances. A compute engine external IP address must be in the list of authorized networks to access a cloud SQL instance.

Front 35

True or False. Cloud SQL instances can only export data in mysqldump file format.

Back 35

False. Cloud SQL also supports exporting data in CSV format.

Front 36

Which of the following are valid methods of querying instance metadata from your laptop? (Select 2 of the available options)

- gcloud compute instances metadata

- gcloud compute instances describe

- Issue a curl command to the metadata service

- gcloud compute metadata list

- Inspect instance metadata in the Google Cloud Platform Console

Back 36

- gcloud compute instances describe

- Inspect instance metadata in the Google Cloud Platform Console

Front 37

You login to an instance and find the startup script does not appear to have run. List possible troubleshooting steps to isolate the cause.

Back 37

Check /var/log/startupscript.log

Check /var/log/daemon.log

Verify that the URL for the script is correctly configured in metadata

Check that the instance has the correct authorization scopes to read the script from the source Cloud Storage bucket

Check formatting and syntax of startup script for errors

Manually try and read the startup script from gsutil, gsutil cat gs:///to/script.sh>

Front 38

Shutdown scripts run in which of the following circumstances? (Select 3 of the available options)

- Running sudo shutdown from the guest operating system

- An instance is undergoing live migration

- Running the instances().stop method

- Running the instances().delete method

- Running the instances().reset method

Back 38

- Running sudo shutdown from the guest operating system

- Running the instances().stop method

- Running the instances().delete method

Front 39

True or False. The use of instance templates is optional with an autoscaler.

Back 39

False. An autoscaler uses an instance group manager to add and remove instances in an instance group. An instance group manager creates instances based on an instance template.

Front 40

What is a potential role of shutdown scripts when using an autoscaler?

Back 40

1. Send logs to cloud storage

3. Gracefully shutdown applications or upload logs prior to terminating an instance as a result of an autoscaler.

Front 41

Which of the following features are associated with Network Load Balancing? (Select 2 of the available options)

- Target proxies

- Target pools

- Forwarding rules

- Global forwarding rules

- URL maps

Back 41

- Target pools

- Forwarding rules

-Target proxies, global forwarding rules, and URL maps are all part of HTTP load balancing.

Front 42

Network load balancing is a good fit for which of the following scenarios?

- Content-based load balancing

- Cross-region load balancing

- Load balancing confined to a single region

- Load balancing confined to a single zone

- None of the above

Back 42

- Load balancing confined to a single region

Content-based load balancing, Cross-region load balancing are part of the HTTP load balancing

Front 43

Network Load Balancing

Health checks:

Cross-region:

Protocols:

Packet Inspection:

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Health checks: Optional

Cross-region: No

Protocols: Multiple protocols

Packet Inspection: Supported

Front 44

HTTP/HTTPS load balancing

Health checks:

Cross-region:

Protocols:

Packet Inspection:

Back 44

Health checks: Required

Cross-region: Yes

Protocols: HTTP(s) only

Packet Inspection: Not Supported

Front 45

Kubernetes Deployment

Back 45

A core component of Kubernetes that makes sure your application is always running. A deployment schedules and manages a set of pods in the cluster.

Front 46

Kubernetes Pod

Back 46

One or more containers that 'travel together'. That might mean they are administered together or have the same network requirements.

Front 47

Google Container Registry

Back 47

Container Registry is a private Docker repository that works with popular continuous delivery systems such as Kubernetes

Front 48

Docker is a type of ___________.

Back 48

Container

Front 49

Storage services includes files and archival storage. True or False.

Back 49

True

Front 50

Cloud Services allow you to get to market faster. True or False.

Back 50

True

Front 51

Google's autoscaling sometimes runs out of resources. True or False.

Back 51

False

Front 52

GCP Projects are identified by either ID, name, or _____.

Back 52

Number

Front 53

When using the GCP free trial, Google gives you $500 to spend over 90 days. True or False.

Back 53

False. $300 for 60 days

Front 54

The API _____ shows which APIs are available by default.

Back 54

Manager

Front 55

The _____ section in GCP allows you to control users, roles, and permissions.

Back 55

IAM

Front 56

The _____ and _____ components are not installed by default when installing the gcloud SDK.

Back 56

Alpha and Beta

Front 57

To install gcloud, you need the GCP SDK.

Back 57

True

Front 58

A _____ is an area up on the Google cloud that can hold files and folders.

Back 58

Bucket

Front 59

Google referenced and indexed how GCS compares and contrasts to _____.

Back 59

AWS

Front 60

Which of the following Cloud Storage classes are supported for Container Registry?

1. Standard

2. Durable Reduced Availability

3. Nearline

Back 60

All of the listed classes are supported

Front 61

To create a virtual machine, go to the _____ section in the Console.

Back 61

Compute Engine

Front 62

A Deployment is a container for one or more services.

Back 62

True

Front 63

Which of the following is a Google service for container management?

API Manager

Kubernetes

Docker

App Engine

Back 63

Kubernetes

Front 64

Virtualizing at the function level is _____ than virtualizing containers or machines.

cheaper

easier

slower

more expensive

Back 64

Cheaper!

Front 65

In GCS, files are stored by default in _____ storage.

coldline

nearline

regional

multi-regional

Back 65

Multi-regional

Front 66

Cloud SQL instances are fully managed, relational _____ databases.

SQL Server

MySQL

Oracle

NoSQL

Back 66

MySQL

Front 67

To create an entity from the console, select _____ from the menu.

SQL

Datastore

Storage

Container Engine

Back 67

Datastore

Front 68

Bigtable supports native query via SQL.

TRUE

FALSE

Back 68

False!

Front 69

BigQuery provides both interactive and _____ pricing.

batch

storage

variable

individual

Back 69

batch

Front 70

When selecting data and storage services, it is important to understand how they differ in price.

FALSE

TRUE

Back 70

True!

Front 71

The data pipeline services are:

Cloud Pub/Sub

Cloud Dataproc

Google Genomics

and _____.

Back 71

Cloud Dataflow

Front 72

Pub/Sub Messaging is a _____-based message service.

numeric

cloud

topic

video

Back 72

topic

Front 73

Cloud Dataproc allows you to run _____, Spark, Hive, or Pig jobs on your cluster.

Hadoop

Clash

Azure

Firefox

Back 73

Hadoop

Front 74

Cloud Dataflow is an implementation of Apache Spark.

FALSE

TRUE

Back 74

False, Apache beam.

Front 75

Which of these data pipeline services is not commonly used for loading and storing data?

Cloud Storage

BigTable

BigQuery

Dataflow

Back 75

Cloud Storage

Front 76

The other services that are part of cloud services consist of machine learning and _____.

Cloud Load Balancing

Cloud Algorithms

Cloud Datalab

Cloud Mining

Back 76

Cloud Datalab

Front 77

The Cloud Vision API provides classification and image _____.

sorting

normalizing

verification

labeling

Back 77

labeling

Front 78

The Cloud Datalab consists of two parts, the docs and the _____.

files

binaries

volumes

notebooks

Back 78

notebooks

Front 79

The _____ notebook in the docs folder of the Datalab contains links to useful tutorials and samples.

howto

samples

intro

readme

Back 79

readme

Front 80

The Cloud ML service is based on Google's open source library named _____.

OpenCloud

GoogleLinux

TensorFlow

Spark

Back 80

TensorFlow

Front 81

Firewall rules allow traffic to go between different IP addresses on various ports.

FALSE

TRUE

Back 81

True!

Front 82

Stackdriver can only be used to monitor Google Cloud projects.

FALSE

TRUE

Back 82

False!

Front 83

Source code and repositories are accessed from the _____ menu item.

Endpoints

Debug

Development

Deployment Manager

Back 83

Development

Front 84

Which of the following URLs provides a great starting point for understanding Google architecture?

https://google.cloud.com/icons

https://google.cloud.com/readme

https://google.cloud.com/support

https://google.cloud.com/architecture

Back 84

https://google.cloud.com/icons

Front 85

In Google Cloud Storage there are _____ categories of storage.

four

five

two

three

Back 85

four!

Front 86

Which of the following is not a GCP website application architecture?

API hosting

static hosting

content hosting

dynamic hosting

Back 86

dynamic hosting...?

Front 87

Two types of GCP big data architecture are data warehouse and _____.

data processing

log processing

log streaming

data streaming

Back 87

log processing!!!

Front 88

A common protocol for the Internet of Things architecture is _____.

MQTT

HTTP

TCP/IP

XML

Back 88

MQTT

Front 89

Which of the following is not a GCP bioinformatics architecture?

variant analysis

data collection and analysis

patient monitoring

genomics, secondary analysis

Back 89

data collection and analysis

Front 90

A great resource community for building solutions is Google _____.

Deployment Engineers

Developers Experts

Code Masters

Architecture Platforms

Back 90

Developers Experts