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Question #1 Topic 1

Your company has decided to make a major revision of their API in order to create better experiences for their developers. They need to keep the
old version of the API available and deployable, while allowing new customers and testers to try out the new API. They want to keep the same SSL
and DNS records in place to serve both APIs.
What should they do?

A. Con gure a new load balancer for the new version of the API

B. Recon gure old clients to use a new endpoint for the new API

C. Have the old API forward tra c to the new API based on the path

D. Use separate backend pools for each API path behind the load balancer

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #2 Topic 1

Your company plans to migrate a multi-petabyte data set to the cloud. The data set must be available 24hrs a day. Your business analysts have
experience only with using a SQL interface.
How should you store the data to optimize it for ease of analysis?

A. Load data into Google BigQuery

B. Insert data into Google Cloud SQL

C. Put at les into Google Cloud Storage

D. Stream data into Google Cloud Datastore

Correct Answer: A
BigQuery is Google's serverless, highly scalable, low cost enterprise data warehouse designed to make all your data analysts productive.
Because there is no infrastructure to manage, you can focus on analyzing data to nd meaningful insights using familiar SQL and you don't
need a database administrator.
BigQuery enables you to analyze all your data by creating a logical data warehouse over managed, columnar storage as well as data from object
storage, and spreadsheets.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/

Community vote distribution

A (95%) 5%
Question #3 Topic 1

The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she should consider when migrating a J2EE application to the cloud.
Which three practices should you recommend? (Choose three.)

A. Port the application code to run on Google App Engine

B. Integrate Cloud Data ow into the application to capture real-time metrics

C. Instrument the application with a monitoring tool like Stackdriver Debugger

D. Select an automation framework to reliably provision the cloud infrastructure

E. Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging environment

F. Migrate from MySQL to a managed NoSQL database like Google Cloud Datastore or Bigtable

Correct Answer: ADE

References:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/tools/uploadinganapp
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/building-app/cloud-sql

Community vote distribution

ADE (36%) CDE (35%) ACE (29%)
Question #4 Topic 1

A news feed web service has the following code running on Google App Engine. During peak load, users report that they can see news articles
they already viewed.
What is the most likely cause of this problem?

A. The session variable is local to just a single instance

B. The session variable is being overwritten in Cloud Datastore

C. The URL of the API needs to be modi ed to prevent caching

D. The HTTP Expires header needs to be set to -1 stop caching

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #5 Topic 1

An application development team believes their current logging tool will not meet their needs for their new cloud-based product. They want a
better tool to capture errors and help them analyze their historical log data. You want to help them nd a solution that meets their needs.
What should you do?

A. Direct them to download and install the Google StackDriver logging agent

B. Send them a list of online resources about logging best practices

C. Help them de ne their requirements and assess viable logging tools

D. Help them upgrade their current tool to take advantage of any new features

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (50%) A (50%)
Question #6 Topic 1

You need to reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of erroneous production deployments in your company's web hosting platform.
Improvement to the QA/
Test processes accomplished an 80% reduction.
Which additional two approaches can you take to further reduce the rollbacks? (Choose two.)

A. Introduce a green-blue deployment model

B. Replace the QA environment with canary releases

C. Fragment the monolithic platform into microservices

D. Reduce the platform's dependency on relational database systems

E. Replace the platform's relational database systems with a NoSQL database

Correct Answer: AC

Community vote distribution

AC (91%) 9%

Question #7 Topic 1

To reduce costs, the Director of Engineering has required all developers to move their development infrastructure resources from on-premises
virtual machines
(VMs) to Google Cloud Platform. These resources go through multiple start/stop events during the day and require state to persist. You have been
asked to design the process of running a development environment in Google Cloud while providing cost visibility to the nance department.
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)

A. Use the - -no-auto-delete ag on all persistent disks and stop the VM

B. Use the - -auto-delete ag on all persistent disks and terminate the VM

C. Apply VM CPU utilization label and include it in the BigQuery billing export

D. Use Google BigQuery billing export and labels to associate cost to groups

E. Store all state into local SSD, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM

F. Store all state in Google Cloud Storage, snapshot the persistent disks, and terminate the VM

Correct Answer: AD

Community vote distribution

AD (59%) DF (41%)
Question #8 Topic 1

Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms
across 5 o ces on 3 continents. Each room is equipped with a motion sensor that reports its status every second. The data from the motion
detector includes only a sensor ID and several different discrete items of information. Analysts will use this data, together with information about
account owners and o ce locations.
Which database type should you use?

A. Flat le

B. NoSQL

C. Relational

D. Blobstore

Correct Answer: B
Relational databases were not designed to cope with the scale and agility challenges that face modern applications, nor were they built to take
advantage of the commodity storage and processing power available today.
NoSQL ts well for:
Developers are working with applications that create massive volumes of new, rapidly changing data types €" structured, semi-structured,
unstructured and polymorphic data.
Incorrect Answers:
D: The Blobstore API allows your application to serve data objects, called blobs, that are much larger than the size allowed for objects in the
Datastore service.
Blobs are useful for serving large les, such as video or image les, and for allowing users to upload large data les.
Reference:
https://www.mongodb.com/nosql-explained

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #9 Topic 1

You set up an autoscaling instance group to serve web tra c for an upcoming launch. After con guring the instance group as a backend service
to an HTTP(S) load balancer, you notice that virtual machine (VM) instances are being terminated and re-launched every minute. The instances do
not have a public IP address.
You have veri ed the appropriate web response is coming from each instance using the curl command. You want to ensure the backend is
con gured correctly.
What should you do?

A. Ensure that a rewall rules exists to allow source tra c on HTTP/HTTPS to reach the load balancer.

B. Assign a public IP to each instance and con gure a rewall rule to allow the load balancer to reach the instance public IP.

C. Ensure that a rewall rule exists to allow load balancer health checks to reach the instances in the instance group.

D. Create a tag on each instance with the name of the load balancer. Con gure a rewall rule with the name of the load balancer as the source
and the instance tag as the destination.

Correct Answer: C
The best practice when con guration a health check is to check health and serve tra c on the same port. However, it is possible to perform
health checks on one port, but serve tra c on another. If you do use two different ports, ensure that rewall rules and services running on
instances are con gured appropriately. If you run health checks and serve tra c on the same port, but decide to switch ports at some point, be
sure to update both the backend service and the health check.
Backend services that do not have a valid global forwarding rule referencing it will not be health checked and will have no health status.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/backend-service

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #10 Topic 1

You write a Python script to connect to Google BigQuery from a Google Compute Engine virtual machine. The script is printing errors that it cannot
connect to
BigQuery.
What should you do to x the script?

A. Install the latest BigQuery API client library for Python

B. Run your script on a new virtual machine with the BigQuery access scope enabled

C. Create a new service account with BigQuery access and execute your script with that user

D. Install the bq component for gcloud with the command gcloud components install bq.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (80%) B (18%)
Question #11 Topic 1

Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform from an on-premises data center. The business owners
require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team requirements for storing passwords.
What authentication strategy should they use?

A. Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google

B. Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider

C. Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool

D. Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password

Correct Answer: C
Provision users to Google's directory
The global Directory is available to both Cloud Platform and G Suite resources and can be provisioned by a number of means. Provisioned users
can take advantage of rich authentication features including single sign-on (SSO), OAuth, and two-factor veri cation.
You can provision users automatically using one of the following tools and services:
Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS)

Google Admin SDK -

A third-party connector -
GCDS is a connector that can provision users and groups on your behalf for both Cloud Platform and G Suite. Using GCDS, you can automate
the addition, modi cation, and deletion of users, groups, and non-employee contacts. You can synchronize the data from your LDAP directory
server to your Cloud Platform domain by using LDAP queries. This synchronization is one-way: the data in your LDAP directory server is never
modi ed.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations#authentication-and-identity

Community vote distribution

B (78%) C (22%)

Question #12 Topic 1

Your company has successfully migrated to the cloud and wants to analyze their data stream to optimize operations. They do not have any
existing code for this analysis, so they are exploring all their options. These options include a mix of batch and stream processing, as they are
running some hourly jobs and live- processing some data as it comes in.
Which technology should they use for this?

A. Google Cloud Dataproc

B. Google Cloud Data ow

C. Google Container Engine with Bigtable

D. Google Compute Engine with Google BigQuery

Correct Answer: B
Cloud Data ow is a fully-managed service for transforming and enriching data in stream (real time) and batch (historical) modes with equal
reliability and expressiveness -- no more complex workarounds or compromises needed.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/data ow/

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #13 Topic 1

Your customer is receiving reports that their recently updated Google App Engine application is taking approximately 30 seconds to load for some
of their users.
This behavior was not reported before the update.
What strategy should you take?

A. Work with your ISP to diagnose the problem

B. Open a support ticket to ask for network capture and ow data to diagnose the problem, then roll back your application

C. Roll back to an earlier known good release initially, then use Stackdriver Trace and Logging to diagnose the problem in a
development/test/staging environment

D. Roll back to an earlier known good release, then push the release again at a quieter period to investigate. Then use Stackdriver Trace and
Logging to diagnose the problem

Correct Answer: C
Stackdriver Logging allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud Platform and Amazon
Web Services
(AWS). Our API also allows ingestion of any custom log data from any source. Stackdriver Logging is a fully managed service that performs at
scale and can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs. Even better, you can analyze all that log data in real time.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/logging/

Community vote distribution

C (92%) 8%

Question #14 Topic 1

A production database virtual machine on Google Compute Engine has an ext4-formatted persistent disk for data les. The database is about to
run out of storage space.
How can you remediate the problem with the least amount of downtime?

A. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and use the resize2fs command in Linux.

B. Shut down the virtual machine, use the Cloud Platform Console to increase the persistent disk size, then restart the virtual machine

C. In the Cloud Platform Console, increase the size of the persistent disk and verify the new space is ready to use with the fdisk command in
Linux

D. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a new persistent disk attached to the virtual machine, format and mount it, and con gure the
database service to move the les to the new disk

E. In the Cloud Platform Console, create a snapshot of the persistent disk restore the snapshot to a new larger disk, unmount the old disk,
mount the new disk and restart the database service

Correct Answer: A
On Linux instances, connect to your instance and manually resize your partitions and le systems to use the additional disk space that you
added.
Extend the le system on the disk or the partition to use the added space. If you grew a partition on your disk, specify the partition. If your disk
does not have a partition table, specify only the disk ID. sudo resize2fs /dev/[DISK_ID][PARTITION_NUMBER] where [DISK_ID] is the device name
and [PARTITION_NUMBER] is the partition number for the device where you are resizing the le system.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk

Community vote distribution

A (86%) 14%
Question #15 Topic 1

Your application needs to process credit card transactions. You want the smallest scope of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance without
compromising the ability to analyze transactional data and trends relating to which payment methods are used.
How should you design your architecture?

A. Create a tokenizer service and store only tokenized data

B. Create separate projects that only process credit card data

C. Create separate subnetworks and isolate the components that process credit card data

D. Streamline the audit discovery phase by labeling all of the virtual machines (VMs) that process PCI data

E. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the data shared with the auditor

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/compliance/ways-reduce-pci-dss-audit-scope-tokenizing-cardholder-data-33194

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #16 Topic 1

You have been asked to select the storage system for the click-data of your company's large portfolio of websites. This data is streamed in from a
custom website analytics package at a typical rate of 6,000 clicks per minute. With bursts of up to 8,500 clicks per second. It must have been
stored for future analysis by your data science and user experience teams.
Which storage infrastructure should you choose?

A. Google Cloud SQL

B. Google Cloud Bigtable

C. Google Cloud Storage

D. Google Cloud Datastore

Correct Answer: B
Google Cloud Bigtable is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL wide-column database that is suitable for both real-time access and analytics
workloads.
Good for:
Low-latency read/write access
High-throughput analytics
Native time series support
Common workloads:
IoT, nance, adtech
Personalization, recommendations
Monitoring
Geospatial datasets
Graphs
Incorrect Answers:
C: Google Cloud Storage is a scalable, fully-managed, highly reliable, and cost-e cient object / blob store.
Is good for:
Images, pictures, and videos
Objects and blobs
Unstructured data
D: Google Cloud Datastore is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL document database for your web and mobile applications.
Is good for:
Semi-structured application data
Hierarchical data
Durable key-value data
Common workloads:
User pro les
Product catalogs
Game state
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/

Community vote distribution

B (92%) 8%
Question #17 Topic 1

You are creating a solution to remove backup les older than 90 days from your backup Cloud Storage bucket. You want to optimize ongoing
Cloud Storage spend.
What should you do?

A. Write a lifecycle management rule in XML and push it to the bucket with gsutil

B. Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with gsutil

C. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls €"lr gs://backups/** to nd and remove items older than 90 days

D. Schedule a cron script using gsutil ls €"l gs://backups/** to nd and remove items older than 90 days and schedule it with cron

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #18 Topic 1

Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs being run on your local datacenter. You
want to utilize the cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the least amount of operations work and code change.
Which product should you use?

A. Google Cloud Data ow

B. Google Cloud Dataproc

C. Google Compute Engine

D. Google Kubernetes Engine

Correct Answer: B
Google Cloud Dataproc is a fast, easy-to-use, low-cost and fully managed service that lets you run the Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop
ecosystem on Google
Cloud Platform. Cloud Dataproc provisions big or small clusters rapidly, supports many popular job types, and is integrated with other Google
Cloud Platform services, such as Google Cloud Storage and Stackdriver Logging, thus helping you reduce TCO.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/resources/faq

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #19 Topic 1

The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database server running on Google Compute
Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their performance statistics and is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an
n1-standard-8 virtual machine with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk.
What should they change to get better performance from this system?

A. Increase the virtual machine's memory to 64 GB

B. Create a new virtual machine running PostgreSQL

C. Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB

D. Migrate their performance metrics warehouse to BigQuery

E. Modify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (76%) 8% Other

Question #20 Topic 1

You want to optimize the performance of an accurate, real-time, weather-charting application. The data comes from 50,000 sensors sending 10
readings a second, in the format of a timestamp and sensor reading.
Where should you store the data?

A. Google BigQuery

B. Google Cloud SQL

C. Google Cloud Bigtable

D. Google Cloud Storage

Correct Answer: C
Google Cloud Bigtable is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL wide-column database that is suitable for both real-time access and analytics
workloads.
Good for:
Low-latency read/write access
High-throughput analytics
Native time series support
Common workloads:
IoT, nance, adtech
Personalization, recommendations
Monitoring
Geospatial datasets
Graphs
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #21 Topic 1

Your company's user-feedback portal comprises a standard LAMP stack replicated across two zones. It is deployed in the us-central1 region and
uses autoscaled managed instance groups on all layers, except the database. Currently, only a small group of select customers have access to the
portal. The portal meets a
99,99% availability SLA under these conditions. However next quarter, your company will be making the portal available to all users, including
unauthenticated users. You need to develop a resiliency testing strategy to ensure the system maintains the SLA once they introduce additional
user load.
What should you do?

A. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until autoscale is triggered on all layers. At the same time, terminate all
resources in one of the zones

B. Create synthetic random user input, replay synthetic load until autoscale logic is triggered on at least one layer, and introduce €chaos € to
the system by terminating random resources on both zones

C. Expose the new system to a larger group of users, and increase group size each day until autoscale logic is triggered on all layers. At the
same time, terminate random resources on both zones

D. Capture existing users input, and replay captured user load until resource utilization crosses 80%. Also, derive estimated number of users
based on existing user's usage of the app, and deploy enough resources to handle 200% of expected load

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (81%) A (19%)

Question #22 Topic 1

One of the developers on your team deployed their application in Google Container Engine with the Docker le below. They report that their
application deployments are taking too long.

You want to optimize this Docker le for faster deployment times without adversely affecting the app's functionality.
Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)

A. Remove Python after running pip

B. Remove dependencies from requirements.txt

C. Use a slimmed-down base image like Alpine Linux

D. Use larger machine types for your Google Container Engine node pools

E. Copy the source after he package dependencies (Python and pip) are installed

Correct Answer: CE
The speed of deployment can be changed by limiting the size of the uploaded app, limiting the complexity of the build necessary in the
Docker le, if present, and by ensuring a fast and reliable internet connection.
Note: Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it smaller and more resource e cient than traditional GNU/Linux
distributions. A container requires no more than 8 MB and a minimal installation to disk requires around 130 MB of storage. Not only do you get
a fully- edged Linux environment but a large selection of packages from the repository.
Reference:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/hZMEkmmObDU https://www.alpinelinux.org/about/

Community vote distribution

CE (100%)
Question #23 Topic 1

Your solution is producing performance bugs in production that you did not see in staging and test environments. You want to adjust your test and
deployment procedures to avoid this problem in the future.
What should you do?

A. Deploy fewer changes to production

B. Deploy smaller changes to production

C. Increase the load on your test and staging environments

D. Deploy changes to a small subset of users before rolling out to production

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

C (66%) D (31%)

Question #24 Topic 1

A small number of API requests to your microservices-based application take a very long time. You know that each request to the API can traverse
many services.
You want to know which service takes the longest in those cases.
What should you do?

A. Set timeouts on your application so that you can fail requests faster

B. Send custom metrics for each of your requests to Stackdriver Monitoring

C. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to look for insights that show when your API latencies are high

D. Instrument your application with Stackdriver Trace in order to break down the request latencies at each microservice

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/quickstart# nd_a_trace

Community vote distribution

D (91%) 9%

Question #25 Topic 1

During a high tra c portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes, but the replica is never promoted to a master. You want to avoid
this in the future.
What should you do?

A. Use a different database

B. Choose larger instances for your database

C. Create snapshots of your database more regularly

D. Implement routinely scheduled failovers of your databases

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (56%) B (44%)
Question #26 Topic 1

Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years for future analysis in possible legal proceedings.
Which approach should you use?

A. Grant the security team access to the logs in each Project

B. Con gure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to BigQuery

C. Con gure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects with the default retention policies

D. Con gure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google Cloud Storage

Correct Answer: B
Stackdriver Logging provides you with the ability to lter, search, and view logs from your cloud and open source application services. Allows
you to de ne metrics based on log contents that are incorporated into dashboards and alerts. Enables you to export logs to BigQuery, Google
Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/

Community vote distribution

D (74%) B (26%)

Question #27 Topic 1

Your company has decided to build a backup replica of their on-premises user authentication PostgreSQL database on Google Cloud Platform.
The database is 4
TB, and large updates are frequent. Replication requires private address space communication.
Which networking approach should you use?

A. Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect

B. Google Cloud VPN connected to the data center network

C. A NAT and TLS translation gateway installed on-premises

D. A Google Compute Engine instance with a VPN server installed connected to the data center network

Correct Answer: A
Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect provides direct physical connections and RFC 1918 communication between your on-premises network
and Google's network. Dedicated Interconnect enables you to transfer large amounts of data between networks, which can be more cost
effective than purchasing additional bandwidth over the public Internet or using VPN tunnels.
Bene ts:
Tra c between your on-premises network and your VPC network doesn't traverse the public Internet. Tra c traverses a dedicated connection
with fewer hops, meaning there are less points of failure where tra c might get dropped or disrupted.
Your VPC network's internal (RFC 1918) IP addresses are directly accessible from your on-premises network. You don't need to use a NAT
device or VPN tunnel to reach internal IP addresses. Currently, you can only reach internal IP addresses over a dedicated connection. To reach
Google external IP addresses, you must use a separate connection.
You can scale your connection to Google based on your needs. Connection capacity is delivered over one or more 10 Gbps Ethernet
connections, with a maximum of eight connections (80 Gbps total per interconnect).
The cost of egress tra c from your VPC network to your on-premises network is reduced. A dedicated connection is generally the least
expensive method if you have a high-volume of tra c to and from Google's network.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/docs/details/dedicated

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #28 Topic 1

Auditors visit your teams every 12 months and ask to review all the Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) policy changes in
the previous 12 months. You want to streamline and expedite the analysis and audit process.
What should you do?

A. Create custom Google Stackdriver alerts and send them to the auditor

B. Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the data shared with the auditor

C. Use cloud functions to transfer log entries to Google Cloud SQL and use ACLs and views to limit an auditor's view

D. Enable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) log export to audit logs into a GCS bucket and delegate access to the bucket

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (64%) D (36%)

Question #29 Topic 1

You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database
back-end. You want to store the credentials securely.
Where should you store the credentials?

A. In the source code

B. In an environment variable

C. In a secret management system

D. In a con g le that has restricted access through ACLs

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/secret-management

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #30 Topic 1

A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud
environment.
You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud Deployment Manager.
What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? (Choose two.)

A. Cloud Deployment Manager uses Python

B. Cloud Deployment Manager APIs could be deprecated in the future

C. Cloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company's engineers

D. Cloud Deployment Manager requires a Google APIs service account to run

E. Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud resources

F. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources

Correct Answer: BF

Community vote distribution

CF (44%) EF (23%) CE (23%) 9%
Question #31 Topic 1

A development manager is building a new application. He asks you to review his requirements and identify what cloud technologies he can use to
meet them. The application must:
1. Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability
2. Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand
3. Support continuous software delivery
4. Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack
5. Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates
6. Route network tra c to speci c services based on URL
Which combination of technologies will meet all of his requirements?

A. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Helm

B. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Load Balancing

C. Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Deployment Manager

D. Google Kubernetes Engine, Jenkins, and Cloud Load Balancing

Correct Answer: D
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that lets you exibly orchestrate your build, test, and deployment pipelines. Kubernetes Engine is a
hosted version of
Kubernetes, a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for containers.
When you need to set up a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline, deploying Jenkins on Kubernetes Engine provides important bene ts over a
standard VM-based deployment
Incorrect Answers:
A: Helm is a tool for managing Kubernetes charts. Charts are packages of pre-con gured Kubernetes resources.
Use Helm to:
Find and use popular software packaged as Kubernetes charts

Share your own applications as Kubernetes charts

Create reproducible builds of your Kubernetes applications
Intelligently manage your Kubernetes manifest les
Manage releases of Helm packages
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/jenkins-on-kubernetes-engine

Community vote distribution

A (74%) D (26%)
Question #32 Topic 1

You have created several pre-emptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google Compute Engine. You want to properly shut down your
application before the virtual machines are preempted.
What should you do?

A. Create a shutdown script named k99.shutdown in the /etc/rc.6.d/ directory

B. Create a shutdown script registered as a xinetd service in Linux and con gure a Stackdriver endpoint check to call the service

C. Create a shutdown script and use it as the value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdown-script in the Cloud Platform Console when
you create the new virtual machine instance

D. Create a shutdown script, registered as a xinetd service in Linux, and use the gcloud compute instances add-metadata command to specify
the service URL as the value for a new metadata entry with the key shutdown-script-url

Correct Answer: C
A startup script, or a shutdown script, is speci ed through the metadata server, using startup script metadata keys.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/startupscript

Community vote distribution

C (71%) D (29%)

Question #33 Topic 1

Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on Google Cloud Platform. Each tier (web, API, and database) scales
independently of the others. Network tra c should ow through the web to the API tier and then on to the database tier. Tra c should not ow
between the web and the database tier.
How should you con gure the network?

A. Add each tier to a different subnetwork

B. Set up software based rewalls on individual VMs

C. Add tags to each tier and set up routes to allow the desired tra c ow

D. Add tags to each tier and set up rewall rules to allow the desired tra c ow

Correct Answer: D
Google Cloud Platform(GCP) enforces rewall rules through rules and tags. GCP rules and tags can be de ned once and used across all
regions.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/openstack/
https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/aws/building-three-tier-architectures-with-security-groups/

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #34 Topic 1

Your development team has installed a new Linux kernel module on the batch servers in Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machines (VMs) to
speed up the nightly batch process. Two days after the installation, 50% of the batch servers failed the nightly batch run. You want to collect
details on the failure to pass back to the development team.
Which three actions should you take? (Choose three.)

A. Use Stackdriver Logging to search for the module log entries

B. Read the debug GCE Activity log using the API or Cloud Console

C. Use gcloud or Cloud Console to connect to the serial console and observe the logs

D. Identify whether a live migration event of the failed server occurred, using in the activity log

E. Adjust the Google Stackdriver timeline to match the failure time, and observe the batch server metrics

F. Export a debug VM into an image, and run the image on a local server where kernel log messages will be displayed on the native screen

Correct Answer: ACE

Community vote distribution

ACE (100%)

Question #35 Topic 1

Your company wants to try out the cloud with low risk. They want to archive approximately 100 TB of their log data to the cloud and test the
analytics features available to them there, while also retaining that data as a long-term disaster recovery backup.
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)

A. Load logs into Google BigQuery

B. Load logs into Google Cloud SQL

C. Import logs into Google Stackdriver

D. Insert logs into Google Cloud Bigtable

E. Upload log les into Google Cloud Storage

Correct Answer: AE

Community vote distribution

AE (89%) 11%
Question #36 Topic 1

You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your infrastructure in instance groups for self-healing. One of the changes
negatively affects your key performance indicator. You are not sure how to x it, and investigation could take up to a week.
What should you do?

A. Log in to a server, and iterate on the fox locally

B. Revert the source code change, and rerun the deployment pipeline

C. Log into the servers with the bad code change, and swap in the previous code

D. Change the instance group template to the previous one, and delete all instances

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (61%) D (38%)

Question #37 Topic 1

Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments independently, but centrally.
Which approach should you take?

A. Multiple Organizations with multiple Folders

B. Multiple Organizations, one for each department

C. A single Organization with Folders for each department

D. A single Organization with multiple projects, each with a central owner

Correct Answer: C
Folders are nodes in the Cloud Platform Resource Hierarchy. A folder can contain projects, other folders, or a combination of both. You can use
folders to group projects under an organization in a hierarchy. For example, your organization might contain multiple departments, each with its
own set of GCP resources. Folders allow you to group these resources on a per-department basis. Folders are used to group resources that
share common IAM policies. While a folder can contain multiple folders or resources, a given folder or resource can have exactly one parent.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-folders

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #38 Topic 1

You deploy your custom Java application to Google App Engine. It fails to deploy and gives you the following stack trace.
What should you do?

A. Upload missing JAR les and redeploy your application.

B. Digitally sign all of your JAR les and redeploy your application

C. Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using and MD5 hash instead of SHA1

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (89%) 11%
Question #39 Topic 1

You are designing a mobile chat application. You want to ensure people cannot spoof chat messages, by providing a message were sent by a
speci c user.
What should you do?

A. Tag messages client side with the originating user identi er and the destination user.

B. Encrypt the message client side using block-based encryption with a shared key.

C. Use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt the message client side using the originating user's private key.

D. Use a trusted certi cate authority to enable SSL connectivity between the client application and the server.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (68%) D (32%)

Question #40 Topic 1

As part of implementing their disaster recovery plan, your company is trying to replicate their production MySQL database from their private data
center to their
GCP project using a Google Cloud VPN connection. They are experiencing latency issues and a small amount of packet loss that is disrupting the
replication.
What should they do?

A. Con gure their replication to use UDP.

B. Con gure a Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect.

C. Restore their database daily using Google Cloud SQL.

D. Add additional VPN connections and load balance them.

E. Send the replicated transaction to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #41 Topic 1

Your customer support tool logs all email and chat conversations to Cloud Bigtable for retention and analysis. What is the recommended
approach for sanitizing this data of personally identi able information or payment card information before initial storage?

A. Hash all data using SHA256

B. Encrypt all data using elliptic curve cryptography

C. De-identify the data with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API

D. Use regular expressions to nd and redact phone numbers, email addresses, and credit card numbers

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/pci-dss-compliance-in-gcp#using_data_loss_prevention_api_to_sanitize_data

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #42 Topic 1

You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few weeks. Where can you store the le so it is in the default execution
path and persists across sessions?

A. ~/bin

B. Cloud Storage

C. /google/scripts

D. /usr/local/bin

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #43 Topic 1

You want to create a private connection between your instances on Compute Engine and your on-premises data center. You require a connection
of at least 20
Gbps. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you set up the connection?

A. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.

B. Create a VPC and connect it to your on-premises data center using a single Cloud VPN.

C. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises data center using Dedicated Interconnect.

D. Create a Cloud Content Delivery Network (Cloud CDN) and connect it to your on-premises datacenter using a single Cloud VPN.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #44 Topic 1

You are analyzing and de ning business processes to support your startup's trial usage of GCP, and you don't yet know what consumer demand for
your product will be. Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service costs and adhere to Google best practices. What should you do?

A. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost management.

B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost management.

C. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost management.

D. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost management.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #45 Topic 1

You are building a continuous deployment pipeline for a project stored in a Git source repository and want to ensure that code changes can be
veri ed before deploying to production. What should you do?

A. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production using the red/black deployment strategy so that changes can easily be rolled back.

B. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production and run tests on production deployments.

C. Use Jenkins to build the staging branches and the master branch. Build and deploy changes to production for 10% of users before doing a
complete rollout.

D. Use Jenkins to monitor tags in the repository. Deploy staging tags to a staging environment for testing. After testing, tag the repository for
production and deploy that to the production environment.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/continuous-deployment-on-kubernetes/blob/master/README.md

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #46 Topic 1

You have an outage in your Compute Engine managed instance group: all instances keep restarting after 5 seconds. You have a health check
con gured, but autoscaling is disabled. Your colleague, who is a Linux expert, offered to look into the issue. You need to make sure that he can
access the VMs. What should you do?

A. Grant your colleague the IAM role of project Viewer

B. Perform a rolling restart on the instance group

C. Disable the health check for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH Keys

D. Disable autoscaling for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH Keys

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (80%) A (20%)
Question #47 Topic 1

Your company is migrating its on-premises data center into the cloud. As part of the migration, you want to integrate Google Kubernetes Engine
(GKE) for workload orchestration. Parts of your architecture must also be PCI DSS-compliant. Which of the following is most accurate?

A. App Engine is the only compute platform on GCP that is certi ed for PCI DSS hosting.

B. GKE cannot be used under PCI DSS because it is considered shared hosting.

C. GKE and GCP provide the tools you need to build a PCI DSS-compliant environment.

D. All Google Cloud services are usable because Google Cloud Platform is certi ed PCI-compliant.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #48 Topic 1

Your company has multiple on-premises systems that serve as sources for reporting. The data has not been maintained well and has become
degraded over time.
You want to use Google-recommended practices to detect anomalies in your company data. What should you do?

A. Upload your les into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data.

B. Upload your les into Cloud Storage. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data.

C. Connect Cloud Datalab to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Datalab to explore and clean your data.

D. Connect Cloud Dataprep to your on-premises systems. Use Cloud Dataprep to explore and clean your data.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #49 Topic 1

Google Cloud Platform resources are managed hierarchically using organization, folders, and projects. When Cloud Identity and Access
Management (IAM) policies exist at these different levels, what is the effective policy at a particular node of the hierarchy?

A. The effective policy is determined only by the policy set at the node

B. The effective policy is the policy set at the node and restricted by the policies of its ancestors

C. The effective policy is the union of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors

D. The effective policy is the intersection of the policy set at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/cloud-platform-resource-hierarchy

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #50 Topic 1

You are migrating your on-premises solution to Google Cloud in several phases. You will use Cloud VPN to maintain a connection between your on-
premises systems and Google Cloud until the migration is completed. You want to make sure all your on-premise systems remain reachable during
this period. How should you organize your networking in Google Cloud?

A. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises

B. Use the same IP range on Google Cloud as you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary range that does not overlap
with the range you use on-premises

C. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises

D. Use an IP range on Google Cloud that does not overlap with the range you use on-premises for your primary IP range and use a secondary
range with the same IP range as you use on-premises

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (85%) B (15%)

Question #51 Topic 1

You have found an error in your App Engine application caused by missing Cloud Datastore indexes. You have created a YAML le with the
required indexes and want to deploy these new indexes to Cloud Datastore. What should you do?

A. Point gcloud datastore create-indexes to your con guration le

B. Upload the con guration le to App Engine's default Cloud Storage bucket, and have App Engine detect the new indexes

C. In the GCP Console, use Datastore Admin to delete the current indexes and upload the new con guration le

D. Create an HTTP request to the built-in python module to send the index con guration le to your application

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #52 Topic 1

You have an application that will run on Compute Engine. You need to design an architecture that takes into account a disaster recovery plan that
requires your application to fail over to another region in case of a regional outage. What should you do?

A. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instances in the same project but in a different region. Use the rst instance to serve tra c,
and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance in case of a disaster.

B. Deploy the application on a Compute Engine instance. Use the instance to serve tra c, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over
to an instance on your premises in case of a disaster.

C. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in the same project but in a different region. Use the rst instance
group to serve tra c, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance group in case of a disaster.

D. Deploy the application on two Compute Engine instance groups, each in a separate project and a different region. Use the rst instance
group to serve tra c, and use the HTTP load balancing service to fail over to the standby instance group in case of a disaster.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #53 Topic 1

You are deploying an application on App Engine that needs to integrate with an on-premises database. For security purposes, your on-premises
database must not be accessible through the public internet. What should you do?

A. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use App Engine rewall rules to limit access to the open on-premises
database.

B. Deploy your application on App Engine standard environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-premises database.

C. Deploy your application on App Engine exible environment and use App Engine rewall rules to limit access to the on-premises database.

D. Deploy your application on App Engine exible environment and use Cloud VPN to limit access to the on-premises database.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (57%) B (31%) 12%

Question #54 Topic 1

You are working in a highly secured environment where public Internet access from the Compute Engine VMs is not allowed. You do not yet have a
VPN connection to access an on-premises le server. You need to install speci c software on a Compute Engine instance. How should you install
the software?

A. Upload the required installation les to Cloud Storage. Con gure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet. Assign only an
internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation les to the VM using gsutil.

B. Upload the required installation les to Cloud Storage and use rewall rules to block all tra c except the IP address range for Cloud
Storage. Download the les to the VM using gsutil.

C. Upload the required installation les to Cloud Source Repositories. Con gure the VM on a subnet with a Private Google Access subnet.
Assign only an internal IP address to the VM. Download the installation les to the VM using gcloud.

D. Upload the required installation les to Cloud Source Repositories and use rewall rules to block all tra c except the IP address range for
Cloud Source Repositories. Download the les to the VM using gsutil.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (77%) B (23%)

Question #55 Topic 1

Your company is moving 75 TB of data into Google Cloud. You want to use Cloud Storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should
you do?

A. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use a Transfer Appliance Rehydrator to decrypt the data into Cloud Storage.

B. Move your data onto a Transfer Appliance. Use Cloud Dataprep to decrypt the data into Cloud Storage.

C. Install gsutil on each server that contains data. Use resumable transfers to upload the data into Cloud Storage.

D. Install gsutil on each server containing data. Use streaming transfers to upload the data into Cloud Storage.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (90%) 10%
Question #56 Topic 1

You have an application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine using a Deployment named echo-deployment. The deployment is exposed using a
Service called echo-service. You need to perform an update to the application with minimal downtime to the application. What should you do?

A. Use kubectl set image deployment/echo-deployment <new-image>

B. Use the rolling update functionality of the Instance Group behind the Kubernetes cluster

C. Update the deployment yaml le with the new container image. Use kubectl delete deployment/echo-deployment and kubectl create €"f
<yaml- le>

D. Update the service yaml le which the new container image. Use kubectl delete service/echo-service and kubectl create €"f <yaml- le>

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (91%) 9%

Question #57 Topic 1

Your company is using BigQuery as its enterprise data warehouse. Data is distributed over several Google Cloud projects. All queries on BigQuery
need to be billed on a single project. You want to make sure that no query costs are incurred on the projects that contain the data. Users should be
able to query the datasets, but not edit them.
How should you con gure users' access roles?

A. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the role of BigQuery user on the billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that
contain the data.

B. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and BigQuery user on the projects that
contain the data.

C. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery jobUser on the billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that
contain the data.

D. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and BigQuery jobUser on the projects that
contain the data.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #58 Topic 1

You have developed an application using Cloud ML Engine that recognizes famous paintings from uploaded images. You want to test the
application and allow speci c people to upload images for the next 24 hours. Not all users have a Google Account. How should you have users
upload images?

A. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage. Protect the bucket with a password that expires after 24 hours.

B. Have users upload the images to Cloud Storage using a signed URL that expires after 24 hours.

C. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images. Con gure App Engine to disable the application after 24 hours.
Authenticate users via Cloud Identity.

D. Create an App Engine web application where users can upload images for the next 24 hours. Authenticate users via Cloud Identity.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #59 Topic 1

Your web application must comply with the requirements of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You are responsible
for the technical architecture of your web application. What should you do?

A. Ensure that your web application only uses native features and services of Google Cloud Platform, because Google already has various
certi cations and provides €pass-on € compliance when you use native features.

B. Enable the relevant GDPR compliance setting within the GCPConsole for each of the services in use within your application.

C. Ensure that Cloud Security Scanner is part of your test planning strategy in order to pick up any compliance gaps.

D. De ne a design for the security of data in your web application that meets GDPR requirements.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/gdpr-compliant-mobile-app/

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #60 Topic 1

You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there's no downtime in case of a data center outage in any of the
zones within a
GCP region. What should you do?

A. Con gure a Cloud SQL instance with high availability enabled.

B. Con gure a Cloud Spanner instance with a regional instance con guration.

C. Set up SQL Server on Compute Engine, using Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering. Place nodes in different
subnets.

D. Set up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering. Place nodes in different zones.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

A (58%) D (39%)
Question #61 Topic 1

The development team has provided you with a Kubernetes Deployment le. You have no infrastructure yet and need to deploy the application.
What should you do?

A. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create the deployment.

B. Use gcloud to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment.

C. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use Deployment Manager to create the deployment.

D. Use kubectl to create a Kubernetes cluster. Use kubectl to create the deployment.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #62 Topic 1

You need to evaluate your team readiness for a new GCP project. You must perform the evaluation and create a skills gap plan which incorporates
the business goal of cost optimization. Your team has deployed two GCP projects successfully to date. What should you do?

A. Allocate budget for team training. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.

B. Allocate budget for team training. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certi cation based on job role.

C. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Set a deadline for the new GCP project.

D. Allocate budget to hire skilled external consultants. Create a roadmap for your team to achieve Google Cloud certi cation based on job
role.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

B (79%) 14% 7%

Question #63 Topic 1

You are designing an application for use only during business hours. For the minimum viable product release, you'd like to use a managed product
that automatically `scales to zero` so you don't incur costs when there is no activity.
Which primary compute resource should you choose?

A. Cloud Functions

B. Compute Engine

C. Google Kubernetes Engine

D. AppEngine exible environment

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (88%) 12%
Question #64 Topic 1

You are creating an App Engine application that uses Cloud Datastore as its persistence layer. You need to retrieve several root entities for which
you have the identi ers. You want to minimize the overhead in operations performed by Cloud Datastore. What should you do?

A. Create the Key object for each Entity and run a batch get operation

B. Create the Key object for each Entity and run multiple get operations, one operation for each entity

C. Use the identi ers to create a query lter and run a batch query operation

D. Use the identi ers to create a query lter and run multiple query operations, one operation for each entity

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #65 Topic 1

You need to upload les from your on-premises environment to Cloud Storage. You want the les to be encrypted on Cloud Storage using
customer-supplied encryption keys. What should you do?

A. Supply the encryption key in a .boto con guration le. Use gsutil to upload the les.

B. Supply the encryption key using gcloud con g. Use gsutil to upload the les to that bucket.

C. Use gsutil to upload the les, and use the ag --encryption-key to supply the encryption key.

D. Use gsutil to create a bucket, and use the ag --encryption-key to supply the encryption key. Use gsutil to upload the les to that bucket.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #66 Topic 1

Your customer wants to capture multiple GBs of aggregate real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) from their game servers running on Google
Cloud Platform and monitor the KPIs with low latency. How should they capture the KPIs?

A. Store time-series data from the game servers in Google Bigtable, and view it using Google Data Studio.

B. Output custom metrics to Stackdriver from the game servers, and create a Dashboard in Stackdriver Monitoring Console to view them.

C. Schedule BigQuery load jobs to ingest analytics les uploaded to Cloud Storage every ten minutes, and visualize the results in Google Data
Studio.

D. Insert the KPIs into Cloud Datastore entities, and run ad hoc analysis and visualizations of them in Cloud Datalab.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/data-lifecycle-cloud-platform

Community vote distribution

B (96%) 4%
Question #67 Topic 1

You have a Python web application with many dependencies that requires 0.1 CPU cores and 128 MB of memory to operate in production. You
want to monitor and maximize machine utilization. You also want to reliably deploy new versions of the application. Which set of steps should you
take?

A. Perform the following: 1. Create a managed instance group with f1-micro type machines. 2. Use a startup script to clone the repository,
check out the production branch, install the dependencies, and start the Python app. 3. Restart the instances to automatically deploy new
production releases.

B. Perform the following: 1. Create a managed instance group with n1-standard-1 type machines. 2. Build a Compute Engine image from the
production branch that contains all of the dependencies and automatically starts the Python app. 3. Rebuild the Compute Engine image, and
update the instance template to deploy new production releases.

C. Perform the following: 1. Create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with n1-standard-1 type machines. 2. Build a Docker image from
the production branch with all of the dependencies, and tag it with the version number. 3. Create a Kubernetes Deployment with the
imagePullPolicy set to 'IfNotPresent' in the staging namespace, and then promote it to the production namespace after testing.

D. Perform the following: 1. Create a GKE cluster with n1-standard-4 type machines. 2. Build a Docker image from the master branch with all
of the dependencies, and tag it with 'latest'. 3. Create a Kubernetes Deployment in the default namespace with the imagePullPolicy set to
'Always'. Restart the pods to automatically deploy new production releases.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (67%) A (24%) 9%

Question #68 Topic 1

Your company wants to start using Google Cloud resources but wants to retain their on-premises Active Directory domain controller for identity
management.
What should you do?

A. Use the Admin Directory API to authenticate against the Active Directory domain controller.

B. Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize Active Directory usernames with cloud identities and con gure SAML SSO.

C. Use Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy con gured to use the on-premises Active Directory domain controller as an identity provider.

D. Use Compute Engine to create an Active Directory (AD) domain controller that is a replica of the on-premises AD domain controller using
Google Cloud Directory Sync.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #69 Topic 1

You are running a cluster on Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to serve a web application. Users are reporting that a speci c part of the application is not
responding anymore. You notice that all pods of your deployment keep restarting after 2 seconds. The application writes logs to standard output.
You want to inspect the logs to nd the cause of the issue. Which approach can you take?

A. Review the Stackdriver logs for each Compute Engine instance that is serving as a node in the cluster.

B. Review the Stackdriver logs for the speci c GKE container that is serving the unresponsive part of the application.

C. Connect to the cluster using gcloud credentials and connect to a container in one of the pods to read the logs.

D. Review the Serial Port logs for each Compute Engine instance that is serving as a node in the cluster.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #70 Topic 1

You are using a single Cloud SQL instance to serve your application from a speci c zone. You want to introduce high availability. What should you
do?

A. Create a read replica instance in a different region

B. Create a failover replica instance in a different region

C. Create a read replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone

D. Create a failover replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (55%) C (34%) 11%

Question #71 Topic 1

Your company is running a stateless application on a Compute Engine instance. The application is used heavily during regular business hours and
lightly outside of business hours. Users are reporting that the application is slow during peak hours. You need to optimize the application's
performance. What should you do?

A. Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create an instance template from the snapshot. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from
the instance template.

B. Create a snapshot of the existing disk. Create a custom image from the snapshot. Create an autoscaled managed instance group from the
custom image.

C. Create a custom image from the existing disk. Create an instance template from the custom image. Create an autoscaled managed
instance group from the instance template.

D. Create an instance template from the existing disk. Create a custom image from the instance template. Create an autoscaled managed
instance group from the custom image.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #72 Topic 1

Your web application has several VM instances running within a VPC. You want to restrict communications between instances to only the paths
and ports you authorize, but you don't want to rely on static IP addresses or subnets because the app can autoscale. How should you restrict
communications?

A. Use separate VPCs to restrict tra c

B. Use rewall rules based on network tags attached to the compute instances

C. Use Cloud DNS and only allow connections from authorized hostnames

D. Use service accounts and con gure the web application to authorize particular service accounts to have access

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #73 Topic 1

You are using Cloud SQL as the database backend for a large CRM deployment. You want to scale as usage increases and ensure that you don't
run out of storage, maintain 75% CPU usage cores, and keep replication lag below 60 seconds. What are the correct steps to meet your
requirements?

A. 1. Enable automatic storage increase for the instance. 2. Create a Stackdriver alert when CPU usage exceeds 75%, and change the instance
type to reduce CPU usage. 3. Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and shard the database to reduce replication time.

B. 1. Enable automatic storage increase for the instance. 2. Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to keep CPU usage below
75%. 3. Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and deploy memcache to reduce load on the master.

C. 1. Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the instance to create more space. 2. Deploy
memcached to reduce CPU load. 3. Change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to reduce replication lag.

D. 1. Create a Stackdriver alert when storage exceeds 75%, and increase the available storage on the instance to create more space. 2. Deploy
memcached to reduce CPU load. 3. Create a Stackdriver alert for replication lag, and change the instance type to a 32-core machine type to
reduce replication lag.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #74 Topic 1

You are tasked with building an online analytical processing (OLAP) marketing analytics and reporting tool. This requires a relational database
that can operate on hundreds of terabytes of data. What is the Google-recommended tool for such applications?

A. Cloud Spanner, because it is globally distributed

B. Cloud SQL, because it is a fully managed relational database

C. Cloud Firestore, because it offers real-time synchronization across devices

D. BigQuery, because it is designed for large-scale processing of tabular data

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/ les/BigQueryTechnicalWP.pdf

Community vote distribution

D (93%) 7%

Question #75 Topic 1

You have deployed an application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to make the Cloud SQL
database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are noti ed that the application is reporting database connection issues. Your
company policies require a post- mortem. What should you do?

A. Use gcloud sql instances restart.

B. Validate that the Service Account used by the Cloud SQL proxy container still has the Cloud Build Editor role.

C. In the GCP Console, navigate to Stackdriver Logging. Consult logs for (GKE) and Cloud SQL.

D. In the GCP Console, navigate to Cloud SQL. Restore the latest backup. Use kubectl to restart all pods.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #76 Topic 1

Your company pushes batches of sensitive transaction data from its application server VMs to Cloud Pub/Sub for processing and storage. What is
the Google- recommended way for your application to authenticate to the required Google Cloud services?

A. Ensure that VM service accounts are granted the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub IAM roles.

B. Ensure that VM service accounts do not have access to Cloud Pub/Sub, and use VM access scopes to grant the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub
IAM roles.

C. Generate an OAuth2 access token for accessing Cloud Pub/Sub, encrypt it, and store it in Cloud Storage for access from each VM.

D. Create a gateway to Cloud Pub/Sub using a Cloud Function, and grant the Cloud Function service account the appropriate Cloud Pub/Sub
IAM roles.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #77 Topic 1

You want to establish a Compute Engine application in a single VPC across two regions. The application must communicate over VPN to an on-
premises network.
How should you deploy the VPN?

A. Use VPC Network Peering between the VPC and the on-premises network.

B. Expose the VPC to the on-premises network using IAM and VPC Sharing.

C. Create a global Cloud VPN Gateway with VPN tunnels from each region to the on-premises peer gateway.

D. Deploy Cloud VPN Gateway in each region. Ensure that each region has at least one VPN tunnel to the on-premises peer gateway.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #78 Topic 1

Your applications will be writing their logs to BigQuery for analysis. Each application should have its own table. Any logs older than 45 days
should be removed.
You want to optimize storage and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Con gure the expiration time for your tables at 45 days

B. Make the tables time-partitioned, and con gure the partition expiration at 45 days

C. Rely on BigQuery's default behavior to prune application logs older than 45 days

D. Create a script that uses the BigQuery command line tool (bq) to remove records older than 45 days

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #79 Topic 1

You want your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to automatically add or remove nodes based on CPU load.
What should you do?

A. Con gure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler from the GCP Console.

B. Con gure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a target CPU usage. Enable autoscaling on the managed instance group for the cluster using the
gcloud command.

C. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties. Enable the Cluster Autoscaler using the gcloud command.

D. Create a deployment and set the maxUnavailable and maxSurge properties. Enable autoscaling on the cluster managed instance group from
the GCP Console.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #80 Topic 1

You need to develop procedures to verify resilience of disaster recovery for remote recovery using GCP. Your production environment is hosted on-
premises. You need to establish a secure, redundant connection between your on-premises network and the GCP network.
What should you do?

A. Verify that Dedicated Interconnect can replicate les to GCP. Verify that direct peering can establish a secure connection between your
networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails.

B. Verify that Dedicated Interconnect can replicate les to GCP. Verify that Cloud VPN can establish a secure connection between your
networks if Dedicated Interconnect fails.

C. Verify that the Transfer Appliance can replicate les to GCP. Verify that direct peering can establish a secure connection between your
networks if the Transfer Appliance fails.

D. Verify that the Transfer Appliance can replicate les to GCP. Verify that Cloud VPN can establish a secure connection between your
networks if the Transfer Appliance fails.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #81 Topic 1

Your company operates nationally and plans to use GCP for multiple batch workloads, including some that are not time-critical. You also need to
use GCP services that are HIPAA-certi ed and manage service costs.
How should you design to meet Google best practices?

A. Provision preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.

B. Provision preemptible VMs to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.

C. Provision standard VMs in the same region to reduce cost. Discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not HIPAA-compliant.

D. Provision standard VMs to the same region to reduce cost. Disable and then discontinue use of all GCP services and APIs that are not
HIPAA-compliant.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #82 Topic 1

Your customer wants to do resilience testing of their authentication layer. This consists of a regional managed instance group serving a public
REST API that reads from and writes to a Cloud SQL instance.
What should you do?

A. Engage with a security company to run web scrapers that look your for users' authentication data om malicious websites and notify you if
any is found.

B. Deploy intrusion detection software to your virtual machines to detect and log unauthorized access.

C. Schedule a disaster simulation exercise during which you can shut off all VMs in a zone to see how your application behaves.

D. Con gure a read replica for your Cloud SQL instance in a different zone than the master, and then manually trigger a failover while
monitoring KPIs for our REST API.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

D (50%) C (50%)

Question #83 Topic 1

Your BigQuery project has several users. For audit purposes, you need to see how many queries each user ran in the last month. What should you
do?

A. Connect Google Data Studio to BigQuery. Create a dimension for the users and a metric for the amount of queries per user.

B. In the BigQuery interface, execute a query on the JOBS table to get the required information.

C. Use 'bq show' to list all jobs. Per job, use 'bq ls' to list job information and get the required information.

D. Use Cloud Audit Logging to view Cloud Audit Logs, and create a lter on the query operation to get the required information.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

D (80%) B (16%) 4%

Question #84 Topic 1

You want to automate the creation of a managed instance group. The VMs have many OS package dependencies. You want to minimize the
startup time for new
VMs in the instance group.
What should you do?

A. Use Terraform to create the managed instance group and a startup script to install the OS package dependencies.

B. Create a custom VM image with all OS package dependencies. Use Deployment Manager to create the managed instance group with the
VM image.

C. Use Puppet to create the managed instance group and install the OS package dependencies.

D. Use Deployment Manager to create the managed instance group and Ansible to install the OS package dependencies.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #85 Topic 1

Your company captures all web tra c data in Google Analytics 360 and stores it in BigQuery. Each country has its own dataset. Each dataset has
multiple tables.
You want analysts from each country to be able to see and query only the data for their respective countries.
How should you con gure the access rights?

A. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group 'all_analysts', and add all country-groups
as members. Grant the 'all_analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each
respective analyst country-group.

B. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group 'all_analysts', and add all country-groups
as members. Grant the 'all_analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate tables with view access with each
respective analyst country-group.

C. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group 'all_analysts', and add all country-groups
as members. Grant the 'all_analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each
respective analyst country- group.

D. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group 'all_analysts', and add all country-groups
as members. Grant the 'all_analysts' group the IAM role of BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate table with view access with each
respective analyst country-group.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (78%) C (22%)

Question #86 Topic 1

You have been engaged by your client to lead the migration of their application infrastructure to GCP. One of their current problems is that the on-
premises high performance SAN is requiring frequent and expensive upgrades to keep up with the variety of workloads that are identi ed as
follows: 20 TB of log archives retained for legal reasons; 500 GB of VM boot/data volumes and templates; 500 GB of image thumbnails; 200 GB of
customer session state data that allows customers to restart sessions even if off-line for several days.
Which of the following best re ects your recommendations for a cost-effective storage allocation?

A. Local SSD for customer session state data. Lifecycle-managed Cloud Storage for log archives, thumbnails, and VM boot/data volumes.

B. Memcache backed by Cloud Datastore for the customer session state data. Lifecycle-managed Cloud Storage for log archives, thumbnails,
and VM boot/data volumes.

C. Memcache backed by Cloud SQL for customer session state data. Assorted local SSD-backed instances for VM boot/data volumes. Cloud
Storage for log archives and thumbnails.

D. Memcache backed by Persistent Disk SSD storage for customer session state data. Assorted local SSD-backed instances for VM boot/data
volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (70%) D (30%)
Question #87 Topic 1

Your web application uses Google Kubernetes Engine to manage several workloads. One workload requires a consistent set of hostnames even
after pod scaling and relaunches.
Which feature of Kubernetes should you use to accomplish this?

A. StatefulSets

B. Role-based access control

C. Container environment variables

D. Persistent Volumes

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #88 Topic 1

You are using Cloud CDN to deliver static HTTP(S) website content hosted on a Compute Engine instance group. You want to improve the cache
hit ratio.
What should you do?

A. Customize the cache keys to omit the protocol from the key.

B. Shorten the expiration time of the cached objects.

C. Make sure the HTTP(S) header €Cache-Region € points to the closest region of your users.

D. Replicate the static content in a Cloud Storage bucket. Point CloudCDN toward a load balancer on that bucket.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/best-practices#using_custom_cache_keys_to_improve_cache_hit_ratio

Community vote distribution

A (83%) D (17%)

Question #89 Topic 1

Your architecture calls for the centralized collection of all admin activity and VM system logs within your project.
How should you collect these logs from both VMs and services?

A. All admin and VM system logs are automatically collected by Stackdriver.

B. Stackdriver automatically collects admin activity logs for most services. The Stackdriver Logging agent must be installed on each instance
to collect system logs.

C. Launch a custom syslogd compute instance and con gure your GCP project and VMs to forward all logs to it.

D. Install the Stackdriver Logging agent on a single compute instance and let it collect all audit and access logs for your environment.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #90 Topic 1

You have an App Engine application that needs to be updated. You want to test the update with production tra c before replacing the current
application version.
What should you do?

A. Deploy the update using the Instance Group Updater to create a partial rollout, which allows for canary testing.

B. Deploy the update as a new version in the App Engine application, and split tra c between the new and current versions.

C. Deploy the update in a new VPC, and use Google's global HTTP load balancing to split tra c between the update and current applications.

D. Deploy the update as a new App Engine application, and use Google's global HTTP load balancing to split tra c between the new and
current applications.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #91 Topic 1

All Compute Engine instances in your VPC should be able to connect to an Active Directory server on speci c ports. Any other tra c emerging
from your instances is not allowed. You want to enforce this using VPC rewall rules.
How should you con gure the rewall rules?

A. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to deny all tra c for all instances. Create another egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active
Directory tra c for all instances.

B. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to deny all tra c for all instances. Create another egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active
Directory tra c for all instances.

C. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory tra c. Rely on the implied deny egress rule with priority 100 to block
all tra c for all instances.

D. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory tra c. Rely on the implied deny egress rule with priority 1000 to block
all tra c for all instances.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #92 Topic 1

Your customer runs a web service used by e-commerce sites to offer product recommendations to users. The company has begun experimenting
with a machine learning model on Google Cloud Platform to improve the quality of results.
What should the customer do to improve their model's results over time?

A. Export Cloud Machine Learning Engine performance metrics from Stackdriver to BigQuery, to be used to analyze the e ciency of the model.

B. Build a roadmap to move the machine learning model training from Cloud GPUs to Cloud TPUs, which offer better results.

C. Monitor Compute Engine announcements for availability of newer CPU architectures, and deploy the model to them as soon as they are
available for additional performance.

D. Save a history of recommendations and results of the recommendations in BigQuery, to be used as training data.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #93 Topic 1

A development team at your company has created a dockerized HTTPS web application. You need to deploy the application on Google Kubernetes
Engine (GKE) and make sure that the application scales automatically.
How should you deploy to GKE?

A. Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling. Use an Ingress resource to load-balance the HTTPS tra c.

B. Use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and enable cluster autoscaling on the Kubernetes cluster. Use a Service resource of type LoadBalancer
to load-balance the HTTPS tra c.

C. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group. Use an Ingress resource to load-balance the HTTPS tra c.

D. Enable autoscaling on the Compute Engine instance group. Use a Service resource of type LoadBalancer to load-balance the HTTPS tra c.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/cluster-autoscaler

Community vote distribution

A (74%) B (26%)
Question #94 Topic 1

You need to design a solution for global load balancing based on the URL path being requested. You need to ensure operations reliability and end-
to-end in- transit encryption based on Google best practices.
What should you do?

A. Create a cross-region load balancer with URL Maps.

B. Create an HTTPS load balancer with URL Maps.

C. Create appropriate instance groups and instances. Con gure SSL proxy load balancing.

D. Create a global forwarding rule. Con gure SSL proxy load balancing.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/url-map

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #95 Topic 1

You have an application that makes HTTP requests to Cloud Storage. Occasionally the requests fail with HTTP status codes of 5xx and 429.
How should you handle these types of errors?

A. Use gRPC instead of HTTP for better performance.

B. Implement retry logic using a truncated exponential backoff strategy.

C. Make sure the Cloud Storage bucket is multi-regional for geo-redundancy.

D. Monitor https://status.cloud.google.com/feed.atom and only make requests if Cloud Storage is not reporting an incident.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/status-codes

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #96 Topic 1

You need to develop procedures to test a disaster plan for a mission-critical application. You want to use Google-recommended practices and
native capabilities within GCP.
What should you do?

A. Use Deployment Manager to automate service provisioning. Use Activity Logs to monitor and debug your tests.

B. Use Deployment Manager to automate service provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor and debug your tests.

C. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Activity Logs to monitor and debug your tests.

D. Use gcloud scripts to automate service provisioning. Use Stackdriver to monitor and debug your tests.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #97 Topic 1

Your company creates rendering software which users can download from the company website. Your company has customers all over the world.
You want to minimize latency for all your customers. You want to follow Google-recommended practices.
How should you store the les?

A. Save the les in a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket.

B. Save the les in a Regional Cloud Storage bucket, one bucket per zone of the region.

C. Save the les in multiple Regional Cloud Storage buckets, one bucket per zone per region.

D. Save the les in multiple Multi-Regional Cloud Storage buckets, one bucket per multi-region.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (80%) A (19%)

Question #98 Topic 1

Your company acquired a healthcare startup and must retain its customers' medical information for up to 4 more years, depending on when it was
created. Your corporate policy is to securely retain this data, and then delete it as soon as regulations allow.
Which approach should you take?

A. Store the data in Google Drive and manually delete records as they expire.

B. Anonymize the data using the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API and store it inde nitely.

C. Store the data in Cloud Storage and use lifecycle management to delete les when they expire.

D. Store the data in Cloud Storage and run a nightly batch script that deletes all expired data.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #99 Topic 1

You are deploying a PHP App Engine Standard service with Cloud SQL as the backend. You want to minimize the number of queries to the
database.
What should you do?

A. Set the memcache service level to dedicated. Create a key from the hash of the query, and return database values from memcache before
issuing a query to Cloud SQL.

B. Set the memcache service level to dedicated. Create a cron task that runs every minute to populate the cache with keys containing query
results.

C. Set the memcache service level to shared. Create a cron task that runs every minute to save all expected queries to a key called
€cached_queries €.

D. Set the memcache service level to shared. Create a key called €cached_queries €, and return database values from the key before using a
query to Cloud SQL.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #100 Topic 1

You need to ensure reliability for your application and operations by supporting reliable task scheduling for compute on GCP. Leveraging Google
best practices, what should you do?

A. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publish messages directly to a message-processing utility service running on Compute
Engine instances.

B. Using the Cron service provided by App Engine, publish messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Subscribe to that topic using a message-
processing utility service running on Compute Engine instances.

C. Using the Cron service provided by Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), publish messages directly to a message-processing utility service
running on Compute Engine instances.

D. Using the Cron service provided by GKE, publish messages to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Subscribe to that topic using a message-processing
utility service running on Compute Engine instances.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (83%) D (17%)

Question #101 Topic 1

Your company is building a new architecture to support its data-centric business focus. You are responsible for setting up the network. Your
company's mobile and web-facing applications will be deployed on-premises, and all data analysis will be conducted in GCP. The plan is to
process and load 7 years of archived .csv les totaling 900 TB of data and then continue loading 10 TB of data daily. You currently have an
existing 100-MB internet connection.
What actions will meet your company's needs?

A. Compress and upload both archived les and les uploaded daily using the gsutil €"m option.

B. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived les to it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a
connection with Google using a Dedicated Interconnect or Direct Peering connection and use it to upload les daily.

C. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived les to it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish one Cloud
VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet, and compress and upload les daily using the gsutil €"m option.

D. Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived les to it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a Cloud
VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet, and compress and upload les daily.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #102 Topic 1

You are developing a globally scaled frontend for a legacy streaming backend data API. This API expects events in strict chronological order with
no repeat data for proper processing.
Which products should you deploy to ensure guaranteed-once FIFO ( rst-in, rst-out) delivery of data?

A. Cloud Pub/Sub alone

B. Cloud Pub/Sub to Cloud Data ow

C. Cloud Pub/Sub to Stackdriver

D. Cloud Pub/Sub to Cloud SQL

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/ordering

Community vote distribution

B (63%) A (37%)

Question #103 Topic 1

Your company is planning to perform a lift and shift migration of their Linux RHEL 6.5+ virtual machines. The virtual machines are running in an
on-premises
VMware environment. You want to migrate them to Compute Engine following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. 1. De ne a migration plan based on the list of the applications and their dependencies. 2. Migrate all virtual machines into Compute Engine
individually with Migrate for Compute Engine.

B. 1. Perform an assessment of virtual machines running in the current VMware environment. 2. Create images of all disks. Import disks on
Compute Engine. 3. Create standard virtual machines where the boot disks are the ones you have imported.

C. 1. Perform an assessment of virtual machines running in the current VMware environment. 2. De ne a migration plan, prepare a Migrate for
Compute Engine migration RunBook, and execute the migration.

D. 1. Perform an assessment of virtual machines running in the current VMware environment. 2. Install a third-party agent on all selected
virtual machines. 3. Migrate all virtual machines into Compute Engine.

Correct Answer: C
The framework illustrated in the preceding diagram has four phases:
€¢ Assess. In this phase, you assess your source environment, assess the workloads that you want to migrate to Google Cloud, and assess
which VMs support each workload.
€¢ Plan. In this phase, you create the basic infrastructure for Migrate for Compute Engine, such as provisioning the resource hierarchy and
setting up network access.
€¢ Deploy. In this phase, you migrate the VMs from the source environment to Compute Engine.
€¢ Optimize. In this phase, you begin to take advantage of the cloud technologies and capabilities.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/migrating-vms-migrate-for-compute-engine-getting-started

Community vote distribution

C (94%) 6%
Question #104 Topic 1

You need to deploy an application to Google Cloud. The application receives tra c via TCP and reads and writes data to the lesystem. The
application does not support horizontal scaling. The application process requires full control over the data on the le system because concurrent
access causes corruption. The business is willing to accept a downtime when an incident occurs, but the application must be available 24/7 to
support their business operations. You need to design the architecture of this application on Google Cloud. What should you do?

A. Use a managed instance group with instances in multiple zones, use Cloud Filestore, and use an HTTP load balancer in front of the
instances.

B. Use a managed instance group with instances in multiple zones, use Cloud Filestore, and use a network load balancer in front of the
instances.

C. Use an unmanaged instance group with an active and standby instance in different zones, use a regional persistent disk, and use an HTTP
load balancer in front of the instances.

D. Use an unmanaged instance group with an active and standby instance in different zones, use a regional persistent disk, and use a network
load balancer in front of the instances.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups

Community vote distribution

D (72%) B (28%)

Question #105 Topic 1

Your company has an application running on multiple Compute Engine instances. You need to ensure that the application can communicate with
an on-premises service that requires high throughput via internal IPs, while minimizing latency. What should you do?

A. Use OpenVPN to con gure a VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

B. Con gure a direct peering connection between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

C. Use Cloud VPN to con gure a VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

D. Con gure a Cloud Dedicated Interconnect connection between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

Correct Answer: C
Reference -
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/setting-up-private-access-to-cloud-apis-through-vpn-tunnels

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #106 Topic 1

You are managing an application deployed on Cloud Run for Anthos, and you need to de ne a strategy for deploying new versions of the
application. You want to evaluate the new code with a subset of production tra c to decide whether to proceed with the rollout. What should you
do?

A. Deploy a new revision to Cloud Run with the new version. Con gure tra c percentage between revisions.

B. Deploy a new service to Cloud Run with the new version. Add a Cloud Load Balancing instance in front of both services.

C. In the Google Cloud Console page for Cloud Run, set up continuous deployment using Cloud Build for the development branch. As part of
the Cloud Build trigger, con gure the substitution variable TRAFFIC_PERCENTAGE with the percentage of tra c you want directed to a new
version.

D. In the Google Cloud Console, con gure Tra c Director with a new Service that points to the new version of the application on Cloud Run.
Con gure Tra c Director to send a small percentage of tra c to the new version of the application.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (79%) C (21%)

Question #107 Topic 1

You are monitoring Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a Cloud Monitoring workspace. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need to
triage incidents quickly. What should you do?

A. Navigate the prede ned dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, and then add metrics and create alert policies.

B. Navigate the prede ned dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, create custom metrics, and install alerting software on a Compute
Engine instance.

C. Write a shell script that gathers metrics from GKE nodes, publish these metrics to a Pub/Sub topic, export the data to BigQuery, and make a
Data Studio dashboard.

D. Create a custom dashboard in the Cloud Monitoring workspace for each incident, and then add metrics and create alert policies.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/charts/dashboards

Community vote distribution

A (59%) D (41%)
Question #108 Topic 1

You are implementing a single Cloud SQL MySQL second-generation database that contains business-critical transaction data. You want to ensure
that the minimum amount of data is lost in case of catastrophic failure. Which two features should you implement? (Choose two.)

A. Sharding

B. Read replicas

C. Binary logging

D. Automated backups

E. Semisynchronous replication

Correct Answer: CD
Backups help you restore lost data to your Cloud SQL instance. Additionally, if an instance is having a problem, you can restore it to a previous
state by using the backup to overwrite it. Enable automated backups for any instance that contains necessary data. Backups protect your data
from loss or damage.
Enabling automated backups, along with binary logging, is also required for some operations, such as clone and replica creation.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/backup-recovery/backups

Community vote distribution

CD (68%) BD (32%)

Question #109 Topic 1

You are working at a sports association whose members range in age from 8 to 30. The association collects a large amount of health data, such
as sustained injuries. You are storing this data in BigQuery. Current legislation requires you to delete such information upon request of the
subject. You want to design a solution that can accommodate such a request. What should you do?

A. Use a unique identi er for each individual. Upon a deletion request, delete all rows from BigQuery with this identi er.

B. When ingesting new data in BigQuery, run the data through the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API to identify any personal information. As part
of the DLP scan, save the result to Data Catalog. Upon a deletion request, query Data Catalog to nd the column with personal information.

C. Create a BigQuery view over the table that contains all data. Upon a deletion request, exclude the rows that affect the subject's data from
this view. Use this view instead of the source table for all analysis tasks.

D. Use a unique identi er for each individual. Upon a deletion request, overwrite the column with the unique identi er with a salted SHA256 of
its value.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (62%) B (38%)
Question #110 Topic 1

Your company has announced that they will be outsourcing operations functions. You want to allow developers to easily stage new versions of a
cloud-based application in the production environment and allow the outsourced operations team to autonomously promote staged versions to
production. You want to minimize the operational overhead of the solution. Which Google Cloud product should you migrate to?

A. App Engine

B. GKE On-Prem

C. Compute Engine

D. Google Kubernetes Engine

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/eba-outsourcing-mapping-gcp

Community vote distribution

A (89%) 6%

Question #111 Topic 1

Your company is running its application workloads on Compute Engine. The applications have been deployed in production, acceptance, and
development environments. The production environment is business-critical and is used 24/7, while the acceptance and development
environments are only critical during o ce hours. Your CFO has asked you to optimize these environments to achieve cost savings during idle
times. What should you do?

A. Create a shell script that uses the gcloud command to change the machine type of the development and acceptance instances to a smaller
machine type outside of o ce hours. Schedule the shell script on one of the production instances to automate the task.

B. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function that will stop the development and acceptance environments after o ce hours and start
them just before o ce hours.

C. Deploy the development and acceptance applications on a managed instance group and enable autoscaling.

D. Use regular Compute Engine instances for the production environment, and use preemptible VMs for the acceptance and development
environments.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/it-ops/best-practices-for-optimizing-your-cloud-costs

Community vote distribution

B (89%) 11%
Question #112 Topic 1

You are moving an application that uses MySQL from on-premises to Google Cloud. The application will run on Compute Engine and will use Cloud
SQL. You want to cut over to the Compute Engine deployment of the application with minimal downtime and no data loss to your customers. You
want to migrate the application with minimal modi cation. You also need to determine the cutover strategy. What should you do?

A. 1. Set up Cloud VPN to provide private network connectivity between the Compute Engine application and the on-premises MySQL server. 2.
Stop the on-premises application. 3. Create a mysqldump of the on-premises MySQL server. 4. Upload the dump to a Cloud Storage bucket. 5.
Import the dump into Cloud SQL. 6. Modify the source code of the application to write queries to both databases and read from its local
database. 7. Start the Compute Engine application. 8. Stop the on-premises application.

B. 1. Set up Cloud SQL proxy and MySQL proxy. 2. Create a mysqldump of the on-premises MySQL server. 3. Upload the dump to a Cloud
Storage bucket. 4. Import the dump into Cloud SQL. 5. Stop the on-premises application. 6. Start the Compute Engine application.

C. 1. Set up Cloud VPN to provide private network connectivity between the Compute Engine application and the on-premises MySQL server. 2.
Stop the on-premises application. 3. Start the Compute Engine application, con gured to read and write to the on-premises MySQL server. 4.
Create the replication con guration in Cloud SQL. 5. Con gure the source database server to accept connections from the Cloud SQL replica.
6. Finalize the Cloud SQL replica con guration. 7. When replication has been completed, stop the Compute Engine application. 8. Promote the
Cloud SQL replica to a standalone instance. 9. Restart the Compute Engine application, con gured to read and write to the Cloud SQL
standalone instance.

D. 1. Stop the on-premises application. 2. Create a mysqldump of the on-premises MySQL server. 3. Upload the dump to a Cloud Storage
bucket. 4. Import the dump into Cloud SQL. 5. Start the application on Compute Engine.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #113 Topic 1

Your organization has decided to restrict the use of external IP addresses on instances to only approved instances. You want to enforce this
requirement across all of your Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). What should you do?

A. Remove the default route on all VPCs. Move all approved instances into a new subnet that has a default route to an internet gateway.

B. Create a new VPC in custom mode. Create a new subnet for the approved instances, and set a default route to the internet gateway on this
new subnet.

C. Implement a Cloud NAT solution to remove the need for external IP addresses entirely.

D. Set an Organization Policy with a constraint on constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess. List the approved instances in the allowedValues
list.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/reserve-static-external-ip-address

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #114 Topic 1

Your company uses the Firewall Insights feature in the Google Network Intelligence Center. You have several rewall rules applied to Compute
Engine instances.
You need to evaluate the e ciency of the applied rewall ruleset. When you bring up the Firewall Insights page in the Google Cloud Console, you
notice that there are no log rows to display. What should you do to troubleshoot the issue?

A. Enable Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ow logging.

B. Enable Firewall Rules Logging for the rewall rules you want to monitor.

C. Verify that your user account is assigned the compute.networkAdmin Identity and Access Management (IAM) role.

D. Install the Google Cloud SDK, and verify that there are no Firewall logs in the command line output.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/network-intelligence-center/docs/ rewall-insights/how-to/using- rewall-insights

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #115 Topic 1

Your company has sensitive data in Cloud Storage buckets. Data analysts have Identity Access Management (IAM) permissions to read the
buckets. You want to prevent data analysts from retrieving the data in the buckets from outside the o ce network. What should you do?

A. 1. Create a VPC Service Controls perimeter that includes the projects with the buckets. 2. Create an access level with the CIDR of the o ce
network.

B. 1. Create a rewall rule for all instances in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network for source range. 2. Use the Classless Inter-domain
Routing (CIDR) of the o ce network.

C. 1. Create a Cloud Function to remove IAM permissions from the buckets, and another Cloud Function to add IAM permissions to the
buckets. 2. Schedule the Cloud Functions with Cloud Scheduler to add permissions at the start of business and remove permissions at the
end of business.

D. 1. Create a Cloud VPN to the o ce network. 2. Con gure Private Google Access for on-premises hosts.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #116 Topic 1

You have developed a non-critical update to your application that is running in a managed instance group, and have created a new instance
template with the update that you want to release. To prevent any possible impact to the application, you don't want to update any running
instances. You want any new instances that are created by the managed instance group to contain the new update. What should you do?

A. Start a new rolling restart operation.

B. Start a new rolling replace operation.

C. Start a new rolling update. Select the Proactive update mode.

D. Start a new rolling update. Select the Opportunistic update mode.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #117 Topic 1

Your company is designing its application landscape on Compute Engine. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, the application should be restored in
another zone as quickly as possible with the latest application data. You need to design the solution to meet this requirement. What should you
do?

A. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk containing the application data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the latest snapshot to
restore the disk in the same zone.

B. Con gure the Compute Engine instances with an instance template for the application, and use a regional persistent disk for the application
data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the instance template to spin up the application in another zone in the same region. Use the
regional persistent disk for the application data.

C. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk containing the application data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the latest snapshot to
restore the disk in another zone within the same region.

D. Con gure the Compute Engine instances with an instance template for the application, and use a regional persistent disk for the application
data. Whenever a zonal outage occurs, use the instance template to spin up the application in another region. Use the regional persistent disk
for the application data.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #118 Topic 1

Your company has just acquired another company, and you have been asked to integrate their existing Google Cloud environment into your
company's data center. Upon investigation, you discover that some of the RFC 1918 IP ranges being used in the new company's Virtual Private
Cloud (VPC) overlap with your data center IP space. What should you do to enable connectivity and make sure that there are no routing con icts
when connectivity is established?

A. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center, create a Cloud Router, and apply new IP addresses so there is no
overlapping IP space.

B. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center, and create a Cloud NAT instance to perform NAT on the overlapping IP
space.

C. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center, create a Cloud Router, and apply a custom route advertisement to
block the overlapping IP space.

D. Create a Cloud VPN connection from the new VPC to the data center, and apply a rewall rule that blocks the overlapping IP space.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (68%) C (26%) 6%

Question #119 Topic 1

You need to migrate Hadoop jobs for your company's Data Science team without modifying the underlying infrastructure. You want to minimize
costs and infrastructure management effort. What should you do?

A. Create a Dataproc cluster using standard worker instances.

B. Create a Dataproc cluster using preemptible worker instances.

C. Manually deploy a Hadoop cluster on Compute Engine using standard instances.

D. Manually deploy a Hadoop cluster on Compute Engine using preemptible instances.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/hadoop/hadoop-gcp-migration-jobs

Community vote distribution

B (58%) A (42%)
Question #120 Topic 1

Your company has a project in Google Cloud with three Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). There is a Compute Engine instance on each VPC. Network
subnets do not overlap and must remain separated. The network con guration is shown below.

Instance #1 is an exception and must communicate directly with both Instance #2 and Instance #3 via internal IPs. How should you accomplish
this?

A. Create a cloud router to advertise subnet #2 and subnet #3 to subnet #1.

B. Add two additional NICs to Instance #1 with the following con guration: €¢ NIC1 —‹ VPC: VPC #2 —‹ SUBNETWORK: subnet #2 €¢ NIC2
—‹ VPC: VPC #3 —‹ SUBNETWORK: subnet #3 Update rewall rules to enable tra c between instances.

C. Create two VPN tunnels via CloudVPN: 1 ¢€ between VPC #1 and VPC #2. 1 ¢€ between VPC #2 and VPC #3. Update rewall rules to
enable tra c between the instances.

D. Peer all three VPCs: €¢ Peer VPC #1 with VPC #2. €¢ Peer VPC #2 with VPC #3. Update rewall rules to enable tra c between the
instances.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (70%) D (15%) C (15%)
Question #121 Topic 1

You need to deploy an application on Google Cloud that must run on a Debian Linux environment. The application requires extensive con guration
in order to operate correctly. You want to ensure that you can install Debian distribution updates with minimal manual intervention whenever they
become available. What should you do?

A. Create a Compute Engine instance template using the most recent Debian image. Create an instance from this template, and install and
con gure the application as part of the startup script. Repeat this process whenever a new Google-managed Debian image becomes available.

B. Create a Debian-based Compute Engine instance, install and con gure the application, and use OS patch management to install available
updates.

C. Create an instance with the latest available Debian image. Connect to the instance via SSH, and install and con gure the application on the
instance. Repeat this process whenever a new Google-managed Debian image becomes available.

D. Create a Docker container with Debian as the base image. Install and con gure the application as part of the Docker image creation
process. Host the container on Google Kubernetes Engine and restart the container whenever a new update is available.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/os-patch-management

Community vote distribution

B (90%) 10%

Question #122 Topic 1

You have an application that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Over the last 2 weeks, customers have reported that a speci c part of the
application returns errors very frequently. You currently have no logging or monitoring solution enabled on your GKE cluster. You want to diagnose
the problem, but you have not been able to replicate the issue. You want to cause minimal disruption to the application. What should you do?

A. 1. Update your GKE cluster to use Cloud Operations for GKE. 2. Use the GKE Monitoring dashboard to investigate logs from affected Pods.

B. 1. Create a new GKE cluster with Cloud Operations for GKE enabled. 2. Migrate the affected Pods to the new cluster, and redirect tra c for
those Pods to the new cluster. 3. Use the GKE Monitoring dashboard to investigate logs from affected Pods.

C. 1. Update your GKE cluster to use Cloud Operations for GKE, and deploy Prometheus. 2. Set an alert to trigger whenever the application
returns an error.

D. 1. Create a new GKE cluster with Cloud Operations for GKE enabled, and deploy Prometheus. 2. Migrate the affected Pods to the new
cluster, and redirect tra c for those Pods to the new cluster. 3. Set an alert to trigger whenever the application returns an error.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/using-logging-your-apps-running-kubernetes-engine

Community vote distribution

A (71%) C (27%)
Question #123 Topic 1

You need to deploy a stateful workload on Google Cloud. The workload can scale horizontally, but each instance needs to read and write to the
same POSIX lesystem. At high load, the stateful workload needs to support up to 100 MB/s of writes. What should you do?

A. Use a persistent disk for each instance.

B. Use a regional persistent disk for each instance.

C. Create a Cloud Filestore instance and mount it in each instance.

D. Create a Cloud Storage bucket and mount it in each instance using gcsfuse.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #124 Topic 1

Your company has an application deployed on Anthos clusters (formerly Anthos GKE) that is running multiple microservices. The cluster has both
Anthos Service
Mesh and Anthos Con g Management con gured. End users inform you that the application is responding very slowly. You want to identify the
microservice that is causing the delay. What should you do?

A. Use the Service Mesh visualization in the Cloud Console to inspect the telemetry between the microservices.

B. Use Anthos Con g Management to create a ClusterSelector selecting the relevant cluster. On the Google Cloud Console page for Google
Kubernetes Engine, view the Workloads and lter on the cluster. Inspect the con gurations of the ltered workloads.

C. Use Anthos Con g Management to create a namespaceSelector selecting the relevant cluster namespace. On the Google Cloud Console
page for Google Kubernetes Engine, visit the workloads and lter on the namespace. Inspect the con gurations of the ltered workloads.

D. Reinstall istio using the default istio pro le in order to collect request latency. Evaluate the telemetry between the microservices in the
Cloud Console.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #125 Topic 1

You are working at a nancial institution that stores mortgage loan approval documents on Cloud Storage. Any change to these approval
documents must be uploaded as a separate approval le, so you want to ensure that these documents cannot be deleted or overwritten for the
next 5 years. What should you do?

A. Create a retention policy on the bucket for the duration of 5 years. Create a lock on the retention policy.

B. Create the bucket with uniform bucket-level access, and grant a service account the role of Object Writer. Use the service account to upload
new les.

C. Use a customer-managed key for the encryption of the bucket. Rotate the key after 5 years.

D. Create the bucket with ne-grained access control, and grant a service account the role of Object Writer. Use the service account to upload
new les.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/using-bucket-lock

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #126 Topic 1

Your team will start developing a new application using microservices architecture on Kubernetes Engine. As part of the development lifecycle,
any code change that has been pushed to the remote develop branch on your GitHub repository should be built and tested automatically. When the
build and test are successful, the relevant microservice will be deployed automatically in the development environment. You want to ensure that
all code deployed in the development environment follows this process. What should you do?

A. Have each developer install a pre-commit hook on their workstation that tests the code and builds the container when committing on the
development branch. After a successful commit, have the developer deploy the newly built container image on the development cluster.

B. Install a post-commit hook on the remote git repository that tests the code and builds the container when code is pushed to the
development branch. After a successful commit, have the developer deploy the newly built container image on the development cluster.

C. Create a Cloud Build trigger based on the development branch that tests the code, builds the container, and stores it in Container Registry.
Create a deployment pipeline that watches for new images and deploys the new image on the development cluster. Ensure only the
deployment tool has access to deploy new versions.

D. Create a Cloud Build trigger based on the development branch to build a new container image and store it in Container Registry. Rely on
Vulnerability Scanning to ensure the code tests succeed. As the nal step of the Cloud Build process, deploy the new container image on the
development cluster. Ensure only Cloud Build has access to deploy new versions.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (96%) 4%
Question #127 Topic 1

Your operations team has asked you to help diagnose a performance issue in a production application that runs on Compute Engine. The
application is dropping requests that reach it when under heavy load. The process list for affected instances shows a single application process
that is consuming all available CPU, and autoscaling has reached the upper limit of instances. There is no abnormal load on any other related
systems, including the database. You want to allow production tra c to be served again as quickly as possible. Which action should you
recommend?

A. Change the autoscaling metric to agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used.

B. Restart the affected instances on a staggered schedule.

C. SSH to each instance and restart the application process.

D. Increase the maximum number of instances in the autoscaling group.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/sap-google-cloud/best-practices-for-sap-app-server-autoscaling-on-google-cloud

Community vote distribution

D (81%) Other

Question #128 Topic 1

You are implementing the infrastructure for a web service on Google Cloud. The web service needs to receive and store the data from 500,000
requests per second. The data will be queried later in real time, based on exact matches of a known set of attributes. There will be periods where
the web service will not receive any requests. The business wants to keep costs low. Which web service platform and database should you use for
the application?

A. Cloud Run and BigQuery

B. Cloud Run and Cloud Bigtable

C. A Compute Engine autoscaling managed instance group and BigQuery

D. A Compute Engine autoscaling managed instance group and Cloud Bigtable

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (62%) D (35%)
Question #129 Topic 1

You are developing an application using different microservices that should remain internal to the cluster. You want to be able to con gure each
microservice with a speci c number of replicas. You also want to be able to address a speci c microservice from any other microservice in a
uniform way, regardless of the number of replicas the microservice scales to. You need to implement this solution on Google Kubernetes Engine.
What should you do?

A. Deploy each microservice as a Deployment. Expose the Deployment in the cluster using a Service, and use the Service DNS name to
address it from other microservices within the cluster.

B. Deploy each microservice as a Deployment. Expose the Deployment in the cluster using an Ingress, and use the Ingress IP address to
address the Deployment from other microservices within the cluster.

C. Deploy each microservice as a Pod. Expose the Pod in the cluster using a Service, and use the Service DNS name to address the
microservice from other microservices within the cluster.

D. Deploy each microservice as a Pod. Expose the Pod in the cluster using an Ingress, and use the Ingress IP address name to address the
Pod from other microservices within the cluster.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #130 Topic 1

Your company has a networking team and a development team. The development team runs applications on Compute Engine instances that
contain sensitive data. The development team requires administrative permissions for Compute Engine. Your company requires all network
resources to be managed by the networking team. The development team does not want the networking team to have access to the sensitive data
on the instances. What should you do?

A. 1. Create a project with a standalone VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the networking team. 2. Create a second project with a
standalone VPC and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team. 3. Use Cloud VPN to join the two VPCs.

B. 1. Create a project with a standalone Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), assign the Network Admin role to the networking team, and assign the
Compute Admin role to the development team.

C. 1. Create a project with a Shared VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the networking team. 2. Create a second project without a VPC,
con gure it as a Shared VPC service project, and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team.

D. 1. Create a project with a standalone VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the networking team. 2. Create a second project with a
standalone VPC and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team. 3. Use VPC Peering to join the two VPCs.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/shared-vpc

Community vote distribution

C (58%) B (42%)
Question #131 Topic 1

Your company wants you to build a highly reliable web application with a few public APIs as the backend. You don't expect a lot of user tra c, but
tra c could spike occasionally. You want to leverage Cloud Load Balancing, and the solution must be cost-effective for users. What should you
do?

A. Store static content such as HTML and images in Cloud CDN. Host the APIs on App Engine and store the user data in Cloud SQL.

B. Store static content such as HTML and images in a Cloud Storage bucket. Host the APIs on a zonal Google Kubernetes Engine cluster with
worker nodes in multiple zones, and save the user data in Cloud Spanner.

C. Store static content such as HTML and images in Cloud CDN. Use Cloud Run to host the APIs and save the user data in Cloud SQL.

D. Store static content such as HTML and images in a Cloud Storage bucket. Use Cloud Functions to host the APIs and save the user data in
Firestore.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

D (62%) B (20%) Other

Question #132 Topic 1

Your company sends all Google Cloud logs to Cloud Logging. Your security team wants to monitor the logs. You want to ensure that the security
team can react quickly if an anomaly such as an unwanted rewall change or server breach is detected. You want to follow Google-recommended
practices. What should you do?

A. Schedule a cron job with Cloud Scheduler. The scheduled job queries the logs every minute for the relevant events.

B. Export logs to BigQuery, and trigger a query in BigQuery to process the log data for the relevant events.

C. Export logs to a Pub/Sub topic, and trigger Cloud Function with the relevant log events.

D. Export logs to a Cloud Storage bucket, and trigger Cloud Run with the relevant log events.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #133 Topic 1

You have deployed several instances on Compute Engine. As a security requirement, instances cannot have a public IP address. There is no VPN
connection between Google Cloud and your o ce, and you need to connect via SSH into a speci c machine without violating the security
requirements. What should you do?

A. Con gure Cloud NAT on the subnet where the instance is hosted. Create an SSH connection to the Cloud NAT IP address to reach the
instance.

B. Add all instances to an unmanaged instance group. Con gure TCP Proxy Load Balancing with the instance group as a backend. Connect to
the instance using the TCP Proxy IP.

C. Con gure Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for the instance and ensure that you have the role of IAP-secured Tunnel User. Use the gcloud
command line tool to ssh into the instance.

D. Create a bastion host in the network to SSH into the bastion host from your o ce location. From the bastion host, SSH into the desired
instance.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/connecting-securely

Community vote distribution

C (73%) D (27%)

Question #134 Topic 1

Your company is using Google Cloud. You have two folders under the Organization: Finance and Shopping. The members of the development team
are in a
Google Group. The development team group has been assigned the Project Owner role on the Organization. You want to prevent the development
team from creating resources in projects in the Finance folder. What should you do?

A. Assign the development team group the Project Viewer role on the Finance folder, and assign the development team group the Project
Owner role on the Shopping folder.

B. Assign the development team group only the Project Viewer role on the Finance folder.

C. Assign the development team group the Project Owner role on the Shopping folder, and remove the development team group Project Owner
role from the Organization.

D. Assign the development team group only the Project Owner role on the Shopping folder.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-folders

Community vote distribution

C (88%) 6%
Question #135 Topic 1

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

A. Add a taint to one of the nodes of the Kubernetes cluster. For the speci c microservice, con gure a pod anti-a nity 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. Con gure Istio's tra c management features to steer the tra c away from a crashing microservice.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (84%) C (16%)

Question #136 Topic 1

Your company is developing a new application that will allow globally distributed users to upload pictures and share them with other selected
users. The application will support millions of concurrent users. You want to allow developers to focus on just building code without having to
create and maintain the underlying infrastructure. Which service should you use to deploy the application?

A. App Engine

B. Cloud Endpoints

C. Compute Engine

D. Google Kubernetes Engine

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/terms/services

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #137 Topic 1

Your company provides a recommendation engine for retail customers. You are providing retail customers with an API where they can submit a
user ID and the
API returns a list of recommendations for that user. You are responsible for the API lifecycle and want to ensure stability for your customers in
case the API makes backward-incompatible changes. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Create a distribution list of all customers to inform them of an upcoming backward-incompatible change at least one month before
replacing the old API with the new API.

B. Create an automated process to generate API documentation, and update the public API documentation as part of the CI/CD process when
deploying an update to the API.

C. Use a versioning strategy for the APIs that increases the version number on every backward-incompatible change.

D. Use a versioning strategy for the APIs that adds the su x €DEPRECATED € to the current API version number on every backward-
incompatible change. Use the current version number for the new API.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #138 Topic 1

Your company has developed a monolithic, 3-tier application to allow external users to upload and share les. The solution cannot be easily
enhanced and lacks reliability. The development team would like to re-architect the application to adopt microservices and a fully managed
service approach, but they need to convince their leadership that the effort is worthwhile. Which advantage(s) should they highlight to leadership?

A. The new approach will be signi cantly less costly, make it easier to manage the underlying infrastructure, and automatically manage the
CI/CD pipelines.

B. The monolithic solution can be converted to a container with Docker. The generated container can then be deployed into a Kubernetes
cluster.

C. The new approach will make it easier to decouple infrastructure from application, develop and release new features, manage the underlying
infrastructure, manage CI/CD pipelines and perform A/B testing, and scale the solution if necessary.

D. The process can be automated with Migrate for Compute Engine.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (88%) 13%
Question #139 Topic 1

Your team is developing a web application that will be deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Your CTO expects a successful launch and
you need to ensure your application can handle the expected load of tens of thousands of users. You want to test the current deployment to
ensure the latency of your application stays below a certain threshold. What should you do?

A. Use a load testing tool to simulate the expected number of concurrent users and total requests to your application, and inspect the results.

B. Enable autoscaling on the GKE cluster and enable horizontal pod autoscaling on your application deployments. Send curl requests to your
application, and validate if the auto scaling works.

C. Replicate the application over multiple GKE clusters in every Google Cloud region. Con gure a global HTTP(S) load balancer to expose the
different clusters over a single global IP address.

D. Use Cloud Debugger in the development environment to understand the latency between the different microservices.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (83%) B (17%)

Question #140 Topic 1

Your company has a Kubernetes application that pulls messages from Pub/Sub and stores them in Filestore. Because the application is simple, it
was deployed as a single pod. The infrastructure team has analyzed Pub/Sub metrics and discovered that the application cannot process the
messages in real time. Most of them wait for minutes before being processed. You need to scale the elaboration process that is I/O-intensive.
What should you do?

A. Use kubectl autoscale deployment APP_NAME --max 6 --min 2 --cpu-percent 50 to con gure Kubernetes autoscaling deployment.

B. Con gure a Kubernetes autoscaling deployment based on the subscription/push_request_latencies metric.

C. Use the --enable-autoscaling ag when you create the Kubernetes cluster.

D. Con gure a Kubernetes autoscaling deployment based on the subscription/num_undelivered_messages metric.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/cluster-autoscaler

Community vote distribution

D (84%) B (16%)

Question #141 Topic 1

Your company is developing a web-based application. You need to make sure that production deployments are linked to source code commits and
are fully auditable. What should you do?

A. Make sure a developer is tagging the code commit with the date and time of commit.

B. Make sure a developer is adding a comment to the commit that links to the deployment.

C. Make the container tag match the source code commit hash.

D. Make sure the developer is tagging the commits with latest.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #142 Topic 1

An application development team has come to you for advice. They are planning to write and deploy an HTTP(S) API using Go 1.12. The API will
have a very unpredictable workload and must remain reliable during peaks in tra c. They want to minimize operational overhead for this
application. Which approach should you recommend?

A. Develop the application with containers, and deploy to Google Kubernetes Engine.

B. Develop the application for App Engine standard environment.

C. Use a Managed Instance Group when deploying to Compute Engine.

D. Develop the application for App Engine exible environment, using a custom runtime.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #143 Topic 1

Your company is designing its data lake on Google Cloud and wants to develop different ingestion pipelines to collect unstructured data from
different sources.
After the data is stored in Google Cloud, it will be processed in several data pipelines to build a recommendation engine for end users on the
website. The structure of the data retrieved from the source systems can change at any time. The data must be stored exactly as it was retrieved
for reprocessing purposes in case the data structure is incompatible with the current processing pipelines. You need to design an architecture to
support the use case after you retrieve the data. What should you do?

A. Send the data through the processing pipeline, and then store the processed data in a BigQuery table for reprocessing.

B. Store the data in a BigQuery table. Design the processing pipelines to retrieve the data from the table.

C. Send the data through the processing pipeline, and then store the processed data in a Cloud Storage bucket for reprocessing.

D. Store the data in a Cloud Storage bucket. Design the processing pipelines to retrieve the data from the bucket.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #144 Topic 1

You are responsible for the Google Cloud environment in your company. Multiple departments need access to their own projects, and the
members within each department will have the same project responsibilities. You want to structure your Google Cloud environment for minimal
maintenance and maximum overview of
IAM permissions as each department's projects start and end. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Grant all department members the required IAM permissions for their respective projects.

B. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to their respective groups. Create a folder per department and
grant the respective group the required IAM permissions at the folder level. Add the projects under the respective folders.

C. Create a folder per department and grant the respective members of the department the required IAM permissions at the folder level.
Structure all projects for each department under the respective folders.

D. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to their respective groups. Grant each group the required IAM
permissions for their respective projects.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #145 Topic 1

Your company has an application running as a Deployment in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You have separate clusters for
development, staging, and production. You have discovered that the team is able to deploy a Docker image to the production cluster without rst
testing the deployment in development and then staging. You want to allow the team to have autonomy but want to prevent this from happening.
You want a Google Cloud solution that can be implemented quickly with minimal effort. What should you do?

A. Con gure a Kubernetes lifecycle hook to prevent the container from starting if it is not approved for usage in the given environment.

B. Implement a corporate policy to prevent teams from deploying Docker images to an environment unless the Docker image was tested in an
earlier environment.

C. Con gure binary authorization policies for the development, staging, and production clusters. Create attestations as part of the continuous
integration pipeline.

D. Create a Kubernetes admissions controller to prevent the container from starting if it is not approved for usage in the given environment.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #146 Topic 1

Your company wants to migrate their 10-TB on-premises database export into Cloud Storage. You want to minimize the time it takes to complete
this activity, the overall cost, and database load. The bandwidth between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud is 1 Gbps. You want to
follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Develop a Data ow job to read data directly from the database and write it into Cloud Storage.

B. Use the Data Transfer appliance to perform an o ine migration.

C. Use a commercial partner ETL solution to extract the data from the on-premises database and upload it into Cloud Storage.

D. Compress the data and upload it with gsutil -m to enable multi-threaded copy.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (46%) B (46%) 8%

Question #147 Topic 1

Your company has an enterprise application running on Compute Engine that requires high availability and high performance. The application has
been deployed on two instances in two zones in the same region in active-passive mode. The application writes data to a persistent disk. In the
case of a single zone outage, that data should be immediately made available to the other instance in the other zone. You want to maximize
performance while minimizing downtime and data loss.
What should you do?

A. 1. Attach a persistent SSD disk to the rst instance. 2. Create a snapshot every hour. 3. In case of a zone outage, recreate a persistent SSD
disk in the second instance where data is coming from the created snapshot.

B. 1. Create a Cloud Storage bucket. 2. Mount the bucket into the rst instance with gcs-fuse. 3. In case of a zone outage, mount the Cloud
Storage bucket to the second instance with gcs-fuse.

C. 1. Attach a regional SSD persistent disk to the rst instance. 2. In case of a zone outage, force-attach the disk to the other instance.

D. 1. Attach a local SSD to the rst instance disk. 2. Execute an rsync command every hour where the target is a persistent SSD disk attached
to the second instance. 3. In case of a zone outage, use the second instance.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (89%) 11%
Question #148 Topic 1

You are designing a Data Warehouse on Google Cloud and want to store sensitive data in BigQuery. Your company requires you to generate the
encryption keys outside of Google Cloud. You need to implement a solution. What should you do?

A. Generate a new key in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). Store all data in Cloud Storage using the customer-managed key option
and select the created key. Set up a Data ow pipeline to decrypt the data and to store it in a new BigQuery dataset.

B. Generate a new key in Cloud KMS. Create a dataset in BigQuery using the customer-managed key option and select the created key.

C. Import a key in Cloud KMS. Store all data in Cloud Storage using the customer-managed key option and select the created key. Set up a
Data ow pipeline to decrypt the data and to store it in a new BigQuery dataset.

D. Import a key in Cloud KMS. Create a dataset in BigQuery using the customer-supplied key option and select the created key.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (70%) C (24%) 6%

Question #149 Topic 1

Your organization has stored sensitive data in a Cloud Storage bucket. For regulatory reasons, your company must be able to rotate the encryption
key used to encrypt the data in the bucket. The data will be processed in Dataproc. You want to follow Google-recommended practices for
security. What should you do?

A. Create a key with Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Encrypt the data using the encrypt method of Cloud KMS.

B. Create a key with Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Set the encryption key on the bucket to the Cloud KMS key.

C. Generate a GPG key pair. Encrypt the data using the GPG key. Upload the encrypted data to the bucket.

D. Generate an AES-256 encryption key. Encrypt the data in the bucket using the customer-supplied encryption keys feature.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (81%) Other
Question #150 Topic 1

Your team needs to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster to host a newly built application that requires access to third-party services
on the internet.
Your company does not allow any Compute Engine instance to have a public IP address on Google Cloud. You need to create a deployment
strategy that adheres to these guidelines. What should you do?

A. Con gure the GKE cluster as a private cluster, and con gure Cloud NAT Gateway for the cluster subnet.

B. Con gure the GKE cluster as a private cluster. Con gure Private Google Access on the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

C. Con gure the GKE cluster as a route-based cluster. Con gure Private Google Access on the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

D. Create a Compute Engine instance, and install a NAT Proxy on the instance. Con gure all workloads on GKE to pass through this proxy to
access third-party services on the Internet.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/prep-kubernetes-engine-for-prod

Community vote distribution

A (98%)

Question #151 Topic 1

Your company has a support ticketing solution that uses App Engine Standard. The project that contains the App Engine application already has a
Virtual Private
Cloud (VPC) network fully connected to the company's on-premises environment through a Cloud VPN tunnel. You want to enable the App Engine
application to communicate with a database that is running in the company's on-premises environment. What should you do?

A. Con gure private Google access for on-premises hosts only.

B. Con gure private Google access.

C. Con gure private services access.

D. Con gure serverless VPC access.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

D (89%) 11%
Question #152 Topic 1

Your company is planning to upload several important les to Cloud Storage. After the upload is completed, they want to verify that the uploaded
content is identical to what they have on-premises. You want to minimize the cost and effort of performing this check. What should you do?

A. 1. Use Linux shasum to compute a digest of les you want to upload. 2. Use gsutil -m to upload all the les to Cloud Storage. 3. Use gsutil
cp to download the uploaded les. 4. Use Linux shasum to compute a digest of the downloaded les. 5. Compare the hashes.

B. 1. Use gsutil -m to upload the les to Cloud Storage. 2. Develop a custom Java application that computes CRC32C hashes. 3. Use gsutil ls -
L gs://[YOUR_BUCKET_NAME] to collect CRC32C hashes of the uploaded les. 4. Compare the hashes.

C. 1. Use gsutil -m to upload all the les to Cloud Storage. 2. Use gsutil cp to download the uploaded les. 3. Use Linux diff to compare the
content of the les.

D. 1. Use gsutil -m to upload the les to Cloud Storage. 2. Use gsutil hash -c FILE_NAME to generate CRC32C hashes of all on-premises les.
3. Use gsutil ls -L gs://[YOUR_BUCKET_NAME] to collect CRC32C hashes of the uploaded les. 4. Compare the hashes.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

D (95%) 5%

Question #153 Topic 1

You have deployed an application on Anthos clusters (formerly Anthos GKE). According to the SRE practices at your company, you need to be
alerted if request latency is above a certain threshold for a speci ed amount of time. What should you do?

A. Install Anthos Service Mesh on your cluster. Use the Google Cloud Console to de ne a Service Level Objective (SLO), and create an alerting
policy based on this SLO.

B. Enable the Cloud Trace API on your project, and use Cloud Monitoring Alerts to send an alert based on the Cloud Trace metrics.

C. Use Cloud Pro ler to follow up the request latency. Create a custom metric in Cloud Monitoring based on the results of Cloud Pro ler, and
create an Alerting policy in case this metric exceeds the threshold.

D. Con gure Anthos Con g Management on your cluster, and create a yaml le that de nes the SLO and alerting policy you want to deploy in
your cluster.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/tutorials/manage-slos

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #154 Topic 1

Your company has a stateless web API that performs scienti c 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 users in Asia.
What should you do?

A. Create a second GKE cluster in asia-southeast1, and expose both APIs using a Service of type LoadBalancer. Add the public IPs to the
Cloud DNS zone.

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

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

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

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (80%) 13% 7%

Question #155 Topic 1

You are migrating third-party applications from optimized on-premises virtual machines to Google Cloud. You are unsure about the optimum CPU
and memory options. The applications have a consistent usage pattern across multiple weeks. You want to optimize resource usage for the
lowest cost. What should you do?

A. Create an instance template with the smallest available machine type, and use an image of the third-party application taken from a current
on-premises virtual machine. Create a managed instance group that uses average CPU utilization to autoscale the number of instances in the
group. Modify the average CPU utilization threshold to optimize the number of instances running.

B. Create an App Engine exible environment, and deploy the third-party application using a Docker le and a custom runtime. Set CPU and
memory options similar to your application's current on-premises virtual machine in the app.yaml le.

C. Create multiple Compute Engine instances with varying CPU and memory options. Install the Cloud Monitoring agent, and deploy the third-
party application on each of them. Run a load test with high tra c levels on the application, and use the results to determine the optimal
settings.

D. Create a Compute Engine instance with CPU and memory options similar to your application's current on-premises virtual machine. Install
the Cloud Monitoring agent, and deploy the third-party application. Run a load test with normal tra c levels on the application, and follow the
Rightsizing Recommendations in the Cloud Console.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://avinetworks.com/docs/18.2/server-autoscaling-in-gcp/

Community vote distribution

D (67%) A (22%) 11%
Question #156 Topic 1

Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing. They have a VPN tunnel between the on-premises
environment and Google
Cloud that is con gured with Cloud VPN. The security team wants to avoid data ex ltration by malicious insiders, compromised code, and
accidental oversharing.
What should they do?

A. Con gure Private Google Access for on-premises only.

B. Perform the following tasks: 1. Create a service account. 2. Give the BigQuery JobUser role and Storage Reader role to the service account.
3. Remove all other IAM access from the project.

C. Con gure VPC Service Controls and con gure Private Google Access.

D. Con gure Private Google Access.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/vpc-service-controls/docs/overview

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #157 Topic 1

You are working at an institution that processes medical data. You are migrating several workloads onto Google Cloud. Company policies require
all workloads to run on physically separated hardware, and workloads from different clients must also be separated. You created a sole-tenant
node group and added a node for each client. You need to deploy the workloads on these dedicated hosts. What should you do?

A. Add the node group name as a network tag when creating Compute Engine instances in order to host each workload on the correct node
group.

B. Add the node name as a network tag when creating Compute Engine instances in order to host each workload on the correct node.

C. Use node a nity labels based on the node group name when creating Compute Engine instances in order to host each workload on the
correct node group.

D. Use node a nity labels based on the node name when creating Compute Engine instances in order to host each workload on the correct
node.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/nodes/provisioning-sole-tenant-vms

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #158 Topic 1

Your company's test suite is a custom C++ application that runs tests throughout each day on Linux virtual machines. The full test suite takes
several hours to complete, running on a limited number of on-premises servers reserved for testing. Your company wants to move the testing
infrastructure to the cloud, to reduce the amount of time it takes to fully test a change to the system, while changing the tests as little as possible.
Which cloud infrastructure should you recommend?

A. Google Compute Engine unmanaged instance groups and Network Load Balancer

B. Google Compute Engine managed instance groups with auto-scaling

C. Google Cloud Dataproc to run Apache Hadoop jobs to process each test

D. Google App Engine with Google StackDriver for logging

Correct Answer: B
Google Compute Engine enables users to launch virtual machines (VMs) on demand. VMs can be launched from the standard images or
custom images created by users.
Managed instance groups offer autoscaling capabilities that allow you to automatically add or remove instances from a managed instance
group based on increases or decreases in load. Autoscaling helps your applications gracefully handle increases in tra c and reduces cost
when the need for resources is lower.
Incorrect Answers:
B: There is no mention of incoming IP data tra c for the custom C++ applications.
C: Apache Hadoop is not t for testing C++ applications. Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework used for distributed storage
and processing of datasets of big data using the MapReduce programming model.
D: Google App Engine is intended to be used for web applications.
Google App Engine (often referred to as GAE or simply App Engine) is a web framework and cloud computing platform for developing and
hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #159 Topic 1

A lead software engineer tells you that his new application design uses websockets and HTTP sessions that are not distributed across the web
servers. You want to help him ensure his application will run properly on Google Cloud Platform.
What should you do?

A. Help the engineer to convert his websocket code to use HTTP streaming

B. Review the encryption requirements for websocket connections with the security team

C. Meet with the cloud operations team and the engineer to discuss load balancer options

D. Help the engineer redesign the application to use a distributed user session service that does not rely on websockets and HTTP sessions.

Correct Answer: C
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) HTTP(S) load balancing provides global load balancing for HTTP(S) requests destined for your instances.
The HTTP(S) load balancer has native support for the WebSocket protocol.
Incorrect Answers:
A: HTTP server push, also known as HTTP streaming, is a client-server communication pattern that sends information from an HTTP server to a
client asynchronously, without a client request. A server push architecture is especially effective for highly interactive web or mobile
applications, where one or more clients need to receive continuous information from the server.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #160 Topic 1

The application reliability team at your company this added a debug feature to their backend service to send all server events to Google Cloud
Storage for eventual analysis. The event records are at least 50 KB and at most 15 MB and are expected to peak at 3,000 events per second. You
want to minimize data loss.
Which process should you implement?

A. €¢ Append metadata to le body €¢ Compress individual les €¢ Name les with serverName €" Timestamp €¢ Create a new bucket if
bucket is older than 1 hour and save individual les to the new bucket. Otherwise, save les to existing bucket.

B. €¢ Batch every 10,000 events with a single manifest le for metadata €¢ Compress event les and manifest le into a single archive le
€¢ Name les using serverName €" EventSequence €¢ Create a new bucket if bucket is older than 1 day and save the single archive le to
the new bucket. Otherwise, save the single archive le to existing bucket.

C. €¢ Compress individual les €¢ Name les with serverName €" EventSequence €¢ Save les to one bucket €¢ Set custom metadata
headers for each object after saving

D. €¢ Append metadata to le body €¢ Compress individual les €¢ Name les with a random pre x pattern €¢ Save les to one bucket

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #161 Topic 1

A recent audit revealed that a new network was created in your GCP project. In this network, a GCE instance has an SSH port open to the world.
You want to discover this network's origin.
What should you do?

A. Search for Create VM entry in the Stackdriver alerting console

B. Navigate to the Activity page in the Home section. Set category to Data Access and search for Create VM entry

C. In the Logging section of the console, specify GCE Network as the logging section. Search for the Create Insert entry

D. Connect to the GCE instance using project SSH keys. Identify previous logins in system logs, and match these with the project owners list

Correct Answer: C
Incorrect Answers:
A: To use the Stackdriver alerting console we must rst set up alerting policies.
B: Data access logs only contain read-only operations.
Audit logs help you determine who did what, where, and when.
Cloud Audit Logging returns two types of logs:
Admin activity logs
Data access logs: Contains log entries for operations that perform read-only operations do not modify any data, such as get, list, and
aggregated list methods.

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #162 Topic 1

You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there
are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as a new instance in a different project in the US-East region.
What steps must you take?

A. Use the Linux dd and netcat commands to copy and stream the root disk contents to a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region.

B. Create a snapshot of the root disk and select the snapshot as the root disk when you create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East
region.

C. Create an image le from the root disk with Linux dd command, create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region

D. Create a snapshot of the root disk, create an image le in Google Cloud Storage from the snapshot, and create a new virtual machine
instance in the US-East region using the image le the root disk.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (62%) B (38%)
Question #163 Topic 1

Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a speci c database at regular intervals. The
backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible and cannot be allowed to impact disk performance.
How should you con gure the storage?

A. Con gure a cron job to use the gcloud tool to take regular backups using persistent disk snapshots.

B. Mount a Local SSD volume as the backup location. After the backup is complete, use gsutil to move the backup to Google Cloud Storage.

C. Use gcs se to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a volume directly on the instance and write backups to the mounted location using
mysqldump.

D. Mount additional persistent disk volumes onto each virtual machine (VM) instance in a RAID10 array and use LVM to create snapshots to
send to Cloud Storage

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (77%) C (23%)

Question #164 Topic 1

You are helping the QA team to roll out a new load-testing tool to test the scalability of your primary cloud services that run on Google Compute
Engine with Cloud
Bigtable.
Which three requirements should they include? (Choose three.)

A. Ensure that the load tests validate the performance of Cloud Bigtable

B. Create a separate Google Cloud project to use for the load-testing environment

C. Schedule the load-testing tool to regularly run against the production environment

D. Ensure all third-party systems your services use is capable of handling high load

E. Instrument the production services to record every transaction for replay by the load-testing tool

F. Instrument the load-testing tool and the target services with detailed logging and metrics collection

Correct Answer: ABF

Community vote distribution

ABF (63%) BEF (25%) 13%
Question #165 Topic 1

Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants detailed visibility of all projects in the
organization. You provision the Google Cloud Resource Manager and set up yourself as the org admin.
What Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security team?

A. Org viewer, project owner

B. Org viewer, project viewer

C. Org admin, project browser

D. Project owner, network admin

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #166 Topic 1

Your company places a high value on being responsive and meeting customer needs quickly. Their primary business objectives are release speed
and agility. You want to reduce the chance of security errors being accidentally introduced.
Which two actions can you take? (Choose two.)

A. Ensure every code check-in is peer reviewed by a security SME

B. Use source code security analyzers as part of the CI/CD pipeline

C. Ensure you have stubs to unit test all interfaces between components

D. Enable code signing and a trusted binary repository integrated with your CI/CD pipeline

E. Run a vulnerability security scanner as part of your continuous-integration /continuous-delivery (CI/CD) pipeline

Correct Answer: BE

Community vote distribution

BE (48%) DE (31%) BD (17%) 2%
Question #167 Topic 1

You want to enable your running Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application changes.
What should you do?

A. Add additional nodes to your Kubernetes 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 Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster - -enable-
autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10

D. Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster with the following command: gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster - -enable-
autoscaling - -min-nodes=1 - -max-nodes=10 and redeploy your application

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #168 Topic 1

Your marketing department wants to send out a promotional email campaign. The development team wants to minimize direct operation
management. They project a wide range of possible customer responses, from 100 to 500,000 click-through per day. The link leads to a simple
website that explains the promotion and collects user information and preferences.
Which infrastructure should you recommend? (Choose two.)

A. Use Google App Engine to serve the website and Google Cloud Datastore to store user data.

B. Use a Google Container Engine cluster to serve the website and store data to persistent disk.

C. Use a managed instance group to serve the website and Google Cloud Bigtable to store user data.

D. Use a single Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) to host a web server, backend by Google Cloud SQL.

Correct Answer: AC

Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/

Community vote distribution

AC (100%)
Question #169 Topic 1

Your company just nished a rapid lift and shift to Google Compute Engine for your compute needs. You have another 9 months to design and
deploy a more cloud-native solution. Speci cally, you want a system that is no-ops and auto-scaling.
Which two compute products should you choose? (Choose two.)

A. Compute Engine with containers

B. Google Kubernetes Engine with containers

C. Google App Engine Standard Environment

D. Compute Engine with custom instance types

E. Compute Engine with managed instance groups

Correct Answer: BC
B: With Container Engine, Google will automatically deploy your cluster for you, update, patch, secure the nodes.
Kubernetes Engine's cluster autoscaler automatically resizes clusters based on the demands of the workloads you want to run.
C: Solutions like Datastore, BigQuery, AppEngine, etc are truly NoOps.
App Engine by default scales the number of instances running up and down to match the load, thus providing consistent performance for your
app at all times while minimizing idle instances and thus reducing cost.
Note: At a high level, NoOps means that there is no infrastructure to build out and manage during usage of the platform. Typically, the
compromise you make with
NoOps is that you lose control of the underlying infrastructure.
Reference:
https://www.quora.com/How-well-does-Google-Container-Engine-support-Google-Cloud-Platform%E2%80%99s-NoOps-claim

Community vote distribution

BC (65%) CE (35%)

Question #170 Topic 1

One of your primary business objectives is being able to trust the data stored in your application. You want to log all changes to the application
data.
How can you design your logging system to verify authenticity of your logs?

A. Write the log concurrently in the cloud and on premises

B. Use a SQL database and limit who can modify the log table

C. Digitally sign each timestamp and log entry and store the signature

D. Create a JSON dump of each log entry and store it in Google Cloud Storage

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #171 Topic 1

Your company has a Google Workspace account and Google Cloud Organization. Some developers in the company have created Google Cloud
projects outside of the Google Cloud Organization.
You want to create an Organization structure that allows developers to create projects, but prevents them from modifying production projects. You
want to manage policies for all projects centrally and be able to set more restrictive policies for production projects.
You want to minimize disruption to users and developers when business needs change in the future. You want to follow Google-recommended
practices. Now should you design the Organization structure?

A. 1. Create a second Google Workspace account and Organization. 2. Grant all developers the Project Creator IAM role on the new
Organization. 3. Move the developer projects into the new Organization. 4. Set the policies for all projects on both Organizations. 5.
Additionally, set the production policies on the original Organization.

B. 1. Create a folder under the Organization resource named €Production.2 € . Grant all developers the Project Creator IAM role on the new
Organization. 3. Move the developer projects into the new Organization. 4. Set the policies for all projects on the Organization. 5. Additionally,
set the production policies on the €Production € folder.

C. 1. Create folders under the Organization resource named €Development € and €Production.2 € . Grant all developers the Project Creator
IAM role on the €Development € folder. 3. Move the developer projects into the €Development € folder. 4. Set the policies for all projects on
the Organization. 5. Additionally, set the production policies on the €Production € folder.

D. 1. Designate the Organization for production projects only. 2. Ensure that developers do not have the Project Creator IAM role on the
Organization. 3. Create development projects outside of the Organization using the developer Google Workspace accounts. 4. Set the policies
for all projects on the Organization. 5. Additionally, set the production policies on the individual production projects.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-organization

Community vote distribution

C (97%)
Question #172 Topic 1

Your company has an application running on Compute Engine that allows users to play their favorite music. There are a xed number of instances.
Files are stored in Cloud Storage, and data is streamed directly to users. Users are reporting that they sometimes need to attempt to play popular
songs multiple times before they are successful. You need to improve the performance of the application. What should you do?

A. 1. Mount the Cloud Storage bucket using gcsfuse on all backend Compute Engine instances. 2. Serve music les directly from the backend
Compute Engine instance.

B. 1. Create a Cloud Filestore NFS volume and attach it to the backend Compute Engine instances. 2. Download popular songs in Cloud
Filestore. 3. Serve music les directly from the backend Compute Engine instance.

C. 1. Copy popular songs into CloudSQL as a blob. 2. Update application code to retrieve data from CloudSQL when Cloud Storage is
overloaded.

D. 1. Create a managed instance group with Compute Engine instances. 2. Create a global load balancer and con gure it with two backends:
—‹ Managed instance group —‹ Cloud Storage bucket 3. Enable Cloud CDN on the bucket backend.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/logging/usage-export

Community vote distribution

D (97%)

Question #173 Topic 1

The operations team in your company wants to save Cloud VPN log events for one year. You need to con gure the cloud infrastructure to save the
logs. What should you do?

A. Set up a lter in Cloud Logging and a Cloud Storage bucket as an export target for the logs you want to save.

B. Enable the Compute Engine API, and then enable logging on the rewall rules that match the tra c you want to save.

C. Set up a Cloud Logging Dashboard titled Cloud VPN Logs, and then add a chart that queries for the VPN metrics over a one-year time
period.

D. Set up a lter in Cloud Logging and a topic in Pub/Sub to publish the logs.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/vpn/how-to/viewing-logs-metrics

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #174 Topic 1

You are working with a data warehousing team that performs data analysis. The team needs to process data from external partners, but the data
contains personally identi able information (PII). You need to process and store the data without storing any of the PIIE data. What should you
do?

A. Create a Data ow pipeline to retrieve the data from the external sources. As part of the pipeline, use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud
DLP) API to remove any PII data. Store the result in BigQuery.

B. Create a Data ow pipeline to retrieve the data from the external sources. As part of the pipeline, store all non-PII data in BigQuery and store
all PII data in a Cloud Storage bucket that has a retention policy set.

C. Ask the external partners to upload all data on Cloud Storage. Con gure Bucket Lock for the bucket. Create a Data ow pipeline to read the
data from the bucket. As part of the pipeline, use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) API to remove any PII data. Store the result in
BigQuery.

D. Ask the external partners to import all data in your BigQuery dataset. Create a data ow pipeline to copy the data into a new table. As part of
the Data ow bucket, skip all data in columns that have PII data

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (74%) C (26%)

Question #175 Topic 1

You want to allow your operations team to store logs from all the production projects in your Organization, without including logs from other
projects. All of the production projects are contained in a folder. You want to ensure that all logs for existing and new production projects are
captured automatically. What should you do?

A. Create an aggregated export on the Production folder. Set the log sink to be a Cloud Storage bucket in an operations project.

B. Create an aggregated export on the Organization resource. Set the log sink to be a Cloud Storage bucket in an operations project.

C. Create log exports in the production projects. Set the log sinks to be a Cloud Storage bucket in an operations project.

D. Create log exports in the production projects. Set the log sinks to be BigQuery datasets in the production projects, and grant IAM access to
the operations team to run queries on the datasets.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit

Community vote distribution

A (97%)
Question #176 Topic 1

Your company has an application that is running on multiple instances of Compute Engine. It generates 1 TB per day of logs. For compliance
reasons, the logs need to be kept for at least two years. The logs need to be available for active query for 30 days. After that, they just need to be
retained for audit purposes. You want to implement a storage solution that is compliant, minimizes costs, and follows Google-recommended
practices. What should you do?

A. 1. Install a Cloud Logging agent on all instances. 2. Create a sink to export logs into a regional Cloud Storage bucket. 3. Create an Object
Lifecycle rule to move les into a Coldline Cloud Storage bucket after one month. 4. Con gure a retention policy at the bucket level using
bucket lock.

B. 1. Write a daily cron job, running on all instances, that uploads logs into a Cloud Storage bucket. 2. Create a sink to export logs into a
regional Cloud Storage bucket. 3. Create an Object Lifecycle rule to move les into a Coldline Cloud Storage bucket after one month.

C. 1. Install a Cloud Logging agent on all instances. 2. Create a sink to export logs into a partitioned BigQuery table. 3. Set a
time_partitioning_expiration of 30 days.

D. 1. Create a daily cron job, running on all instances, that uploads logs into a partitioned BigQuery table. 2. Set a time_partitioning_expiration
of 30 days.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (97%)

Question #177 Topic 1

Your company has just recently activated Cloud Identity to manage users. The Google Cloud Organization has been con gured as well. The
security team needs to secure projects that will be part of the Organization. They want to prohibit IAM users outside the domain from gaining
permissions from now on. What should they do?

A. Con gure an organization policy to restrict identities by domain.

B. Con gure an organization policy to block creation of service accounts.

C. Con gure Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function every hour that removes all users that don't belong to the Cloud Identity domain from
all projects.

D. Create a technical user (e.g., [email protected]), and give it the project owner role at root organization level. Write a bash script
that: €¢ Lists all the IAM rules of all projects within the organization. €¢ Deletes all users that do not belong to the company domain. Create
a Compute Engine instance in a project within the Organization and con gure gcloud to be executed with technical user credentials. Con gure
a cron job that executes the bash script every hour.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
https://sysdig.com/blog/gcp-security-best-practices/

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #178 Topic 1

Your company has an application running on Google Cloud that is collecting data from thousands of physical devices that are globally distributed.
Data is published to Pub/Sub and streamed in real time into an SSD Cloud Bigtable cluster via a Data ow pipeline. The operations team informs
you that your Cloud
Bigtable cluster has a hotspot, and queries are taking longer than expected. You need to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the
future. What should you do?

A. Advise your clients to use HBase APIs instead of NodeJS APIs.

B. Delete records older than 30 days.

C. Review your RowKey strategy and ensure that keys are evenly spread across the alphabet.

D. Double the number of nodes you currently have.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #179 Topic 1

Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing. There are some tables that contain personally identi able
information (PII).
Only the compliance team may access the PII. The other information in the tables must be available to the data science team. You want to
minimize cost and the time it takes to assign appropriate access to the tables. What should you do?

A. 1. From the dataset where you have the source data, create views of tables that you want to share, excluding PII. 2. Assign an appropriate
project-level IAM role to the members of the data science team. 3. Assign access controls to the dataset that contains the view.

B. 1. From the dataset where you have the source data, create materialized views of tables that you want to share, excluding PII. 2. Assign an
appropriate project-level IAM role to the members of the data science team. 3. Assign access controls to the dataset that contains the view.

C. 1. Create a dataset for the data science team. 2. Create views of tables that you want to share, excluding PII. 3. Assign an appropriate
project-level IAM role to the members of the data science team. 4. Assign access controls to the dataset that contains the view. 5. Authorize
the view to access the source dataset.

D. 1. Create a dataset for the data science team. 2. Create materialized views of tables that you want to share, excluding PII. 3. Assign an
appropriate project-level IAM role to the members of the data science team. 4. Assign access controls to the dataset that contains the view. 5.
Authorize the view to access the source dataset.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/bigquery-admin-reference-guide-data-governance?skip_cache=true

Community vote distribution

C (57%) A (36%) 7%
Question #180 Topic 1

Your operations team currently stores 10 TB of data in an object storage service from a third-party provider. They want to move this data to a
Cloud Storage bucket as quickly as possible, following Google-recommended practices. They want to minimize the cost of this data migration.
Which approach should they use?

A. Use the gsutil mv command to move the data.

B. Use the Storage Transfer Service to move the data.

C. Download the data to a Transfer Appliance, and ship it to Google.

D. Download the data to the on-premises data center, and upload it to the Cloud Storage bucket.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/migration-to-google-cloud-transferring-your-large-datasets

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #181 Topic 1

You have a Compute Engine managed instance group that adds and removes Compute Engine instances from the group in response to the load on
your application. The instances have a shutdown script that removes REDIS database entries associated with the instance. You see that many
database entries have not been removed, and you suspect that the shutdown script is the problem. You need to ensure that the commands in the
shutdown script are run reliably every time an instance is shut down. You create a Cloud Function to remove the database entries. What should
you do next?

A. Modify the shutdown script to wait for 30 seconds before triggering the Cloud Function.

B. Do not use the Cloud Function. Modify the shutdown script to restart if it has not completed in 30 seconds.

C. Set up a Cloud Monitoring sink that triggers the Cloud Function after an instance removal log message arrives in Cloud Logging.

D. Modify the shutdown script to wait for 30 seconds and then publish a message to a Pub/Sub queue.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (82%) Other
Question #182 Topic 1

You are managing several projects on Google Cloud and need to interact on a daily basis with BigQuery, Bigtable, and Kubernetes Engine using the
gcloud CL tool. You are travelling a lot and work on different workstations during the week. You want to avoid having to manage the gcloud CLI
manually. What should you do?

A. Use Google Cloud Shell in the Google Cloud Console to interact with Google Cloud.

B. Create a Compute Engine instance and install gcloud on the instance. Connect to this instance via SSH to always use the same gcloud
installation when interacting with Google Cloud.

C. Install gcloud on all of your workstations. Run the command gcloud components auto-update on each workstation

D. Use a package manager to install gcloud on your workstations instead of installing it manually.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #183 Topic 1

Your company recently acquired a company that has infrastructure in Google Cloud. Each company has its own Google Cloud organization. Each
company is using a Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to provide network connectivity for its applications. Some of the subnets used by both
companies overlap. In order for both businesses to integrate, the applications need to have private network connectivity. These applications are
not on overlapping subnets. You want to provide connectivity with minimal re-engineering. What should you do?

A. Set up VPC peering and peer each Shared VPC together.

B. Migrate the projects from the acquired company into your company's Google Cloud organization. Re-launch the instances in your
companies Shared VPC.

C. Set up a Cloud VPN gateway in each Shared VPC and peer Cloud VPNs.

D. Con gure SSH port forwarding on each application to provide connectivity between applications in the different Shared VPCs.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (72%) A (20%) 8%
Question #184 Topic 1

You are managing several internal applications that are deployed on Compute Engine. Business users inform you that an application has become
very slow over the past few days. You want to nd the underlying cause in order to solve the problem. What should you do rst?

A. Inspect the logs and metrics from the instances in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.

B. Change the Compute Engine Instances behind the application to a machine type with more CPU and memory.

C. Restore a backup of the application database from a time before the application became slow.

D. Deploy the applications on a managed instance group with autoscaling enabled. Add a load balancer in front of the managed instance
group, and have the users connect to the IP of the load balancer.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #185 Topic 1

Your company has an application running as a Deployment in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. When releasing new versions of the
application via a rolling deployment, the team has been causing outages. The root cause of the outages is miscon gurations with parameters that
are only used in production. You want to put preventive measures for this in the platform to prevent outages. What should you do?

A. Con gure liveness and readiness probes in the Pod speci cation.

B. Con gure health checks on the managed instance group.

C. Create a Scheduled Task to check whether the application is available.

D. Con gure an uptime alert in Cloud Monitoring.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #186 Topic 1

Your company uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a platform for all workloads. Your company has a single large GKE cluster that contains
batch, stateful, and stateless workloads. The GKE cluster is con gured with a single node pool with 200 nodes. Your company needs to reduce the
cost of this cluster but does not want to compromise availability. What should you do?

A. Create a second GKE cluster for the batch workloads only. Allocate the 200 original nodes across both clusters.

B. Con gure CPU and memory limits on the namespaces in the cluster. Con gure all Pods to have a CPU and memory limits.

C. Con gure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler for all stateless workloads and for all compatible stateful workloads. Con gure the cluster to use
node auto scaling.

D. Change the node pool to use preemptible VMs.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #187 Topic 1

Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing on a pay-per-use basis. You want to monitor queries in real
time to discover the most costly queries and which users spend the most. What should you do?

A. 1. In the BigQuery dataset that contains all the tables to be queried, add a label for each user that can launch a query. 2. Open the Billing
page of the project. 3. Select Reports. 4. Select BigQuery as the product and lter by the user you want to check.

B. 1. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export BigQuery data access logs to BigQuery. 2. Perform a BigQuery query on the generated table to
extract the information you need.

C. 1. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export BigQuery data access logs to Cloud Storage. 2. Develop a Data ow pipeline to compute the cost of
queries split by users.

D. 1. Activate billing export into BigQuery. 2. Perform a BigQuery query on the billing table to extract the information you need.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

B (79%) D (15%) 6%

Question #188 Topic 1

Your company and one of its partners each have a Google Cloud project in separate organizations. Your company's project (prj-a) runs in Virtual
Private Cloud
(vpc-a). The partner's project (prj-b) runs in vpc-b. There are two instances running on vpc-a and one instance running on vpc-b. Subnets de ned in
both VPCs are not overlapping. You need to ensure that all instances communicate with each other via internal IPs, minimizing latency and
maximizing throughput. What should you do?

A. Set up a network peering between vpc-a and vpc-b.

B. Set up a VPN between vpc-a and vpc-b using Cloud VPN.

C. Con gure IAP TCP forwarding on the instance in vpc-b, and then launch the following gcloud command from one of the instances in vpc-a
gcloud: gcloud compute start-iap-tunnel INSTANCE_NAME_IN_VPC_8 22 \ --local-host-port=localhost:22

D. 1. Create an additional instance in vpc-a. 2. Create an additional instance in vpc-b. 3. Install OpenVPN in newly created instances. 4.
Con gure a VPN tunnel between vpc-a and vpc-b with the help of OpenVPN.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #189 Topic 1

You want to store critical business information in Cloud Storage buckets. The information is regularly changed, but previous versions need to be
referenced on a regular basis. You want to ensure that there is a record of all changes to any information in these buckets. You want to ensure
that accidental edits or deletions can be easily rolled back. Which feature should you enable?

A. Bucket Lock

B. Object Versioning

C. Object change noti cation

D. Object Lifecycle Management

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/object-versioning

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #190 Topic 1

You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud
Monitoring agent and con gured the autoscaling policy as follows:
Metric identi er: agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used
Filter: metric.label.state = 'used'
Target utilization level: 80
Target type: GAUGE
You observe that the application does not scale under high load. You want to resolve this. What should you do?

A. Change the Target type to DELTA_PER_MINUTE.

B. Change the Metric identi er to agent.googleapis.com/memory/bytes_used.

C. Change the lter to metric.label.state = 'used' AND metric.label.state = 'buffered' AND metric.label.state = 'cached' AND metric.label.state =
'slab'.

D. Change the lter to metric.label.state = 'free' and the Target utilization to 20.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (49%) A (35%) D (16%)
Question #191 Topic 1

You are deploying an application to Google Cloud. The application is part of a system. The application in Google Cloud must communicate over a
private network with applications in a non-Google Cloud environment. The expected average throughput is 200 kbps. The business requires:
as close to 100% system availability as possible
cost optimization
You need to design the connectivity between the locations to meet the business requirements. What should you provision?

A. An HA Cloud VPN gateway connected with two tunnels to an on-premises VPN gateway

B. Two Classic Cloud VPN gateways connected to two on-premises VPN gateways Con gure each Classic Cloud VPN gateway to have two
tunnels, each connected to different on-premises VPN gateways

C. Two HA Cloud VPN gateways connected to two on-premises VPN gateways Con gure each HA Cloud VPN gateway to have two tunnels,
each connected to different on-premises VPN gateways

D. A single Cloud VPN gateway connected to an on-premises VPN gateway

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (79%) 14% 7%
Topic 2 - Testlet 1

Question #1 Topic 2

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One
of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon
output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background -
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service.
Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart
has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept -
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the
cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no
longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment -

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
Application: Customer loyalty portal
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database -
Oracle Database stores user pro les
- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute -
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage -
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week

Business Requirements -
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated nancial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements -
Assess key application for cloud suitability
Modify applications for the cloud
Move applications to a new infrastructure
Leverage managed services wherever feasible
Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement -
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is
in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the
environment through `green` initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement -
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a
public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement -
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to
outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak
periods and reduce costs.

Question
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?

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

Correct Answer: D
Note: The principle of least privilege and separation of duties are concepts that, although semantically different, are intrinsically related from
the standpoint of security. The intent behind both is to prevent people from having higher privilege levels than they actually need
Principle of Least Privilege: Users should only have the least amount of privileges required to perform their job and no more. This reduces
authorization exploitation by limiting access to resources such as targets, jobs, or monitoring templates for which they are not authorized.
Separation of Duties: Beyond limiting user privilege level, you also limit user duties, or the speci c jobs they can perform. No user should be
given responsibility for more than one related function. This limits the ability of a user to perform a malicious action and then cover up that
action.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/separation-of-duties

Community vote distribution

C (89%) 11%
Question #2 Topic 2

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One
of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon
output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background -
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service.
Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart
has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept -
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the
cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no
longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment -

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
Application: Customer loyalty portal
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database -
Oracle Database stores user pro les
- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute -
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage -
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week

Business Requirements -
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated nancial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements -
Assess key application for cloud suitability
Modify applications for the cloud
Move applications to a new infrastructure
Leverage managed services wherever feasible
Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement -
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is
in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the
environment through `green` initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement -
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a
public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement -
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to
outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak
periods and reduce costs.

Question
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 three.)

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 rewall rules for the network the machine is connected to

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

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

Correct Answer: CDF

D: Handling "Unable to connect on port 22" error message
Possible causes include:
There is no rewall rule allowing SSH access on the port. SSH access on port 22 is enabled on all Compute Engine instances by default. If
you have disabled access, SSH from the Browser will not work. If you run sshd on a port other than 22, you need to enable the access to that
port with a custom rewall rule.
The rewall rule allowing SSH access is enabled, but is not con gured to allow connections from GCP Console services. Source IP
addresses for browser- based SSH sessions are dynamically allocated by GCP Console and can vary from session to session.
F: Handling "Could not connect, retrying..." error
You can verify that the daemon is running by navigating to the serial console output page and looking for output lines pre xed with the
accounts-from-metadata: string. If you are using a standard image but you do not see these output pre xes in the serial console output, the
daemon might be stopped. Reboot the instance to restart the daemon.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser

Community vote distribution

CDF (100%)
Question #3 Topic 2

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One
of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon
output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background -
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service.
Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart
has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept -
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the
cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no
longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment -

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
Application: Customer loyalty portal
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database -
Oracle Database stores user pro les
- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute -
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage -
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week

Business Requirements -
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated nancial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements -
Assess key application for cloud suitability
Modify applications for the cloud
Move applications to a new infrastructure
Leverage managed services wherever feasible
Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement -
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is
in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the
environment through `green` initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement -
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a
public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement -
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to
outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak
periods and reduce costs.

Question
JencoMart has decided to migrate user pro le 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?

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 Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed
keys for the VMs

Correct Answer: C
Migrating data to Google Cloud Platform
Let's say that you have some data processing that happens on another cloud provider and you want to transfer the processed data to Google
Cloud Platform. You can use a service account from the virtual machines on the external cloud to push the data to Google Cloud Platform. To
do this, you must create and download a service account key when you create the service account and then use that key from the external
process to call the Cloud Platform APIs.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts#migrating_data_to_google_cloud_platform

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #4 Topic 2

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One
of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon
output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background -
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service.
Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart
has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept -
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the
cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no
longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment -

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
Application: Customer loyalty portal
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database -
Oracle Database stores user pro les
- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute -
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage -
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week

Business Requirements -
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated nancial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements -
Assess key application for cloud suitability
Modify applications for the cloud
Move applications to a new infrastructure
Leverage managed services wherever feasible
Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement -
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is
in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the
environment through `green` initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement -
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a
public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement -
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to
outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak
periods and reduce costs.

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

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 from Asia

E. The number of character sets present in the database

Correct Answer: D
From scenario:
Business Requirements include: Expand services into Asia
Technical Requirements include: Decrease latency in Asia

Community vote distribution

C (58%) D (42%)
Question #5 Topic 2

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One
of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon
output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background -
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service.
Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart
has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept -
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the
cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no
longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment -

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
Application: Customer loyalty portal
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database -
Oracle Database stores user pro les
- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute -
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage -
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week

Business Requirements -
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated nancial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements -
Assess key application for cloud suitability
Modify applications for the cloud
Move applications to a new infrastructure
Leverage managed services wherever feasible
Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement -
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is
in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the
environment through `green` initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement -
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a
public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement -
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to
outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak
periods and reduce costs.

Question

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 three.)

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

Correct Answer: ACE

Community vote distribution

ACF (50%) AC (36%) 14%
Question #6 Topic 2

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One
of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon
output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company Background -
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands, known for great value and customer service.
Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart
has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution Concept -
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the
cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no
longer supported.

Existing Technical Environment -

JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe; most applications are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture.
Application: Customer loyalty portal
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers.

Database -
Oracle Database stores user pro les
- 20 TB
- Complex table structure
- Well maintained, clean data
- Strong backup strategy
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
- Single-homed in US West
- No redundancy
- Backed up every 12 hours
- 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
- Authenticates all users

Compute -
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
- Twin, dual core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
- Single, dual-core CPU
- 24 GB of RAM
- Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)

Storage -
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week

Business Requirements -
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated nancial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia

Technical Requirements -
Assess key application for cloud suitability
Modify applications for the cloud
Move applications to a new infrastructure
Leverage managed services wherever feasible
Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
Decrease latency in Asia

CEO Statement -
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is
in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a responsibility to the
environment through `green` initiatives and policies.

CTO Statement -
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our long-term success. Migrating our data services to a
public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.

CFO Statement -
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to
outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak
periods and reduce costs.

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

A. Cloud Spanner

B. Google BigQuery

C. Google Cloud SQL

D. Google Cloud Datastore

Correct Answer: D
Common workloads for Google Cloud Datastore:
User pro les
Product catalogs
Game state
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/overview

Community vote distribution

A (56%) D (44%)
Topic 3 - Testlet 10

Question #1 Topic 3

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and
several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the
races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race.

Solution concept -
HRL wants to migrate their existing service to a new platform to expand their use of managed AI and ML services to facilitate race predictions.
Additionally, as new fans engage with the sport, particularly in emerging regions, they want to move the serving of their content, both real-time and
recorded, closer to their users.

Existing technical environment -

HRL is a public cloud- rst company; the core of their mission-critical applications runs on their current public cloud provider. Video recording and
editing is performed at the race tracks, and the content is encoded and transcoded, where needed, in the cloud. Enterprise-grade connectivity and
local compute is provided by truck-mounted mobile data centers. Their race prediction services are hosted exclusively on their existing public
cloud provider. Their existing technical environment is as follows:
Existing content is stored in an object storage service on their existing public cloud provider.
Video encoding and transcoding is performed on VMs created for each job.
Race predictions are performed using TensorFlow running on VMs in the current public cloud provider.

Business requirements -
HRL's owners want to expand their predictive capabilities and reduce latency for their viewers in emerging markets. Their requirements are:
Support ability to expose the predictive models to partners.
Increase predictive capabilities during and before races:
—‹ Race results
—‹ Mechanical failures
—‹ Crowd sentiment
Increase telemetry and create additional insights.
Measure fan engagement with new predictions.
Enhance global availability and quality of the broadcasts.
Increase the number of concurrent viewers.
Minimize operational complexity.
Ensure compliance with regulations.
Create a merchandising revenue stream.

Technical requirements -
Maintain or increase prediction throughput and accuracy.
Reduce viewer latency.
Increase transcoding performance.
Create real-time analytics of viewer consumption patterns and engagement.
Create a data mart to enable processing of large volumes of race data.

Executive statement -
Our CEO, S. Hawke, wants to bring high-adrenaline racing to fans all around the world. We listen to our fans, and they want enhanced video
streams that include predictions of events within the race (e.g., overtaking). Our current platform allows us to predict race outcomes but lacks the
facility to support real-time predictions during races and the capacity to process season-long results.

Question
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?

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.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (96%) 4%
Question #2 Topic 3

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and
several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the
races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race.

Solution concept -
HRL wants to migrate their existing service to a new platform to expand their use of managed AI and ML services to facilitate race predictions.
Additionally, as new fans engage with the sport, particularly in emerging regions, they want to move the serving of their content, both real-time and
recorded, closer to their users.

Existing technical environment -

HRL is a public cloud- rst company; the core of their mission-critical applications runs on their current public cloud provider. Video recording and
editing is performed at the race tracks, and the content is encoded and transcoded, where needed, in the cloud. Enterprise-grade connectivity and
local compute is provided by truck-mounted mobile data centers. Their race prediction services are hosted exclusively on their existing public
cloud provider. Their existing technical environment is as follows:
Existing content is stored in an object storage service on their existing public cloud provider.
Video encoding and transcoding is performed on VMs created for each job.
Race predictions are performed using TensorFlow running on VMs in the current public cloud provider.

Business requirements -
HRL's owners want to expand their predictive capabilities and reduce latency for their viewers in emerging markets. Their requirements are:
Support ability to expose the predictive models to partners.
Increase predictive capabilities during and before races:
—‹ Race results
—‹ Mechanical failures
—‹ Crowd sentiment
Increase telemetry and create additional insights.
Measure fan engagement with new predictions.
Enhance global availability and quality of the broadcasts.
Increase the number of concurrent viewers.
Minimize operational complexity.
Ensure compliance with regulations.
Create a merchandising revenue stream.

Technical requirements -
Maintain or increase prediction throughput and accuracy.
Reduce viewer latency.
Increase transcoding performance.
Create real-time analytics of viewer consumption patterns and engagement.
Create a data mart to enable processing of large volumes of race data.

Executive statement -
Our CEO, S. Hawke, wants to bring high-adrenaline racing to fans all around the world. We listen to our fans, and they want enhanced video
streams that include predictions of events within the race (e.g., overtaking). Our current platform allows us to predict race outcomes but lacks the
facility to support real-time predictions during races and the capacity to process season-long results.

Question
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 tra c 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 con gure the update that will allow only the Fastly IP address ranges through the External
HTTP(S) load balancer. Which command should you use?
A.
B.

C.

D.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https
Question #3 Topic 3

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and
several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the
races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race.

Solution concept -
HRL wants to migrate their existing service to a new platform to expand their use of managed AI and ML services to facilitate race predictions.
Additionally, as new fans engage with the sport, particularly in emerging regions, they want to move the serving of their content, both real-time and
recorded, closer to their users.

Existing technical environment -

HRL is a public cloud- rst company; the core of their mission-critical applications runs on their current public cloud provider. Video recording and
editing is performed at the race tracks, and the content is encoded and transcoded, where needed, in the cloud. Enterprise-grade connectivity and
local compute is provided by truck-mounted mobile data centers. Their race prediction services are hosted exclusively on their existing public
cloud provider. Their existing technical environment is as follows:
Existing content is stored in an object storage service on their existing public cloud provider.
Video encoding and transcoding is performed on VMs created for each job.
Race predictions are performed using TensorFlow running on VMs in the current public cloud provider.

Business requirements -
HRL's owners want to expand their predictive capabilities and reduce latency for their viewers in emerging markets. Their requirements are:
Support ability to expose the predictive models to partners.
Increase predictive capabilities during and before races:
—‹ Race results
—‹ Mechanical failures
—‹ Crowd sentiment
Increase telemetry and create additional insights.
Measure fan engagement with new predictions.
Enhance global availability and quality of the broadcasts.
Increase the number of concurrent viewers.
Minimize operational complexity.
Ensure compliance with regulations.
Create a merchandising revenue stream.

Technical requirements -
Maintain or increase prediction throughput and accuracy.
Reduce viewer latency.
Increase transcoding performance.
Create real-time analytics of viewer consumption patterns and engagement.
Create a data mart to enable processing of large volumes of race data.

Executive statement -
Our CEO, S. Hawke, wants to bring high-adrenaline racing to fans all around the world. We listen to our fans, and they want enhanced video
streams that include predictions of events within the race (e.g., overtaking). Our current platform allows us to predict race outcomes but lacks the
facility to support real-time predictions during races and the capacity to process season-long results.

Question
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?
 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. Con gure the deployment job to notify a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function.

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

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (80%) 14% 6%
Question #4 Topic 3

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and
several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the
races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race.

Solution concept -
HRL wants to migrate their existing service to a new platform to expand their use of managed AI and ML services to facilitate race predictions.
Additionally, as new fans engage with the sport, particularly in emerging regions, they want to move the serving of their content, both real-time and
recorded, closer to their users.

Existing technical environment -

HRL is a public cloud- rst company; the core of their mission-critical applications runs on their current public cloud provider. Video recording and
editing is performed at the race tracks, and the content is encoded and transcoded, where needed, in the cloud. Enterprise-grade connectivity and
local compute is provided by truck-mounted mobile data centers. Their race prediction services are hosted exclusively on their existing public
cloud provider. Their existing technical environment is as follows:
Existing content is stored in an object storage service on their existing public cloud provider.
Video encoding and transcoding is performed on VMs created for each job.
Race predictions are performed using TensorFlow running on VMs in the current public cloud provider.

Business requirements -
HRL's owners want to expand their predictive capabilities and reduce latency for their viewers in emerging markets. Their requirements are:
Support ability to expose the predictive models to partners.
Increase predictive capabilities during and before races:
—‹ Race results
—‹ Mechanical failures
—‹ Crowd sentiment
Increase telemetry and create additional insights.
Measure fan engagement with new predictions.
Enhance global availability and quality of the broadcasts.
Increase the number of concurrent viewers.
Minimize operational complexity.
Ensure compliance with regulations.
Create a merchandising revenue stream.

Technical requirements -
Maintain or increase prediction throughput and accuracy.
Reduce viewer latency.
Increase transcoding performance.
Create real-time analytics of viewer consumption patterns and engagement.
Create a data mart to enable processing of large volumes of race data.

Executive statement -
Our CEO, S. Hawke, wants to bring high-adrenaline racing to fans all around the world. We listen to our fans, and they want enhanced video
streams that include predictions of events within the race (e.g., overtaking). Our current platform allows us to predict race outcomes but lacks the
facility to support real-time predictions during races and the capacity to process season-long results.

Question
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?

A. Use Explainable AI.

B. Use Vision AI.

C. Use Google Cloud's operations suite.

 D. Use Jupyter Notebooks.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/prediction/docs/ai-explanations/preparing-metadata

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #5 Topic 3

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and
several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the
races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race.

Solution concept -
HRL wants to migrate their existing service to a new platform to expand their use of managed AI and ML services to facilitate race predictions.
Additionally, as new fans engage with the sport, particularly in emerging regions, they want to move the serving of their content, both real-time and
recorded, closer to their users.

Existing technical environment -

HRL is a public cloud- rst company; the core of their mission-critical applications runs on their current public cloud provider. Video recording and
editing is performed at the race tracks, and the content is encoded and transcoded, where needed, in the cloud. Enterprise-grade connectivity and
local compute is provided by truck-mounted mobile data centers. Their race prediction services are hosted exclusively on their existing public
cloud provider. Their existing technical environment is as follows:
Existing content is stored in an object storage service on their existing public cloud provider.
Video encoding and transcoding is performed on VMs created for each job.
Race predictions are performed using TensorFlow running on VMs in the current public cloud provider.

Business requirements -
HRL's owners want to expand their predictive capabilities and reduce latency for their viewers in emerging markets. Their requirements are:
Support ability to expose the predictive models to partners.
Increase predictive capabilities during and before races:
—‹ Race results
—‹ Mechanical failures
—‹ Crowd sentiment
Increase telemetry and create additional insights.
Measure fan engagement with new predictions.
Enhance global availability and quality of the broadcasts.
Increase the number of concurrent viewers.
Minimize operational complexity.
Ensure compliance with regulations.
Create a merchandising revenue stream.

Technical requirements -
Maintain or increase prediction throughput and accuracy.
Reduce viewer latency.
Increase transcoding performance.
Create real-time analytics of viewer consumption patterns and engagement.
Create a data mart to enable processing of large volumes of race data.

Executive statement -
Our CEO, S. Hawke, wants to bring high-adrenaline racing to fans all around the world. We listen to our fans, and they want enhanced video
streams that include predictions of events within the race (e.g., overtaking). Our current platform allows us to predict race outcomes but lacks the
facility to support real-time predictions during races and the capacity to process season-long results.

Question
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?

A. Use Firestore for its scalable and exible 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.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #6 Topic 3

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and
several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the
races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race.

Solution concept -
HRL wants to migrate their existing service to a new platform to expand their use of managed AI and ML services to facilitate race predictions.
Additionally, as new fans engage with the sport, particularly in emerging regions, they want to move the serving of their content, both real-time and
recorded, closer to their users.

Existing technical environment -

HRL is a public cloud- rst company; the core of their mission-critical applications runs on their current public cloud provider. Video recording and
editing is performed at the race tracks, and the content is encoded and transcoded, where needed, in the cloud. Enterprise-grade connectivity and
local compute is provided by truck-mounted mobile data centers. Their race prediction services are hosted exclusively on their existing public
cloud provider. Their existing technical environment is as follows:
Existing content is stored in an object storage service on their existing public cloud provider.
Video encoding and transcoding is performed on VMs created for each job.
Race predictions are performed using TensorFlow running on VMs in the current public cloud provider.

Business requirements -
HRL's owners want to expand their predictive capabilities and reduce latency for their viewers in emerging markets. Their requirements are:
Support ability to expose the predictive models to partners.
Increase predictive capabilities during and before races:
—‹ Race results
—‹ Mechanical failures
—‹ Crowd sentiment
Increase telemetry and create additional insights.
Measure fan engagement with new predictions.
Enhance global availability and quality of the broadcasts.
Increase the number of concurrent viewers.
Minimize operational complexity.
Ensure compliance with regulations.
Create a merchandising revenue stream.

Technical requirements -
Maintain or increase prediction throughput and accuracy.
Reduce viewer latency.
Increase transcoding performance.
Create real-time analytics of viewer consumption patterns and engagement.
Create a data mart to enable processing of large volumes of race data.

Executive statement -
Our CEO, S. Hawke, wants to bring high-adrenaline racing to fans all around the world. We listen to our fans, and they want enhanced video
streams that include predictions of events within the race (e.g., overtaking). Our current platform allows us to predict race outcomes but lacks the
facility to support real-time predictions during races and the capacity to process season-long results.

Question
For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent nance 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?

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.

Correct Answer: C
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-and-applying-idle-vm-recommendations

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Topic 4 - Testlet 11

Question #1 Topic 4

Introductory Info
Company overview -
EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a
service to multi- national medical o ces, hospitals, and insurance providers.

Solution concept -
Due to rapid changes in the healthcare and insurance industry, EHR Healthcare's business has been growing exponentially year over year. They
need to be able to scale their environment, adapt their disaster recovery plan, and roll out new continuous deployment capabilities to update their
software at a fast pace. Google
Cloud has been chosen to replace their current colocation facilities.

Existing technical environment -

EHR's software is currently hosted in multiple colocation facilities. The lease on one of the data centers is about to expire.
Customer-facing applications are web-based, and many have recently been containerized to run on a group of Kubernetes clusters. Data is stored
in a mixture of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB).
EHR is hosting several legacy le- and API-based integrations with insurance providers on-premises. These systems are scheduled to be replaced
over the next several years. There is no plan to upgrade or move these systems at the current time.
Users are managed via Microsoft Active Directory. Monitoring is currently being done via various open source tools. Alerts are sent via email and
are often ignored.

Business requirements -
* On-board new insurance providers as quickly as possible.
* Provide a minimum 99.9% availability for all customer-facing systems.
* Provide centralized visibility and proactive action on system performance and usage.
* Increase ability to provide insights into healthcare trends.
* Reduce latency to all customers.
* Maintain regulatory compliance.
* Decrease infrastructure administration costs.
* Make predictions and generate reports on industry trends based on provider data.

Technical requirements -
* Maintain legacy interfaces to insurance providers with connectivity to both on-premises systems and cloud providers.
* Provide a consistent way to manage customer-facing applications that are container-based.
* Provide a secure and high-performance connection between on-premises systems and Google Cloud.
* Provide consistent logging, log retention, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
* Maintain and manage multiple container-based environments.
* Dynamically scale and provision new environments.
* Create interfaces to ingest and process data from new providers.

Executive statement -
Our on-premises strategy has worked for years but has required a major investment of time and money in training our team on distinctly different
systems, managing similar but separate environments, and responding to outages. Many of these outages have been a result of miscon gured
systems, inadequate capacity to manage spikes in tra c, and inconsistent monitoring practices. We want to use Google Cloud to leverage a
scalable, resilient platform that can span multiple environments seamlessly and provide a consistent and stable user experience that positions us
for future growth.

Question
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for ensuring that EHR's use of Google Cloud will pass an upcoming
privacy compliance audit. What should you do? (Choose two.)

A. Verify EHR's product usage against the list of compliant products on the Google Cloud compliance page.

B. Advise EHR to execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Google Cloud.
 C. Use Firebase Authentication for EHR's user facing applications.

D. Implement Prometheus to detect and prevent security breaches on EHR's web-based applications.

E. Use GKE private clusters for all Kubernetes workloads.

Correct Answer: BD

Community vote distribution

AB (100%)
Question #2 Topic 4

Introductory Info
Company overview -
EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a
service to multi- national medical o ces, hospitals, and insurance providers.

Solution concept -
Due to rapid changes in the healthcare and insurance industry, EHR Healthcare's business has been growing exponentially year over year. They
need to be able to scale their environment, adapt their disaster recovery plan, and roll out new continuous deployment capabilities to update their
software at a fast pace. Google
Cloud has been chosen to replace their current colocation facilities.

Existing technical environment -

EHR's software is currently hosted in multiple colocation facilities. The lease on one of the data centers is about to expire.
Customer-facing applications are web-based, and many have recently been containerized to run on a group of Kubernetes clusters. Data is stored
in a mixture of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB).
EHR is hosting several legacy le- and API-based integrations with insurance providers on-premises. These systems are scheduled to be replaced
over the next several years. There is no plan to upgrade or move these systems at the current time.
Users are managed via Microsoft Active Directory. Monitoring is currently being done via various open source tools. Alerts are sent via email and
are often ignored.

Business requirements -
* On-board new insurance providers as quickly as possible.
* Provide a minimum 99.9% availability for all customer-facing systems.
* Provide centralized visibility and proactive action on system performance and usage.
* Increase ability to provide insights into healthcare trends.
* Reduce latency to all customers.
* Maintain regulatory compliance.
* Decrease infrastructure administration costs.
* Make predictions and generate reports on industry trends based on provider data.

Technical requirements -
* Maintain legacy interfaces to insurance providers with connectivity to both on-premises systems and cloud providers.
* Provide a consistent way to manage customer-facing applications that are container-based.
* Provide a secure and high-performance connection between on-premises systems and Google Cloud.
* Provide consistent logging, log retention, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
* Maintain and manage multiple container-based environments.
* Dynamically scale and provision new environments.
* Create interfaces to ingest and process data from new providers.

Executive statement -
Our on-premises strategy has worked for years but has required a major investment of time and money in training our team on distinctly different
systems, managing similar but separate environments, and responding to outages. Many of these outages have been a result of miscon gured
systems, inadequate capacity to manage spikes in tra c, and inconsistent monitoring practices. We want to use Google Cloud to leverage a
scalable, resilient platform that can span multiple environments seamlessly and provide a consistent and stable user experience that positions us
for future growth.

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

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

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

C. Con gure Container Registry to only allow trusted service accounts to create and deploy containers from the registry.
 D. Con gure Container Registry to use vulnerability scanning to con rm that there are no vulnerabilities before deploying the workload.

Correct Answer: AB

Community vote distribution

AD (39%) AC (39%) AB (16%) 6%
Question #3 Topic 4

Introductory Info
Company overview -
EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a
service to multi- national medical o ces, hospitals, and insurance providers.

Solution concept -
Due to rapid changes in the healthcare and insurance industry, EHR Healthcare's business has been growing exponentially year over year. They
need to be able to scale their environment, adapt their disaster recovery plan, and roll out new continuous deployment capabilities to update their
software at a fast pace. Google
Cloud has been chosen to replace their current colocation facilities.

Existing technical environment -

EHR's software is currently hosted in multiple colocation facilities. The lease on one of the data centers is about to expire.
Customer-facing applications are web-based, and many have recently been containerized to run on a group of Kubernetes clusters. Data is stored
in a mixture of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB).
EHR is hosting several legacy le- and API-based integrations with insurance providers on-premises. These systems are scheduled to be replaced
over the next several years. There is no plan to upgrade or move these systems at the current time.
Users are managed via Microsoft Active Directory. Monitoring is currently being done via various open source tools. Alerts are sent via email and
are often ignored.

Business requirements -
* On-board new insurance providers as quickly as possible.
* Provide a minimum 99.9% availability for all customer-facing systems.
* Provide centralized visibility and proactive action on system performance and usage.
* Increase ability to provide insights into healthcare trends.
* Reduce latency to all customers.
* Maintain regulatory compliance.
* Decrease infrastructure administration costs.
* Make predictions and generate reports on industry trends based on provider data.

Technical requirements -
* Maintain legacy interfaces to insurance providers with connectivity to both on-premises systems and cloud providers.
* Provide a consistent way to manage customer-facing applications that are container-based.
* Provide a secure and high-performance connection between on-premises systems and Google Cloud.
* Provide consistent logging, log retention, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
* Maintain and manage multiple container-based environments.
* Dynamically scale and provision new environments.
* Create interfaces to ingest and process data from new providers.

Executive statement -
Our on-premises strategy has worked for years but has required a major investment of time and money in training our team on distinctly different
systems, managing similar but separate environments, and responding to outages. Many of these outages have been a result of miscon gured
systems, inadequate capacity to manage spikes in tra c, and inconsistent monitoring practices. We want to use Google Cloud to leverage a
scalable, resilient platform that can span multiple environments seamlessly and provide a consistent and stable user experience that positions us
for future growth.

Question
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?

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.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #4 Topic 4

Introductory Info
Company overview -
EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a
service to multi- national medical o ces, hospitals, and insurance providers.

Solution concept -
Due to rapid changes in the healthcare and insurance industry, EHR Healthcare's business has been growing exponentially year over year. They
need to be able to scale their environment, adapt their disaster recovery plan, and roll out new continuous deployment capabilities to update their
software at a fast pace. Google
Cloud has been chosen to replace their current colocation facilities.

Existing technical environment -

EHR's software is currently hosted in multiple colocation facilities. The lease on one of the data centers is about to expire.
Customer-facing applications are web-based, and many have recently been containerized to run on a group of Kubernetes clusters. Data is stored
in a mixture of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB).
EHR is hosting several legacy le- and API-based integrations with insurance providers on-premises. These systems are scheduled to be replaced
over the next several years. There is no plan to upgrade or move these systems at the current time.
Users are managed via Microsoft Active Directory. Monitoring is currently being done via various open source tools. Alerts are sent via email and
are often ignored.

Business requirements -
* On-board new insurance providers as quickly as possible.
* Provide a minimum 99.9% availability for all customer-facing systems.
* Provide centralized visibility and proactive action on system performance and usage.
* Increase ability to provide insights into healthcare trends.
* Reduce latency to all customers.
* Maintain regulatory compliance.
* Decrease infrastructure administration costs.
* Make predictions and generate reports on industry trends based on provider data.

Technical requirements -
* Maintain legacy interfaces to insurance providers with connectivity to both on-premises systems and cloud providers.
* Provide a consistent way to manage customer-facing applications that are container-based.
* Provide a secure and high-performance connection between on-premises systems and Google Cloud.
* Provide consistent logging, log retention, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
* Maintain and manage multiple container-based environments.
* Dynamically scale and provision new environments.
* Create interfaces to ingest and process data from new providers.

Executive statement -
Our on-premises strategy has worked for years but has required a major investment of time and money in training our team on distinctly different
systems, managing similar but separate environments, and responding to outages. Many of these outages have been a result of miscon gured
systems, inadequate capacity to manage spikes in tra c, and inconsistent monitoring practices. We want to use Google Cloud to leverage a
scalable, resilient platform that can span multiple environments seamlessly and provide a consistent and stable user experience that positions us
for future growth.

Question
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to de ne 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?

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

B. Con gure two VPN connections from on-premises to Google Cloud, and make sure the VPN devices on-premises are in separate racks.
 C. Con gure Direct Peering between EHR Healthcare and Google Cloud, and make sure you are peering at least two Google locations.

D. Con gure 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.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (83%) A (17%)
Question #5 Topic 4

Introductory Info
Company overview -
EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a
service to multi- national medical o ces, hospitals, and insurance providers.

Solution concept -
Due to rapid changes in the healthcare and insurance industry, EHR Healthcare's business has been growing exponentially year over year. They
need to be able to scale their environment, adapt their disaster recovery plan, and roll out new continuous deployment capabilities to update their
software at a fast pace. Google
Cloud has been chosen to replace their current colocation facilities.

Existing technical environment -

EHR's software is currently hosted in multiple colocation facilities. The lease on one of the data centers is about to expire.
Customer-facing applications are web-based, and many have recently been containerized to run on a group of Kubernetes clusters. Data is stored
in a mixture of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB).
EHR is hosting several legacy le- and API-based integrations with insurance providers on-premises. These systems are scheduled to be replaced
over the next several years. There is no plan to upgrade or move these systems at the current time.
Users are managed via Microsoft Active Directory. Monitoring is currently being done via various open source tools. Alerts are sent via email and
are often ignored.

Business requirements -
* On-board new insurance providers as quickly as possible.
* Provide a minimum 99.9% availability for all customer-facing systems.
* Provide centralized visibility and proactive action on system performance and usage.
* Increase ability to provide insights into healthcare trends.
* Reduce latency to all customers.
* Maintain regulatory compliance.
* Decrease infrastructure administration costs.
* Make predictions and generate reports on industry trends based on provider data.

Technical requirements -
* Maintain legacy interfaces to insurance providers with connectivity to both on-premises systems and cloud providers.
* Provide a consistent way to manage customer-facing applications that are container-based.
* Provide a secure and high-performance connection between on-premises systems and Google Cloud.
* Provide consistent logging, log retention, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
* Maintain and manage multiple container-based environments.
* Dynamically scale and provision new environments.
* Create interfaces to ingest and process data from new providers.

Executive statement -
Our on-premises strategy has worked for years but has required a major investment of time and money in training our team on distinctly different
systems, managing similar but separate environments, and responding to outages. Many of these outages have been a result of miscon gured
systems, inadequate capacity to manage spikes in tra c, and inconsistent monitoring practices. We want to use Google Cloud to leverage a
scalable, resilient platform that can span multiple environments seamlessly and provide a consistent and stable user experience that positions us
for future growth.

Question
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are a developer on the EHR customer portal team. Your team recently migrated the
customer portal application to Google Cloud. The load has increased on the application servers, and now the application is logging many timeout
errors. You recently incorporated Pub/Sub into the application architecture, and the application is not logging any Pub/Sub publishing errors. You
want to improve publishing latency.
What should you do?

A. Increase the Pub/Sub Total Timeout retry value.

 B. Move from a Pub/Sub subscriber pull model to a push model.

C. Turn off Pub/Sub message batching.

D. Create a backup Pub/Sub message queue.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (85%) Other
Question #6 Topic 4

Introductory Info
Company overview -
EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a
service to multi- national medical o ces, hospitals, and insurance providers.

Solution concept -
Due to rapid changes in the healthcare and insurance industry, EHR Healthcare's business has been growing exponentially year over year. They
need to be able to scale their environment, adapt their disaster recovery plan, and roll out new continuous deployment capabilities to update their
software at a fast pace. Google
Cloud has been chosen to replace their current colocation facilities.

Existing technical environment -

EHR's software is currently hosted in multiple colocation facilities. The lease on one of the data centers is about to expire.
Customer-facing applications are web-based, and many have recently been containerized to run on a group of Kubernetes clusters. Data is stored
in a mixture of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB).
EHR is hosting several legacy le- and API-based integrations with insurance providers on-premises. These systems are scheduled to be replaced
over the next several years. There is no plan to upgrade or move these systems at the current time.
Users are managed via Microsoft Active Directory. Monitoring is currently being done via various open source tools. Alerts are sent via email and
are often ignored.

Business requirements -
* On-board new insurance providers as quickly as possible.
* Provide a minimum 99.9% availability for all customer-facing systems.
* Provide centralized visibility and proactive action on system performance and usage.
* Increase ability to provide insights into healthcare trends.
* Reduce latency to all customers.
* Maintain regulatory compliance.
* Decrease infrastructure administration costs.
* Make predictions and generate reports on industry trends based on provider data.

Technical requirements -
* Maintain legacy interfaces to insurance providers with connectivity to both on-premises systems and cloud providers.
* Provide a consistent way to manage customer-facing applications that are container-based.
* Provide a secure and high-performance connection between on-premises systems and Google Cloud.
* Provide consistent logging, log retention, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
* Maintain and manage multiple container-based environments.
* Dynamically scale and provision new environments.
* Create interfaces to ingest and process data from new providers.

Executive statement -
Our on-premises strategy has worked for years but has required a major investment of time and money in training our team on distinctly different
systems, managing similar but separate environments, and responding to outages. Many of these outages have been a result of miscon gured
systems, inadequate capacity to manage spikes in tra c, and inconsistent monitoring practices. We want to use Google Cloud to leverage a
scalable, resilient platform that can span multiple environments seamlessly and provide a consistent and stable user experience that positions us
for future growth.

Question
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. In the past, con guration errors put public IP addresses on backend servers that should
not have been accessible from the Internet. You need to ensure that no one can put external IP addresses on backend Compute Engine instances
and that external IP addresses can only be con gured on frontend Compute Engine instances. What should you do?

A. Create an Organizational Policy with a constraint to allow external IP addresses only on the frontend Compute Engine instances.

B. Revoke the compute.networkAdmin role from all users in the project with front end instances.

C. Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that maps the IT staff to the compute.networkAdmin role for the organization.
 D. Create a custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) role named GCE_FRONTEND with the compute.addresses.create permission.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #7 Topic 4

Introductory Info
Company overview -
EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a
service to multi- national medical o ces, hospitals, and insurance providers.

Solution concept -
Due to rapid changes in the healthcare and insurance industry, EHR Healthcare's business has been growing exponentially year over year. They
need to be able to scale their environment, adapt their disaster recovery plan, and roll out new continuous deployment capabilities to update their
software at a fast pace. Google
Cloud has been chosen to replace their current colocation facilities.

Existing technical environment -

EHR's software is currently hosted in multiple colocation facilities. The lease on one of the data centers is about to expire.
Customer-facing applications are web-based, and many have recently been containerized to run on a group of Kubernetes clusters. Data is stored
in a mixture of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB).
EHR is hosting several legacy le- and API-based integrations with insurance providers on-premises. These systems are scheduled to be replaced
over the next several years. There is no plan to upgrade or move these systems at the current time.
Users are managed via Microsoft Active Directory. Monitoring is currently being done via various open source tools. Alerts are sent via email and
are often ignored.

Business requirements -
* On-board new insurance providers as quickly as possible.
* Provide a minimum 99.9% availability for all customer-facing systems.
* Provide centralized visibility and proactive action on system performance and usage.
* Increase ability to provide insights into healthcare trends.
* Reduce latency to all customers.
* Maintain regulatory compliance.
* Decrease infrastructure administration costs.
* Make predictions and generate reports on industry trends based on provider data.

Technical requirements -
* Maintain legacy interfaces to insurance providers with connectivity to both on-premises systems and cloud providers.
* Provide a consistent way to manage customer-facing applications that are container-based.
* Provide a secure and high-performance connection between on-premises systems and Google Cloud.
* Provide consistent logging, log retention, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
* Maintain and manage multiple container-based environments.
* Dynamically scale and provision new environments.
* Create interfaces to ingest and process data from new providers.

Executive statement -
Our on-premises strategy has worked for years but has required a major investment of time and money in training our team on distinctly different
systems, managing similar but separate environments, and responding to outages. Many of these outages have been a result of miscon gured
systems, inadequate capacity to manage spikes in tra c, and inconsistent monitoring practices. We want to use Google Cloud to leverage a
scalable, resilient platform that can span multiple environments seamlessly and provide a consistent and stable user experience that positions us
for future growth.

Question
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for designing the Google Cloud network architecture for Google
Kubernetes
Engine. You want to follow Google best practices. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do to
reduce the attack surface?

A. Use a private cluster with a private endpoint with master authorized networks con gured.

B. Use a public cluster with rewall rules and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) routes.
 C. Use a private cluster with a public endpoint with master authorized networks con gured.

D. Use a public cluster with master authorized networks enabled and rewall rules.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (61%) C (39%)
Topic 5 - Testlet 2

Question #1 Topic 5

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms. They build all of their games using
some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services

CEO Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.

CTO Statement -
Our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides
autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.

CFO Statement -
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not
con dent that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically
impacts our revenue.

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

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

Correct Answer: A
From Scenario:
A few of their games were more popular than expected, and they had problems scaling their application servers, MySQL databases, and
analytics tools.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform include: Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity

Community vote distribution

A (62%) D (38%)
Question #2 Topic 5

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms. They build all of their games using
some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services

CEO Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.

CTO Statement -
Our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides
autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.

CFO Statement -
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not
con dent that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically
impacts our revenue.

Question
Mountkirk Games has deployed their new backend on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to create a through 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?

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

Correct Answer: A
From scenario: Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #3 Topic 5

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms. They build all of their games using
some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services

CEO Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.

CTO Statement -
Our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides
autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.

CFO Statement -
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not
con dent that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically
impacts our revenue.

Question
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 eet of services
Deployment artifacts are immutable
Which set of products should they use?
 A. Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Data ow, 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

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #4 Topic 5

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms. They build all of their games using
some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services

CEO Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.

CTO Statement -
Our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides
autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.

CFO Statement -
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not
con dent that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically
impacts our revenue.

Question
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 rst?

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

Correct Answer: B
503 is service unavailable error. If the database was online everyone would get the 503 error.

Community vote distribution

B (78%) C (22%)
Question #5 Topic 5

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms. They build all of their games using
some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services

CEO Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.

CTO Statement -
Our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides
autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.

CFO Statement -
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not
con dent that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically
impacts our revenue.

Question
Mountkirk Games needs to create a repeatable and con gurable 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?

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

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (51%) A (46%)
Question #6 Topic 5

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for the most popular mobile platforms. They build all of their games using
some server-side integration. Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Connect to a managed NoSQL database service
3. Run customize Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services

CEO Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users.

CTO Statement -
Our current technology stack cannot provide the scale we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides
autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from managing physical servers.

CFO Statement -
We are not capturing enough user demographic data, usage metrics, and other KPIs. As a result, we do not engage the right users, we are not
con dent that our marketing is targeting the right users, and we are not selling enough premium Blast-Ups inside the games, which dramatically
impacts our revenue.

Question
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?

A. Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL

B. Cloud Data ow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery

C. Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Data ow

 D. Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Data ow

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

Correct Answer: B
Ingest millions of streaming events per second from anywhere in the world with Cloud Pub/Sub, powered by Google's unique, high-speed private
network. Process the streams with Cloud Data ow to ensure reliable, exactly-once, low-latency data transformation. Stream the transformed
data into BigQuery, the cloud-native data warehousing service, for immediate analysis via SQL or popular visualization tools.
From scenario: They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive
analytics.
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
1. Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
2. Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
3. Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
4. Allow SQL queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
5. Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices
6. Use only fully managed services
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/big-data/stream-analytics/

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Topic 6 - Testlet 3

Question #1 Topic 6

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side
integration.
Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user pro les and game state
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs
Run hardened Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices

Executive Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale
we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from
managing physical servers.

Question
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to migrate from their current analytics and statistics reporting
model to one that meets their technical requirements on Google Cloud Platform.
Which two steps should be part of their migration plan? (Choose two.)

A. Evaluate the impact of migrating their current batch ETL code to Cloud Data ow.

B. Write a schema migration plan to denormalize data for better performance in BigQuery.

C. Draw an architecture diagram that shows how to move from a single MySQL database to a MySQL cluster.
 D. Load 10 TB of analytics data from a previous game into a Cloud SQL instance, and run test queries against the full dataset to con rm that
they complete successfully.

E. Integrate Cloud Armor to defend against possible SQL injection attacks in analytics les uploaded to Cloud Storage.

Correct Answer: AB

Community vote distribution

AB (100%)
Question #2 Topic 6

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side
integration.
Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user pro les and game state
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs
Run hardened Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices

Executive Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale
we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from
managing physical servers.

Question
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and de ne the technical architecture for the compute workloads
for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the Mountkirk Games business and technical requirements, what should you do?

A. Create network load balancers. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances.

B. Create network load balancers. Use non-preemptible Compute Engine instances.

C. Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use preemptible Compute Engine instances.

D. Create a global load balancer with managed instance groups and autoscaling policies. Use non-preemptible Compute Engine instances.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #3 Topic 6

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side
integration.
Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user pro les and game state
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs
Run hardened Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices

Executive Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale
we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from
managing physical servers.

Question
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.)

A. Store as much analytics and game activity data as nancially 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 Google Kubernetes Engine to improve the ability 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.

Correct Answer: CE

Community vote distribution

AB (59%) BC (15%) AC (15%) 4%
Question #4 Topic 6

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side
integration.
Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user pro les and game state
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs
Run hardened Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices

Executive Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale
we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from
managing physical servers.

Question
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way to test the analytics platform's resilience
to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?

A. Deploy failure injection software to the game analytics platform that can inject additional latency to mobile client analytics tra c.

B. Build a test client that can be run from a mobile phone emulator on a Compute Engine virtual machine, and run multiple copies in Google
Cloud Platform regions all over the world to generate realistic tra c.

C. Add the ability to introduce a random amount of delay before beginning to process analytics les uploaded from mobile devices.

D. Create an opt-in beta of the game that runs on players' mobile devices and collects response times from analytics endpoints running in
Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world.
Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (75%) C (19%) 6%
Question #5 Topic 6

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side
integration.
Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user pro les and game state
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs
Run hardened Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices

Executive Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale
we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from
managing physical servers.

Question
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and de ne the technical architecture for the database workloads
for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business and technical requirements, what should you do?

A. Use Cloud SQL for time series data, and use Cloud Bigtable for historical data queries.

B. Use Cloud SQL to replace MySQL, and use Cloud Spanner for historical data queries.

C. Use Cloud Bigtable to replace MySQL, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.

D. Use Cloud Bigtable for time series data, use Cloud Spanner for transactional data, and use BigQuery for historical data queries.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #6 Topic 6

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side
integration.
Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user pro les and game state
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs
Run hardened Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices

Executive Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale
we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from
managing physical servers.

Question
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Which managed storage option meets Mountkirk's technical requirement for storing
game activity in a time series database service?

A. Cloud Bigtable

B. Cloud Spanner

C. BigQuery

D. Cloud Datastore

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #7 Topic 6

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They build all of their games using some server-side
integration.
Historically, they have used cloud providers to lease physical servers.
Due to the unexpected popularity of some of their games, they have had problems scaling their global audience, application servers, MySQL
databases, and analytics tools.
Their current model is to write game statistics to les and send them through an ETL tool that loads them into a centralized MySQL database for
reporting.

Solution Concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new game, which they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Compute
Engine so they can capture streaming metrics, run intensive analytics, and take advantage of its autoscaling server environment and integrate with
a managed NoSQL database.

Business Requirements -
Increase to a global footprint
Improve uptime `" downtime is loss of players
Increase e ciency of the cloud resources we use
Reduce latency to all customers

Technical Requirements -
Requirements for Game Backend Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Connect to a transactional database service to manage user pro les and game state
Store game activity in a timeseries database service for future analysis
As the system scales, ensure that data is not lost due to processing backlogs
Run hardened Linux distro
Requirements for Game Analytics Platform
Dynamically scale up or down based on game activity
Process incoming data on the y directly from the game servers
Process data that arrives late because of slow mobile networks
Allow queries to access at least 10 TB of historical data
Process les that are regularly uploaded by users' mobile devices

Executive Statement -
Our last successful game did not scale well with our previous cloud provider, resulting in lower user adoption and affecting the game's reputation.
Our investors want more key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the speed and stability of the game, as well as other metrics that provide
deeper insight into usage patterns so we can adapt the game to target users. Additionally, our current technology stack cannot provide the scale
we need, so we want to replace MySQL and move to an environment that provides autoscaling, low latency load balancing, and frees us up from
managing physical servers.

Question
For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You are in charge of the new Game Backend Platform architecture. The game
communicates with the backend over a REST API.
You want to follow Google-recommended practices. How should you design the backend?

A. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer.

B. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L4 load balancer.

C. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a multi-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.

D. Create an instance template for the backend. For every region, deploy it on a single-zone managed instance group. Use an L7 load balancer.

Correct Answer: C
Community vote distribution
C (88%) 6%
Topic 7 - Testlet 4

Question #1 Topic 7

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms
after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style rst-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-
speci c digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players
across every active arena.

Solution concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google
Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order
to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.

Existing technical environment -

The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and ve games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with
a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions
and network policies. Legacy games with low tra c have been consolidated into a single project. There are also separate environments for
development and testing.

Business requirements -
Support multiple gaming platforms.
Support multiple regions.
Support rapid iteration of game features.
Minimize latency.
Optimize for dynamic scaling.
Use managed services and pooled resources.
Minimize costs.

Technical requirements -
Dynamically scale based on game activity.
Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
Store game activity logs in structured les for future analysis.
Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.

Executive statement -
Our last game was the rst time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game
telemetry in ways that we never could before. This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games
using cloud-native design principles.
Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top
priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our rst cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud
to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug xes and new functionality.

Question
You need to optimize batch le transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games' new Google Cloud solution. The batch les 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?

A. Use gsutil to batch move les in sequence.

B. Use gsutil to batch copy the les in parallel.

C. Use gsutil to extract the les as the rst part of ETL.

D. Use gsutil to load the les as the last part of ETL.

Correct Answer: B
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/cp

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #2 Topic 7

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms
after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style rst-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-
speci c digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players
across every active arena.

Solution concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google
Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order
to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.

Existing technical environment -

The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and ve games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with
a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions
and network policies. Legacy games with low tra c have been consolidated into a single project. There are also separate environments for
development and testing.

Business requirements -
Support multiple gaming platforms.
Support multiple regions.
Support rapid iteration of game features.
Minimize latency.
Optimize for dynamic scaling.
Use managed services and pooled resources.
Minimize costs.

Technical requirements -
Dynamically scale based on game activity.
Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
Store game activity logs in structured les for future analysis.
Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.

Executive statement -
Our last game was the rst time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game
telemetry in ways that we never could before. This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games
using cloud-native design principles.
Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top
priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our rst cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud
to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug xes and new functionality.

Question
You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a new game programmatic access to a legacy game's
Firestore database.
Access should be as restricted as possible. What should you do?

A. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, add a second SA in the new game's IAM page, and then give the
Organization Admin role to both SAs.

B. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, give the SA the Organization Admin role, and then give it the
Firebase Admin role in both projects.

C. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, add this SA in the new game's IAM page, and then give it the
Firebase Admin role in both projects.
 D. Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game's Google Cloud project, give it the Firebase Admin role, and then migrate the new game to
the legacy game's project.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #3 Topic 7

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms
after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style rst-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-
speci c digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players
across every active arena.

Solution concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google
Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order
to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.

Existing technical environment -

The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and ve games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with
a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions
and network policies. Legacy games with low tra c have been consolidated into a single project. There are also separate environments for
development and testing.

Business requirements -
Support multiple gaming platforms.
Support multiple regions.
Support rapid iteration of game features.
Minimize latency.
Optimize for dynamic scaling.
Use managed services and pooled resources.
Minimize costs.

Technical requirements -
Dynamically scale based on game activity.
Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
Store game activity logs in structured les for future analysis.
Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.

Executive statement -
Our last game was the rst time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game
telemetry in ways that we never could before. This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games
using cloud-native design principles.
Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top
priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our rst cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud
to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug xes and new functionality.

Question
Mountkirk Games wants to limit the physical location of resources to their operating Google Cloud regions. What should you do?

A. Con gure an organizational policy which constrains where resources can be deployed.

B. Con gure IAM conditions to limit what resources can be con gured.

C. Con gure the quotas for resources in the regions not being used to 0.

D. Con gure a custom alert in Cloud Monitoring so you can disable resources as they are created in other regions.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (87%) 13%
Question #4 Topic 7

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms
after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style rst-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-
speci c digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players
across every active arena.

Solution concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google
Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order
to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.

Existing technical environment -

The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and ve games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with
a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions
and network policies. Legacy games with low tra c have been consolidated into a single project. There are also separate environments for
development and testing.

Business requirements -
Support multiple gaming platforms.
Support multiple regions.
Support rapid iteration of game features.
Minimize latency.
Optimize for dynamic scaling.
Use managed services and pooled resources.
Minimize costs.

Technical requirements -
Dynamically scale based on game activity.
Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
Store game activity logs in structured les for future analysis.
Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.

Executive statement -
Our last game was the rst time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game
telemetry in ways that we never could before. This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games
using cloud-native design principles.
Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top
priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our rst cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud
to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug xes and new functionality.

Question
You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the de ned business and technical requirements. Mountkirk Games wants
each regional game instance to be located in multiple Google Cloud regions. What should you do?

A. Con gure a global load balancer connected to a managed instance group running Compute Engine instances.

B. Con gure kubemci with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

C. Con gure a global load balancer with Google Kubernetes Engine.

D. Con gure Ingress for Anthos with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Correct Answer: A
Community vote distribution
D (51%) B (22%) C (22%) 4%
Question #5 Topic 7

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms
after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style rst-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-
speci c digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players
across every active arena.

Solution concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google
Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order
to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.

Existing technical environment -

The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and ve games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with
a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions
and network policies. Legacy games with low tra c have been consolidated into a single project. There are also separate environments for
development and testing.

Business requirements -
Support multiple gaming platforms.
Support multiple regions.
Support rapid iteration of game features.
Minimize latency.
Optimize for dynamic scaling.
Use managed services and pooled resources.
Minimize costs.

Technical requirements -
Dynamically scale based on game activity.
Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
Store game activity logs in structured les for future analysis.
Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.

Executive statement -
Our last game was the rst time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game
telemetry in ways that we never could before. This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games
using cloud-native design principles.
Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top
priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our rst cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud
to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug xes and new functionality.

Question
Your development teams release new versions of games running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) daily. You want to create service level
indicators (SLIs) to evaluate the quality of the new versions from the user's perspective. What should you do?

A. Create CPU Utilization and Request Latency as service level indicators.

B. Create GKE CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization as service level indicators.

C. Create Request Latency and Error Rate as service level indicators.

D. Create Server Uptime and Error Rate as service level indicators.

Correct Answer: A
Community vote distribution
C (100%)
Question #6 Topic 7

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms
after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style rst-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-
speci c digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players
across every active arena.

Solution concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google
Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order
to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.

Existing technical environment -

The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and ve games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with
a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions
and network policies. Legacy games with low tra c have been consolidated into a single project. There are also separate environments for
development and testing.

Business requirements -
Support multiple gaming platforms.
Support multiple regions.
Support rapid iteration of game features.
Minimize latency.
Optimize for dynamic scaling.
Use managed services and pooled resources.
Minimize costs.

Technical requirements -
Dynamically scale based on game activity.
Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
Store game activity logs in structured les for future analysis.
Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.

Executive statement -
Our last game was the rst time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game
telemetry in ways that we never could before. This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games
using cloud-native design principles.
Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top
priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our rst cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud
to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug xes and new functionality.

Question
Mountkirk Games wants you to secure the connectivity from the new gaming application platform to Google Cloud. You want to streamline the
process and follow
Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Con gure Workload Identity and service accounts to be used by the application platform.

B. Use Kubernetes Secrets, which are obfuscated by default. Con gure these Secrets to be used by the application platform.

C. Con gure Kubernetes Secrets to store the secret, enable Application-Layer Secrets Encryption, and use Cloud Key Management Service
(Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Con gure these Secrets to be used by the application platform.

D. Con gure HashiCorp Vault on Compute Engine, and use customer managed encryption keys and Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud
 KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Con gure these Secrets to be used by the application platform.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #7 Topic 7

Introductory Info
Company overview -
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms
after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style rst-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-
speci c digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players
across every active arena.

Solution concept -
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google
Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order
to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.

Existing technical environment -

The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and ve games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with
a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions
and network policies. Legacy games with low tra c have been consolidated into a single project. There are also separate environments for
development and testing.

Business requirements -
Support multiple gaming platforms.
Support multiple regions.
Support rapid iteration of game features.
Minimize latency.
Optimize for dynamic scaling.
Use managed services and pooled resources.
Minimize costs.

Technical requirements -
Dynamically scale based on game activity.
Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
Store game activity logs in structured les for future analysis.
Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.

Executive statement -
Our last game was the rst time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game
telemetry in ways that we never could before. This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games
using cloud-native design principles.
Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top
priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our rst cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud
to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug xes and new functionality.

Question
Your development team has created a mobile game app. You want to test the new mobile app on Android and iOS devices with a variety of
con gurations. You need to ensure that testing is e cient and cost-effective. What should you do?

A. Upload your mobile app to the Firebase Test Lab, and test the mobile app on Android and iOS devices.

B. Create Android and iOS VMs on Google Cloud, install the mobile app on the VMs, and test the mobile app.

C. Create Android and iOS containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), install the mobile app on the containers, and test the mobile app.

D. Upload your mobile app with different con gurations to Firebase Hosting and test each con guration.

Correct Answer: C
Community vote distribution
A (100%)
Topic 8 - Testlet 5

Question #1 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a vehicle in the eld will have a
catastrophic failure.
You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data.
Which architecture should you recommend?
A.

B.
C.
D.

Correct Answer: A
The push endpoint can be a load balancer.
A container cluster can be used.
Cloud Pub/Sub for Stream Analytics

Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-
platform#data_ingestion http://www.eweek.com/big-data-and-analytics/google-touts-value-of-cloud-iot-core-for-analyzing-connected-car-data
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot/
Question #2 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
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?

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 Speci cation) 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 Speci cation) framework. Focus on an API for dealers
and partners

Correct Answer: A
Develop, deploy, protect and monitor your APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints. Using an Open API Speci cation or one of our API frameworks,
Cloud Endpoints gives you the tools you need for every phase of API development.
From scenario:

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies €" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business €"
to create compelling joint offerings for their customers.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/certi cation/guides/cloud-architect/casestudy-terramearth

Community vote distribution

A (90%) 10%
Question #3 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
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?

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

Correct Answer: A
Delegate application authorization with OAuth2
Cloud Platform APIs support OAuth 2.0, and scopes provide granular authorization over the methods that are supported. Cloud Platform
supports both service- account and user-account OAuth, also called three-legged OAuth.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations#delegate_application_authorization_with_oauth2
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/ exible/go/authorizing-apps

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #4 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
TerramEarth plans to connect all 20 million vehicles in the eld 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?

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)

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #5 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

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

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 eet 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 xed factor

Correct Answer: C
The Avro binary format is the preferred format for loading compressed data. Avro data is faster to load because the data can be read in parallel,
even when the data blocks are compressed.
Cloud Storage supports streaming transfers with the gsutil tool or boto library, based on HTTP chunked transfer encoding. Streaming data lets
you stream data to and from your Cloud Storage account as soon as it becomes available without requiring that the data be rst saved to a
separate le. Streaming transfers are useful if you have a process that generates data and you do not want to buffer it locally before uploading
it, or if you want to send the result from a computational pipeline directly into Cloud Storage.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/streaming
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data

Community vote distribution

C (58%) B (42%)
Question #6 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
Which of TerramEarth's legacy enterprise processes will experience signi cant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption?

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

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (90%) 10%
Question #7 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data to the ETL process. The current
FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the le when connections fail, which happens often. You want to
improve the reliability of the solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections.
What should you do?

A. Use one Google Container Engine cluster of FTP servers. Save the data to a Multi-Regional bucket. Run the ETL process using data in the
bucket

B. Use multiple Google Container Engine clusters running FTP servers located in different regions. Save the data to Multi-Regional buckets in
US, EU, and Asia. Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket

C. Directly transfer the les to different Google Cloud Multi-Regional Storage bucket locations in US, EU, and Asia using Google APIs over
HTTP(S). Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket

D. Directly transfer the les to a different Google Cloud Regional Storage bucket location in US, EU, and Asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S).
Run the ETL process to retrieve the data from each Regional bucket

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (70%) C (30%)
Question #8 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
TerramEarth's 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle's location, its telemetry data is stored in a Google Cloud
Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US, Europe, or Asia). The CTO has asked you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles
are breaking down after 100 K miles. You want to run this job on all the data.
What is the most cost-effective way to run this job?

A. Move all the data into 1 zone, then launch a Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job

B. Move all the data into 1 region, then launch a Google Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job

C. Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a multi-region bucket and use a Dataproc
cluster to nish the job

D. Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a region bucket and use a Cloud
Dataproc cluster to nish the job

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #9 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
TerramEarth has equipped all connected trucks with servers and sensors to collect 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?

A. Have the vehicle's 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 data ow job that compresses the data, and store it in Google BigQuery

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

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

Correct Answer: D
Storage is the best choice for data that you plan to access at most once a year, due to its slightly lower availability, 90-day minimum storage
duration, costs for data access, and higher per-operation costs. For example:
Cold Data Storage - Infrequently accessed data, such as data stored for legal or regulatory reasons, can be stored at low cost as Coldline
Storage, and be available when you need it.
Disaster recovery - In the event of a disaster recovery event, recovery time is key. Cloud Storage provides low latency access to data stored as
Coldline Storage.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #10 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

Question
Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles. You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle
operation.
Which two architectures should you consider? (Choose two.)

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 rmware 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.

Correct Answer: AC

Community vote distribution

AC (100%)
Question #11 Topic 8

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Company background -
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about
their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and nd new markets as their customers' needs change. For the past 20
years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV les from the eld
and upload via
FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on
data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers.

CEO Statement -
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is
occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as
our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers' yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how
our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our
revenues by 2020.

CTO Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn't take technology obsolescence seriously and he
considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs
through incremental innovations.

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

A. Have you 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 Data ow 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

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Topic 9 - Testlet 6

Question #1 Topic 9

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second, with
22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S, west coast based data center.
These systems gzip CSV les from the eld and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time,
aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers

Technical Requirements -
Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American midwest and east coast
Create a backup strategy
Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter
Improve data in the data warehouse
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs

Application 1: Data ingest -

A custom Python application reads uploaded data les from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage

Application 2: Reporting -
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5
west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0

Executive Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in our manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through
incremental innovations.

Question
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?

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 expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use
gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (86%) 14%
Question #2 Topic 9

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second, with
22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S, west coast based data center.
These systems gzip CSV les from the eld and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time,
aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers

Technical Requirements -
Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American midwest and east coast
Create a backup strategy
Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter
Improve data in the data warehouse
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs

Application 1: Data ingest -

A custom Python application reads uploaded data les from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage

Application 2: Reporting -
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5
west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0

Executive Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in our manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through
incremental innovations.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data les in Cloud Storage. You need to con gure Cloud
Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize le storage cost.
Which two actions should you take?

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 €.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #3 Topic 9

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second, with
22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S, west coast based data center.
These systems gzip CSV les from the eld and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time,
aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers

Technical Requirements -
Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American midwest and east coast
Create a backup strategy
Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter
Improve data in the data warehouse
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs

Application 1: Data ingest -

A custom Python application reads uploaded data les from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage

Application 2: Reporting -
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5
west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0

Executive Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in our manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through
incremental innovations.

Question
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?

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 preemptible
instance with 32 CPUs.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (88%) 13%
Question #4 Topic 9

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second, with
22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S, west coast based data center.
These systems gzip CSV les from the eld and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time,
aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers

Technical Requirements -
Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American midwest and east coast
Create a backup strategy
Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter
Improve data in the data warehouse
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs

Application 1: Data ingest -

A custom Python application reads uploaded data les from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage

Application 2: Reporting -
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5
west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0

Executive Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in our manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through
incremental innovations.

Question
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?

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

B. Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans 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 con gure the BigQuery tables as the source. Schedule a daily job to clean the data.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (82%) A (18%)
Question #5 Topic 9

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second, with
22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S, west coast based data center.
These systems gzip CSV les from the eld and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time,
aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers

Technical Requirements -
Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American midwest and east coast
Create a backup strategy
Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter
Improve data in the data warehouse
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs

Application 1: Data ingest -

A custom Python application reads uploaded data les from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage

Application 2: Reporting -
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5
west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0

Executive Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in our manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through
incremental innovations.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should you reduce the unplanned vehicle
downtime in GCP?

A. Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and stream data into BigQuery using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud
Data ow. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.

B. Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and upload gzip les to a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket
using gcloud. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.

C. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Upload gzip les to a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket. Upload this data into BigQuery
using gcloud. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.

D. Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Directly stream data into partitioned Hive tables. Use Pig scripts to analyze data.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #6 Topic 9

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from
agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their
customers more productive.

Solution Concept -
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 elds of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be
accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust
operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the eld with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 elds of data
per second, with
22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.

Existing Technical Environment -

TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S, west coast based data center.
These systems gzip CSV les from the eld and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time,
aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%.
However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.

Business Requirements -
Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week
Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
Have the ability to partner with different companies `" especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business `" to
create compelling joint offerings for their customers

Technical Requirements -
Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American midwest and east coast
Create a backup strategy
Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter
Improve data in the data warehouse
Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs

Application 1: Data ingest -

A custom Python application reads uploaded data les from a single server, writes to the data warehouse.
Compute:
Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 10 TB local HDD storage

Application 2: Reporting -
An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5
west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time.
Compute:
Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- 16 CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
- 500 GB HDD
Data warehouse:
A single PostgreSQL server
- RedHat Linux
- 64 CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0

Executive Statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been in our manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our
competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to
undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through
incremental innovations.

Question
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?

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 speci c SSH keys

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Topic 10 - Testlet 7

Question #1 Topic 10

Introductory Info
Company overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries.
Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.

Solution concept -
There are 2 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation currently, and we see 20% yearly growth. Vehicles collect telemetry data from many sensors
during operation. A small subset of critical data is transmitted from the vehicles in real time to facilitate eet management. The rest of the sensor
data is collected, compressed, and uploaded daily when the vehicles return to home base. Each vehicle usually generates 200 to 500 megabytes
of data per day.

Existing technical environment -

TerramEarth's vehicle data aggregation and analysis infrastructure resides in Google Cloud and serves clients from all around the world. A growing
amount of sensor data is captured from their two main manufacturing plants and sent to private data centers that contain their legacy inventory
and logistics management systems. The private data centers have multiple network interconnects con gured to Google Cloud. The web frontend
for dealers and customers is running in
Google Cloud and allows access to stock management and analytics.

Business requirements -
* Predict and detect vehicle malfunction and rapidly ship parts to dealerships for just-in-time repair where possible.
* Decrease cloud operational costs and adapt to seasonality.
* Increase speed and reliability of development work ow.
* Allow remote developers to be productive without compromising code or data security.
* Create a exible and scalable platform for developers to create custom API services for dealers and partners.

Technical requirements -
* Create a new abstraction layer for HTTP API access to their legacy systems to enable a gradual move into the cloud without disrupting
operations.
* Modernize all CI/CD pipelines to allow developers to deploy container-based workloads in highly scalable environments.
* Allow developers to run experiments without compromising security and governance requirements.
* Create a self-service portal for internal and partner developers to create new projects, request resources for data analytics jobs, and centrally
manage access to the API endpoints.
* Use cloud-native solutions for keys and secrets management and optimize for identity-based access.
* Improve and standardize tools necessary for application and network monitoring and troubleshooting.

Executive statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been our focus on the customer, with our ability to provide excellent customer service and minimize vehicle
downtimes.
After moving multiple systems into Google Cloud, we are seeking new ways to provide best-in-class online eet management services to our
customers and improve operations of our dealerships. Our 5-year strategic plan is to create a partner ecosystem of new products by enabling
access to our data, increasing autonomous operation capabilities of our vehicles, and creating a path to move the remaining legacy systems to
the cloud.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You start to build a new application that uses a few Cloud Functions for the backend. One
use case requires a Cloud Function func_display to invoke another Cloud Function func_query. You want func_query only to accept invocations
from func_display. You also want to follow Google's recommended best practices. What should you do?

A. Create a token and pass it in as an environment variable to func_display. When invoking func_query, include the token in the request. Pass
the same token to func_query and reject the invocation if the tokens are different.
 B. Make func_query 'Require authentication.' Create a unique service account and associate it to func_display. Grant the service account
invoker role for func_query. Create an id token in func_display and include the token to the request when invoking func_query.

C. Make func_query 'Require authentication' and only accept internal tra c. Create those two functions in the same VPC. Create an ingress
rewall rule for func_query to only allow tra c from func_display.

D. Create those two functions in the same project and VPC. Make func_query only accept internal tra c. Create an ingress rewall for
func_query to only allow tra c from func_display. Also, make sure both functions use the same service account.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #2 Topic 10

Introductory Info
Company overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries.
Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.

Solution concept -
There are 2 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation currently, and we see 20% yearly growth. Vehicles collect telemetry data from many sensors
during operation. A small subset of critical data is transmitted from the vehicles in real time to facilitate eet management. The rest of the sensor
data is collected, compressed, and uploaded daily when the vehicles return to home base. Each vehicle usually generates 200 to 500 megabytes
of data per day.

Existing technical environment -

TerramEarth's vehicle data aggregation and analysis infrastructure resides in Google Cloud and serves clients from all around the world. A growing
amount of sensor data is captured from their two main manufacturing plants and sent to private data centers that contain their legacy inventory
and logistics management systems. The private data centers have multiple network interconnects con gured to Google Cloud. The web frontend
for dealers and customers is running in
Google Cloud and allows access to stock management and analytics.

Business requirements -
* Predict and detect vehicle malfunction and rapidly ship parts to dealerships for just-in-time repair where possible.
* Decrease cloud operational costs and adapt to seasonality.
* Increase speed and reliability of development work ow.
* Allow remote developers to be productive without compromising code or data security.
* Create a exible and scalable platform for developers to create custom API services for dealers and partners.

Technical requirements -
* Create a new abstraction layer for HTTP API access to their legacy systems to enable a gradual move into the cloud without disrupting
operations.
* Modernize all CI/CD pipelines to allow developers to deploy container-based workloads in highly scalable environments.
* Allow developers to run experiments without compromising security and governance requirements.
* Create a self-service portal for internal and partner developers to create new projects, request resources for data analytics jobs, and centrally
manage access to the API endpoints.
* Use cloud-native solutions for keys and secrets management and optimize for identity-based access.
* Improve and standardize tools necessary for application and network monitoring and troubleshooting.

Executive statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been our focus on the customer, with our ability to provide excellent customer service and minimize vehicle
downtimes.
After moving multiple systems into Google Cloud, we are seeking new ways to provide best-in-class online eet management services to our
customers and improve operations of our dealerships. Our 5-year strategic plan is to create a partner ecosystem of new products by enabling
access to our data, increasing autonomous operation capabilities of our vehicles, and creating a path to move the remaining legacy systems to
the cloud.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. 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?

A. Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create Cloud Endpoints that point to the services. Create a global HTTP(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
NEGs to a backend service that is used by a global HTTP(S) Load Balancing instance.
 C. Deploy 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.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (95%) 5%
Question #3 Topic 10

Introductory Info
Company overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries.
Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.

Solution concept -
There are 2 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation currently, and we see 20% yearly growth. Vehicles collect telemetry data from many sensors
during operation. A small subset of critical data is transmitted from the vehicles in real time to facilitate eet management. The rest of the sensor
data is collected, compressed, and uploaded daily when the vehicles return to home base. Each vehicle usually generates 200 to 500 megabytes
of data per day.

Existing technical environment -

TerramEarth's vehicle data aggregation and analysis infrastructure resides in Google Cloud and serves clients from all around the world. A growing
amount of sensor data is captured from their two main manufacturing plants and sent to private data centers that contain their legacy inventory
and logistics management systems. The private data centers have multiple network interconnects con gured to Google Cloud. The web frontend
for dealers and customers is running in
Google Cloud and allows access to stock management and analytics.

Business requirements -
* Predict and detect vehicle malfunction and rapidly ship parts to dealerships for just-in-time repair where possible.
* Decrease cloud operational costs and adapt to seasonality.
* Increase speed and reliability of development work ow.
* Allow remote developers to be productive without compromising code or data security.
* Create a exible and scalable platform for developers to create custom API services for dealers and partners.

Technical requirements -
* Create a new abstraction layer for HTTP API access to their legacy systems to enable a gradual move into the cloud without disrupting
operations.
* Modernize all CI/CD pipelines to allow developers to deploy container-based workloads in highly scalable environments.
* Allow developers to run experiments without compromising security and governance requirements.
* Create a self-service portal for internal and partner developers to create new projects, request resources for data analytics jobs, and centrally
manage access to the API endpoints.
* Use cloud-native solutions for keys and secrets management and optimize for identity-based access.
* Improve and standardize tools necessary for application and network monitoring and troubleshooting.

Executive statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been our focus on the customer, with our ability to provide excellent customer service and minimize vehicle
downtimes.
After moving multiple systems into Google Cloud, we are seeking new ways to provide best-in-class online eet management services to our
customers and improve operations of our dealerships. Our 5-year strategic plan is to create a partner ecosystem of new products by enabling
access to our data, increasing autonomous operation capabilities of our vehicles, and creating a path to move the remaining legacy systems to
the cloud.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. 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? (Choose two.)

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 Over ow to get an explanation.

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

Correct Answer: AD

Community vote distribution

AC (89%) 11%
Question #4 Topic 10

Introductory Info
Company overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries.
Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.

Solution concept -
There are 2 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation currently, and we see 20% yearly growth. Vehicles collect telemetry data from many sensors
during operation. A small subset of critical data is transmitted from the vehicles in real time to facilitate eet management. The rest of the sensor
data is collected, compressed, and uploaded daily when the vehicles return to home base. Each vehicle usually generates 200 to 500 megabytes
of data per day.

Existing technical environment -

TerramEarth's vehicle data aggregation and analysis infrastructure resides in Google Cloud and serves clients from all around the world. A growing
amount of sensor data is captured from their two main manufacturing plants and sent to private data centers that contain their legacy inventory
and logistics management systems. The private data centers have multiple network interconnects con gured to Google Cloud. The web frontend
for dealers and customers is running in
Google Cloud and allows access to stock management and analytics.

Business requirements -
* Predict and detect vehicle malfunction and rapidly ship parts to dealerships for just-in-time repair where possible.
* Decrease cloud operational costs and adapt to seasonality.
* Increase speed and reliability of development work ow.
* Allow remote developers to be productive without compromising code or data security.
* Create a exible and scalable platform for developers to create custom API services for dealers and partners.

Technical requirements -
* Create a new abstraction layer for HTTP API access to their legacy systems to enable a gradual move into the cloud without disrupting
operations.
* Modernize all CI/CD pipelines to allow developers to deploy container-based workloads in highly scalable environments.
* Allow developers to run experiments without compromising security and governance requirements.
* Create a self-service portal for internal and partner developers to create new projects, request resources for data analytics jobs, and centrally
manage access to the API endpoints.
* Use cloud-native solutions for keys and secrets management and optimize for identity-based access.
* Improve and standardize tools necessary for application and network monitoring and troubleshooting.

Executive statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been our focus on the customer, with our ability to provide excellent customer service and minimize vehicle
downtimes.
After moving multiple systems into Google Cloud, we are seeking new ways to provide best-in-class online eet management services to our
customers and improve operations of our dealerships. Our 5-year strategic plan is to create a partner ecosystem of new products by enabling
access to our data, increasing autonomous operation capabilities of our vehicles, and creating a path to move the remaining legacy systems to
the cloud.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. 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 noti cation for the issue. You need to build a reliable solution for minimum
cost. What should you do?

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.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #5 Topic 10

Introductory Info
Company overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries.
Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.

Solution concept -
There are 2 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation currently, and we see 20% yearly growth. Vehicles collect telemetry data from many sensors
during operation. A small subset of critical data is transmitted from the vehicles in real time to facilitate eet management. The rest of the sensor
data is collected, compressed, and uploaded daily when the vehicles return to home base. Each vehicle usually generates 200 to 500 megabytes
of data per day.

Existing technical environment -

TerramEarth's vehicle data aggregation and analysis infrastructure resides in Google Cloud and serves clients from all around the world. A growing
amount of sensor data is captured from their two main manufacturing plants and sent to private data centers that contain their legacy inventory
and logistics management systems. The private data centers have multiple network interconnects con gured to Google Cloud. The web frontend
for dealers and customers is running in
Google Cloud and allows access to stock management and analytics.

Business requirements -
* Predict and detect vehicle malfunction and rapidly ship parts to dealerships for just-in-time repair where possible.
* Decrease cloud operational costs and adapt to seasonality.
* Increase speed and reliability of development work ow.
* Allow remote developers to be productive without compromising code or data security.
* Create a exible and scalable platform for developers to create custom API services for dealers and partners.

Technical requirements -
* Create a new abstraction layer for HTTP API access to their legacy systems to enable a gradual move into the cloud without disrupting
operations.
* Modernize all CI/CD pipelines to allow developers to deploy container-based workloads in highly scalable environments.
* Allow developers to run experiments without compromising security and governance requirements.
* Create a self-service portal for internal and partner developers to create new projects, request resources for data analytics jobs, and centrally
manage access to the API endpoints.
* Use cloud-native solutions for keys and secrets management and optimize for identity-based access.
* Improve and standardize tools necessary for application and network monitoring and troubleshooting.

Executive statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been our focus on the customer, with our ability to provide excellent customer service and minimize vehicle
downtimes.
After moving multiple systems into Google Cloud, we are seeking new ways to provide best-in-class online eet management services to our
customers and improve operations of our dealerships. Our 5-year strategic plan is to create a partner ecosystem of new products by enabling
access to our data, increasing autonomous operation capabilities of our vehicles, and creating a path to move the remaining legacy systems to
the cloud.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You are building a microservice-based application for TerramEarth. The application is based
on Docker containers. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to build the application continuously and store the build artifacts. What
should you do?

A. Con gure a trigger in Cloud Build for new source changes. Invoke Cloud Build to build container images for each microservice, and tag
them using the code commit hash. Push the images to the Container Registry.

B. Con gure a trigger in Cloud Build for new source changes. The trigger invokes build jobs and build container images for the microservices.
Tag the images with a version number, and push them to Cloud Storage.
 C. Create a Scheduler job to check the repo every minute. For any new change, invoke Cloud Build to build container images for the
microservices. Tag the images using the current timestamp, and push them to the Container Registry.

D. Con gure a trigger in Cloud Build for new source changes. Invoke Cloud Build to build one container image, and tag the image with the label
'latest.' Push the image to the Container Registry.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #6 Topic 10

Introductory Info
Company overview -
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in
100 countries.
Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.

Solution concept -
There are 2 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation currently, and we see 20% yearly growth. Vehicles collect telemetry data from many sensors
during operation. A small subset of critical data is transmitted from the vehicles in real time to facilitate eet management. The rest of the sensor
data is collected, compressed, and uploaded daily when the vehicles return to home base. Each vehicle usually generates 200 to 500 megabytes
of data per day.

Existing technical environment -

TerramEarth's vehicle data aggregation and analysis infrastructure resides in Google Cloud and serves clients from all around the world. A growing
amount of sensor data is captured from their two main manufacturing plants and sent to private data centers that contain their legacy inventory
and logistics management systems. The private data centers have multiple network interconnects con gured to Google Cloud. The web frontend
for dealers and customers is running in
Google Cloud and allows access to stock management and analytics.

Business requirements -
* Predict and detect vehicle malfunction and rapidly ship parts to dealerships for just-in-time repair where possible.
* Decrease cloud operational costs and adapt to seasonality.
* Increase speed and reliability of development work ow.
* Allow remote developers to be productive without compromising code or data security.
* Create a exible and scalable platform for developers to create custom API services for dealers and partners.

Technical requirements -
* Create a new abstraction layer for HTTP API access to their legacy systems to enable a gradual move into the cloud without disrupting
operations.
* Modernize all CI/CD pipelines to allow developers to deploy container-based workloads in highly scalable environments.
* Allow developers to run experiments without compromising security and governance requirements.
* Create a self-service portal for internal and partner developers to create new projects, request resources for data analytics jobs, and centrally
manage access to the API endpoints.
* Use cloud-native solutions for keys and secrets management and optimize for identity-based access.
* Improve and standardize tools necessary for application and network monitoring and troubleshooting.

Executive statement -
Our competitive advantage has always been our focus on the customer, with our ability to provide excellent customer service and minimize vehicle
downtimes.
After moving multiple systems into Google Cloud, we are seeking new ways to provide best-in-class online eet management services to our
customers and improve operations of our dealerships. Our 5-year strategic plan is to create a partner ecosystem of new products by enabling
access to our data, increasing autonomous operation capabilities of our vehicles, and creating a path to move the remaining legacy systems to
the cloud.

Question
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. 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?

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

B. Con gure 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 1Gbps link, and use multi-thread transfer to upload the data to Cloud Storage.

D. Export les to an encrypted USB device, send the device to Google Cloud, and request an import of the data to Cloud Storage.
Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (85%) B (15%)
Topic 11 - Testlet 8

Question #1 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
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?

A. Grant the operations engineer access to use Google Cloud Shell.

B. Con gure 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 speci c remote procedure calls to accomplish
their tasks.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #2 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

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

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer: A
Follow these rules of thumb when deciding whether to use gsutil or Storage Transfer Service:
* When transferring data from an on-premises location, use gsutil.
* When transferring data from another cloud storage provider, use Storage Transfer Service.
* Otherwise, evaluate both tools with respect to your speci c scenario.
Use this guidance as a starting point.
The speci c details of your transfer scenario will also help you determine which tool is more appropriate.

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #3 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

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

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.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

D (64%) A (36%)
Question #4 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
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 tra c load.
They want to ensure that:
* The infrastructure can be noti ed when it needs to scale up and down to handle the ebb and ow of usage throughout the day
* Their administrators are noti ed automatically when their application reports errors.
* They can lter their aggregated logs down in order to debug one piece of the application across many hosts
Which Google StackDriver features should they use?

A. Logging, Alerts, Insights, Debug

B. Monitoring, Trace, Debug, Logging

C. Monitoring, Logging, Alerts, Error Reporting

D. Monitoring, Logging, Debug, Error Report

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

C (54%) D (46%)
Question #5 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
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?

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

B. Identify enterprise applications with internal dependencies and recommend these as a rst 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.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (78%) C (22%)
Question #6 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
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?

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 con gure it for asynchronous replication from the MySQL master server
on-premises until cutover.

C. Create a new MySQL cluster in the cloud, con gure 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 con gure applications to
read/write to Cloud Datastore at cutover.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #7 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
Dress4Win has con gured 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?

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 rewall rule

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

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

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (70%) D (30%)
Question #8 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
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 con guration should Dress4Win use?

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

B. Store image les 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 le 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 le's owner attribute, ensuring privacy of images.

D. Use a distributed le 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 les.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #9 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.
They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs.
Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?

A. They should enable Google Stackdriver Debugger on the application code to show errors in the code.

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

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

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

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #10 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
You want to ensure Dress4Win's sales and tax records remain available for infrequent viewing by auditors for at least 10 years.
Cost optimization is your top priority.
Which cloud services should you choose?

A. Google Cloud Storage Coldline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.

B. Google Cloud Storage Nearline to store the data, and gsutil to access the data.

C. Google Bigtabte with US or EU as location to store the data, and gcloud to access the data.

D. BigQuery to store the data, and a web server cluster in a managed instance group to access the data. Google Cloud SQL mirrored across
two distinct regions to store the data, and a Redis cluster in a managed instance group to access the data.

Correct Answer: A
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes

Community vote distribution

A (75%) B (25%)
Question #11 Topic 11

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a website and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a premium app model.

Company Background -
Dress4Win's application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several hundred servers and appliances in a collocated data
center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's rapid growth. Because of this growth and the
company's desire to innovate faster,
Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is considering moving their development and test environments. They are also
considering building a disaster recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of
their architecture they can migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location.
Databases:
- MySQL - user data, inventory, static data
- Redis - metadata, social graph, caching
Application servers:
- Tomcat - Java micro-services
- Nginx - static content
- Apache Beam - Batch processing
Storage appliances:
- iSCSI for VM hosts
- Fiber channel SAN - MySQL databases
- NAS - image storage, logs, backups
Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
MQ servers:
- Messaging
- Social noti cations
- Events
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.

Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.
Migrate fully to the cloud if all other requirements are met.

Technical Requirements -
Evaluate and choose an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Identify production services that can migrate to cloud to save capacity.
Use managed services whenever possible.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple VPN connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

CEO Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a new
competitor could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and freeing them to focus on developing better features.

CTO Statement -
We have invested heavily in the current infrastructure, but much of the equipment is approaching the end of its useful life. We are consistently
waiting weeks for new gear to be racked before we can start new projects. Our tra c patterns are highest in the mornings and weekend evenings;
during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.

CFO Statement -
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years puts a cloud
strategy between 30 to 50% lower than our current model.

Question
The current Dress4Win system architecture has high latency to some customers because it is located in one data center.
As of a future evaluation and optimizing for performance in the cloud, Dresss4Win wants to distribute its system architecture to multiple locations
when Google cloud platform.
Which approach should they use?

A. Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to increase performance because the regional managed instance group
can grow instances in each region separately based on tra c.

B. Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the requests to a closer group of virtual machines managed by your
operations team.

C. Use regional managed instance groups and a global load balancer to increase reliability by providing automatic failover between zones in
different regions.

D. Use a global load balancer with a set of virtual machines that forward the requests to a closer group of virtual machines as part of a
separate managed instance groups.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Topic 12 - Testlet 9

Question #1 Topic 12

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a web app and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several
hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's
rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is moving their development and test environments. They are also building a disaster
recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can
migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
`"
- Tomcat

Java -
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social noti cations, and events:
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN `" MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS `" image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available

Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.

Technical Requirements -
Easily create non-production environments in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

Executive Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a competitor
could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and free them to focus on developing better features. Our tra c patterns are
highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public
cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction between 30% and 50% over our current model.

Question
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 tra c 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 con gure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?

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.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (71%) C (29%)
Question #2 Topic 12

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a web app and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several
hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's
rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is moving their development and test environments. They are also building a disaster
recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can
migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
`"
- Tomcat

Java -
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social noti cations, and events:
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN `" MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS `" image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available
Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.

Technical Requirements -
Easily create non-production environments in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

Executive Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a competitor
could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and free them to focus on developing better features. Our tra c patterns are
highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public
cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction between 30% and 50% over our current model.

Question
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?

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 con guration.
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.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #3 Topic 12

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a web app and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several
hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's
rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is moving their development and test environments. They are also building a disaster
recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can
migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
`"
- Tomcat

Java -
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social noti cations, and events:
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN `" MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS `" image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available
Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.

Technical Requirements -
Easily create non-production environments in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

Executive Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a competitor
could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and free them to focus on developing better features. Our tra c patterns are
highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public
cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction between 30% and 50% over our current model.

Question
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?

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

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #4 Topic 12

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a web app and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several
hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's
rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is moving their development and test environments. They are also building a disaster
recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can
migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
`"
- Tomcat

Java -
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social noti cations, and events:
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN `" MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS `" image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available
Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.

Technical Requirements -
Easily create non-production environments in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

Executive Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a competitor
could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and free them to focus on developing better features. Our tra c patterns are
highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public
cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction between 30% and 50% over our current model.

Question
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 con guration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud.
What should you do?

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.

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #5 Topic 12

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a web app and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several
hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's
rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is moving their development and test environments. They are also building a disaster
recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can
migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
`"
- Tomcat

Java -
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social noti cations, and events:
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN `" MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS `" image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available
Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.

Technical Requirements -
Easily create non-production environments in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

Executive Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a competitor
could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and free them to focus on developing better features. Our tra c patterns are
highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public
cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction between 30% and 50% over our current model.

Question
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?

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 les 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 les in Cloud Storage.

C. Assign prede ned IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements. Utilize Google's default encryption
at rest when storing les in Cloud Storage.

D. Assign prede ned 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 les in Cloud Storage.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #6 Topic 12

Introductory Info
Company Overview -
Dress4Win is a web-based company that helps their users organize and manage their personal wardrobe using a web app and mobile application.
The company also cultivates an active social network that connects their users with designers and retailers. They monetize their services through
advertising, e-commerce, referrals, and a freemium app model. The application has grown from a few servers in the founder's garage to several
hundred servers and appliances in a colocated data center. However, the capacity of their infrastructure is now insu cient for the application's
rapid growth. Because of this growth and the company's desire to innovate faster, Dress4Win is committing to a full migration to a public cloud.

Solution Concept -
For the rst phase of their migration to the cloud, Dress4Win is moving their development and test environments. They are also building a disaster
recovery site, because their current infrastructure is at a single location. They are not sure which components of their architecture they can
migrate as is and which components they need to change before migrating them.

Existing Technical Environment -

The Dress4Win application is served out of a single data center location. All servers run Ubuntu LTS v16.04.
Databases:
MySQL. 1 server for user data, inventory, static data:
- MySQL 5.8
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 2x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
Redis 3 server cluster for metadata, social graph, caching. Each server is:
- Redis 3.2
- 4 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Compute:
40 Web Application servers providing micro-services based APIs and static content.
`"
- Tomcat

Java -
- Nginx
- 4 core CPUs
- 32 GB of RAM
20 Apache Hadoop/Spark servers:
- Data analysis
- Real-time trending calculations
- 8 core CPUs
- 128 GB of RAM
- 4x 5 TB HDD (RAID 1)
3 RabbitMQ servers for messaging, social noti cations, and events:
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Miscellaneous servers:
- Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners
- 8 core CPUs
- 32GB of RAM
Storage appliances:
iSCSI for VM hosts
Fiber channel SAN `" MySQL databases
- 1 PB total storage; 400 TB available
NAS `" image storage, logs, backups
- 100 TB total storage; 35 TB available
Business Requirements -
Build a reliable and reproducible environment with scaled parity of production.
Improve security by de ning and adhering to a set of security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices for cloud.
Improve business agility and speed of innovation through rapid provisioning of new resources.
Analyze and optimize architecture for performance in the cloud.

Technical Requirements -
Easily create non-production environments in the cloud.
Implement an automation framework for provisioning resources in cloud.
Implement a continuous deployment process for deploying applications to the on-premises datacenter or cloud.
Support failover of the production environment to cloud during an emergency.
Encrypt data on the wire and at rest.
Support multiple private connections between the production data center and cloud environment.

Executive Statement -
Our investors are concerned about our ability to scale and contain costs with our current infrastructure. They are also concerned that a competitor
could use a public cloud platform to offset their up-front investment and free them to focus on developing better features. Our tra c patterns are
highest in the mornings and weekend evenings; during other times, 80% of our capacity is sitting idle.
Our capital expenditure is now exceeding our quarterly projections. Migrating to the cloud will likely cause an initial increase in spending, but we
expect to fully transition before our next hardware refresh cycle. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis over the next 5 years for a public
cloud strategy achieves a cost reduction between 30% and 50% over our current model.

Question
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?

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 prede ned Compute Engine machine types.

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

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

D (100%)