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Professional-Cloud-Architect Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Questions and Answers

Questions 4

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

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

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

Options:

A.

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

intended.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 5

Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles.

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

Which two architecture should you consider?

Choose 2 answers:

Options:

A.

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

B.

Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space.

C.

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

D.

Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles.

E.

Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy.

F.

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

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Questions 6

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

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

Options:

A.

Vehicles write data directly to GCS.

B.

Vehicles write data directly to Google Cloud Pub/Sub.

C.

Vehicles stream data directly to Google BigQuery.

D.

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

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Questions 7

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?

Options:

A.

1. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export BigQuery data access logs to Cloud Storage. 2. Develop a Dataflow pipeline to compute the cost of queries split by users.

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. Activate billing export into BigQuery.

2. Perform a BigQuery query on the billing table to extract the information you need.

D.

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 filter by the user you want to check.

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Questions 8

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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?

Options:

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.

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Questions 9

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study

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

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 10

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

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

Options:

A.

Create a scalable environment in GCP for simulating production load.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 11

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

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

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

• Only frontend services are exposed on the public internet.

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

• Deployment artifacts are immutable.

Which set of products should they use?

Options:

A.

Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Compute Engine

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 12

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

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

Options:

A.

Tests should scale well beyond the prior approaches.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 13

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

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

Options:

A.

Verify that the database is online.

B.

Verify that the project quota hasn ' t been exceeded.

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 14

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

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

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

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

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 15

Refer to the Altostrat Media case study for the following solutions regarding cost optimization for batch processing and microservices testing strategies.

Altostrat is experiencing fluctuating computational demands for its batch processing jobs. These jobs are not time-critical and can tolerate occasional interruptions. You want to optimize cloud costs and address batch processing needs. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Configure reserved VM instances

B.

Deploy spot VM instances.

C.

Set up standard VM instances.

D.

Use Cloud Run functions.

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Questions 16

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

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

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

requirements:

• It must provide low latency at minimal cost.

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

• It should support annual key rotation.

Which storage approach should you adopt for your tokenization service?

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 17

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 18

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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

Options:

A.

Grant the operations engineers access to use Google Cloud Shell.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 19

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 20

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 21

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

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?

Options:

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.

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Questions 22

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 23

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

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

and interpret the predictions. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Explainable AI.

B.

Use Vision AI.

C.

Use Google Cloud’s operations suite.

D.

Use Jupyter Notebooks.

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Questions 24

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

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

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

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

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

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

Options:

A.

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using a named IP list for Fastly.

B.

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using the IP addresses that Fastly has published. C. Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for Fastly IP address ranges.

C.

Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for network resources tagged with scurceiplisr-fasrly.

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Questions 25

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

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

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Options:

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

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Questions 26

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

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 file 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?

Options:

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 files 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 files 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.

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Questions 27

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 28

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

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?

Options:

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 finish 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 finish the jo

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Questions 29

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

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

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

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

do?

Options:

A.

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

analysis.

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

no longer responding to health check probes.

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Questions 30

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

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

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

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

CEO S. Hawke, what should you do?

Options:

A.

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

by season and event.

B.

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

using season as a primary key.

C.

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

season.

D.

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

separate database instances for each season.

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Questions 31

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

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

Options:

A.

Container Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

E.

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

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Questions 32

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study

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

Options:

A.

Build or leverage an OAuth-compatible access control system.

B.

Build SAML 2.0 SSO compatibility into your authentication system.

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 33

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 34

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

Options:

A.

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection.

B.

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

C.

Add three new Cloud VPN connections.

D.

Add a new Carrier Peering connection.

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Questions 35

You have deployed an application to Kubernetes Engine, and are using the Cloud SQL proxy container to

make the Cloud SQL database available to the services running on Kubernetes. You are notified that the

application is reporting database connection issues. Your company policies require a post-mortem. What should you do?

Options:

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 Kubernetes Engine and Cloud SQL.

D.

In the GCP Console, navigate to Cloud SQL. Restore the latest backup. Use kubect1 to restart all pods.

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Questions 36

All compute Engine instances in your VPC should be able to connect to an Active Directory server on specific ports. Any other traffic emerging from your instances is not allowed. You want to enforce this using VPC firewall rules.

How should you configure the firewall rules?

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic. Rely on the implied deny

egress rule with priority 100 to block all traffic for all instances.

D.

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

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Questions 37

You are migrating a large, on-premises application to Google Cloud. The application consists of several interconnected virtual machines. You want to create a detailed migration plan to ensure a smooth migration with minimal effort. You need to understand the existing environment, identify dependencies, and estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) in the cloud. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Config Connector to declare the desired state of your Google Cloud resources in Kubernetes-style manifests.

B.

Use the Google Cloud Migration Center to perform an automated discovery and assessment of the on-premises environment.

C.

Use the Google Cloud pricing calculator to input the specifications of your on-premises servers and receive a TCO estimate.

D.

Write a custom script to query the vSphere API for virtual machine information and then import it into BigQuery for analysis.

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Questions 38

Altostrat ' s development team is using a microservices architecture for their application. You need to select the most suitable testing approach to ensure that individual microservices function correctly in isolation. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Run unit testing.

B.

Use load testing.

C.

Perform end-to-end testing.

D.

Execute integration testing.

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Questions 39

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. In the past, configuration 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 configured on frontend Compute Engine instances. What should you do?

Options:

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.

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Questions 40

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?

Options:

A.

Use a private cluster with a private endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

B.

Use a public cluster with firewall rules and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) routes.

C.

Use a private cluster with a public endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

D.

Use a public cluster with master authorized networks enabled and firewall rules.

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Questions 41

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?

Options:

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.

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Questions 42

For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. EHR has single Dedicated Interconnect

connection between their primary data center and Googles network. This connection satisfies

EHR’s network and security policies:

• On-premises servers without public IP addresses need to connect to cloud resources

without public IP addresses

• Traffic flows from production network mgmt. servers to Compute Engine virtual

machines should never traverse the public internet.

You need to upgrade the EHR connection to comply with their requirements. The new

connection design must support business critical needs and meet the same network and

security policy requirements. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Add a new Dedicated Interconnect connection

B.

Upgrade the bandwidth on the Dedicated Interconnect connection to 100 G

C.

Add three new Cloud VPN connections

D.

Add a new Carrier Peering connection

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Questions 43

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 44

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 45

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

Options:

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 files.

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 46

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.)

Options:

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.

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Questions 47

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

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

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

Options:

A.

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

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

B.

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

Enable default storage encryption before storing files in Cloud Storage.

C.

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

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

D.

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

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Questions 48

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

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

Options:

A.

Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.

B.

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

C.

Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.

D.

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

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Questions 49

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study Cymbal plans to migrate their existing on-premises systems to Google Cloud and implement Al-powered virtual agents to handle customer interactions You need to provision the compute resources that can scale for the Al-powered virtual agents What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use Cloud SQL to store the customer data and product catalog.

B.

Configure Cloud Build to call Al Applications (formerly Vertex Al Agent Builder).

C.

Deploy a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with autoscaling enabled

D.

Create a single, large Compute Engine VM instance with a high CPU allocation.

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Questions 50

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate their product catalog management processes to Google Cloud. You need to ensure a smooth migration with proper change management to minimize disruption and risks to the business. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate product catalog enrichment, improve product discoverability, increase customer engagement, and minimize costs. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Design a migration plan to move all of Cymbal ' s data to Cloud Storage, and use Compute Engine for all business logic

B.

Design a migration plan to move all of Cymbal ' s data to Cloud Storage, and use Cloud Run functions for all business logic

C.

Design a migration plan, starting with a pilot project focusing on a specific product category, and gradually expand to other categories.

D.

Design a migration plan with a scheduled window to move all components at once Perform extensive testing to ensure a successful migration.

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Questions 51

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal ' s generative Al models require high-performance storage for temporary files generated during model training and inference. These files are ephemeral and frequently accessed and modified You need to select a storage solution that minimizes latency and cost and maximizes performance for generative Al workloads. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use a Cloud Storage bucket in the same region as your virtual machines Configure lifecycle policies to delete files after processing

B.

Use Filestore to store temporary files

C.

Use performance persistent disks.

D.

Use Local SSDs attached to the VMs running the generative Al models

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Questions 52

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to design a cloud-first data storage infrastructure for the product catalog modernization project. You want to ensure efficient data access and high availability for Cymbals web application and virtual agents while minimizing operational costs. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use AlloyDB for structured product data, and Cloud Storage for product images

B.

Use Spanner for the structured product data, and BigTable for product images

C.

Use Filestore for the structured product data and Cloud Storage for product images

D.

Use Cloud Storage for structured product data, and BigQuery for product images

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Questions 53

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal has a centralized project that supports large video files for Vertex Al model training. Standard storage costs have suddenly increased this month, and you need to determine why. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Investigate if the project owner disabled a soft-delete policy on the bucket holding the video files.

B.

Investigate if the project owner moved from dual-region storage to region storage

C.

Investigate If the project owner enabled a soft-delete policy on the bucket holding the video files.

D.

Investigate if the project owner moved from multi-region storage to region stotage.

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Questions 54

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants to migrate its diverse database environment to Google Cloud while ensuring high availability and performance for online customers. The company also wants to efficiently store and access large product images These images typically stay In the catalog for more than 90 days and are accessed less and less frequently. You need to select the appropriate Google Cloud services for each database. You also need to design a storage solution for the product images that optimizes cost and performance What should you do?

Options:

A.

Migrate all databases to Spanner for consistency, and use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage

B.

Migrate all databases to self-managed instances on Compute Engino. and use a persistent disk for image storage.

C.

Migrate MySQL and SQL Server to Spanner. Redis to Memorystore. and MongoDB to Firestore Use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage, and move

images to Cloud Storage Nearline storage when products become less popular.

D.

Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL. SQL Server to Cloud SQL. Redis to Memorystore. and MongoDB to Firestore. Use Cloud Storage Standard for image storage, and move images to Cloud Storage Coldline storage when products become less popular

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Questions 55

For this question, refer to the Cymbal Retail case study. Cymbal wants you to connect their on-premises systems to Google Cloud while maintaining secure communication between their on-premises and cloud environments You want to follow Google ' s recommended approach to ensure the most secure and manageable solution. What should you do?

Options:

A.

Use a bastion host to provide secure access lo Google Cloud resources from Cymbal ' s on-premises systems.

B.

Configure a static VPN connection using SSH tunnels to connect the on-premises systems to Google Cloud

C.

Configure a Cloud VPN gateway and establish a VPN tunnel Configure firewall rules to restrict access to specific resources and services based on IP addresses and ports.

D.

Use Google Cloud ' s VPC peering to connect Cymbal ' s on-premises network to Google Cloud.

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Questions 56

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

Which two actions should you take?

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 57

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the compute workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the Mountkirk Games business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

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.

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Questions 58

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

E.

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

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Questions 59

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?

Options:

A.

Deploy failure injection software to the game analytics platform that can inject additional latency to mobile client analytics traffic.

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 traffic.

C.

Add the ability to introduce a random amount of delay before beginning to process analytics files 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.

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Questions 60

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. You need to analyze and define the technical architecture for the database workloads for your company, Mountkirk Games. Considering the business and technical requirements, what should you do?

Options:

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.

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Questions 61

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?

Options:

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.

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Questions 62

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.)

Options:

A.

Evaluate the impact of migrating their current batch ETL code to Cloud Dataflow.

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 confirm that they complete successfully.

E.

Integrate Cloud Armor to defend against possible SQL injection attacks in analytics files uploaded to Cloud Storage.

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Questions 63

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?

Options:

A.

Cloud Bigtable

B.

Cloud Spanner

C.

BigQuery

D.

Cloud Datastore

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Questions 64

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 configurations. You need to ensure that testing is efficient and cost-effective. What

should you do?

Options:

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 configurations to Firebase Hosting and test each configuration.

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Questions 65

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

E.

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

F.

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

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Questions 66

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

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

Options:

A.

Cloud Spanner

B.

Google BigQuery

C.

Google Cloud SQL

D.

Google Cloud Datastore

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Questions 67

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

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

Options:

A.

A single VPN tunnel, which limits throughput

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

E.

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

F.

Complicated internet connectivity between the on-premises infrastructure and GCP

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Questions 68

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Questions 69

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

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

Options:

A.

Error rates for requests from Asia

B.

Latency difference between US and Asia

C.

Total visits, error rates, and latency from Asia

D.

Total visits and average latency for users in Asia

E.

The number of character sets present in the database

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Questions 70

For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.

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

Options:

A.

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

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

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Exam Name: Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP)
Last Update: Sep 15, 2026
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