Question 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 3 answers.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Your development team has installed a new...

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

A secret management system is designed to securely store and manage sensitive information like credentials, ensuring they are protected and accessed only by authorized services.

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect provides a private, high-bandwidth, low-latency connection between your on-premises network and Google Cloud, which is suitable for large data transfers and frequent updates.

Question 4

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 2 answers.

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The answer of Your company wants to try out the...

Question 5

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?

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The answer of You deploy your custom Java application to...

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Your company's user-feedback portal comprises a standard...

Question 7

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 fix it, and investigation could take up to a week. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Reverting the source code change and rerunning the deployment pipeline is the best approach to quickly restore the system to its previous stable state while allowing time for investigation.

Question 8

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

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The answer of You are designing a mobile chat application....

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

Deploying changes to a small subset of users before rolling out to production allows you to identify and fix performance bugs before they impact a larger number of users.

Question 10

During a high traffic 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?

Accepted Answer

The answer of During a high traffic portion of the...

Question 11

One of the developers on your team deployed their application in Google Container Engine with the Dockerfile below. They report that their application deployments are taking too long.  You want to optimize this Dockerfile for faster deployment times without adversely affecting the app's functionality. Which two actions should you take? Choose 2 answers.

Accepted Answer

The answer of One of the developers on your team...

Question 12

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 traffic should flow through the web to the API tier and then on to the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier. How should you configure the network?

Accepted Answer

Using tags and firewall rules allows you to control and restrict traffic flow between tiers, ensuring that traffic only flows from web to API to database, and not directly between web and database.

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

Instrumenting your application with Stackdriver Trace allows you to break down request latencies at each microservice, helping you identify which service takes the longest.

Question 14

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 2 answers.

Accepted Answer

The answer of A lead engineer wrote a custom tool...

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

Stackdriver Monitoring allows you to export metrics to BigQuery, which can retain data for up to 5 years.

Question 16

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: Be based on open-source technology for cloud portability Dynamically scale compute capacity based on demand Support continuous software delivery Run multiple segregated copies of the same application stack Deploy application bundles using dynamic templates Route network traffic to specific services based on URL Which combination of technologies will meet all of his requirements?

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The answer of A development manager is building a new...

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Auditors visit your teams every 12 months...

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Using a single Organization with Folders for each department allows centralized control while enabling independent management of IAM policies for each department.

Question 19

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?

Accepted Answer

Google Compute Engine allows you to specify a shutdown script using the metadata key "shutdown-script" which will be executed when the instance is being preempted.

Question 20

Which of the following services provides real-time messaging?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Pub/Sub is a messaging service that allows for real-time messaging between applications.

Exam 12: Professional Cloud Architect on Google Cloud Platform