Question 1

Your company has a large quantity of unstructured data in different file formats. You want to perform ETL transformations on the data. You need to make the data accessible on Google Cloud so it can be processed by a Dataflow job. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Storage is the recommended service for storing unstructured data in Google Cloud, and Dataflow can directly read from Cloud Storage for processing.

Question 2

You are deploying a production application on Compute Engine. You want to prevent anyone from accidentally destroying the instance by clicking the wrong button. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You are deploying a production application on...

Question 3

You are performing a monthly security check of your Google Cloud environment and want to know who has access to view data stored in your Google Cloud Project. What should you?

Accepted Answer

Reviewing the IAM permissions for roles that allow data access will show who has access to view data in your Google Cloud Project.

Question 4

Your company wants to standardize the creation and management of multiple Google Cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code. You want to minimize the amount of repetitive code needed to manage the environment. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Deployment Manager allows you to define templates for your infrastructure, enabling you to manage resources as code and reduce repetitive code by reusing templates.

Question 5

Your company set up a complex organizational structure on Google Could. The structure includes hundreds of folders and projects. Only a few team members should be able to view the hierarchical structure. You need to assign minimum permissions to these team members and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Adding users to a group and then assigning the group the roles/browser role is a Google-recommended practice for managing permissions efficiently. The roles/browser role provides read-only access to view the structure without granting unnecessary permissions.

Question 6

Your company uses a large number of Google Cloud services centralized in a single project. All teams have specific projects for testing and development. The DevOps team needs access to all of the production services in order to perform their job. You want to prevent Google Cloud product changes from broadening their permissions in the future. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Your company uses a large number of...

Question 7

You built an application on your development laptop that uses Google Cloud services. Your application uses Application Default Credentials for authentication and works fine on your development laptop. You want to migrate this application to a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) and set up authentication using Google-recommended practices and minimal changes. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You built an application on your development...

Question 8

You have downloaded and installed the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and have authenticated with your Google Account. Most of your Compute Engine instances in your project run in the europe-west1-d zone. You want to avoid having to specify this zone with each CLI command when managing these instances. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You have downloaded and installed the gcloud...

Question 9

The core business of your company is to rent out construction equipment at a large scale. All the equipment that is being rented out has been equipped with multiple sensors that send event information every few seconds. These signals can vary from engine status, distance traveled, fuel level, and more. Customers are billed based on the consumption monitored by these sensors. You expect high throughput - up to thousands of events per hour per device - and need to retrieve consistent data based on the time of the event. Storing and retrieving individual signals should be atomic. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of The core business of your company is...

Question 10

You have experimented with Google Cloud using your own credit card and expensed the costs to your company. Your company wants to streamline the billing process and charge the costs of your projects to their monthly invoice. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Change the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company to ensure that all project costs are charged to the company's monthly invoice.

Question 11

Your Dataproc cluster runs in a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network in a single subnet with range 172.16.20.128/25. There are no private IP addresses available in the VPC network. You want to add new VMs to communicate with your cluster using the minimum number of steps. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Expanding the existing subnet range to 172.16.20.0/24 will provide more IP addresses without needing to create new networks or configure peering, making it the simplest solution.

Question 12

You have designed a solution on Google Cloud that uses multiple Google Cloud products. Your company has asked you to estimate the costs of the solution. You need to provide estimates for the monthly total cost. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You have designed a solution on Google...

Question 13

You have a batch workload that runs every night and uses a large number of virtual machines (VMs). It is fault-tolerant and can tolerate some of the VMs being terminated. The current cost of VMs is too high. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You have a batch workload that runs...

Question 14

You have developed a containerized web application that will serve internal colleagues during business hours. You want to ensure that no costs are incurred outside of the hours the application is used. You have just created a new Google Cloud project and want to deploy the application. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You have developed a containerized web application...

Question 15

You have created a code snippet that should be triggered whenever a new file is uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket. You want to deploy this code snippet. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You have created a code snippet that...

Question 16

You are asked to set up application performance monitoring on Google Cloud projects A, B, and C as a single pane of glass. You want to monitor CPU, memory, and disk. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You are asked to set up application...

Question 17

Your company publishes large files on an Apache web server that runs on a Compute Engine instance. The Apache web server is not the only application running in the project. You want to receive an email when the egress network costs for the server exceed 100 dollars for the current month as measured by Google Cloud. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Your company publishes large files on an...

Question 18

You have deployed an application on a single Compute Engine instance. The application writes logs to disk. Users start reporting errors with the application. You want to diagnose the problem. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

To diagnose the problem, you should install and configure the Cloud Logging Agent on the Compute Engine instance to send the application logs to Cloud Logging, where you can easily view and analyze them.

Question 19

You are developing a new application and are looking for a Jenkins installation to build and deploy your source code. You want to automate the installation as quickly and easily as possible. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You are developing a new application and...

Question 20

A team of data scientists infrequently needs to use a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster that you manage. They require GPUs for some long-running, non-restartable jobs. You want to minimize cost. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Preemptible VMs are cost-effective for workloads that can tolerate interruptions, and using them with GPUs minimizes costs for infrequent, long-running jobs.

Exam 8: GSuite