Associate-Cloud-Engineer by Google Actual Free Exam Q&As

Question 1

You deployed a new application inside your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below.

You check the status of the deployed pods and notice that one of them is still in PENDING status:

You want to find out why the pod is stuck in pending status. What should you do?

A. View logs of the container in myapp-deployment-58ddbbb995-lp86m pod and check for warning messages. B. Review details of the myapp-deployment Deployment object and check for error messages. C. Review details of the myapp-service Service object and check for error messages. D. Review details of myapp-deployment-58ddbbb995-lp86m Pod and check for warning messages.

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Question 2

You need to create a Compute Engine instance in a new project that doesn't exist yet. What should you do?

A. Enable the Compute Engine API in the Cloud Console. Go to the Compute Engine section of the Console to create a new instance, and look for the Create In A New Project option in the creation form. B. Using the Cloud SDK, create the new instance, and use the -pproject flag to specify the new project.
Answer yes when prompted by Cloud SDK to enable the Compute Engine API. C. Enable the Compute Engine API in the Cloud Console, use the Cloud SDK to create the instance, and then use the -pproject flag to specify a new project. D. Using the Cloud SDK, create a new project, enable the Compute Engine API in that project, and then create the instance specifying your new project.

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Question 3

Your company wants to provide engineers with access to explore Google Cloud freely in a sandbox environment. The total budget for testing across your organization is $1,000. You need to ensure that engineers are notified when the budget is about to be reached. You want to automate your solution as much as possible. What should you do?

A. Create an email template reminding people to regularly check their Google Cloud spend. Create a Cloud Function that sends the email to all the project owners. Create a daily job in Cloud Scheduler that triggers the Cloud Function. Deploy this solution for each sandbox. B. Create a separate Cloud Billing account for all sandbox projects. Link a credit card with a limit of
$1,000 to this billing account. Ensure all sandbox projects are linked to this new Cloud Billing account. C. Create a Google Cloud Folder and ensure that all sandbox projects are located under that Folder.
Create a Budget Alert for $1,000 and scope it to the Folder. Configure an email alert to billing administrators and users once the budget is 90% reached. D. Configure a billing data export to a BigQuery dataset on the Cloud Billing account. Create a dashboard for all costs related to the sandbox experiments. Share the dashboard with all engineers.

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Question 4

Your company has workloads running on Compute Engine and on-premises. The Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is connected to your WAN over a Virtual Private Network (VPN). You need to deploy a new Compute Engine instance and ensure that no public Internet traffic can be routed to it. What should you do?

A. Create a route on the VPC to route all traffic to the instance over the VPN tunnel. B. Create a deny-all egress firewall rule on the VPC network. C. Create the instance without a public IP address. D. Create the instance with Private Google Access enabled.

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Question 5

You are assisting a new Google Cloud user who just installed the Google Cloud SDK on their VM.
The server needs access to Cloud Storage. The user wants your help to create a new storage bucket. You need to make this change in multiple environments. What should you do?

A. Use the gsutii command to create a storage bucket in the same region as the VM B. Use a local SSD to improve performance of the VM for the targeted workload C. Use a Deployment Manager script to automate creating storage buckets in an appropriate region D. Use a Persistent Disk SSD in the same zone as the VM to improve performance of the VM

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Question 6

You need to manage multiple Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects in the fewest steps possible.
You want to configure the Google Cloud SDK command line interface (CLI) so that you can easily manage multiple GCP projects. What should you?

A. 1. Use the default configuration for one project you need to manage.
2. Use gcloud init to update the configuration values when you need to work with a non-default project. B. 1. Create a configuration for each project you need to manage.
2. Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned GCP projects. C. 1. Create a configuration for each project you need to manage.
2. Use gcloud init to update the configuration values when you need to work with a non-default project D. 1. Use the default configuration for one project you need to manage.
2. Activate the appropriate configuration when you work with each of your assigned GCP projects.

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Question 7

Your application development team has created Docker images for an application that will be deployed on Google Cloud. Your team does not want to manage the infrastructure associated with this application. You need to ensure that the application can scale automatically as it gains popularity. What should you do?

A. Create an instance template with the container image, and deploy a Managed Instance Group with Autoscaling. B. Upload Docker images to the Cloud Storage, and deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine using Standard mode. C. Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine using Standard mode. D. Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Cloud Run.

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Question 8

You want to configure an SSH connection to a single Compute Engine instance for users in the dev1 group. This instance is the only resource in this particular Google Cloud Platform project that the dev1 users should be able to connect to. What should you do?

A. Enable block project wide keysfor the instance. Generate an SSH key for each user in the dev1 group. Distribute the keys to dev1 users and direct them to use their third-party tools to connect. B. Set metadata to enable-oslogin=truefor the instance. Grant the dev1 group the compute.osLoginrole. Direct them to use the Cloud Shell to ssh to that instance. C. Set metadata to enable-oslogin=truefor the instance. Set the service account to no service accountfor that instance. Direct them to use the Cloud Shell to ssh to that instance. D. Enable block project wide keysfor the instance. Generate an SSH key and associate the key with that instance. Distribute the key to dev1 users and direct them to use their third-party tools to connect.

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Question 9

You are planning to migrate the following on-premises data management solutions to Google Cloud:
- One MySQL cluster for your main database
- Apache Kafka for your event streaming platform
- One Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database for your analytical and
reporting needs
You want to implement Google-recommended solutions for the migration. You need to ensure that the new solutions provide global scalability and require minimal operational and infrastructure management. What should you do?

A. Migrate from MySQL to Cloud SQL, from Kafka to Pub/Sub, and from Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to BigQuery. B. Migrate from MySQL to Cloud Spanner, from Kafka to Memorystore, and from Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to Cloud SQL. C. Migrate from MySQL to Cloud Spanner, from Kafka to Pub/Sub, and from Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to BigQuery. D. Migrate from MySQL to Cloud SQL, from Kafka to Memorystore, and from Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to Cloud SQL.

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Question 10

You have deployed an application on a Compute Engine instance. An external consultant needs to access the Linux-based instance. The consultant is connected to your corporate network through a VPN connection, but the consultant has no Google account. What should you do?

A. Instruct the external consultant to generate an SSH key pair, and request the private key from the consultant. Add the private key to the instance yourself, and have the consultant access the instance through SSH with their public key. B. Instruct the external consultant to use the gcloud compute ssh command line tool by using Identity-Aware Proxy to access the instance. C. Instruct the external consultant to use the gcloud compute ssh command line tool by using the public IP address of the instance to access it. D. Instruct the external consultant to generate an SSH key pair, and request the public key from the consultant. Add the public key to the instance yourself, and have the consultant access the instance through SSH with their private key.

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Question 11

Your company developed a mobile game that is deployed on Google Cloud. Gamers are connecting to the game with their personal phones over the Internet. The game sends UDP packets to update the servers about the gamers' actions while they are playing in multiplayer mode. Your game backend can scale over multiple virtual machines (VMs), and you want to expose the VMs over a single IP address. What should you do?

A. Configure an External Network load balancer in front of the application servers. B. Configure an External HTTP(s) load balancer in front of the application servers. C. Configure an SSL Proxy load balancer in front of the application servers. D. Configure an Internal UDP load balancer in front of the application servers.

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Question 12

You are developing an application that will be deployed on Google Cloud. The application will use a service account to retrieve data from BigQuery. Before you deploy your application, you want to test the permissions of this service account from your local machine to ensure there will be no authentication issues. You want to ensure that you use the most secure method while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Grant the service account the BigQuery Administrator IAM role to ensure the service account has all required access. B. Configure the gcloud CLI to use service account impersonation. Issue a relevant BigQuery request through the gcloud CLI to test the access. C. Configure the gcloud CLI with Application Default Credentials using your user account. Issue a relevant BigQuery request through the gcloud CLI to test the access. D. Generate a service account key, and configure the gcloud CLI to use this key. Issue a relevant BigQuery request through the gdoud CLI to test the access.

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Question 13

You want to host your video encoding software on Compute Engine. Your user base is growing rapidly, and users need to be able to encode their videos at any time without interruption or CPU limitations. You must ensure that your encoding solution is highly available, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate operations. What should you do?

A. Deploy your solution to an instance group, and set the autoscaling based on CPU utilization. B. Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and replace existing instances with high-CPU instances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold. C. Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and increase the number of existing instances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold. D. Deploy your solution to an instance group, and increase the number of available instances whenever you see high CPU utilization in Cloud Monitoring.

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Question 14

You are working with a Cloud SQL MySQL database at your company. You need to retain a month-end copy of the database for three years for audit purposes. What should you do?

A. Convert the automatic first-of-the-month backup to an export file.
Write the export file to a Coldline class Cloud Storage bucket. B. Save the automatic first-of-the-month backup for three years.
Store the backup file in an Archive class Cloud Storage bucket. C. Set up an on-demand backup for the first of the month.
Write the backup to an Archive class Cloud Storage bucket. D. Set up an export job for the first of the month.
Write the export file to an Archive class Cloud Storage bucket.

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