Google Associate Cloud Engineer

• #1

  You are configuring service accounts for an application that spans multiple projects. Virtual Machines (VMs) running in the web-applications project need access to BigQuery datasets in crm-databases-proj. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to give access to the service account in the web-applications project. What should you do?

  • AGive project owner for web-applications appropriate roles to crm-databases-proj.
  • BGive project owner role to crm-databases-proj and the web-applications project.
  • CGive project owner role to crm-databases-proj and bigquery.dataViewer role to web-applications.
  • DGive bigquery.dataViewer role to crm-databases-proj and appropriate roles to web-applications.
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• #2

  You have a developer laptop with the Cloud SDK installed on Ubuntu. The Cloud SDK was installed from the Google Cloud Ubuntu package repository. You want to test your application locally on your laptop with Cloud Datastore. What should you do?

  • AExport Cloud Datastore data using gcloud datastore export.
  • BCreate a Cloud Datastore index using gcloud datastore indexes create.
  • CInstall the google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator component using the apt get install command.
  • DInstall the cloud-datastore-emulator component using the gcloud components install command.
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• #3

  You are the project owner of a GCP project and want to delegate control to colleagues to manage buckets and files in Cloud Storage. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. Which IAM roles should you grant your colleagues?

  • AProject Editor.
  • BStorage Admin.
  • CStorage Object Admin.
  • DStorage Object Creator.
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• #4

  You manage an App Engine Service that aggregates and visualizes data from BigQuery. The application is deployed with the default App Engine Service account. The data that needs to be visualized resides in a different project managed by another team. You do not have access to this project, but you want your application to be able to read data from the BigQuery dataset. What should you do?

  • AAsk the other team to grant your default App Engine Service account the role of BigQuery Job User.
  • BAsk the other team to grant your default App Engine Service account the role of BigQuery Data Viewer.
  • CIn Cloud IAM of your project, ensure that the default App Engine service account has the role of BigQuery Data Viewer.
  • DIn Cloud IAM of your project, grant a newly created service account from the other team the role of BigQuery Job User in your project.
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• #5

  The core business of your company is to rent out construction equipment at 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?

  • ACreate a file in Cloud Storage per device and append new data to that file.
  • BCreate a file in Cloud Filestore per device and append new data to that file.
  • CIngest the data into Datastore. Store data in an entity group based on the device.
  • DIngest the data into Cloud Bigtable. Create a row key based on the event timestamp.
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• #6

  Your company uses BigQuery for data warehousing. Over time, many different business units in your company have created 1000+ datasets across hundreds of projects. Your CIO wants you to examine all datasets to find tables that contain an employee_ssn column. You want to minimize effort in performing this task. What should you do?

  • AGo to Data Catalog and search for employee_ssn in the search box.
  • BWrite a shell script that uses the bq command line tool to loop through all the projects in your organization.
  • CWrite a script that loops through all the projects in your organization and runs a query on INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view to find the employee_ssn column.
  • DWrite a Cloud Dataflow job that loops through all the projects in your organization and runs a query on INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view to find employee_ssn column.
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• #7

  Your company runs its Linux workloads on Compute Engine instances. Your company will be working with a new operations partner that does not use Google Accounts. You need to grant access to the instances to your operations partner so they can maintain the installed tooling. What should you do?

  • AEnable Cloud IAP for the Compute Engine instances, and add the operations partner as a Cloud IAP Tunnel User.
  • BTag all the instances with the same network tag. Create a firewall rule in the VPC to grant TCP access on port 22 for traffic from the operations partner to instances with the network tag.
  • CSet up Cloud VPN between your Google Cloud VPC and the internal network of the operations partner.
  • DAsk the operations partner to generate SSH key pairs, and add the public keys to the VM instances.
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• #8

  You are storing sensitive information in a Cloud Storage bucket. For legal reasons, you need to be able to record all requests that read any of the stored data. You want to make sure you comply with these requirements. What should you do?

  • AEnable the Identity Aware Proxy API on the project.
  • BScan the bucket using the Data Loss Prevention API.
  • CAllow only a single Service Account access to read the data.
  • DEnable Data Access audit logs for the Cloud Storage API.
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• #9

  You have a project for your App Engine application that serves a development environment. The required testing has succeeded and you want to create a new project to serve as your production environment. What should you do?

  • AUse gcloud to create the new project, and then deploy your application to the new project.
  • BUse gcloud to create the new project and to copy the deployed application to the new project.
  • CCreate a Deployment Manager configuration file that copies the current App Engine deployment into a new project.
  • DDeploy your application again using gcloud and specify the project parameter with the new project name to create the new project.
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• #10

  You have an application that receives SSL-encrypted TCP traffic on port 443. Clients for this application are located all over the world. You want to minimize latency for the clients. Which load balancing option should you use?

  • AHTTPS Load Balancer.
  • BNetwork Load Balancer.
  • CSSL Proxy Load Balancer.
  • DInternal TCP/UDP Load Balancer. Add a firewall rule allowing ingress traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 on the target instances.
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• #11

  You need to set a budget alert for use of Compute Engine services on one of the three Google Cloud Platform projects that you manage. All three projects are linked to a single billing account. What should you do?

  • AVerify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and alert for the appropriate project.
  • BVerify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert.
  • CVerify that you are the project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget for the appropriate project.
  • DVerify that you are project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert.
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• #12

  You are hosting an application from Compute Engine Virtual Machines (VMs) in us-central1-a. You want to adjust your design to support the failure of a single Compute Engine zone, eliminate downtime, and minimize cost. What should you do?

  • ACreate Compute Engine resources in us-central1-b. Balance the load across both us-central1-a and us-central1-b.
  • BCreate a Managed Instance Group and specify us-central1-a as the zone. Configure the Health Check with a short Health Interval.
  • CCreate an HTTP(S) Load Balancer. Create one or more global forwarding rules to direct traffic to your VMs.
  • DPerform regular backups of your application. Create a Cloud Monitoring Alert and be notified if your application becomes unavailable. Restore from backups when notified.
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• #13

  You have developed an application that consists of multiple microservices, with each microservice packaged in its own Docker container image. You want to deploy the entire application on Google Kubernetes Engine so that each microservice can be scaled individually. What should you do?

  • ACreate and deploy a Custom Resource Definition per microservice.
  • BCreate and deploy a Docker Compose File.
  • CCreate and deploy a Job per microservice.
  • DCreate and deploy a Deployment per microservice.
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• #14

  Your organization uses G Suite for communication and collaboration. All users in your organization have a G Suite account. You want to grant some G Suite users access to your Cloud Platform project. What should you do?

  • AEnable Cloud Identity in the GCP Console for your domain.
  • BGrant them the required IAM roles using their G Suite email address.
  • CCreate a CSV sheet with all users' email addresses. Use the gcloud command line tool to convert them into Google Cloud Platform accounts.
  • DIn the G Suite console, add the users to a special group called cloud-console-users@yourdomain.com. Rely on the default behavior of the Cloud Platform to grant users access if they are members of this group.
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• #15

  You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a backend database. The application has a very predictable traffic pattern. You want to automatically scale up or down the number of Spanner nodes depending on traffic. What should you do?

  • ACreate a cron job that runs on a scheduled basis to review Cloud Monitoring metrics, and then resize the Spanner instance accordingly.
  • BCreate a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to send an alert to oncall SRE emails when Cloud Spanner CPU exceeds the threshold. SREs would scale resources up or down accordingly.
  • CCreate a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to send an alert to Google Cloud Support email when Cloud Spanner CPU exceeds your threshold. Google support would scale resources up or down accordingly.
  • DCreate a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to send an alert to webhook when Cloud Spanner CPU is over or under your threshold. Create a Cloud Function that listens to HTTP and resizes Spanner resources accordingly.
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• #16

  An employee was terminated, but their access to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was not removed until 2 weeks later. You need to find out this employee accessed any sensitive customer information after their termination. What should you do?

  • AView System Event Logs in Stackdriver. Search for the user's email as the principal.
  • BView System Event Logs in Stackdriver. Search for the service account associated with the user.
  • CView Data Access audit logs in Stackdriver. Search for the user's email as the principal.
  • DView the Admin Activity log in Stackdriver. Search for the service account associated with the user.
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• #17

  You want to select and configure a solution for storing and archiving data on Google Cloud Platform. You need to support compliance objectives for data from one geographic location. This data is archived after 30 days and needs to be accessed annually. What should you do?

  • ASelect Multi-Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Coldline Storage.
  • BSelect Multi-Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Nearline Storage.
  • CSelect Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Nearline Storage.
  • DSelect Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Coldline Storage.
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• #18

  You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups for 30 days. You want the Google-recommended solution with the least management overhead and the least number of services. What should you do?

  • A1. Update your instances' metadata to add the following value: snapshot-schedule: 0 1 2. Update your instances' metadata to add the following value: snapshot-retention: 30.
  • B1. In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance's disk. 2. In the Snapshot Schedule section, select Create Schedule and configure the following parameters: Schedule frequency: Daily. Start time: 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM. Autodelete snapshots after: 30 days.
  • C1. Create a Cloud Function that creates a snapshot of your instance's disk. 2. Create a Cloud Function that deletes snapshots that are older than 30 days. 3. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger both Cloud Functions daily at 1:00 AM.
  • D1. Create a bash script in the instance that copies the content of the disk to Cloud Storage. 2. Create a bash script in the instance that deletes data older than 30 days in the backup Cloud Storage bucket. 3. Configure the instance's crontab to execute these scripts daily at 1:00 AM.
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• #19

  Your company runs one batch process in an on-premises server that takes around 30 hours to complete. The task runs monthly, can be performed offline, and must be restarted if interrupted. You want to migrate this workload to the cloud while minimizing cost. What should you do?

  • AMigrate the workload to a Compute Engine Preemptible VM.
  • BMigrate the workload to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster with Preemptible nodes.
  • CMigrate the workload to a Compute Engine VM. Start and stop the instance as needed.
  • DCreate an Instance Template with Preemptible VMs On. Create a Managed Instance Group from the template and adjust Target CPU Utilization. Migrate the workload.
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• #20

  Your company has a single sign-on (SSO) identity provider that supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) integration with service providers. Your company has users in Cloud Identity. You would like users to authenticate using your company's SSO provider. What should you do?

  • AIn Cloud Identity, set up SSO with Google as an identity provider to access custom SAML apps.
  • BIn Cloud Identity, set up SSO with a third-party identity provider with Google as a service provider.
  • CObtain OAuth 2.0 credentials, configure the user consent screen, and set up OAuth 2.0 for Mobile & Desktop Apps.
  • DObtain OAuth 2.0 credentials, configure the user consent screen, and set up OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications.
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