Your VMs are running in a subnet that has a subnet mask of 255.255.255.240. The current subnet has no more free IP addresses and you require an additional 10 IP addresses for new VMs. The existing and new VMs should all be able to reach each other without additional routes. What should you do?

Use gcloud to expand the IP range of the current subnet.

Delete the subnet, and recreate it using a wider range of IP addresses.

Create a new project. Use Shared VPC to share the current network with the new project.

Create a new subnet with the same starting IP but a wider range to overwrite the current subnet.

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?

Grant them the required IAM roles using their G Suite email address.

Enable Cloud Identity in the GCP Console for your domain.

Grant them the required IAM roles using their G Suite email address.

Create a CSV sheet with all users' email addresses. Use the gcloud command line tool to convert them into Google Cloud Platform accounts.

In 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.

You have a Google Cloud Platform account with access to both production and development projects. You need to create an automated process to list all compute instances in development and production projects on a daily basis. What should you do?

Create two configurations using gcloud config. Write a script that sets configurations as active, individually. For each configuration, use gcloud compute instances list to get a list of compute resources.

Create two configurations using gsutil config. Write a script that sets configurations as active, individually. For each configuration, use gsutil compute instances list to get a list of compute resources.

Go to Cloud Shell and export this information to Cloud Storage on a daily basis.

Go to GCP Console and export this information to Cloud SQL on a daily basis.

You have a large 5-TB AVRO file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Your analysts are proficient only in SQL and need access to the data stored in this file. You want to find a cost-effective way to complete their request as soon as possible. What should you do?

Create external tables in BigQuery that point to Cloud Storage buckets and run a SQL query on these external tables to complete your request.

Load data in Cloud Datastore and run a SQL query against it.

Create a BigQuery table and load data in BigQuery. Run a SQL query on this table and drop this table after you complete your request.

Create external tables in BigQuery that point to Cloud Storage buckets and run a SQL query on these external tables to complete your request.

Create a Hadoop cluster and copy the AVRO file to NDFS by compressing it. Load the file in a hive table and provide access to your analysts so that they can run SQL queries.

You need to verify that a Google Cloud Platform service account was created at a particular time. What should you do?

Filter the Activity log to view the Configuration category. Filter the Resource type to Service Account.

Filter the Activity log to view the Configuration category. Filter the Resource type to Google Project.

Filter the Activity log to view the Data Access category. Filter the Resource type to Service Account.

Filter the Activity log to view the Data Access category. Filter the Resource type to Google Project.

You deployed an LDAP server on Compute Engine that is reachable via TLS through port 636 using UDP. You want to make sure it is reachable by clients over that port. What should you do?

Add a network tag of your choice to the instance. Create a firewall rule to allow ingress on UDP port 636 for that network tag.

Add the network tag allow-udp-636 to the VM instance running the LDAP server.

Create a route called allow-udp-636 and set the next hop to be the VM instance running the LDAP server.

Add a network tag of your choice to the instance. Create a firewall rule to allow ingress on UDP port 636 for that network tag.

Add a network tag of your choice to the instance running the LDAP server. Create a firewall rule to allow egress on UDP port 636 for that network tag.

You need to set a budget alert for use of Compute Engineer 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?

Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and alert for the appropriate project.

Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert.

Verify that you are the project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget for the appropriate project.

Verify that you are project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert.

You are migrating a production-critical on-premises application that requires 96 vCPUs to perform its task. You want to make sure the application runs in a similar environment on GCP. What should you do?

When creating the VM, use machine type n1-standard-96.

When creating the VM, use Intel Skylake as the CPU platform.

Create the VM using Compute Engine default settings. Use gcloud to modify the running instance to have 96 vCPUs.

Start the VM using Compute Engine default settings, and adjust as you go based on Rightsizing Recommendations.

You want to configure a solution for archiving data in a Cloud Storage bucket. The solution must be cost-effective. Data with multiple versions should be archived after 30 days. Previous versions are accessed once a month for reporting. This archive data is also occasionally updated at month-end. What should you do?

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data from regional storage after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data from regional storage after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

Your company's infrastructure is on-premises, but all machines are running at maximum capacity. You want to burst to Google Cloud. The workloads on Google Cloud must be able to directly communicate to the workloads on-premises using a private IP range. What should you do?

Set up Cloud VPN between the infrastructure on-premises and Google Cloud.

In Google Cloud, configure the VPC as a host for Shared VPC.

In Google Cloud, configure the VPC for VPC Network Peering.

Create bastion hosts both in your on-premises environment and on Google Cloud. Configure both as proxy servers using their public IP addresses.

Set up Cloud VPN between the infrastructure on-premises and Google Cloud.

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?

Select Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

Select Multi-Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

Select Multi-Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

Select Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

Select Regional Storage. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

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?

Go to Data Catalog and search for employee_ssn in the search box.

Write a shell script that uses the bq command line tool to loop through all the projects in your organization.

Write 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.

Write 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.

You create a Deployment with 2 replicas in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster that has a single preemptible node pool. After a few minutes, you use kubectl to examine the status of your Pod and observe that one of them is still in Pending status: What is the most likely cause?

Too many Pods are already running in the cluster, and there are not enough resources left to schedule the pending Pod.

The pending Pod's resource requests are too large to fit on a single node of the cluster.

Too many Pods are already running in the cluster, and there are not enough resources left to schedule the pending Pod.

The node pool is configured with a service account that does not have permission to pull the container image used by the pending Pod.

The pending Pod was originally scheduled on a node that has been preempted between the creation of the Deployment and your verification of the Pods' status. It is currently being rescheduled on a new node.

You want to find out when users were added to Cloud Spanner Identity Access Management (IAM) roles on your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project. What should you do in the GCP Console?

Go to the Stackdriver Logging console, review admin activity logs, and filter them for Cloud Spanner IAM roles.

Open the Cloud Spanner console to review configurations.

Open the IAM & admin console to review IAM policies for Cloud Spanner roles.

Go to the Stackdriver Monitoring console and review information for Cloud Spanner.

Go to the Stackdriver Logging console, review admin activity logs, and filter them for Cloud Spanner IAM roles.

Your company implemented BigQuery as an enterprise data warehouse. Users from multiple business units run queries on this data warehouse. However, you notice that query costs for BigQuery are very high, and you need to control costs. Which two methods should you use? (Choose two.)

Apply a user- or project-level custom query quota for BigQuery data warehouse.

Change your BigQuery query model from on-demand to flat rate. Apply the appropriate number of slots to each Project.

Split the users from business units to multiple projects.

Apply a user- or project-level custom query quota for BigQuery data warehouse.

Create separate copies of your BigQuery data warehouse for each business unit.

Split your BigQuery data warehouse into multiple data warehouses for each business unit.

Change your BigQuery query model from on-demand to flat rate. Apply the appropriate number of slots to each Project.

You are building a product on top of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You have a single GKE cluster. For each of your customers, a Pod is running in that cluster, and your customers can run arbitrary code inside their Pod. You want to maximize the isolation between your customers' Pods. What should you do?

Create a GKE node pool with a sandbox type configured to gvisor. Add the parameter runtimeClassName: gvisor to the specification of your customers' Pods.

Use Binary Authorization and whitelist only the container images used by your customers' Pods.

Use the Container Analysis API to detect vulnerabilities in the containers used by your customers' Pods.

Create a GKE node pool with a sandbox type configured to gvisor. Add the parameter runtimeClassName: gvisor to the specification of your customers' Pods.

Use the cos_containerd image for your GKE nodes. Add a nodeSelector with the value cloud.google.com/gke-os-distribution: cos_containerd to the specification of your customers' Pods.

Your finance team wants to view the billing report for your projects. You want to make sure that the finance team does not get additional permissions to the project. What should you do?

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing viewer role.

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing user role.

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing admin role.

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing viewer role.

Add the group for the finance team to roles/billing project/Manager role.

Your organization has strict requirements to control access to Google Cloud projects. You need to enable your Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to approve requests from the Google Cloud support team when an SRE opens a support case. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/accessapproval approver role.

Add your SREs to roles/iam.roleAdmin role.

Add your SREs to roles/accessapproval approver role.

Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/iam roleAdmin role.

Add your SREs to a group and then add this group to roles/accessapproval approver role.

You need to host an application on a Compute Engine instance in a project shared with other teams. You want to prevent the other teams from accidentally causing downtime on that application. Which feature should you use?

Enable deletion protection on the instance.

Your organization needs to grant users access to query datasets in BigQuery but prevent them from accidentally deleting the datasets. You want a solution that follows Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a custom role by removing delete permissions. Add users to the group, and then add the group to the custom role.

Add users to roles/bigquery user role only, instead of roles/bigquery dataOwner.

Add users to roles/bigquery dataEditor role only, instead of roles/bigquery dataOwner.

Create a custom role by removing delete permissions, and add users to that role only.

Create a custom role by removing delete permissions. Add users to the group, and then add the group to the custom role.

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?

Install the cloud-datastore-emulator component using the gcloud components install command.

Export Cloud Datastore data using gcloud datastore export.

Create a Cloud Datastore index using gcloud datastore indexes create.

Install the google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator component using the apt get install command.

Install the cloud-datastore-emulator component using the gcloud components install command.

Your company set up a complex organizational structure on Google Could Platform. 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?

Add the users to a group, and add this group to roles/browser role.

Add the users to roles/browser role.

Add the users to roles/iam.roleViewer role.

Add the users to a group, and add this group to roles/browser role.

Add the users to a group, and add this group to roles/iam.roleViewer role.

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?

In Cloud Identity, set up SSO with a third-party identity provider with Google as a service provider.

In Cloud Identity, set up SSO with Google as an identity provider to access custom SAML apps.

In Cloud Identity, set up SSO with a third-party identity provider with Google as a service provider.

Obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials, configure the user consent screen, and set up OAuth 2.0 for Mobile & Desktop Apps.

Obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials, configure the user consent screen, and set up OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications.

Your organization has a dedicated person who creates and manages all service accounts for Google Cloud projects. You need to assign this person the minimum role for projects. What should you do?

Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin role.

Add the user to roles/iam.roleAdmin role.

Add the user to roles/iam.securityAdmin role.

Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role.

Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin role.

You are building an archival solution for your data warehouse and have selected Cloud Storage to archive your dat

Your users need to be able to access this archived data once a quarter for some regulatory requirements. You want to select a cost-efficient option. Which storage option should you use?

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?

Enable node auto-provisioning on the GKE cluster.

Create a VerticalPodAutscaler for those workloads.

Create a node pool with preemptible VMs and GPUs attached to those VMs.

Create a node pool of instances with GPUs, and enable autoscaling on this node pool with a minimum size of 1.

Your organization has user identities in Active Directory. Your organization wants to use Active Directory as their source of truth for identities. Your organization wants to have full control over the Google accounts used by employees for all Google services, including your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) organization. What should you do?

Use Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) to synchronize users into Cloud Identity.

Use the cloud Identity APIs and write a script to synchronize users to Cloud Identity.

Export users from Active Directory as a CSV and import them to Cloud Identity via the Admin Console.

Ask each employee to create a Google account using self signup. Require that each employee use their company email address and password.

You have successfully created a development environment in a project for an application. This application uses Compute Engine and Cloud SQL. Now, you need to create a production environment for this application.The security team has forbidden the existence of network routes between these 2 environments, and asks you to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a new project, enable the Compute Engine and Cloud SQL APIs in that project, and replicate the setup you have created in the development environment.

Create a new production subnet in the existing VPC and a new production Cloud SQL instance in your existing project, and deploy your application using those resources.

Create a new project, modify your existing VPC to be a Shared VPC, share that VPC with your new project, and replicate the setup you have in the development environment in that new project, in the Shared VPC.

Ask the security team to grant you the Project Editor role in an existing production project used by another division of your company. Once they grant you that role, replicate the setup you have in the development environment in that project.

Your management has asked an external auditor to review all the resources in a specific project. The security team has enabled the Organization Policy called Domain Restricted Sharing on the organization node by specifying only your Cloud Identity domain. You want the auditor to only be able to view, but not modify, the resources in that project. What should you do?

Create a temporary account for the auditor in Cloud Identity, and give that account the Viewer role on the project.

Ask the auditor for their Google account, and give them the Viewer role on the project.

Ask the auditor for their Google account, and give them the Security Reviewer role on the project.

Create a temporary account for the auditor in Cloud Identity, and give that account the Viewer role on the project.

Create a temporary account for the auditor in Cloud Identity, and give that account the Security Reviewer role on the project.

You have a workload running on Compute Engine that is critical to your business. You want to ensure that the data on the boot disk of this workload is backed up regularly. You need to be able to restore a backup as quickly as possible in case of disaster. You also want older backups to be cleaned automatically to save on cost. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a snapshot schedule for the disk using the desired interval.

Create a Cloud Function to create an instance template.

Create a snapshot schedule for the disk using the desired interval.

Create a cron job to create a new disk from the disk using gcloud.

Create a Cloud Task to create an image and export it to Cloud Storage.

You need to assign a Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) role to an external auditor. The auditor needs to have permissions to review your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Audit Logs and also to review your Data Access logs. What should you do?

Assign the auditor the IAM role roles/logging.privateLogViewer. Direct the auditor to also review the logs for changes to Cloud IAM policy.

Assign the auditor the IAM role roles/logging.privateLogViewer. Perform the export of logs to Cloud Storage.

Assign the auditor the IAM role roles/logging.privateLogViewer. Direct the auditor to also review the logs for changes to Cloud IAM policy.

Assign the auditor's IAM user to a custom role that has logging.privateLogEntries.list permission. Perform the export of logs to Cloud Storage.

Assign the auditor's IAM user to a custom role that has logging.privateLogEntries.list permission. Direct the auditor to also review the logs for changes to Cloud IAM policy.

You are managing several Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects and need access to all logs for the past 60 days. You want to be able to explore and quickly analyze the log contents. You want to follow Google- recommended practices to obtain the combined logs for all projects. What should you do?

Create a Stackdriver Logging Export with a Sink destination to a BigQuery dataset. Configure the table expiration to 60 days.

Navigate to Stackdriver Logging and select resource.labels.project_id='*'

Create a Stackdriver Logging Export with a Sink destination to a BigQuery dataset. Configure the table expiration to 60 days.

Create a Stackdriver Logging Export with a Sink destination to Cloud Storage. Create a lifecycle rule to delete objects after 60 days.

Configure a Cloud Scheduler job to read from Stackdriver and store the logs in BigQuery. Configure the table expiration to 60 days.

You need to reduce GCP service costs for a division of your company using the fewest possible steps. You need to turn off all configured services in an existing GCP project. What should you do?

1. Verify that you are assigned the Project Owners IAM role for this project. 2. Locate the project in the GCP console, click Shut down and then enter the project ID.

1. Verify that you are assigned the Project Owners IAM role for this project. 2. Switch to the project in the GCP console, locate the resources and delete them.

1. Verify that you are assigned the Organizational Administrator IAM role for this project. 2. Locate the project in the GCP console, enter the project ID and then click Shut down.

1. Verify that you are assigned the Organizational Administrators IAM role for this project. 2. Switch to the project in the GCP console, locate the resources and delete them.

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?

Give ''project owner'' role to crm-databases-proj and bigquery.dataViewer role to web-applications.

Give ''project owner'' for web-applications appropriate roles to crm-databases- proj

Give ''project owner'' role to crm-databases-proj and the web-applications project.

Give ''project owner'' role to crm-databases-proj and bigquery.dataViewer role to web-applications.

Give bigquery.dataViewer role to crm-databases-proj and appropriate roles to web-applications.

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?

View Data Access audit logs in Stackdriver. Search for the user's email as the principal.

View System Event Logs in Stackdriver. Search for the user's email as the principal.

View System Event Logs in Stackdriver. Search for the service account associated with the user.

View Data Access audit logs in Stackdriver. Search for the user's email as the principal.

View the Admin Activity log in Stackdriver. Search for the service account associated with the user.

You need to create a custom IAM role for use with a GCP service. All permissions in the role must be suitable for production use. You also want to clearly share with your organization the status of the custom role. This will be the first version of the custom role. What should you do?

Use permissions in your role that use the 'supported' support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

Use permissions in your role that use the 'supported' support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

Use permissions in your role that use the 'testing' support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

Use permissions in your role that use the 'testing' support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

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?

Upload the data to Cloud Storage using the gsutil command line tool.

Upload the data to BigQuery using the bq command line tool.

Upload the data to Cloud Storage using the gsutil command line tool.

Upload the data into Cloud SQL using the import function in the console.

Upload the data into Cloud Spanner using the import function in the console.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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