You have created a new project in Google Cloud through the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and linked a billing account. You need to create a new ComputeEngine instance using the CLI. You need to perform the prerequisite steps. What should you do?

Grant yourself the IAM role of Computer Admin.

Create a Cloud Monitoring Workspace.

Create a VPC network in the project.

Enable the compute googleapis.com API.

Grant yourself the IAM role of Computer Admin.

Your company has developed a new application that consists of multiple microservices. You want to deploy the application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and you want to ensure that the cluster can scale as more applications are deployed in the future. You want to avoid manual intervention when each new application is deployed. What should you do?

Create a GKE cluster with autoscaling enabled on the node pool. Set a minimum and maximum for the size of the node pool.

Deploy the application on GKE, and add a HorizontalPodAutoscaler to the deployment.

Deploy the application on GKE, and add a VerticalPodAutoscaler to the deployment.

Create a GKE cluster with autoscaling enabled on the node pool. Set a minimum and maximum for the size of the node pool.

Create a separate node pool for each application, and deploy each application to its dedicated node pool.

Your coworker has helped you set up several configurations for gcloud. You've noticed that you're running commands against the wrong project. Being new to the company, you haven't yet memorized any of the projects. With the fewest steps possible, what's the fastest way to switch to the correct configuration?

Run gcloud config configurations list followed by gcloud config configurations activate.

Run gcloud configurations list followed by gcloud configurations activate .

Run gcloud config list followed by gcloud config activate.

Run gcloud config configurations list followed by gcloud config configurations activate.

Re-authenticate with the gcloud auth login command and select the correct configurations on login.

The storage costs for your application logs have far exceeded the project budget. The logs are currently being retained indefinitely in the Cloud Storage bucket myapp-gcp-ace-logs. You have been asked to remove logs older than 90 days from your Cloud Storage bucket. You want to optimize ongoing Cloud Storage spend. What should you do?

Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with gsutil lifecycle set config-json-file.

Write a script that runs gsutil Is -| -- gs://myapp-gcp-ace-logs/** to find and remove items older than 90 days. Schedule the script with cron.

Write a lifecycle management rule in JSON and push it to the bucket with gsutil lifecycle set config-json-file.

Write a lifecycle management rule in XML and push it to the bucket with gsutil lifecycle set config-xml-file.

Write a script that runs gsutil Is -Ir gs://myapp-gcp-ace-logs/** to find and remove items older than 90 days. Repeat this process every morning.

Users of your application are complaining of slowness when loading the application. You realize the slowness is because the App Engine deployment serving the application is deployed in us-central whereas all users of this application are closest to europe-west3. You want to change the region of the App Engine application to europe-west3 to minimize latency. What's the best way to change the App Engine region?

Create a new project and create an App Engine instance in europe-west3

Use the gcloud app region set command and supply the name of the new region.

From the console, under the App Engine page, click edit, and change the region drop-down.

Contact Google Cloud Support and request the change.

You are designing an application that lets users upload and share photos. You expect your application to grow really fast and you are targeting a worldwide audience. You want to delete uploaded photos after 30 days. You want to minimize costs while ensuring your application is highly available. Which GCP storage solution should you choose?

Multiregional Cloud Storage bucket.

Persistent SSD on VM instances.

Multiregional Cloud Storage bucket.

You are designing an application that uses WebSockets and HTTP sessions that are not distributed across the web servers. You want to ensure the application runs properly on Google Cloud Platform. What should you do?

Meet with the cloud enablement team to discuss load balancer options.

Redesign the application to use a distributed user session service that does not rely on WebSockets and HTTP sessions.

Review the encryption requirements for WebSocket connections with the security team.

Convert the WebSocket code to use HTTP streaming.

You have a number of compute instances belonging to an unmanaged instances group. You need to SSH to one of the Compute Engine instances to run an ad hoc script. You've already authenticated gcloud, however, you don't have an SSH key deployed yet. In the fewest steps possible, what's the easiest way to SSH to the instance?

Use the gcloud compute ssh command.

Run gcloud compute instances list to get the IP address of the instance, then use the ssh command.

Use the gcloud compute ssh command.

Create a key with the ssh-keygen command. Then use the gcloud compute ssh command.

Create a key with the ssh-keygen command. Upload the key to the instance. Run gcloud compute instances list to get the IP address of the instance, then use the ssh command.

You created a cluster.YAML file containingresources:name: clustertype: container.v1.clusterproperties:zone: europe-west1-bcluster:description: My GCP ACE clusterinitialNodeCount: 2You want to use Cloud Deployment Manager to create this cluster in GKE. What should you do?

gcloud deployment-manager deployments apply my-gcp-ace-cluster --config cluster.yaml

gcloud deployment-manager deployments create my-gcp-ace-cluster --config cluster.yaml

gcloud deployment-manager deployments create my-gcp-ace-cluster --type container.v1.cluster --config cluster.yaml

gcloud deployment-manager deployments apply my-gcp-ace-cluster --type container.v1.cluster --config cluster.yaml

gcloud deployment-manager deployments apply my-gcp-ace-cluster --config cluster.yaml

You created a Kubernetes deployment by running kubectl run nginx image=nginx labels=app=prod. Your Kubernetes cluster is also used by a number of other deployments. How can you find the identifier of the pods for this nginx deployment?

kubectl get pods -I ''app=prod''

kubectl get deployments --output=pods

gcloud get pods --selector=''app=prod''

kubectl get pods -I ''app=prod''

gcloud list gke-deployments -filter={pod }

You created a Kubernetes deployment by runningkubectl run nginx image=nginx replicas=1. After a few days, you decided you no longer want this deployment. You identified the pod and deleted it by running kubectl delete pod. You noticed the pod got recreated.$ kubectl get podsNAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGEnginx-84748895c4-nqqmt 1/1 Running 0 9m41s$ kubectl delete pod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmtpod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt deleted$ kubectl get podsNAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGEnginx-84748895c4-k6bzl 1/1 Running 0 25sWhat should you do to delete the deployment and avoid pod getting recreated?

kubectl delete deployment nginx

kubectl delete --deployment=nginx

kubectl delete pod nginx-84748895c4-k6bzl --no-restart 2

You have been asked to migrate a docker application from datacenter to cloud. Your solution architect has suggested uploading docker images to GCR in one project and running an application in a GKE cluster in a separate project. You want to store images in the project img-278322 and run the application in the project prod-278986. You want to tag the image as acme_track_n_trace:v1. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/img-278322/acme_track_n_trace:v1

Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/img-278322/acme_track_n_trace

Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/img-278322/acme_track_n_trace:v1

Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/prod-278986/acme_track_n_trace

Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/prod-278986/acme_track_n_trace:v1

You have files in a Cloud Storage bucket that you need to share with your suppliers. You want to restrict the time that the files are available to your suppliers to 1 hour. You want to follow Google recommended practices. What should you do?

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -d 1h gs:///**.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -m 1h gs:///*.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -d 1h gs:///**.

Create a service account with just the permissions to access files in the bucket. Create a JSON key for the service account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -p 60m gs:///.

Create a JSON key for the Default Compute Engine Service Account. Execute the command gsutil signurl -t 60m gs:///***

You have a managed instance group comprised of preemptible VM's. All of the VM's keepdeleting and recreating themselves every minute. What is a possible cause of thisbehavior?

Your managed instance group's health check is repeatedly failing, either to amisconfigured health check or misconfigured firewall rules not allowing the healthcheck to access the instance

Your zonal capacity is limited, causing all preemptible VM's to be shutdown torecover capacity. Try deploying your group to another zone.

You have hit your instance quota for the region.

Your managed instance group's VM's are toggled to only last 1 minute inpreemptible settings.

Your managed instance group's health check is repeatedly failing, either to amisconfigured health check or misconfigured firewall rules not allowing the healthcheck to access the instance

You deployed an application on a managed instance group in Compute Engine. The application accepts Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic on port 389 and requires you to preserve the IP address of the client who is making a request. You want to expose the application to the internet by using a load balancer. What should you do?

Expose the application by using a TCP Proxy Load Balancer.

Expose the application by using an external TCP Network Load Balancer.

Expose the application by using a TCP Proxy Load Balancer.

Expose the application by using an SSL Proxy Load Balancer.

Expose the application by using an internal TCP Network Load Balancer.

You are building a multi-player gaming application that will store game information in a database. As the popularity of the application increases, you are concerned about delivering consistent performance. You need to ensure an optimal gaming performance for global users, without increasing the management complexity. What should you do?

Use Cloud Spanner to store user data mapped to the game statistics.

Use Cloud SQL database with cross-region replication to store game statistics in the EU, US, and APAC regions.

Use Cloud Spanner to store user data mapped to the game statistics.

Use BigQuery to store game statistics with a Redis on Memorystore instance in the front to provide global consistency.

Store game statistics in a Bigtable database partitioned by username.

Your company has multiple projects linked to a single billing account in Google Cloud. You need to visualize the costs with specific metrics that should be dynamically calculated based on company-specific criteria. You want to automate the process. What should you do?

Configure Cloud Billing data export to BigOuery for the billing account. Create a Looker Studio dashboard on top of the BigOuery export.

In the Google Cloud console, visualize the costs related to the projects in the Reports section.

In the Google Cloud console, visualize the costs related to the projects in the Cost breakdown section.

In the Google Cloud console, use the export functionality of the Cost table. Create a Looker Studiodashboard on top of the CSV export.

Configure Cloud Billing data export to BigOuery for the billing account. Create a Looker Studio dashboard on top of the BigOuery export.

You have an application that runs on Compute Engine VM instances in a custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Your company's security policies only allow the use to internal IP addresses on VM instances and do not let VM instances connect to the internet. You need to ensure that the application can access a file hosted in a Cloud Storage bucket within your project. What should you do?

Enable Private Service Access on the Cloud Storage Bucket.

Add slorage.googleapis.com to the list of restricted services in a VPC Service Controls perimeter and add your project to the list to protected projects.

Enable Private Google Access on the subnet within the custom VPC.

Deploy a Cloud NAT instance and route the traffic to the dedicated IP address of the Cloud Storage bucket.

Your company completed the acquisition of a startup and is now merging the IT systems of both companies. The startup had a production Google Cloud project in their organization. You need to move this project into your organization and ensure that the project is billed lo your organization. You want to accomplish this task with minimal effort. What should you do?

Use the projects. move method to move the project to your organization. Update the billing account of the project to that of your organization.

Ensure that you have an Organization Administrator Identity and Access Management (1AM) role assigned to you in both organizations. Navigate to the Resource Manager in the startup's Google Cloud organization, and drag the project to your company's organization.

Create a Private Catalog tor the Google Cloud Marketplace, and upload the resources of the startup's production project to the Catalog. Share the Catalog with your organization, and deploy the resources in your company's project.

Create an infrastructure-as-code template tor all resources in the project by using Terraform. and deploy that template to a new project in your organization. Delete the protect from the startup's Google Cloud organization.

All development (dev) teams in your organization are located in the United States. Each dev team has its own Google Cloud project. You want to restrict access so that each dev team can only create cloud resources in the United States (US). What should you do?

Create an Identity and Access Management <IAM) policy to restrict the resources locations in the US. Apply the policy to all dev projects.

Create a folder to contain all the dev projects Create an organization policy to limit resources in US locations.

Create an organization to contain all the dev projects. Create an Identity and Access Management (1AM) policy to limit the resources in US regions.

Create an Identity and Access Management <IAM) policy to restrict the resources locations in the US. Apply the policy to all dev projects.

Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM)policy to restrict the resources locations in all dev projects. Apply the policy to all dev roles.

You are configuring Cloud DNS. You want !to create DNS records to point home.mydomain.com, mydomain.com. and www.mydomain.com to the IP address of your Google Cloud load balancer. What should you do?

Create one A record to point mydomain.com to the load balancer, and create two CNAME records to point WWW and HOME to mydomain.com respectively.

Create one CNAME record to point mydomain.com to the load balancer, and create two A records to point WWW and HOME lo mydomain.com respectively.

Create one CNAME record to point mydomain.com to the load balancer, and create two AAAA records to point WWW and HOME to mydomain.com respectively.

Create one A record to point mydomain.com to the load balancer, and create two CNAME records to point WWW and HOME to mydomain.com respectively.

Create one A record to point mydomain.com lo the load balancer, and create two NS records to point WWW and HOME to mydomain.com respectively.

You have two subnets (subnet-a and subnet-b) in the default VPC. Your database servers are running in subnet-a. Your application servers and web servers are running in subnet-b. You want to configure a firewall rule that only allows database traffic from the application servers to the database servers. What should you do?

* Create a service account sa-app and a network tag db-server. * Associate the service account sa-app with the application servers and the network tag db-server with the database servers. * Create an ingress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source VPC IP addresses and target the subnet-a IP addresses.

* Create service accounts sa-app and sa-db. * Associate service account: sa-app with the application servers and the service account sa-db with the database servers. * Create an ingress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source service account sa-app to target service account sa-db.

* Create network tags app-server and db-server. * Add the app-server lag lo the application servers and the db-server lag to the database servers. * Create an egress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source network tag app-server to target network tag db-server.

* Create a service account sa-app and a network tag db-server. * Associate the service account sa-app with the application servers and the network tag db-server with the database servers. * Create an ingress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source VPC IP addresses and target the subnet-a IP addresses.

* Create a network lag app-server and service account sa-db. * Add the tag to the application servers and associate the service account with the database servers. * Create an egress firewall rule to allow network traffic from source network tag app-server to target service account sa-db.

Your learn wants to deploy a specific content management system (CMS) solution lo Google Cloud. You need a quick and easy way to deploy and install the solution. What should you do?

Search for the CMS solution in Google Cloud Marketplace. Deploy the solution directly from Cloud Marketplace.

Search for the CMS solution in Google Cloud Marketplace. Use gcloud CLI to deploy the solution.

Search for the CMS solution in Google Cloud Marketplace. Deploy the solution directly from Cloud Marketplace.

Search for the CMS solution in Google Cloud Marketplace. Use Terraform and the Cloud Marketplace ID to deploy the solution with the appropriate parameters.

Use the installation guide of the CMS provider. Perform the installation through your configuration management system.

You are working for a startup that was officially registered as a business 6 months ago. As your customer base grows, your use of Google Cloud increases. You want to allow all engineers to create new projects without asking them for their credit card information. What should you do?

Create a Billing account, associate a payment method with it, and provide all project creators with permission to associate that billing account with their projects.

Grant all engineer's permission to create their own billing accounts for each new project.

Apply for monthly invoiced billing, and have a single invoice tor the project paid by the finance team.

Create a billing account, associate it with a monthly purchase order (PO), and send the PO to Google Cloud.

You recently received a new Google Cloud project with an attached billing account where you will work. You need to create instances, set firewalls, and store data in Cloud Storage. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Use the gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com command to enable Compute Engine and the gcloud services enable storage-api.googleapis.com command to enable the Cloud Storage APIs.

Use the gcloud CLI services enable cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com command to enable all resources.

Use the gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com command to enable Compute Engine and the gcloud services enable storage-api.googleapis.com command to enable the Cloud Storage APIs.

Open the Google Cloud console and enable all Google Cloud APIs from the API dashboard.

Open the Google Cloud console and run gcloud init --project in a Cloud Shell.

Your company is using Google Workspace to manage employee accounts. Anticipated growth will increase the number of personnel from 100 employees to 1.000 employees within 2 years. Most employees will need access to your company's Google Cloud account. The systems and processes will need to support 10x growth without performance degradation, unnecessary complexity, or security issues. What should you do?

Organize the users in Cloud Identity into groups. Enforce multi-factor authentication in Cloud Identity.

Migrate the users to Active Directory. Connect the Human Resources system to Active Directory. Turn on Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) for Cloud Identity. Turn on Identity Federation from Cloud Identity to Active Directory.

Organize the users in Cloud Identity into groups. Enforce multi-factor authentication in Cloud Identity.

Turn on identity federation between Cloud Identity and Google Workspace. Enforce multi-factor authentication for domain wide delegation.

Use a third-party identity provider service through federation. Synchronize the users from Google Workplace to the third-party provider in real time.

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?

Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Cloud Run.

Create an Instance template with the container image, and deploy a Managed Instance Group with Autoscaling.

Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine using Standard mode.

Upload Docker images to the Cloud Storage, and deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine using Standard mode.

Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Cloud Run.

Your team is using Linux instances on Google Cloud. You need to ensure that your team logs in to these instances in the most secure and cost efficient way. What should you do?

Create a bastion host with public internet access. Create the SSH tunnel to the instance through the bastion host.

Attach a public IP to the instances and allow incoming connections from the internet on port 22 for SSH.

Use a third party tool to provide remote access to the instances.

Use the gcloud compute ssh command with the --tunnel-through-iap flag. Allow ingress traffic from the IP range 35.235.240.0/20 on port 22.

Create a bastion host with public internet access. Create the SSH tunnel to the instance through the bastion host.

You are migrating a business critical application from your local data center into Google Cloud. As part of your high-availability strategy, you want to ensure that any data used by the application will be immediately available if a zonal failure occurs. What should you do?

Store the application data on a zonal persistent disk. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk. If an outage occurs, create a new disk from the most recent snapshot and attach it to a new VM in another zone.

Store the application data on a zonal persistent disk. If an outage occurs, create an instance in another zone with this disk attached.

Store the application data on a regional persistent disk. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk. If an outage occurs, create a new disk from the most recent snapshot and attach it to a new VM in another zone.

Store the application data on a regional persistent disk If an outage occurs, create an instance in another zone with this disk attached.

The DevOps group in your organization needs full control of Compute Engine resources in your development project. However, they should not have permission to create or update any other resources in the project. You want to follow Google's recommendations for setting permissions for the DevOps group. What should you do?

Grant the basic role roles/viewer and the predefined role roles/compute.admin to the DevOps group.

Create an 1AM policy and grant all compute. instanceAdmln.' permissions to the policy Attach the policy to the DevOps group.

Create a custom role at the folder level and grant all compute. instanceAdmln. * permissions to the role Grant the custom role to the DevOps group.

Grant the basic role roles/editor to the DevOps group.

Your team is running an on-premises ecommerce application. The application contains a complex set of microservices written in Python, and each microservice is running on Docker containers. Configurations are injected by using environment variables. You need to deploy your current application to a serverless Google Cloud cloud solution. What should you do?

Use your existing CI/CD pipeline Use the generated Docker images and deploy them to Cloud Run. Update the configurations and the required endpoints.

Use your existing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. Use the generated Docker images and deploy them to Cloud Function. Use the same configuration as on-premises.

Use the existing codebase and deploy each service as a separate Cloud Function Update the configurations and the required endpoints.

Use your existing codebase and deploy each service as a separate Cloud Run Use the same configurations as on-premises.

You are running a web application on Cloud Run for a few hundred users. Some of your users complain that the initial web page of the application takes much longer to load than the following pages. You want to follow Google's recommendations to mitigate the issue. What should you do?

Set the minimum number of instances for your Cloud Run service to 3.

Update your web application to use the protocol HTTP/2 instead of HTTP/1.1

Set the concurrency number to 1 for your Cloud Run service.

Set the maximum number of instances for your Cloud Run service to 100.

Set the minimum number of instances for your Cloud Run service to 3.

You want to permanently delete a Pub/Sub topic managed by Config Connector in your Google Cloud project. What should you do?

Use kubect1 to delete the topic resource.

Use gcloud CLI to delete the topic.

Use kubect1 to create the label deleted-by-cnrm and to change its value to true for the topic resource.

Use gcloud CLI to update the topic label managed-by-cnrm to false.

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 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.

Your team maintains the infrastructure for your organization. The current infrastructure requires changes. You need to share your proposed changes with the rest of the team. You want to follow Google's recommended best practices. What should you do?

Use Deployment Manager templates to describe the proposed changes and store them in Cloud Source Repositories.

Use Deployment Manager templates to describe the proposed changes and store them in a Cloud Storage bucket.

Use Deployment Manager templates to describe the proposed changes and store them in Cloud Source Repositories.

Apply the change in a development environment, run gcloud compute instances list, and then save the output in a shared Storage bucket.

Apply the change in a development environment, run gcloud compute instances list, and then save the output in Cloud Source Repositories.

Your development team needs a new Jenkins server for their project. You need to deploy the server using the fewest steps possible. What should you do?

Use GCP Marketplace to launch the Jenkins solution.

Download and deploy the Jenkins Java WAR to App Engine Standard.

Create a new Compute Engine instance and install Jenkins through the command line interface.

Create a Kubernetes cluster on Compute Engine and create a deployment with the Jenkins Docker image.

Use GCP Marketplace to launch the Jenkins solution.

Google Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Test 6 - Free Online Exam Questions 201-240

Your company is moving its entire workload to Compute Engine. Some servers should be accessible through the Internet, and other servers should only be accessible over the internal network. All servers need to be able to talk to each other over specific ports and protocols. The current on-premises network relies on a demilitarized zone (DMZ) for the public servers and a Local Area Network (LAN) for the private servers. You need to design the networking infrastructure on

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