Google Cloud Certified Certification Associate-Cloud-Engineer Sample Questions Reliable [Q24-Q41]

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Google Cloud Certified Certification Associate-Cloud-Engineer Sample Questions Reliable

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Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification is highly valued in the industry and provides a competitive edge to the candidate. Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam certification demonstrates that the individual has the necessary skills and knowledge to work on the Google Cloud Platform effectively. Moreover, this certification is a stepping stone for individuals who wish to pursue advanced cloud certifications such as the Google Professional Cloud Architect or the Google Professional Cloud Developer.

NO.24 You are developing a financial trading application that will be used globally. Data is stored and queried using a relational structure, and clients from all over the world should get the exact identical state of the data. The application will be deployed in multiple regions to provide the lowest latency to end users. You need to select a storage option for the application data while minimizing latency. What should you do?

Use Cloud Bigtable for data storage.

Use Cloud SQL for data storage.

Use Cloud Spanner for data storage.

Use Firestore for data storage.

NO.25 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 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.

NO.26 You have a simple web application that you’re trying to deploy in a secure and inexpensive way. The application is running inside a Docker container on port 8080. Once the application is initially deployed, the developers are going to take ownership of future deployments.
What is the best option for running the application?

Use an App Engine Standard Environment.

Use an App Engine Flexible Environment.

Use an on-premises Kubernetes cluster.

Use Kubernetes Engine.

NO.27 Your company has embraced a hybrid cloud strategy where some of the applications are deployed on Google Cloud. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel connects your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Google Cloud with your company’s on-premises network. Multiple applications in Google Cloud need to connect to an on-premises database server, and you want to avoid having to change the IP configuration in all of your applications when the IP of the database changes.
What should you do?

Configure Cloud NAT for all subnets of your VPC to be used when egressing from the VM instances.

Create a private zone on Cloud DNS, and configure the applications with the DNS name.

Configure the IP of the database as custom metadata for each instance,

Query the Compute Engine internal DNS from the applications to retrieve the IP of the database.

NO.28 You have been asked to set up the billing configuration for a new Google Cloud customer. Your customer wants to group resources that share common IAM policies. What should you do?

Use labels to group resources that share common IAM policies

Use folders to group resources that share common IAM policies

Set up a proper billing account structure to group IAM policies

Set up a proper project naming structure to group IAM policies

NO.29 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.

NO.30 You recently deployed a new version of an application to App Engine and then discovered a bug in the release.
You need to immediately revert to the prior version of the application. What should you do?

Run gcloud app restore.

On the App Engine page of the GCP Console, select the application that needs to be reverted and click Revert.

On the App Engine Versions page of the GCP Console, route 100% of the traffic to the previous version.

Deploy the original version as a separate application. Then go to App Engine settings and split traffic between applications so that the original version serves 100% of the requests.

NO.31 Your developers have created an application that needs to be able to make calls to Cloud Storage and BigQuery. The code is going to run inside a container and will run on Kubernetes Engine and on-premises.
What’s the best way for them to authenticate to the Google Cloud services?

Create a service account, grant it the least viable privileges to the required services, generate and download a key. Use the key to authenticate inside the application.

Use the default service account for App Engine which already has the required permissions.

Use the default service account for Compute Engine which already has the required permissions.

Create a service account, with editor permissions, generate and download a key. Use the key to authenticate inside the application.

NO.32 You have deployed a Django 1.5 Python application to App Engine. This version of Django requires Python 3. Due to some issues, App Engine is trying to run the application using Python
2. Which of the following file would you check and modify (if required) to ensure that Python 3 is used with the application?

app.config

services.yaml

app.yaml

cron.yaml

NO.33 You have just created a new project which will be used to deploy a globally distributed application. You will use Cloud Spanner for data storage. You want to create a Cloud Spanner instance. You want to perform the first step in preparation of creating the instance. What should you do?

Grant yourself the IAM role of Cloud Spanner Admin

Create a new VPC network with subnetworks in all desired regions

Configure your Cloud Spanner instance to be multi-regional

Enable the Cloud Spanner API

NO.34 You need to create a Compute Engine instance in a new project that doesn’t exist yet. What should you do?

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.

Enable the Compute Engine API in the Cloud Console, use the Cloud SDK to create the instance, and then use the –project flag to specify a new project.

Using the Cloud SDK, create the new instance, and use the –project flag to specify the new project.
Answer yes when prompted by Cloud SDK to enable the Compute Engine API.

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.

NO.35 You want your application hosted on a VM to fetch metadata of that instance.
Which command will help you to fetch it?

curl metadata.google.internal/compute-metadata/v1/

curl <instance-private-ip>/metadata/v1/

curl metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/

curl internal.googleapi.com/computeMetadata/v1/

NO.36 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?

Modify the existing subnet range to 172.16.20.0/24.

Create a new Secondary IP Range in the VPC and configure the VMs to use that range.

Create a new VPC network for the VMs. Enable VPC Peering between the VMs’ VPC network and the Dataproc cluster VPC network.

Create a new VPC network for the VMs with a subnet of 172.32.0.0/16. Enable VPC network Peering between the Dataproc VPC network and the VMs VPC network. Configure a custom Route exchange.

NO.37 You created a Kubernetes deployment by running kubectl 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 pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt 1/1 Running 0 9m41s
$ kubectl delete pod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt
pod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt deleted
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
nginx-84748895c4-k6bzl 1/1 Running 0 25s
What 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

kubectl delete inginx

NO.38 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?

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.

NO.39 You work for a retail company that has a busy online store. As you are approaching New Year, you find that your e-store is getting more and more traffic. You ensure that your web servers are behind a managed instance group. However, you notice that the web tier is frequently scaling, sometimes multiple times in an hour. You need to keep instance group from scaling up and down so rapidly. Which of the following options would help you to achieve this?

Change the auto scaling metric to use multiple metrics instead of just one metric.

Reduce the number of maximum instance count.

Associate a health check with instance group.

Increase the cool down period.

NO.40 You want to configure 10 Compute Engine instances for availability when maintenance occurs.
Your requirements state that these instances should attempt to automatically restart if they crash.
Also, the instances should be highly available including during system maintenance. What should you do?

Create an instance template for the instances.
Set the `Automatic Restart’ to on. Set the `On-host maintenance’ to Migrate VM instance.
Add the instance template to an intsance group.

Create an instance template for the instances.
`Automatic Restart’ to off. Set `On-host maintenance’ to Terminate VM instances.
Add the instance template to an instance group.

Create an instance group for the instances.
Set the `Autohealing’ health check to healthy (HTTP).

Create an instance group for the instance.
Verify that the `Advanced creation options’ setting for `do not retry machine creation’ is set to off.

NO.41 You deployed an App Engine application using gcloud app deploy, but it did not deploy to the intended project. You want to find out why this happened and where the application deployed. What should you do?

Check the app.yaml file for your application and check project settings.

Check the web-application.xml file for your application and check project settings.

Go to Deployment Manager and review settings for deployment of applications.

Go to Cloud Shell and run gcloud config listto review the Google Cloud configuration used for deployment.