Google ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Google ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Online Questions & Answers

• Question 141:

  You have several users who need access to some very specific Google Cloud functionality. You'd like to follow the principle of least privilege. What's the best way to ensure these users can list Cloud Storage buckets, list BigQuery jobs, and list compute disks?

  A. Add the users to the viewer role.
  B. Use the Cloud Storage Bucket Viewer, BigQuery Job User, and Compute User predefined roles.
  C. Create a custom role for this job role, add the required permissions, and add the users to the role.
  D. Add the users to a group, apply the Cloud Storage Bucket Viewer, BigQuery Job User, and Compute User predefined roles.
  C. Create a custom role for this job role, add the required permissions, and add the users to the role.

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• Question 142:

  You have an on-premises data analytics set of binaries that processes data files in memory for about 45 minutes every midnight. The sizes of those data files range from 1 gigabyte to 16 gigabytes. You want to migrate this application to Google Cloud with minimal effort and cost. What should you do?

  A. Create a container for the set of binaries. Use Cloud Scheduler to start a Cloud Run job for the container.
  B. Create a container for the set of binaries. Deploy the container to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and use the Kubernetes scheduler to start the application.
  C. Upload the code to Cloud Functions. Use Cloud Scheduler to start the application.
  D. Lift and shift to a VM on Compute Engine. Use an instance schedule to start and stop the instance.
  D. Lift and shift to a VM on Compute Engine. Use an instance schedule to start and stop the instance.

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  Explanation

  minimal effort is to lift and shift to VM minimal cost is to use schedule to start and stop the instance

• Question 143:

  You created several resources in multiple Google Cloud projects. All projects are linked to different billing accounts. To better estimate future charges, you want to have a single visual representation of all costs incurred. You want to include new cost data as soon as possible. What should you do?

  A. Configure Billing Data Export to BigQuery and visualize the data in Data Studio.
  B. Visit the Cost Table page to get a CSV export and visualize it using Data Studio.
  C. Fill all resources in the Pricing Calculator to get an estimate of the monthly cost.
  D. Use the Reports view in the Cloud Billing Console to view the desired cost information.
  A. Configure Billing Data Export to BigQuery and visualize the data in Data Studio.

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  Explanation

  https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery "Cloud Billing export to BigQuery enables you to export detailed Google Cloud billing data (such as usage, cost estimates, and pricing data) automatically throughout the day to a BigQuery dataset that you specify."

  https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/visualize-data

• Question 144:

  You are managing a stateful application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that can only have one replica. You recently discovered that the application becomes unstable at peak times. You have identified that the application needs more CPU than what has been configured in the manifest at these peak times. You want Kubernetes to allocate the application sufficient CPU resources during these peak times, while ensuring cost efficiency during off-peak periods. What should you do?

  A. Enable node auto-provisioning on the GKE cluster.
  B. Configure a Vertical Pod Autoscaler on the Deployment.
  C. Configure a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler on the Deployment.
  D. Enable cluster autoscaling on the GKE cluster.
  B. Configure a Vertical Pod Autoscaler on the Deployment.

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  Explanation

  A Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) automatically adjusts the CPU and memory requests and limits for a pod based on usage. This is ideal for stateful applications with a single replica, where scaling out horizontally is not possible. It ensures the pod gets more CPU during peak times and reverts to lower usage when idle, thus ensuring performance and cost-efficiency.

• Question 145:

  You are analyzing Google Cloud Platform service costs from three separate projects. You want to use this information to create service cost estimates by service type, daily and monthly, for the next six months using standard query syntax. What should you do?

  A. Export your bill to a Cloud Storage bucket, and then import into Cloud Bigtable for analysis.
  B. Export your bill to a Cloud Storage bucket, and then import into Google Sheets for analysis.
  C. Export your transactions to a local file, and perform analysis with a desktop tool.
  D. Export your bill to a BigQuery dataset, and then write time window-based SQL queries for analysis.
  D. Export your bill to a BigQuery dataset, and then write time window-based SQL queries for analysis.

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  Explanation

  Solving this by first eliminating the options that don't suit us. By breaking down the question into the key requirements

  1.Analyzing Google Cloud Platform service costs from three separate projects.

  2.Using standard query syntax. -> (Relational data and SQL)

  A. 'Cloud Storage bucket'........'Cloud Bigtable'. Not feasible, mainly because cloud BigTable is not good for Structured Data (or Relational Data on which we can run SQL queries as per the question's requirements). BigTable is better suited for Semi Structured data and NoSQL data.

  B. 'Cloud Storage bucket'.....'Google Sheets'. Not Feasible because there is no use of SQL in this option, which is one of the requirements.

  C. Local file, external tools... this is automatically eliminated because the operation we need is simple, and there has to be a GCP native solution for this. We shouldn't need to rely on going out of the cloud for such a simple thing.

  D. 'BigQuery'.....'SQL queries' -> This is the right answer.

• Question 146:

  Your web application is hosted on Cloud Run and needs to query a Cloud SQL database. Every morning during a traffic spike, you notice API quota errors in Cloud SQL logs. The project has already reached the maximum API quota. You want to make a configuration change to mitigate the issue.

  What should you do?

  A. Modify the minimum number of Cloud Run instances.
  B. Use traffic splitting.
  C. Modify the maximum number of Cloud Run instances.
  D. Set a minimum concurrent requests environment variable for the application.
  A. Modify the minimum number of Cloud Run instances.

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• Question 147:

  You're attempting to set up a new budget with some alerts. Your team lead asked you to use last months spending as a reference for the budget amount. What's the best way to configure this budget?

  A. Locate the spending data from the File export; use that as the budget amount.
  B. Locate the spending data from the BigQuery export; use that as the budget amount.
  C. Look at the spending data and locate the amount; use that as the budget amount.
  D. Use the "Last month's spend" option to allow Google Cloud to determine the budget amount.
  D. Use the "Last month's spend" option to allow Google Cloud to determine the budget amount.

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• Question 148:

  You're looking for the IP address of a specific instance that is running in your default zone. Which command and flag(s) could you use to return just the IP address?

  A. The gcloud compute list along with the filter and format flags.
  B. The gcloud compute list along with the o flag and jsonpath value.
  C. The gcloud compute instances list along with the o flag and jsonpath value.
  D. The gcloud compute instances list along with the filter and format flags.
  D. The gcloud compute instances list along with the filter and format flags.

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• Question 149:

  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 Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine using Standard mode.
  C. Upload Docker images to the Cloud Storage, 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.
  D. Upload Docker images to Artifact Registry, and deploy the application on Cloud Run.

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• Question 150:

  You've been asked to add a new IAM member and grant them access to run some queries on BigQuery. Considering the principle of least privilege, which role should you assign?

  A. roles/bigquery.dataViewer and roles/bigquery.jobUser
  B. Project Editor
  C. roles/bigquery.admin
  D. roles/bigquery.dataOwner
  A. roles/bigquery.dataViewer and roles/bigquery.jobUser

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