Google Google Certifications ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Questions & Answers

• Question 81:

  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?

  A. 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.

  B. 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.

  C. 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.

  D. 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.

  Correct Answer: A

  A is right Hint : You need to turn off all configured services in an ***existing GCP project***. So C and D out from selection

• Question 82:

  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?

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

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

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

  D. 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.

  Correct Answer: B

  Background

  Google Cloud provides Cloud Audit Logs, which is an integral part of Cloud Logging. It consists of two log streams for each project: Admin Activity and Data Access. Admin Activity logs contain log entries for API calls or other administrative

  actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources. Admin Activity logs are always enabled. There is no charge for your Admin Activity audit logs. Data Access logs record API calls that create, modify, or read user-provided data.

  Data Access audit logs are disabled by default because they can be large.

  logging.viewer: The logging.viewer role gives the security admin team the ability to view the Admin Activity logs.

  logging.privateLogViewer : The logging.privateLogViewer role gives the ability to view the Data Access logs.

• Question 83:

  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?

  A. Create a Cloud Function to create an instance template.

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

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

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

  Correct Answer: B

  Best practices for persistent disk snapshots

  You can create persistent disk snapshots at any time, but you can create snapshots more quickly and with greater reliability if you use the following best practices.

  Creating frequent snapshots efficiently

  Use snapshots to manage your data efficiently.

  Create a snapshot of your data on a regular schedule to minimize data loss due to unexpected failure.

  Improve performance by eliminating excessive snapshot downloads and by creating an image and reusing it.

  Set your snapshot schedule to off-peak hours to reduce snapshot time.

  Snapshot frequency limits

  Creating snapshots from persistent disks

  You can snapshot your disks at most once every 10 minutes. If you want to issue a burst of requests to snapshot your disks, you can issue at most 6 requests in 60 minutes.

  If the limit is exceeded, the operation fails and returns the following error:

  https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-best-practices

• Question 84:

  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?

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

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

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

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

  Correct Answer: C

  oles/viewer Read access to all resources. Get and list access for all resources.

  Using primitive roles The following table lists the primitive roles that you can grant to access a project, the description of what the role does, and the permissions bundled within that role. Avoid using primitive roles except when absolutely necessary. These roles are very powerful, and include a large number of permissions across all Google Cloud services. For more details on when you should use primitive roles, see the Identity and Access Management FAQ.

  IAM predefined roles are much more granular, and allow you to carefully manage the set of permissions that your users have access to. See Understanding Roles for a list of roles that can be granted at the project level. Creating custom roles can further increase the control you have over user permissions.

  https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/access-control-proj#using_primitive_roles

• Question 85:

  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?

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

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

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

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

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/federating-gcp-with-active-directory-introduction

• Question 86:

  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?

  A. 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.

  B. 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.

  C. 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.

  D. 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.

  Correct Answer: A

  A - correct. Best practice is to create a new project for each environment, such as production and testing. There are no routes between VPCs in these projects by default, so that satisfies the requirement by the security team.

  B. Nope. not best practice and allows communication.

  C. While this is best practice to create a new project for a different environment, it explicitly breaks the security team's rule of having no path between environments by nature of the shared VPC. The shared VPC allows entities in both VPCs to communicate as if they were in the same VPC. That's definitely wrong.

  D. One - not best practice to replicate in the setup in that project. Two - why do they suddenly need the project editor rule? Just a bad answer. Wrong.

• Question 87:

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

  B. Nearline Storage

  C. Regional Storage

  D. Multi-Regional Storage

  Correct Answer: B

  Nearline, Coldline, and Archive offer ultra low-cost, highly-durable, highly available archival storage. For data accessed less than once a year, Archive is a cost-effective storage option for long-term preservation of data. Coldline is also ideal for cold storage--data your business expects to touch less than once a quarter. For warmer storage, choose Nearline: data you expect to access less than once a month, but possibly multiple times throughout the year. All storage classes are available across all GCP regions and provide unparalleled sub-second access speeds with a consistent API.

  Reference: https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival

• Question 88:

  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?

  A. Enable node auto-provisioning on the GKE cluster.

  B. Create a VerticalPodAutscaler for those workloads.

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

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

  Correct Answer: A

  Incorrect options are

  B. VerticalPodAutscaler scales PODS based on the app you deploy.

  For handle infrequently GPU access, you need infrequently GPU nodes

  VerticalAutscaler Pod deployed on a non GPU node it useless,

  [We cant have the node always have GPU for infrequent requests]

  C. Preemptible VMs cant last long

  D. For infrequent access, you don't want to have a permanent homogenous cluster.

  The correct option is "A"

  auto-provisioning = Attaches and deletes node pools to cluster based on the requirements.

  Hence creating a GPU node pool, and auto-scaling would be better

  https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/node-auto-provisioning

• Question 89:

  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?

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

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

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

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

  Correct Answer: B

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

• Question 90:

  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?

  A. Add the user to roles/iam.roleAdmin role.

  B. Add the user to roles/iam.securityAdmin role.

  C. Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role.

  D. Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin role.

  Correct Answer: D

  To allow a user to manage service accounts, grant one of the following roles:

  Service Account User (roles/iam.serviceAccountUser): Includes permissions to list service accounts, get details about a service account, and impersonate a service account. Service Account Admin (roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin): Includes permissions to list service accounts and get details about a service account. Also includes permissions to create, update, and delete service accounts, and to view or change the IAM policy on a service account.