Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT
  • Exam Name
    :Professional Cloud Architect on Google Cloud Platform
  • Certification
    :Google Certifications
  • Vendor
    :Google
  • Total Questions
    :277 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :Jun 03, 2025

Google Google Certifications PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Questions & Answers

  • Question 161:

    Your company has an application running on multiple Compute Engine instances. You need to ensure that the application can communicate with an on-premises service that requires high throughput via internal IPs, while minimizing latency. What should you do?

    A. Use OpenVPN to configure a VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

    B. Configure a direct peering connection between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

    C. Use Cloud VPN to configure a VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

    D. Configure a Cloud Dedicated Interconnect connection between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud.

  • Question 162:

    You want to store critical business information in Cloud Storage buckets. The information is regularly changed but previous versions need to be referenced on a regular basis. You want to ensure that there is a record of all changes to any information in these buckets. You want to ensure that accidental edits or deletions can be easily roiled back. Which feature should you enable?

    A. Bucket Lock

    B. Object Versioning

    C. Object change notification

    D. Object Lifecycle Management

  • Question 163:

    Your company has a networking team and a development team. The development team runs applications on Compute Engine instances that contain sensitive data. The development team requires administrative permissions for Compute Engine. Your company requires all network resources to be managed by the networking team. The development team does not want the networking team to have access to the sensitive data on the instances. What should you do?

    A. 1. Create a project with a standalone VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the networking team.

    2.

    Create a second project with a standalone VPC and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team.

    3.

    Use Cloud VPN to join the two VPCs.

    B. 1. Create a project with a standalone Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), assign the Network Admin role to the networking team, and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team.

    C. 1. Create a project with a Shared VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the networking team.

    2. Create a second project without a VPC, configure it as a Shared VPC service project, and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team.

    D. 1. Create a project with a standalone VPC and assign the Network Admin role to the networking team.

    2.

    Create a second project with a standalone VPC and assign the Compute Admin role to the development team.

    3.

    Use VPC Peering to join the two VPCs.

  • Question 164:

    Your company wants you to build a highly reliable web application with a few public APIs as the backend. You don't expect a lot of user traffic, but traffic could spike occasionally. You want to leverage Cloud Load Balancing, and the solution must be cost-effective for users. What should you do?

    A. Store static content such as HTML and images in Cloud CDN. Host the APIs on App Engine and store the user data in Cloud SQL.

    B. Store static content such as HTML and images in a Cloud Storage bucket. Host the APIs on a zonal Google Kubernetes Engine cluster with worker nodes in multiple zones, and save the user data in Cloud Spanner.

    C. Store static content such as HTML and images in Cloud CDN. Use Cloud Run to host the APIs and save the user data in Cloud SQL.

    D. Store static content such as HTML and images in a Cloud Storage bucket. Use Cloud Functions to host the APIs and save the user data in Firestore.

  • Question 165:

    Your company is running its application workloads on Compute Engine. The applications have been deployed in production, acceptance, and development environments. The production environment is business-critical and is used 24/7, while the acceptance and development environments are only critical during office hours. Your CFO has asked you to optimize these environments to achieve cost savings during idle times. What should you do?

    A. Create a shell script that uses the gcloud command to change the machine type of the development and acceptance instances to a smaller machine type outside of office hours. Schedule the shell script on one of the production instances to automate the task.

    B. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function that will stop the development and acceptance environments after office hours and start them just before office hours.

    C. Deploy the development and acceptance applications on a managed instance group and enable autoscaling.

    D. Use regular Compute Engine instances for the production environment, and use preemptible VMs for the acceptance and development environments.

  • Question 166:

    Your company has an application running on Compute Engine mat allows users to play their favorite music. There are a fixed number of instances Files are stored in Cloud Storage and data is streamed directly to users. Users are reporting that they sometimes need to attempt to play popular songs multiple times before they are successful. You need to improve the performance of the application. What should you do?

    A. 1. Copy popular songs into CloudSQL as a blob

    2. Update application code to retrieve data from CloudSQL when Cloud Storage is overloaded

    B. 1. Create a managed instance group with Compute Engine instances

    2. Create a global toad balancer and configure ii with two backbends

    *

    Managed instance group

    *

    Cloud Storage bucket

    3. Enable Cloud CDN on the bucket backend

    C. 1. Mount the Cloud Storage bucket using gcsfuse on all backend Compute Engine instances

    2. Serve muse files directly from the backend Compute Engine instance

    D. 1. Create a Cloud Filestore NFS volume and attach it to the backend Compute Engine instances

    2.

    Download popular songs in Cloud Filestore

    3.

    Serve music Wes directly from the backend Compute Engine instance

  • Question 167:

    You are responsible for the Google Cloud environment in your company Multiple departments need access to their own projects and the members within each department will have the same project responsibilities You want to structure your Google Cloud environment for minimal maintenance and maximum overview of 1AM permissions as each department's projects start and end You want to follow Google-recommended practices What should you do?

    A. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to their respective groups Create a folder per department and grant the respective group the required 1AM permissions at the folder level Add the projects under the respective folders

    B. Grant all department members the required 1AM permissions for their respective projects

    C. Create a Google Group per department and add all department members to their respective groups Grant each group the required I AM permissions for their respective projects

    D. Create a folder per department and grant the respective members of the department the required 1AM permissions at the folder level. Structure all projects for each department under the respective folders

  • Question 168:

    Your company captures all web traffic data in Google Analytics 260 and stores it in BigQuery. Each country has its own dataset. Each dataset has multiple tables. You want analysts from each country to be able to see and query only the data for their respective countries.

    How should you configure the access rights?

    A. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group `all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the `all-analysis' group the IAM role of BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-group.

    B. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group `all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the `all-analysis' group the IAM role of BigQuery jobUser. Share the appropriate tables with view access with each respective analyst countrygroup.

    C. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group `all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the `all-analysis' group the IAM role of BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate dataset with view access with each respective analyst country-group.

    D. Create a group per country. Add analysts to their respective country-groups. Create a single group `all_analysts', and add all country-groups as members. Grant the `all-analysis' group the IAM role of BigQuery dataViewer. Share the appropriate table with view access with each respective analyst countrygroup.

  • Question 169:

    For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for designing the Google Cloud network architecture for Google Kubernetes Engine. You want to follow Google best practices. Considering the EHR Healthcare business and technical requirements, what should you do to reduce the attack surface?

    A. Use a private cluster with a private endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

    B. Use a public cluster with firewall rules and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) routes.

    C. Use a private cluster with a public endpoint with master authorized networks configured.

    D. Use a public cluster with master authorized networks enabled and firewall rules.

  • Question 170:

    For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are a developer on the EHR customer portal team. Your team recently migrated the customer portal application to Google Cloud. The load has increased on the application servers, and now the application is logging many timeout errors. You recently incorporated Pub/Sub into the application architecture, and the application is not logging any Pub/Sub publishing errors. You want to improve publishing latency. What should you do?

    A. Increase the Pub/Sub Total Timeout retry value.

    B. Move from a Pub/Sub subscriber pull model to a push model.

    C. Turn off Pub/Sub message batching.

    D. Create a backup Pub/Sub message queue.

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