Google Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 09,2025- Exam Code: Professional Cloud Architect
- Exam Name: Google Certified Professional – Cloud Architect (GCP)
- Certification Provider: Google
- Latest update: Apr 09,2025
A company wants to ensure that their Google Drive mappings are consistent across multiple user accounts and that all users have appropriate access based on their job roles.
Which approach should IT support take to standardize Google Drive access and mappings across the organization?
- A . Configure individual Google Drive mappings manually for each user
- B . Use Group Policy in Windows to deploy Google Drive configurations
- C . Implement a third-party tool that syncs Google Drive with Active Directory groups
- D . Encourage users to share their login information with each other
Your company is building a new architecture to support its data-centric business focus. You are responsible for setting up the network. Your company’s mobile and web-facing applications will be deployed on-premises, and all data analysis will be conducted in GCP. The plan is to process and load 7 years of archived .csv files totaling 900 TB of data and then continue loading 10 TB of data daily. You currently have an existing 100-MB internet connection.
What actions will meet your company’s needs?
- A . Compress and upload both achieved files and files uploaded daily using the qsutil Cm option.
- B . Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer
archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a connection with Google using a Dedicated Interconnect or
Direct Peering connection and use it to upload files daily. - C . Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it, and send it to Google to transfer
archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish one Cloud VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet, and compares and upload files daily using the gsutil Cm option. - D . Lease a Transfer Appliance, upload archived files to it, and send it to Google to transfer archived data to Cloud Storage. Establish a Cloud VPN Tunnel to VPC networks over the public internet, and compress and upload files daily.
You are using Cloud Shell and need to install a custom utility for use in a few weeks.
Where can you store the file so it is in the default execution path and persists across sessions?
- A . ~/bin
- B . Cloud Storage
- C . /google/scripts
- D . /usr/local/bin
Topic 2, TerramEarth Case Study
Company Overview
TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries: about 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.
Company background
TerramEarth was formed in 1946, when several small, family owned companies combined to retool after World War II. The company cares about their employees and customers and considers them to be extended members of their family.
TerramEarth is proud of their ability to innovate on their core products and find new markets as their customers’ needs change. For the past 20 years, trends in the industry have been largely toward increasing productivity by using larger vehicles with a human operator.
Solution Concept
There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 fields of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the field with new computing modules.
Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 fields of data per second with 22 hours of operation per day, Terram Earth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles.
Existing Technical Environment
TerramEarth’s existing architecture is composed of Linux-based systems that reside in a data center. These systems gzip CSV files from the field and upload via FTP, transform and aggregate them, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old.
With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%. However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts.
Business Requirements
– Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week, without increasing the cost of carrying surplus inventory
– Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services
– Have the ability to partner with different companies C especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast-growing agricultural business C to create compelling joint offerings for their customers.
CEO Statement
We have been successful in capitalizing on the trend toward larger vehicles to increase the productivity of our customers. Technological change is occurring rapidly, and TerramEarth has taken advantage of connected devices technology to provide our customers with better services, such as our intelligent farming equipment. With this technology, we have been able to increase farmers’ yields by 25%, by using past trends to adjust how our vehicles operate. These advances have led to the rapid growth of our agricultural product line, which we expect will generate 50% of our revenues by 2020.
CTO Statement
Our competitive advantage has always been in the manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I’m concerned that we lack the skills to undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. Unfortunately, our CEO doesn’t take technology obsolescence seriously and he considers the many new companies in our industry to be niche players. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through incremental innovations.
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.
Which of TerramEarth’s legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption?
- A . Opex/capex allocation, LAN changes, capacity planning
- B . Capacity planning, TCO calculations, opex/capex allocation
- C . Capacity planning, utilization measurement, data center expansion
- D . Data Center expansion, TCO calculations, utilization measurement
For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data .
What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?
- A . Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual machines (VMs).
- B . Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service account keys for the VMs.
- C . Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed keys for the VMs
- D . Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Container Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs.
You need to reduce the number of unplanned rollbacks of erroneous production deployments in your company’s web hosting platform. Improvement to the QA/Test processes accomplished an 80% reduction .
Which additional two approaches can you take to further reduce the rollbacks? Choose 2 answers
- A . Introduce a green-blue deployment model.
- B . Replace the QA environment with canary releases.
- C . Fragment the monolithic platform into microservices.
- D . Reduce the platform’s dependency on relational database systems.
- E . Replace the platform’s relational database systems with a NoSQL database.
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has configured a new uptime check with Google Stackdriver for several of their legacy services. The Stackdriver dashboard is not reporting the services as healthy .
What should they do?
- A . Install the Stackdriver agent on all of the legacy web servers.
- B . In the Cloud Platform Console download the list of the uptime servers’ IP addresses and create an inbound firewall rule
- C . Configure their load balancer to pass through the User-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring-UptimeChecks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)
- D . Configure their legacy web servers to allow requests that contain user-Agent HTTP header when the value matches GoogleStackdriverMonitoring― UptimeChecks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)
Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform from an on-premises data center. The business owners require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team requirements for storing passwords .
What authentication strategy should they use?
- A . Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google.
- B . Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider.
- C . Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool.
- D . Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password.
For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.
Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints. They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs .
Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?
- A . They should enable Google Stackdriver Debugger on the application code to show errors in the code.
- B . They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.
- C . They should run the end-to-end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is working as intended.
- D . They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release causes to latency.
You have been engaged by your client to lead the migration of their application infrastructure to GCP. One of their current problems is that the on-premises high performance SAN is requiring frequent and expensive upgrades to keep up with the variety of workloads that are identified as follows: 20TB of log archives retained for legal reasons; 500 GB of VM boot/data volumes and templates; 500 GB of image thumbnails; 200 GB of customer session state data that allows customers to restart sessions even if off-line for several days.
Which of the following best reflects your recommendations for a cost-effective storage allocation?
- A . Local SSD for customer session state datA. Lifecycle-managed Cloud Storage for log archives, thumbnails, and VM boot/data volumes.
- B . Memcache backed by Cloud Datastore for the customer session state datA. Lifecycle-managed Cloud
Storage for log archives, thumbnails, and VM boot/data volumes. - C . Memcache backed by Cloud SQL for customer session state datA. Assorted local SSD-backed instances for VM boot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.
- D . Memcache backed by Persistent Disk SSD storage for customer session state datA. Assorted local SSDbacked instances for VM boot/data volumes. Cloud Storage for log archives and thumbnails.