Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam - Associate-Cloud-Engineer Exam Practice Test

Question 1

You developed a new application for App Engine and are ready to deploy it to production. You need to estimate the costs of running your application on Google Cloud Platform as accurately as possible. What should you do?

A. Use the pricing calculator for App Engine to get an accurate estimation of the expected charges.

B. Create a ticket with Google Cloud Billing Support to get an accurate estimation.

C. Create a YAML file with the expected usage. Pass this file to the "gcloud app estimate" command to get an accurate estimation.

D. Multiply the costs of your application when it was in development by the number of expected users to get an accurate estimation.

Correct Answer: A

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Question 2

You need to create a Compute Engine instance in a new project that doesn't exist yet. What should you do?

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

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

C. 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.

D. 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.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 3

A company wants to build an application that stores images in a Cloud Storage bucket and wants to generate thumbnails as well as resize the images. They want to use a google managed service that can scale up and scale down to zero automatically with minimal effort. You have been asked to recommend a service. Which GCP service would you suggest?

A. Google Kubernetes Engine

B. Google App Engine

C. Google Compute Engine

D. Cloud Functions

Correct Answer: D

Question 4

What is the gcloud command to create a cluster named ch09-cluster-10 with four nodes?

A. gcloud clusters container create ch09-cluster-10 --num-nodes=4

B. gcloud container clusters create ch09-cluster-10 --nodes-num=4

C. gcloud container clusters create ch09-cluster-10 4

D. gcloud container clusters create ch09-cluster-10 --num-nodes=4

Correct Answer: D

Question 5

You want to host your video encoding software on Compute Engine. Your user base is growing rapidly, and users need to be able to encode their videos at any time without interruption or CPU limitations. You must ensure that your encoding solution is highly available, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate operations. What should you do?

A. Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and increase the number of existing instances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.

B. Deploy your solution to an instance group, and set the autoscaling based on CPU utilization.

C. Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and replace existing instances with high-CPU instances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.

D. Deploy your solution to an instance group, and increase the number of available instances whenever you see high CPU utilization in Cloud Monitoring.

Correct Answer: B

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Question 6

You want to deploy an application on Cloud Run that processes messages from a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. 1. Create a service account.
2. Give the Cloud Run Invoker role to that service account for your Cloud Run application.
3. Create a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription that uses that service account and uses your Cloud Run application as the push endpoint.

B. 1. Grant the Pub/Sub Subscriber role to the service account used by Cloud Run.
2. Create a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription for that topic.
3. Make your application pull messages from that subscription.

C. 1. Deploy your application on Cloud Run on GKE with the connectivity set to Internal.
2. Create a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription for that topic.
3. In the same Google Kubernetes Engine cluster as your application, deploy a container that takes the messages and sends them to your application.

D. 1. Create a Cloud Function that uses a Cloud Pub/Sub trigger on that topic.
2. Call your application on Cloud Run from the Cloud Function for every message.

Correct Answer: A

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Question 7

You need to verify the assigned permissions in a custom IAM role. What should you do?

A. Use the "gcloud init" command to view the information.

B. Use the GCP Console, Security section to view the information.

C. Use the GCP Console, API section to view the information.

D. Use the GCP Console, IAM section to view the information.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 8

You've deployed a microservice called myapp1 to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below:

You need to refactor this configuration so that the database password is not stored in plain text.
You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Store the database password in a file inside a Kubernetes persistent volume, and use a persistent volume claim to mount the volume to the container.

B. Store the database password inside the Docker image of the container, not in the YAML file.

C. Store the database password inside a ConfigMap object.
Modify the YAML file to populate the DB_PASSWORD environment variable from the ConfigMap.

D. Store the database password inside a Secret object.
Modify the YAML file to populate the DB_PASSWORD environment variable from the Secret.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 9

You need to extract text from audio files by using the Speech-to-Text API. The audio files are pushed to a Cloud Storage bucket. You need to implement a fully managed, serverless compute solution that requires authentication and aligns with Google-recommended practices. You want to automate the call to the API by submitting each file to the API as the audio file arrives in the bucket. What should you do?

A. Run a Kubernetes job to scan the bucket regularly for incoming files, and call the Speech-to-Text API for each unprocessed file.

B. Run a Python script by using a Linux cron job in Compute Engine to scan the bucket regularly for incoming files, and call the Speech-to-Text API for each unprocessed file.

C. Create a Cloud Function triggered by Cloud Storage bucket events to submit the file URI to the Google Speech-to-Text API.

D. Create an App Engine standard environment triggered by Cloud Storage bucket events to submit the file URI to the Google Speech-to-TextAPI.

Correct Answer: C

Question 10

You built an application on your development laptop that uses Google Cloud services. Your application uses Application Default Credentials for authentication and works fine on your development laptop. You want to migrate this application to a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) and set up authentication using Google-recommended practices and minimal changes.
What should you do?

A. Store credentials for your user account with appropriate access for Google services in a config file, and deploy this config file with your application.

B. Store credentials for service accounts with appropriate access for Google services in a config file, and deploy this config file with your application.

C. Create a service account with appropriate access for Google services, and configure the application to use this account.

D. Assign appropriate access for Google services to the service account used by the Compute Engine VM.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 11

You are managing a Data Warehouse on BigQuery. An external auditor will review your company's processes, and multiple external consultants will need view access to the data. You need to provide them with view access while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Create a Google Group that contains the consultants and grant the group the role of BigQuery Editor

B. Grant each individual external consultant the role of BigQuery Editor

C. Create a Google Group that contains the consultants, and grant the group the role of BigQuery Viewer

D. Grant each individual external consultant the role of BigQuery Viewer

Correct Answer: C

Question 12

You need to provide a cost estimate for a Kubernetes cluster using the GCP pricing calculator for Kubernetes. Your workload requires high IOPs, and you will also be using disk snapshots. You start by entering the number of nodes, average hours, and average days. What should you do next?

A. Select Add GPUs. Fill in persistent disk storage and snapshot storage.

B. Select Add GPUs. Add estimated cost for cluster management.

C. Fill in local SSD. Add estimated cost for cluster management.

D. Fill in local SSD. Fill in persistent disk storage and snapshot storage.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 13

You have a Google Cloud Platform account with access to both production and development projects. You need to create an automated process to list all compute instances in development and production projects on a daily basis. What should you do?

A. Go to GCP Console and export this information to Cloud SQL on a daily basis.

B. Create two configurations using gcloud config. Write a script that sets configurations as active, individually. For each configuration, use gcloud compute instances list to get a list of compute resources.

C. Create two configurations using gsutil config. Write a script that sets configurations as active, individually. For each configuration, use gsutil compute instances list to get a list of compute resources.

D. Go to Cloud Shell and export this information to Cloud Storage on a daily basis.

Correct Answer: B

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Question 14

You are developing a new application and are looking for a Jenkins installation to build and deploy your source code. You want to automate the installation as quickly and easily as possible.
What should you do?

A. Create a new Compute Engine instance.
Run the Jenkins executable.

B. Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster.
Create a deployment for the Jenkins image.

C. Deploy Jenkins through the Google Cloud Marketplace.

D. Create an instance template with the Jenkins executable.
Create a managed instance group with this template.

Correct Answer: C

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