Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam (2021.02.11)

Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect – Practice Exam (Question 59)

Question 1

You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup’s trial usage of GCP, and you don’t yet know what consumer demand for your product will be.
Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service costs and adhere to Google best practices.
What should you do?

• A. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost management.
• B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost management.
• C. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost management.
• D. Utilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost management.

Correct Answer: A

Question 2

You are building a continuous deployment pipeline for a project stored in a Git source repository and want to ensure that code changes can be verified deploying to production.
What should you do?

• A. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production using the red/black deployment strategy so that changes can easily be rolled back.
• B. Use Spinnaker to deploy builds to production and run tests on production deployments.
• C. Use Jenkins to build the staging branches and the master branch. Build and deploy changes to production for 10% of users before doing a complete rollout.
• D. Use Jenkins to monitor tags in the repository. Deploy staging tags to a staging environment for testing. After testing, tag the repository for production and deploy that to the production environment.

Correct Answer: C

Reference contents:
– continuous-deployment-on-kubernetes/README.md at master · GoogleCloudPlatform/continuous-deployment-on-kubernetes

Question 3

You have an outage in your Google Compute Engine managed instance group: all instances keep restarting after 5 seconds.
You have a health check configured, but auto scaling is disabled. Your colleague, who is a Linux expert, offered to look into the issue. You need to make sure that he can access the VMs.
What should you do?

• A. Grant your colleague the IAM role of project Viewer.
• B. Perform a rolling restart on the instance group.
• C. Disable the health check for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH keys.
• D. Disable auto scaling for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH Keys.