Planning & Configuring a Cloud Solution

You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local machine. Which command should you run FIRST to authenticate and configure your default project?

You are working on multiple GCP projects. You want to switch your active gcloud configuration from 'project-a-config' to 'project-b-config'. Which command should you use?

You need to set the default compute zone to us-central1-a and the default project to my-project-123 for your current gcloud environment. Which TWO commands should you use? (Select TWO)

You are writing a bash script that creates a Compute Engine instance. The script needs to run without user interaction and output ONLY the external IP address of the newly created instance in JSON format. How should you format the gcloud command?

You are estimating the cost of running a workload on Compute Engine. Which factor does NOT affect the monthly cost in the GCP Pricing Calculator?

Your company plans to migrate 50 TB of archive data to Cloud Storage. The data will be accessed at most once a year. You need to estimate the cost. Which storage class should you select in the Pricing Calculator to minimize costs?

You are designing a stateless, containerized web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. You want a fully managed serverless environment that scales to zero when there is no traffic. Which compute service should you choose?

You have a batch processing workload that takes 2 hours to complete. The workload is fault-tolerant and can be interrupted and resumed without issues. You want to minimize compute costs. Which TWO configurations should you consider? (Select TWO)

You are deploying a legacy application that requires a specific older version of a Linux kernel and cannot run in a container. The application requires high disk I/O and will run 24/7 for the next 3 years. What is the MOST cost-effective compute strategy?

You need a fully managed relational database for a new application. The database will be approximately 50 GB in size and requires standard MySQL compatibility. Which service should you choose?

Your application generates massive amounts of time-series IoT data (petabytes). You need a NoSQL database capable of high-throughput, low-latency writes and reads. Which service is MOST appropriate?

You are deploying a global web application with users in the US, Europe, and Asia. You want to route users to the closest region automatically and provide a single global Anycast IP address. Which load balancer should you use?

You need to connect your on-premises data center to your GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The connection requires a strict 10 Gbps dedicated bandwidth and low latency. You cannot use the public internet for this connection. Which TWO components are required? (Select TWO)

Which gcloud command is used to create a new Compute Engine virtual machine instance named 'web-server-1'?

You need to ensure that a specific Compute Engine instance always restarts automatically if it crashes or is terminated by a system event (like hardware failure). What should you do?

You are creating a Managed Instance Group (MIG) that needs to scale automatically based on CPU utilization. Which TWO resources must you create before or during the MIG creation? (Select TWO)

You are creating a custom VPC network. You need to create a subnet in the us-west1 region with a CIDR range of 10.0.1.0/24. What is the correct approach?

You have Compute Engine instances in a VPC subnet that do not have external IP addresses. They need to download software updates from the internet. Which TWO resources must you configure to allow this outbound traffic securely? (Select TWO)

You need to securely connect to a Compute Engine Linux instance using SSH from your local terminal without managing SSH keys manually. Which command should you use?

A Compute Engine instance is running out of disk space. You have increased the size of the persistent disk in the Google Cloud Console. What is the next step you MUST perform to make the new space usable by the OS?

You want to create a custom 'golden image' from an existing Compute Engine instance to use for future deployments. Which TWO steps are recommended best practices before creating the image? (Select TWO)

You want to automatically transition objects in a Cloud Storage bucket to Archive storage if they haven't been accessed in 365 days. What should you configure?

You are managing a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. You need to ensure you can recover the database to a specific point in time within the last 7 days in case of accidental data deletion. Which TWO features must be enabled? (Select TWO)

You have a custom VPC with a subnet 10.0.0.0/24. You are running out of IP addresses in this subnet and need to expand it to 10.0.0.0/20. There are running VMs in the subnet. Which command should you use?

You have an internal application running on Compute Engine instances in a VPC. You want to expose this application to another VPC in a different GCP project owned by a different department, without using external IP addresses or VPC peering (due to overlapping IP ranges). What is the BEST solution?

You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local machine. You want to authenticate, set your default project to 'my-company-prod', and set your default compute zone to 'us-central1-a' in a single interactive process.

Which command should you run?

You are a developer working on two different GCP projects: 'project-dev' and 'project-prod'. You want to easily switch between these environments in your local Cloud SDK without having to re-authenticate or manually change the project ID every time.

Which TWO gcloud commands are essential for setting up and switching between these environments? (Select TWO)

You are writing a bash script that will run on a CI/CD server. The script needs to deploy an application to App Engine. You want to ensure the script explicitly sets the target project to 'my-app-prod' for the deployment command, regardless of what the default gcloud configuration is set to on the server.

Which command should you use?

You frequently create Compute Engine instances in the 'europe-west1-b' zone. You are tired of typing the '--zone=europe-west1-b' flag every time you run the 'gcloud compute instances create' command.

Which command will set this zone as your default so you no longer have to specify it?

Your company is planning to migrate an on-premises application to GCP. Management wants an estimate of the monthly running costs before approving the project. You know the required CPU, RAM, and storage specifications.

Which tool should you use to generate this estimate?