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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Q: What does the GCP PCA Designing & Planning Architecture cover?

Business requirements translation, capacity planning, hybrid/multi-cloud patterns, and technology selection.

Q: What does the GCP PCA Managing & Provisioning Infrastructure cover?

Configuring network topologies, storage systems, compute infrastructure, and managed services.

Q: What does the GCP PCA Security & Compliance cover?

Identity management, data protection, regulatory compliance, and security best practices on GCP.

Q: What does the GCP PCA Analysing & Optimising Processes cover?

Business process analysis, risk evaluation, cost optimisation, and technical debt remediation.

Q: What does the GCP PCA Managing Implementation cover?

Interacting with teams, ensuring quality assurance, program management, and change control.

Q: What does the GCP PCA Operations & Reliability cover?

SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, monitoring, incident management, and ensuring system reliability.

The GCP Professional Cloud Architect is Google's most sought-after certification. Roughly 40% of questions reference four published case studies (EHR Healthcare, Helicopter Racing League, Mountkirk Games, TerramEarth). Study them before the exam.

50 questions · 120 minutes · 2-year validityPass mark: Not published by Google350 practice questions

Sample questionHardQ01 · 1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming

Company Overview: TechStream Gaming is a global gaming company with 500 employees and $50M annual revenue.
Current Environment: On-premises data centers in US and EU. 200 servers. MySQL databases (5 TB). Peak users: 2M. Cost: $100K/mo.
Business Requirements: Reduce costs by 40%. Support 5x user growth. Launch in APAC, SA, Africa. Improve deployment to daily.
Executive Statements: CEO: 'Scale rapidly.' CFO: 'Max $100K/mo, ROI 18mo.' CTO: 'Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.'
Technical Requirements: <100ms latency globally. Real-time analytics. 5x traffic spikes. EU data residency. DDoS protection. CI/CD.
Constraints: 12-month migration. Max 4-hour downtime. 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud). Budget $2M.

QUESTION:
Which migration strategy and compute architecture should you recommend for the game servers to meet the business and technical requirements while addressing the CTO's constraints?

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Exam topics

Designing & Planning Architecture

24%

Business requirements translation, capacity planning, hybrid/multi-cloud patterns, and technology selection.

Managing & Provisioning Infrastructure

15%

Configuring network topologies, storage systems, compute infrastructure, and managed services.

Security & Compliance

18%

Identity management, data protection, regulatory compliance, and security best practices on GCP.

Analysing & Optimising Processes

16%

Business process analysis, risk evaluation, cost optimisation, and technical debt remediation.

Managing Implementation

11%

Interacting with teams, ensuring quality assurance, program management, and change control.

Operations & Reliability

16%

SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, monitoring, incident management, and ensuring system reliability.

Practice exams

GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 1

Professional-level practice exam for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. Tests expert-level architectural knowledge, business acumen, enterprise solution design, and case study analysis.

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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2

Professional-level practice exam for Google Cloud Architect certification, featuring case studies, technical architecture, and business scenario analysis.

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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 3

Comprehensive practice exam for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. Tests advanced architectural design, business case analysis, and enterprise solution deployment on GCP.

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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 4

Professional-level practice exam for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. This exam tests deep architectural knowledge, business acumen, and enterprise solution design across 5 domains, featuring 4 realistic case studies and complex multi-response scenarios.

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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 5

Professional-level practice exam for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. Tests advanced architectural knowledge, business case analysis, and enterprise solution design across 5 domains, including 4 detailed case studies.

50qMixed

GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 6

Comprehensive practice exam for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. Tests expert-level architectural knowledge, business acumen, and enterprise solution design across 5 domains, including 4 detailed case studies.

50qMixed

GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 7

Professional-level practice exam for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. Tests advanced architectural knowledge, business acumen, enterprise solution design, and case study analysis.

50qMixed

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