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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 2
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Comprehensive practice exam for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Covers setting up environments, planning, deploying, operating, and securing GCP solutions.
50
Questions
Mixed
Difficulty
70%
Pass mark
Difficulty breakdown
Easy(14)
Medium(30)
Hard(6)
Topics covered
Browse all topics →Domain 1.1: Setting up cloud projects and accountsDomain 1.2: Managing billing configurationDomain 1.3: Installing and configuring the CLIDomain 2.1: Planning and estimating GCP product useDomain 2.2: Planning and configuring compute resourcesDomain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage optionsDomain 2.4: Planning and configuring network resourcesDomain 3.1: Deploying and implementing Compute Engine resourcesDomain 3.2: Deploying and implementing GKE resourcesDomain 3.3: Deploying and implementing Cloud Run and Cloud FunctionsDomain 3.4: Deploying and implementing data solutionsDomain 3.5: Deploying and implementing networking resourcesDomain 4.1: Managing Compute Engine resourcesDomain 4.2: Managing GKE resourcesDomain 4.3: Managing Cloud Run resourcesDomain 4.4: Managing storage and database solutionsDomain 4.5: Managing networking resourcesDomain 5.1: Managing Identity and Access Management (IAM)Domain 5.2: Managing service accountsDomain 5.3: Viewing audit logs
Sample questions
Q01Easy1 mark
Your company is migrating to Google Cloud and needs to establish a resource hierarchy. You have three distinct departments: HR, Finance, and Engineering. Each department needs its own isolated environments for development and production, and billing must be tracked separately for each department.
What is the MOST appropriate way to structure your GCP resource hierarchy?
Q02Medium1 mark
You are managing access to a GCP project. You need to grant 15 developers the ability to view Compute Engine instances. The development team frequently has members joining and leaving.
What is the MOST efficient way to manage their access?
Q03Easy1 mark
You have created a new GCP project using the Cloud Console. You want to deploy a Cloud Function using the gcloud CLI, but you receive an error stating that the API is not enabled.
Which gcloud command should you use to enable the Cloud Functions API?
Q04Easy1 mark
Your startup has a strict monthly cloud budget of $500. You want to be notified immediately if your spending exceeds $400, but you DO NOT want your services to be automatically shut down, as this would disrupt your users.
What should you configure?
Q05Medium1 mark
Your finance team wants to perform complex SQL analysis on your GCP billing data to understand cost trends across multiple projects and labels over the past year.
What is the MOST efficient way to enable this analysis?
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Free to browse · no sign-up requiredQ01Your company is migrating to Google Cloud and needs to establish a resource hierarchy. You have three distinct depart...EasyQ02You are managing access to a GCP project. You need to grant 15 developers the ability to view Compute Engine instance...MediumQ03You have created a new GCP project using the Cloud Console. You want to deploy a Cloud Function using the gcloud CLI,...EasyQ04Your startup has a strict monthly cloud budget of $500. You want to be notified immediately if your spending exceeds ...EasyQ05Your finance team wants to perform complex SQL analysis on your GCP billing data to understand cost trends across mul...MediumQ06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local machine. You want to authenticate, set your default projec...MediumQ07You are a developer working on two different GCP projects: 'project-dev' and 'project-prod'. You want to easily switc...MediumQ08You are writing a bash script that will run on a CI/CD server. The script needs to deploy an application to App Engin...MediumQ09You frequently create Compute Engine instances in the 'europe-west1-b' zone. You are tired of typing the '--zone=euro...MediumQ10Your company is planning to migrate an on-premises application to GCP. Management wants an estimate of the monthly ru...EasyQ11You are using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the cost of running a fleet of Compute Engine instances...MediumQ12Your team has developed a stateless, containerized web application. Traffic is highly unpredictable, sometimes droppi...MediumQ13You are designing an architecture for a nightly batch processing job. The job takes about 3 hours to complete, proces...HardQ14You need to deploy a legacy application on Compute Engine. The application has very specific hardware requirements: i...EasyQ15Your company is building a global inventory management system. The database must be fully relational (SQL), support s...MediumQ16You need to store 50 TB of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 5 years for regulatory reasons. They will lik...EasyQ17You are deploying a web application that will be accessed by users globally. The application runs on Compute Engine i...MediumQ18Your enterprise is migrating critical workloads to GCP. You need to connect your on-premises data center to your GCP ...HardQ19You need to create a new Compute Engine instance named 'web-server-01' in the 'us-central1-a' zone using the e2-mediu...MediumQ20You are deploying a web application on Compute Engine. You want the application to automatically scale out (add more ...MediumQ21Your security team requires that all SSH access to Compute Engine instances be tied to users' Google Cloud IAM identi...HardQ22You need to deploy a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Standard cluster named 'prod-cluster' in the 'us-central1-a' ...MediumQ23You have a running GKE cluster and you have authenticated your local `kubectl` tool to it. You want to deploy a conta...MediumQ24You are deploying a new application to Cloud Run. The application is packaged in a container image located in Artifac...MediumQ25You are writing a Cloud Function in Node.js that needs to execute every time a new file is uploaded to a specific Clo...EasyQ26You have a 50 GB CSV file stored locally on your on-premises server. You need to load this data into a BigQuery table...MediumQ27You are migrating a MySQL database to Cloud SQL. You have exported your on-premises database to a SQL dump file. What...EasyQ28You are setting up a custom-mode Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network. You need to create a subnet in the 'us-west1' r...MediumQ29You have a 3-tier application deployed on Compute Engine: Web, App, and Database tiers. You need to create firewall r...MediumQ30A developer accidentally misconfigured a Compute Engine instance, and it is now unresponsive. You need to restart the...EasyQ31You need to create a backup of a persistent disk attached to a Compute Engine instance. You want to ensure that you c...MediumQ32You have a Compute Engine instance that does NOT have an external public IP address. You need to SSH into this instan...HardQ33You deployed a new container to your GKE cluster, but the application is not responding. You run `kubectl get pods` a...MediumQ34Your GKE cluster is running out of capacity. You need to permanently increase the number of nodes in an existing node...MediumQ35You have deployed a new version (v2) of your application to Cloud Run. You want to test this new version with a small...MediumQ36You have a Cloud Storage bucket containing millions of images. You want to automatically transition images older than...EasyQ37You are about to run a complex SQL query in BigQuery that joins several multi-terabyte tables. You are concerned abou...MediumQ38Your custom-mode VPC has a subnet in 'us-east1' with the CIDR range 10.0.0.0/24. You have run out of IP addresses in ...MediumQ39You have a Compute Engine instance running a web server. It currently has an ephemeral external IP address. You want ...MediumQ40A new team member needs to be able to view all resources in a project, but should not be able to modify them. You wan...EasyQ41You need to grant a contractor the ability to start and stop Compute Engine instances, but they must NOT be able to c...MediumQ42A user named Alice belongs to the 'Developers' Google Group. The 'Developers' group is granted the 'Compute Viewer' r...HardQ43What is the primary purpose of a Service Account in Google Cloud?EasyQ44You have an application running on a Compute Engine instance. The application needs to read files from a Cloud Storag...MediumQ45You have a CI/CD pipeline running in 'Project-A'. The pipeline needs to deploy a Cloud Function into 'Project-B'. The...HardQ46You want to monitor who is modifying IAM policies and creating new resources in your GCP project. Which type of Cloud...EasyQ47Your compliance team requires that all Data Access audit logs be retained for 3 years for forensic analysis. Cloud Lo...MediumQ48You are troubleshooting an issue and need to find all Admin Activity audit logs related to a specific Compute Engine ...EasyQ49You are writing a query in the Logs Explorer to find all errors generated by a specific Cloud Function named 'process...MediumQ50You want to grant a new employee the ability to view Data Access audit logs. By default, these logs are not visible t...Medium