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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 3
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Comprehensive practice exam for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Covers all 5 domains including environment setup, planning, deployment, operations, and security. Features scenario-based and task-based questions reflecting intermediate-level hands-on cloud engineering.
50
Questions
Mixed
Difficulty
70%
Pass mark
Difficulty breakdown
Easy(13)
Medium(30)
Hard(7)
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 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
You are starting a new project in Google Cloud and need to create a new GCP project and enable the Compute Engine API using the command line.
Which sequence of gcloud commands should you use?
Q02Medium1 mark
A new team member has joined your operations team. They need to be able to view all Compute Engine instances, their configurations, and their current state across your project, but they should not be able to start, stop, or modify any instances.
Which predefined IAM role should you assign to this user?
Q03Medium1 mark
Your company is migrating to Google Cloud. You currently manage all employee identities in an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD). You want to use these existing identities to manage access to GCP resources without requiring users to remember a new set of passwords.
Which TWO actions should you take to achieve this? (Select TWO)
Q04Medium1 mark
Your development team is experimenting with new GCP services in a sandbox project. The finance team has mandated that the project must not exceed $500 per month. You need to ensure the team is notified if costs approach this limit, but you do not want to automatically shut down resources to avoid data loss.
What should you do?
Q05Easy1 mark
Your company wants to perform complex, custom SQL analysis on their Google Cloud billing data to understand cost trends across multiple projects and labels.
Which GCP service should you export the billing data to?
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Free to browse · no sign-up requiredQ01You are starting a new project in Google Cloud and need to create a new GCP project and enable the Compute Engine API...EasyQ02A new team member has joined your operations team. They need to be able to view all Compute Engine instances, their c...MediumQ03Your company is migrating to Google Cloud. You currently manage all employee identities in an on-premises Microsoft A...MediumQ04Your development team is experimenting with new GCP services in a sandbox project. The finance team has mandated that...MediumQ05Your company wants to perform complex, custom SQL analysis on their Google Cloud billing data to understand cost tren...EasyQ06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local workstation. You need to authenticate with your Google acc...EasyQ07You are working in Cloud Shell and your current default project is set to 'dev-project-123'. You need to run several ...MediumQ08You frequently switch between managing a 'Development' environment and a 'Production' environment. Each environment u...MediumQ09You have installed the default Google Cloud SDK on your local machine. You now need to manage a Google Kubernetes Eng...HardQ10You are using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running a new web application on Co...EasyQ11You have finished configuring a complex architecture in the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. You need to share this e...MediumQ12Your development team has created a stateless, containerized web application that responds to HTTP requests. Traffic ...MediumQ13You are designing an architecture for a batch processing job that analyzes large datasets. The job takes several hour...MediumQ14You need to deploy a legacy application on Compute Engine. The application has strict licensing requirements and requ...HardQ15Your company is building a global financial trading platform. The application requires a fully managed relational dat...MediumQ16Your company needs to store petabytes of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 7 years but are typically only ...EasyQ17You are deploying a web application that will be accessed by users worldwide. You want to route users to the region c...MediumQ18You are designing a highly available architecture for a critical internal application. The application runs on Comput...MediumQ19You need to quickly launch a new Compute Engine virtual machine named 'web-server-01' in the us-central1-a zone using...MediumQ20You have deployed a web application on a Managed Instance Group (MIG). You want the group to automatically add more i...MediumQ21An external contractor needs SSH access to a specific Compute Engine instance named 'db-admin-vm' to perform maintena...MediumQ22You need to deploy a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Standard cluster named 'my-cluster' with 3 nodes in the us-ce...EasyQ23You have successfully created a GKE cluster and authenticated your local kubectl tool to it. You now want to deploy a...MediumQ24You are configuring a new GKE Standard cluster. Your security team requires that all logs from the Kubernetes control...HardQ25You are deploying a public-facing website using Cloud Run. You have the container image ready in Artifact Registry. Y...MediumQ26You are writing a Cloud Function that needs to process images automatically as soon as they are uploaded to a specifi...EasyQ27You have a 50 GB CSV file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. You need to load this data into an existing BigQuery tabl...MediumQ28You are initializing a new Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance for a production application. The database must be highl...MediumQ29You have created a custom-mode Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network named 'my-vpc'. You now need to create a subnet na...MediumQ30You have a VPC network with two sets of Compute Engine instances: Web servers and Database servers. You want to creat...HardQ31You need to temporarily halt a Compute Engine instance named 'dev-server' to stop incurring compute charges over the ...EasyQ32You are about to perform a major OS upgrade on a critical Compute Engine instance. You want to ensure you can quickly...MediumQ33You need to securely SSH into a Compute Engine instance that does NOT have an external public IP address. You want to...MediumQ34You are troubleshooting an application running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to see a list of all curre...EasyQ35Your GKE cluster is running out of compute capacity. You need to manually increase the number of nodes in the 'defaul...MediumQ36You have deployed a new revision of a Cloud Run service. You want to perform a canary deployment by routing 10% of th...MediumQ37Your application uploads daily reports to a Cloud Storage bucket. These reports are accessed frequently for the first...MediumQ38You are about to run a complex SQL query on a multi-terabyte dataset in BigQuery. Because BigQuery charges per byte p...HardQ39Your company has a custom VPC with a subnet named 'app-subnet' using the IP range 10.0.0.0/24. You have run out of IP...EasyQ40You have an existing Compute Engine instance named 'ftp-server' that currently has an ephemeral external IP address. ...MediumQ41You need to audit the IAM permissions for your GCP project. You want to view a list of all users, groups, and service...EasyQ42Your security team has requested that a specific automated script be granted permission to start and stop Compute Eng...MediumQ43Google Cloud strongly recommends avoiding the use of primitive IAM roles (Owner, Editor, Viewer) in production enviro...EasyQ44You have a team of 10 developers who all need the 'roles/run.developer' role to deploy applications to Cloud Run. You...MediumQ45An application running on a Compute Engine VM needs to read files from a specific Cloud Storage bucket. You want to f...MediumQ46You have an application running on an on-premises server (outside of Google Cloud) that needs to publish messages to ...HardQ47You have two GCP projects: 'Project-App' and 'Project-Data'. A Compute Engine VM in 'Project-App' needs to read data ...HardQ48You need to investigate who modified the firewall rules in your VPC network yesterday. You want to view the logs that...EasyQ49You want to view the Admin Activity audit logs for your project to see recent changes to Compute Engine instances. Yo...MediumQ50Your company is subject to strict compliance regulations that require all Admin Activity audit logs to be retained fo...Medium