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    PracticeGCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 6
    GCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)

    GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 6

    50 free questions · No sign-up required to browse

    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 command-line focused questions.

    50
    Questions
    Mixed
    Difficulty
    70%
    Pass mark

    Difficulty breakdown

    Easy(13)
    Medium(30)
    Hard(7)

    Topics covered

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    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

    What is the primary purpose of a Google Cloud project?

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    Q02Medium1 mark

    Your development team needs to manage Compute Engine instances in a specific project. They need to be able to start, stop, and configure VMs, but they should not be able to create new VMs or delete existing ones.

    Which TWO actions should you take to grant the appropriate access? (Select TWO)

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    Q03Easy1 mark

    You are automating the setup of a new Google Cloud project using a bash script. You need to enable the Compute Engine API for the project before your script can create any virtual machines.

    Which gcloud command should you use?

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    Q04Medium1 mark

    Your startup has a strict monthly cloud budget of $500. You want to be notified immediately if your spending exceeds 50%, 90%, and 100% of this budget. You also want to ensure that if the budget is exceeded, no further costs are incurred, even if it means shutting down resources.

    How should you configure this?

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    Q05Hard1 mark

    Your finance team wants to perform granular analysis of your Google Cloud spending using SQL. They need to see daily cost breakdowns by project, service, and custom labels. You decide to set up Cloud Billing export to BigQuery.

    Which TWO statements are true regarding this configuration? (Select TWO)

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    Q01What is the primary purpose of a Google Cloud project?EasyQ02Your development team needs to manage Compute Engine instances in a specific project. They need to be able to start, ...MediumQ03You are automating the setup of a new Google Cloud project using a bash script. You need to enable the Compute Engine...EasyQ04Your startup has a strict monthly cloud budget of $500. You want to be notified immediately if your spending exceeds ...MediumQ05Your finance team wants to perform granular analysis of your Google Cloud spending using SQL. They need to see daily ...HardQ06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local workstation. You want to authenticate your account, set up...EasyQ07You work on two different Google Cloud projects: 'dev-project' and 'prod-project'. You frequently switch between them...MediumQ08You are working in the Cloud Shell and need to run several commands against a project with the ID 'my-company-analyti...EasyQ09When you install the Google Cloud SDK using the default installation method, which three command-line tools are insta...EasyQ10You are planning to migrate an on-premises application to Compute Engine. The application requires 8 vCPUs, 32 GB of ...MediumQ11You are using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the cost of a new data processing workload. The workloa...MediumQ12Your team has developed a stateless, containerized web application. Traffic to the application is highly unpredictabl...EasyQ13You are designing a batch processing architecture to render 3D video frames. The rendering jobs are fault-tolerant; i...MediumQ14You are migrating a legacy application to Compute Engine. The application has very specific hardware requirements: it...HardQ15Your company needs to store petabytes of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 7 years for regulatory reasons....EasyQ16You are designing the database backend for a new global e-commerce platform. The database must support strong relatio...MediumQ17You are deploying a web application that will be accessed by users worldwide. You want to route users to the backend ...MediumQ18You are designing a highly available architecture for a mission-critical application on Compute Engine. The applicati...HardQ19You need to quickly launch a new Compute Engine instance named 'web-server-01' using the e2-medium machine type in th...MediumQ20You want to deploy a fleet of identical web servers that automatically scale up when CPU utilization exceeds 70%. W...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 'prod-cluster' with 3 nodes in the us-...MediumQ23You have a Docker image stored in Artifact Registry. You want to deploy this image as a highly available application ...HardQ24You are deploying a new GKE Standard cluster and want to ensure that all container logs and cluster metrics are autom...MediumQ25You have built a container image for a simple web API and pushed it to Artifact Registry. You want to deploy this ima...EasyQ26You are writing a Python script that needs to execute automatically every time a new image file is uploaded to a spec...MediumQ27You have a large CSV file containing historical sales data stored in a Cloud Storage bucket (`gs://my-data-bucket/sal...MediumQ28You are migrating an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL. You have exported the on-premises database to a SQL dum...MediumQ29You are setting up the network foundation for a new project. You need to create a custom-mode Virtual Private Cloud (...MediumQ30You have a three-tier application deployed on Compute Engine: frontend web servers, backend application servers, and ...HardQ31You have a Compute Engine instance that you only use during business hours. To save costs, you stop the instance ever...EasyQ32You need to create a backup of a critical Compute Engine instance's boot disk before performing a major OS upgrade. Y...MediumQ33You are troubleshooting an issue and need to see a list of all Compute Engine instances currently running in your pro...MediumQ34A developer reports that their application running on a GKE cluster is crashing. You need to view the standard output...MediumQ35Your GKE cluster currently runs on a node pool of e2-standard-2 machines. Your new machine learning workload requires...HardQ36You have deployed version 1 (v1) of an application to Cloud Run. You just deployed version 2 (v2) and want to perform...MediumQ37Your application generates daily log files that are stored in a Cloud Storage Standard bucket. These logs are frequen...EasyQ38You are about to run a complex SQL query in BigQuery that joins several multi-terabyte tables. You are concerned abou...MediumQ39You have a custom-mode VPC network. One of your subnets, 'subnet-app', was created with a primary IP range of 10.0.1....MediumQ40You are deploying a legacy application on a Compute Engine instance. The application requires a fixed, unchanging ext...MediumQ41In Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), what is the primary difference between Primitive roles and Pred...EasyQ42Your company has a team of 50 data scientists who all need the 'BigQuery Data Viewer' role on a specific project. Tea...MediumQ43You are reviewing the IAM policies in your organization and realize that a predefined role grants slightly more permi...MediumQ44You are conducting a security audit and need to view the complete list of IAM role assignments (bindings) for a proje...HardQ45What is the primary purpose of a Service Account in Google Cloud?EasyQ46You are deploying an application on a Compute Engine instance. The application needs to write logs to Cloud Logging a...MediumQ47You have two projects: 'Project A' (where your Compute Engine VMs run) and 'Project B' (where your BigQuery datasets ...MediumQ48You are investigating a security incident and need to find out who deleted a critical Compute Engine instance yesterd...EasyQ49You want to view the Admin Activity audit logs for your project to see recent changes to IAM policies. Where in the...MediumQ50You are using the Logs Explorer to investigate an issue. You want to filter the logs to show ONLY Admin Activity audi...Medium