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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 7
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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 command-line questions to test practical cloud engineering skills.
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 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
You are starting a new initiative and need to create a new Google Cloud project using the Cloud SDK. You want the project to be named 'data-analytics-prod' and you need to specify your organization ID (1234567890) so it is created in the correct hierarchy.
Which gcloud command should you use?
Q02Medium1 mark
Your company is migrating to Google Cloud and wants to manage user identities centrally. They currently use an on-premises Active Directory (AD). You need to ensure that users can authenticate to Google Cloud using their existing AD credentials and that user lifecycle management is automated.
Which TWO actions should you take? (Select TWO)
Q03Medium1 mark
You have just created a new Google Cloud project and want to deploy a containerized application using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). When you try to run the command to create the cluster, you receive an error stating that the API is not enabled.
Which gcloud command should you use to enable the necessary API?
Q04Medium1 mark
Your finance team wants to perform complex SQL queries on your Google Cloud billing data to analyze spending trends across multiple projects and custom labels. They need this data to be updated automatically every day.
How should you configure this?
Q05Easy1 mark
You are managing a development project in Google Cloud. You want to ensure that you are notified immediately if the monthly spending exceeds $500. You do not want the resources to be shut down automatically.
What is the simplest way to achieve this?
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Free to browse · no sign-up requiredQ01You are starting a new initiative and need to create a new Google Cloud project using the Cloud SDK. You want the pro...EasyQ02Your company is migrating to Google Cloud and wants to manage user identities centrally. They currently use an on-pre...MediumQ03You have just created a new Google Cloud project and want to deploy a containerized application using Google Kubernet...MediumQ04Your finance team wants to perform complex SQL queries on your Google Cloud billing data to analyze spending trends a...MediumQ05You are managing a development project in Google Cloud. You want to ensure that you are notified immediately if the m...EasyQ06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local workstation. You need 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 want to deploy a Compute Engine instance. You realize your current active proj...MediumQ09You are training a new team member on the Google Cloud SDK. You explain that a default installation of the Cloud SDK ...MediumQ10Your company is planning to migrate a legacy application to Compute Engine. The application requires 15 VMs running 2...MediumQ11You have spent the afternoon using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to model a complex architecture involving Comp...MediumQ12Your development team has created a stateless, containerized web application. They want to deploy it to Google Cloud ...EasyQ13You are designing an architecture for a batch processing workload that renders 3D animations. The rendering jobs take...HardQ14You are migrating a legacy database to Compute Engine. The vendor documentation specifies that the software requires ...MediumQ15Your company needs to store petabytes of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 5 years for regulatory reasons....EasyQ16You are designing the database backend for a new global multiplayer game. The database must support strong relational...HardQ17You are deploying a web application on Compute Engine instances located in three different regions: us-central1, euro...MediumQ18Your enterprise needs to connect its on-premises data center to a Google Cloud VPC. The connection must support a gua...MediumQ19You need to deploy a fleet of identical web servers on Compute Engine that will automatically scale up when CPU utili...MediumQ20A third-party contractor needs SSH access to a specific Compute Engine instance named 'db-admin-vm'. You do not want ...MediumQ21You are deploying a machine learning model on Compute Engine and need to attach NVIDIA GPUs to the instance to accele...HardQ22You need to create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster named 'web-cluster' in the us-central1-a zone using t...EasyQ23You have successfully created a GKE cluster and configured your local `kubectl` to connect to it. You have a containe...MediumQ24You are deploying a new GKE cluster and want to ensure that all container logs and cluster metrics are automatically ...MediumQ25You have a container image stored in Artifact Registry at `us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/my-project/my-repo/my-app:lates...EasyQ26You are writing a Python script that needs to execute automatically every time a new image is uploaded to a specific ...MediumQ27You have a 50 GB CSV file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket (`gs://my-data-bucket/sales.csv`). You need to load this d...MediumQ28You need to import a large SQL dump file into a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. The dump file is currently stored in a ...MediumQ29You are setting up a new Google Cloud environment and need to create a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You want full con...MediumQ30You have a three-tier application running on Compute Engine: web servers, application servers, and database servers. ...HardQ31You need to SSH into a Compute Engine instance that does not have an external public IP address. Your local workstati...MediumQ32You are about to perform a major software upgrade on a critical Compute Engine instance. You want to ensure you can q...EasyQ33You have a Managed Instance Group (MIG) running version 1 of your application. You have created a new Instance Templa...MediumQ34Your GKE cluster currently runs on standard e2-medium nodes. Your data science team wants to deploy a new workload to...MediumQ35A developer reports that their application deployed on GKE is crashing on startup. You need to view the standard outp...EasyQ36You have a Cloud Run service named 'payment-api'. You just deployed a new revision of the service, but you only want ...MediumQ37You have a Cloud Storage bucket that receives thousands of image files daily. You want to automatically transition th...MediumQ38A data analyst is about to run a complex SQL query on a multi-terabyte BigQuery dataset. They are concerned about how...HardQ39You have a custom VPC with a subnet in the us-east1 region using the CIDR block 10.0.0.0/24. You have run out of IP a...MediumQ40You need to assign a specific, unchanging external IP address to a Compute Engine instance that acts as an SFTP serve...MediumQ41You are reviewing IAM roles in your Google Cloud project. You notice several users have the 'Editor' role. According ...EasyQ42Your security team requires a specific IAM role that allows users to start and stop Compute Engine instances, but abs...MediumQ43A user is granted the 'Compute Viewer' role at the Folder level. However, at the Project level (which is inside that ...HardQ44You need to audit the IAM policies for a project named 'finance-prod-123'. You want to see a list of all users and th...MediumQ45You have an application running on a Compute Engine VM that needs to read files from a specific Cloud Storage bucket....MediumQ46When you create a new Compute Engine instance without specifying a service account, it automatically uses the Compute...EasyQ47You have an application running on a VM in 'Project A'. The application needs to write data to a BigQuery dataset loc...HardQ48You are investigating a security incident and need to find out who deleted a specific Compute Engine instance yesterd...EasyQ49You want to view the logs for a specific Cloud Function named 'process-payment' to troubleshoot an error.
Where in ...EasyQ50Your compliance department requires that all Data Access audit logs be retained for 3 years. Cloud Logging only retai...Medium