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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 1

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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.

50
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Mixed
Difficulty
70%
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Difficulty breakdown

Easy(9)
Medium(24)
Hard(17)

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Subtask 1.1: Business RequirementsSubtask 1.1: Design a solution infrastructure that meets business requirementsSubtask 1.2: Design a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirementsSubtask 1.2: Technical RequirementsSubtask 1.3: Network, Storage, ComputeSubtask 1.4: Migration PlanSubtask 2.1: Configure network topologiesSubtask 2.1: Network TopologySubtask 2.2: Storage SystemsSubtask 2.3: Compute SystemsSubtask 2.3: Configure compute systemsSubtask 3.1: Design for securitySubtask 3.1: Security DesignSubtask 3.2: Compliance DesignSubtask 4.1: Analyze and define technical processesSubtask 4.1: Technical ProcessesSubtask 4.3: Resilience ProceduresSubtask 5.1: Advise development and operation teamsSubtask 5.2: Ensure solution and operations reliabilitySubtask 5.2: ReliabilitySubtask 5.3: Cost OptimizationSubtask 5.3: Manage implementation and optimize costs

Sample questions

Q01Hard1 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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Q02Medium1 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:
How should you design the network architecture to ensure sub-100ms latency globally and provide DDoS protection?

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Q03Hard1 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 database solution should you recommend to replace the 5 TB MySQL databases, considering the need for global expansion, strong consistency for game state, and EU data residency?

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Q04Medium1 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:
How should you design the real-time analytics pipeline for player behavior data?

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Q05Medium1 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:
To address the CFO's cost concerns and the CTO's team constraints, which combination of strategies should you implement?

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The application uses HTTP and should only be accessib...EasyQ29You are creating a new GCP project for a production environment. You need strict control over the IP address ranges u...EasyQ30Your e-commerce application uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. During peak shopping hours, the database CPU hits 95% due ...MediumQ31You are designing a multi-tenant SaaS application on GKE. Each tenant's microservices run in a dedicated Kubernetes n...HardQ32Your company has a hybrid cloud architecture. You have internal applications running on-premises and on GCP. You want...EasyQ33You need to back up a 500 GB Persistent Disk attached to a Compute Engine instance. The disk contains a highly active...MediumQ34You are managing a fleet of Compute Engine instances in a Managed Instance Group (MIG). 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You want to ensure that container images are only deployed to G...MediumQ42Your company has multiple GCP projects (Frontend, Backend, Database). The operations team wants a single pane of glas...EasyQ43You are implementing chaos engineering to test the resilience of a microservices application running on GKE. You want...HardQ44You are deploying a new version of a critical web application. You want to route 5% of user traffic to the new versio...MediumQ45Your development team spends too much time parsing through raw text logs in Cloud Logging to find application crashes...EasyQ46You are reviewing the GCP billing report for a large enterprise. You notice high costs for Compute Engine. The worklo...MediumQ47Your SRE team has defined an SLO of 99.9% availability for a critical service. Over the past month, the service has e...HardQ48A microservices application is experiencing high latency. 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