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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2

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Professional-level practice exam for Google Cloud Architect certification, featuring case studies, technical architecture, and business scenario analysis.

50
Questions
Mixed
Difficulty
70%
Pass mark

Difficulty breakdown

Easy(7)
Medium(26)
Hard(17)

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Domain 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution ArchitectureDomain 2: Managing and Provisioning a Solution InfrastructureDomain 3: Designing for Security and ComplianceDomain 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business ProcessesDomain 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability

Sample questions

Q01Medium1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cost. Req: Cut cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deploys. CEO: Scale fast. CFO: <$100K/mo, 18mo ROI. CTO: Low cloud skills, 99.95% uptime. Tech: <100ms latency, real-time analytics, 5x spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD. Constraints: 12mo migration, 4hr downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (no cloud), $2M budget.

Which migration strategy should you recommend for the legacy monolithic application to meet the 12-month timeline and team skill constraints?

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Q02Medium1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cost. Req: Cut cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deploys. CEO: Scale fast. CFO: <$100K/mo, 18mo ROI. CTO: Low cloud skills, 99.95% uptime. Tech: <100ms latency, real-time analytics, 5x spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD. Constraints: 12mo migration, 4hr downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (no cloud), $2M budget.

To achieve sub-100ms latency globally and DDoS protection, which networking solution should you implement?

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Q03Hard1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cost. Req: Cut cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deploys. CEO: Scale fast. CFO: <$100K/mo, 18mo ROI. CTO: Low cloud skills, 99.95% uptime. Tech: <100ms latency, real-time analytics, 5x spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD. Constraints: 12mo migration, 4hr downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (no cloud), $2M budget.

Which database migration strategy meets the 4-hour downtime constraint and EU data residency requirement?

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Q04Medium1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cost. Req: Cut cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deploys. CEO: Scale fast. CFO: <$100K/mo, 18mo ROI. CTO: Low cloud skills, 99.95% uptime. Tech: <100ms latency, real-time analytics, 5x spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD. Constraints: 12mo migration, 4hr downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (no cloud), $2M budget.

Design the real-time analytics pipeline for player behavior.

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Q05Easy1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cost. Req: Cut cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deploys. CEO: Scale fast. CFO: <$100K/mo, 18mo ROI. CTO: Low cloud skills, 99.95% uptime. Tech: <100ms latency, real-time analytics, 5x spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD. Constraints: 12mo migration, 4hr downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (no cloud), $2M budget.

How should you address the CFO's requirement to reduce costs by 40% for the steady-state baseline compute resources?

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Q01CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cos...MediumQ02CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cos...MediumQ03CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cos...HardQ04CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cos...MediumQ05CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cos...EasyQ06CASE STUDY: ShopGlobal. Global e-commerce. Monolithic Java on VMware. Oracle RAC (20TB). 10x Black Friday traffic. Re...HardQ07CASE STUDY: ShopGlobal. Global e-commerce. Monolithic Java on VMware. Oracle RAC (20TB). 10x Black Friday traffic. Re...MediumQ08CASE STUDY: ShopGlobal. Global e-commerce. Monolithic Java on VMware. Oracle RAC (20TB). 10x Black Friday traffic. Re...MediumQ09CASE STUDY: ShopGlobal. Global e-commerce. Monolithic Java on VMware. Oracle RAC (20TB). 10x Black Friday traffic. Re...MediumQ10CASE STUDY: ShopGlobal. Global e-commerce. Monolithic Java on VMware. Oracle RAC (20TB). 10x Black Friday traffic. Re...EasyQ11CASE STUDY: AutoMakers Inc. 1M connected cars, 100GB/day telemetry. Req: Predictive maintenance, real-time driver das...MediumQ12CASE STUDY: AutoMakers Inc. 1M connected cars, 100GB/day telemetry. Req: Predictive maintenance, real-time driver das...HardQ13CASE STUDY: AutoMakers Inc. 1M connected cars, 100GB/day telemetry. Req: Predictive maintenance, real-time driver das...MediumQ14CASE STUDY: AutoMakers Inc. 1M connected cars, 100GB/day telemetry. Req: Predictive maintenance, real-time driver das...HardQ15CASE STUDY: AutoMakers Inc. 1M connected cars, 100GB/day telemetry. Req: Predictive maintenance, real-time driver das...EasyQ16CASE STUDY: HealthSecure. 50M patient records. Legacy mainframe, on-prem SAN (100TB), .NET portal. Req: Modernize por...HardQ17CASE STUDY: HealthSecure. 50M patient records. Legacy mainframe, on-prem SAN (100TB), .NET portal. Req: Modernize por...MediumQ18CASE STUDY: HealthSecure. 50M patient records. Legacy mainframe, on-prem SAN (100TB), .NET portal. Req: Modernize por...HardQ19CASE STUDY: HealthSecure. 50M patient records. Legacy mainframe, on-prem SAN (100TB), .NET portal. Req: Modernize por...MediumQ20CASE STUDY: HealthSecure. 50M patient records. Legacy mainframe, on-prem SAN (100TB), .NET portal. Req: Modernize por...HardQ21A media company needs to store 500TB of video archives. The data is accessed roughly once every 2 years for historica...EasyQ22A global financial application requires a relational database with strong consistency, horizontal scalability across ...MediumQ23An enterprise has 50 departments. They want central control over network resources (firewalls, subnets) but want each...HardQ24You are migrating a monolithic application to microservices on GKE. You want to route traffic gradually from the lega...MediumQ25You need to resolve internal DNS names for VMs across two different VPCs connected via VPC Peering. What must you con...EasyQ26A pod running in GKE needs to access a Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow the principle of least privilege and ...MediumQ27You are deploying a containerized web application to Cloud Run. The application is thread-safe and can handle multipl...MediumQ28A new developer joins your team and needs to view the configuration of Compute Engine instances, but should not be ab...EasyQ29Your company wants to allow remote employees to access an internal web application hosted on Compute Engine without u...MediumQ30You have configured a VPC Service Controls perimeter around your production project to protect Cloud Storage. However...HardQ31To ensure software supply chain security, your CISO requires that only container images verified by the QA team can b...MediumQ32Your SRE team has defined a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99.9% availability for a service. Over the last 30 days,...MediumQ33You are planning a massive marketing campaign that will require spinning up 5,000 new Compute Engine cores in a singl...HardQ34You want to measure the latency of a user's journey from clicking 'Checkout' to receiving an order confirmation. Whic...MediumQ35Your finance team needs to allocate GCP costs to specific cost centers (e.g., Marketing, R&D) across multiple shared ...HardQ36You are designing a highly available Cloud SQL architecture for a mission-critical application. Which TWO configurati...MediumQ37You are designing an active-active multi-region GKE architecture. Which THREE components are essential for routing gl...HardQ38Your data analysts are running expensive queries on a 100TB BigQuery table containing 5 years of daily sales data. Th...MediumQ39A company wants to adopt a multi-cloud strategy using Google Cloud Anthos to manage Kubernetes clusters across GCP, A...HardQ40You need to protect Cloud Storage objects from accidental deletion and ensure that deleted objects are kept for 30 da...MediumQ41You are configuring a Managed Instance Group (MIG) for a web application. Which TWO metrics can be used natively by t...MediumQ42In a Shared VPC architecture, which THREE IAM roles are typically required to allow a developer in a Service Project ...HardQ43You need to store database passwords and API keys for your Cloud Run application. Which TWO statements correctly desc...MediumQ44Your CISO wants to ensure that no developer can create a VM with an external public IP address, and that all resource...HardQ45You are configuring Cloud Armor to protect a web application. Which TWO types of rules can you implement? (Select TWO)MediumQ46Your microservices application is experiencing high latency. You need to identify which specific function in the code...MediumQ47To improve system resilience, your SRE team wants to implement Chaos Engineering by intentionally injecting HTTP 500 ...HardQ48Which TWO workloads are ideal candidates for running on Spot VMs (Preemptible VMs) to optimize costs? (Select TWO)EasyQ49Your company is experiencing high network egress costs. Which TWO strategies should you implement to reduce these cos...MediumQ50An enterprise wants to establish a robust FinOps culture. They need to visualize spend, allocate costs to teams, and ...Hard