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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 4

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Professional-level practice exam for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. This exam tests deep architectural knowledge, business acumen, and enterprise solution design across 5 domains, featuring 4 realistic case studies and complex multi-response scenarios.

50
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Mixed
Difficulty
70%
Pass mark

Difficulty breakdown

Easy(9)
Medium(25)
Hard(16)

Topics covered

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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

Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:

  • CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
  • CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
  • CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
    Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
    Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.

Which migration strategy should you recommend for the core gaming application to meet the business and technical requirements?

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Q02Medium1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming

Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:

  • CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
  • CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
  • CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
    Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
    Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.

To meet the sub-100ms global latency requirement and handle seasonal spikes, how should you configure the compute architecture?

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Q03Hard1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming

Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:

  • CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
  • CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
  • CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
    Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
    Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.

How should you design the network architecture to ensure DDoS protection and compliance with the EU data residency requirement?

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Q04Hard1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming

Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:

  • CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
  • CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
  • CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
    Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
    Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.

Which database solution should you recommend to replace the 5TB MySQL database, given the need for global scale, relational consistency, and the 4-hour downtime constraint?

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Q05Easy1 mark

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming

Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:

  • CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
  • CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
  • CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
    Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
    Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.

How should you address the operations team's limited cloud experience while ensuring the 99.95% uptime requirement?

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Q01CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak...MediumQ02CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak...MediumQ03CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak...HardQ04CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak...HardQ05CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak...EasyQ06CASE STUDY: RetailMart Overview: Global e-commerce, 5,000 employees. Legacy monolith on VMware, 20TB Oracle DB on-pr...MediumQ07CASE STUDY: RetailMart Overview: Global e-commerce, 5,000 employees. Legacy monolith on VMware, 20TB Oracle DB on-pr...HardQ08CASE STUDY: RetailMart Overview: Global e-commerce, 5,000 employees. Legacy monolith on VMware, 20TB Oracle DB on-pr...MediumQ09CASE STUDY: RetailMart Overview: Global e-commerce, 5,000 employees. Legacy monolith on VMware, 20TB Oracle DB on-pr...MediumQ10CASE STUDY: RetailMart Overview: Global e-commerce, 5,000 employees. Legacy monolith on VMware, 20TB Oracle DB on-pr...HardQ11CASE STUDY: HealthData Corp Overview: Healthcare SaaS managing 10PB of sensitive patient records and imaging. Busine...HardQ12CASE STUDY: HealthData Corp Overview: Healthcare SaaS managing 10PB of sensitive patient records and imaging. Busine...MediumQ13CASE STUDY: HealthData Corp Overview: Healthcare SaaS managing 10PB of sensitive patient records and imaging. Busine...MediumQ14CASE STUDY: HealthData Corp Overview: Healthcare SaaS managing 10PB of sensitive patient records and imaging. Busine...HardQ15CASE STUDY: HealthData Corp Overview: Healthcare SaaS managing 10PB of sensitive patient records and imaging. Busine...EasyQ16CASE STUDY: AutoIoT Overview: Connected car manufacturer. 1M vehicles sending telemetry every 5 seconds. Business: P...HardQ17CASE STUDY: AutoIoT Overview: Connected car manufacturer. 1M vehicles sending telemetry every 5 seconds. Business: P...MediumQ18CASE STUDY: AutoIoT Overview: Connected car manufacturer. 1M vehicles sending telemetry every 5 seconds. Business: P...MediumQ19CASE STUDY: AutoIoT Overview: Connected car manufacturer. 1M vehicles sending telemetry every 5 seconds. Business: P...HardQ20CASE STUDY: AutoIoT Overview: Connected car manufacturer. 1M vehicles sending telemetry every 5 seconds. Business: P...EasyQ21A financial institution is migrating its core banking application to Google Cloud. The application requires a relatio...EasyQ22Your company is planning a migration of 500 VMs from an on-premises VMware environment to Google Cloud. The CFO requi...MediumQ23You are designing a multi-tier application in Google Cloud. The web tier is in a public subnet, and the database tier...EasyQ24Your organization uses a Shared VPC architecture. Project A is the Host Project. Project B and Project C are Service ...MediumQ25You are migrating an on-premises application to GKE. The application requires a persistent file system that can be re...HardQ26Your company has a strict policy that all cryptographic keys used to encrypt data in Google Cloud must be generated a...EasyQ27You are designing the resource hierarchy for a large enterprise. The company has three main departments: HR, Finance,...MediumQ28A healthcare application running on Compute Engine needs to access a third-party API. The third-party API requires IP...HardQ29Your development team is adopting a microservices architecture on GKE. The CTO wants to ensure that if a service fail...MediumQ30You are defining the Service Level Indicator (SLI) for a user-facing web application. According to Google's Site Reli...MediumQ31Your team is deploying a new application to Google Cloud. The CFO wants to ensure that the team is alerted immediatel...EasyQ32You are managing a data warehouse in BigQuery. The marketing team runs complex analytical queries at the end of every...MediumQ33A media company serves large video files to users globally. They currently host the videos in a multi-region Cloud St...MediumQ34Your development team wants to deploy a new containerized application. The application is stateless, event-driven, an...EasyQ35You are designing a disaster recovery strategy for a mission-critical application. The business requires an RTO (Reco...HardQ36You are designing a hybrid cloud architecture. Your on-premises data center must connect to Google Cloud to access a ...MediumQ37A retail company is migrating its e-commerce platform to GCP. They want to use a microservices architecture. The fron...MediumQ38You are planning a migration of a legacy monolithic application to Google Cloud. The application currently runs on ba...HardQ39You need to configure a VPC network for a multi-tier application. The web tier must be accessible from the internet, ...MediumQ40You are provisioning a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance for a production application. The application requires high avail...MediumQ41You are configuring a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The security team requires that pods must not run as th...HardQ42Your company is implementing a data lake in Cloud Storage. The compliance team requires that all data must be encrypt...MediumQ43You are designing the IAM strategy for a new GCP environment. You need to grant a third-party auditing firm read-only...MediumQ44A financial services company is deploying a highly sensitive application on Compute Engine. To meet PCI-DSS complianc...HardQ45You are configuring Security Command Center (SCC) Premium for your organization. The CISO wants to automatically dete...HardQ46Your development team is building a new application. They want to implement a CI/CD pipeline that automatically deplo...EasyQ47You are conducting a blameless post-mortem after a major outage caused by a misconfigured firewall rule. According to...HardQ48Your company is running a large Hadoop cluster on-premises and wants to migrate to Google Cloud. The workloads consis...MediumQ49You are advising a development team on how to optimize their Cloud Storage costs. They have a bucket containing milli...MediumQ50Your organization is adopting a multi-cloud strategy using Google Cloud and AWS. The CTO wants a unified way to manag...Medium