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1. You have deployed a new public web application that allows users to register and login with email ids, phone numbers, or user ids. You are seeing some unusual activity with user registrations and logins from a few IPs. A large number of accounts were created very quickly. Logins are also happening quickly thereafter from these new accounts. Different parts of the application are being explored, all of which are putting a heavy load on the application.

What could be a problem and how can you solve it?

2. A large travel company has thus far invested heavily in their technology team. There is strategic pressure on the company to focus on their core business and innovate to survive in certain geographies and thrive in others. They are evaluating whether a move to Google Cloud will be good for them.

Which of these reasons would be relevant for them? (choose two answer)

3. Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) can be used for encrypting data inside Cloud BigTable, which of the following statements is/are correct. (Select two answer)

4. An e-commerce organization is reviewing their cloud data storage.

What type of raw data can they store in a relational database without any processing?

5. An organization needs protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?

6. DriveSuper Inc. teaches its clients to drive cars and bikes and helps them get their license. They are planning to build a mobile application where users can sign up, plan their schedules, and take stock of progress. They want the onboarding process to be smooth and frictionless, giving users a great experience from the get-go. They want this done as quickly as possible and not be expensive.

What is their best option on Google Cloud?

7. An organization wants to use Apigee to manage all their application programming interfaces (APIs).

What will Apigee enable the organization to do?

8. A small scale retailer has been collecting its point of sale transaction in a PostgreSQL Da-tabase. They have raised funding for a strategic expansion goal in the next year that will see them grow significantly in Asia, Europe, North America.

Which Database option should they choose in Google Cloud?

9. An organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on-premises around the world. They want to modernize their infrastructure with a multi-cloud architecture.

What benefit could the organization experience?

10. A cinema company wants to build a model to predict customer visit patterns for the coming year. They have three years of customer visit data across 300 theaters; however, the data has been stored in different formats by different theaters. They must train the ML model.

What should they do?

11. Your organization recently migrated its compute workloads to Google Cloud. You want these workloads in Google Cloud to privately and securely access your large volume of on-premises data,

and you also want to minimize latency.

What should your organization do?

12. You are working with the head of the IT team and planning the move of computing systems. The questionnaire indicates that they have a reporting application that runs almost 24 hours every day of the week. When there is extra load, it queues up the processing and executes tasks when there is less demand.

Which of these compute options would you recommend for them?

13. You are a DevOps Engineer in an E-commerce company that sells products globally, across the countries, Customers buy products, add them to carts or check-in stock from different parts of the world with different timestamps, you need to choose a database that can scale globally without any hassle and lots of developer support, it should be consistent across regions, can scale horizontally to support enormous user, automatically replicates, shards and even auto transaction processing.

Which of the following database do you choose?

14. A retail store has discovered a cost-effective solution for creating self-service kiosks. They can use existing check-out hardware and purchase a virtual customer service application.

Why do they also need an API?

15. Which of the following options is/are correct about Preemptible VMs?

16. What is an example of unstructured data that organizations can capture from social media?

17. A manager wants to review Google Cloud data access among their employees.

Who is responsible for defining data access policies?

18. What type of cloud computing service provides raw compute, storage, and network, organized in ways that are familiar to physical data centers?

19. Your company has signed up with a cloud provider and you will be using storage and virtual

machines with the provider. The provider has provided your organization some expectations for

what the service should perform at.

What type of agreement provides a guarantee of a certain level

of service such as “Uptime”?

20. Keeping Flavours of Apigee in mind, which of the following statements is/are correct?

21. What would provide near-unlimited availability of computing resources without requiring your organization to procure and provision new equipment?

22. What is an example of structured data that a healthcare facility stores in their system?

23. An organization needs frequent access to only a subset of their data. They want to reduce costs by depositing the rest of their data across Nearline Coldlme and Archive repositories

Which Google Cloud product should the organization use?

24. An organization needs to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in its raw, native format in the same repository.

Which cloud data management solution should the organization use?

25. What is a benefit of Google's purpose-built servers compared to standard servers?

26. A vacation home rental organization wants to predict the popularity of properties in their upcoming busy season. They do not have a data science team, and want to use their in-house database administration skills to create a machine learning model.

What should the organization do?

27. You are a cloud architect in a software solution provider company, one of the client that is a National Bank who wants to build an application that deals with transactions processing, and it needs a relational database with petabyte of scale data.

Which of the following Google Cloud Services will you use?

28. Your organization needs to restrict access to a Cloud Storage bucket. Only employees who are based in Canada should be allowed to view the contents.

What is the most effective and efficient way to satisfy this requirement?

29. Your organization needs to build streaming data pipelines. You don’t want to manage the individual servers that do the data processing in the pipelines. Instead, you want a managed service that will automatically scale with the amount of data to be processed.

Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization choose?

30. An organization is moving away from an on-premises infrastructure. Instead, they want to create, access, and share information virtually in the cloud.

What should the organization consider?

31. How does a least privilege resource access model contribute to cloud security?

32. The customer has applications that do data processing on-premise. They have been built using Ha-doop and Spark.

What product should I use on Google Cloud?

33. Which of the following is/are true about Anthos?

34. An organization wants to digitize and share large volumes of historical text and images.

Why is a public cloud a better option than an on-premises solution?

35. Which Google Cloud service or feature lets you build machine learning models using Standard SQL and data in a data warehouse?

36. Your client is building a custom machine learning pipeline to identify lesions in the lungs based on x-rays. Different teams of data scientists are sharing common source data and building many versions of ML models.

Which of these Cloud Storage options would be best for them?

37. Your organization is developing a mobile app and wants to select a fully featured cloud-based compute platform for it.

Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?

38. Your application has repeated data requests of the exact same nature. At the same time, the number of user requests is increasing. Monitoring indicates that the load on the existing database is increasing, and there seems to be a bottleneck. An analysis of the data requested shows us that it is application-managed data and that it changes, but not often.

How can you improve the efficiency of the application?

39. Your organization consists of many teams. Each team has many Google Cloud projects. Your organization wants to simplify the management of identity and access policies for these projects.

How can you group these projects to meet this goal?

40. An organization wants to search for and share plug-and-play AI components which can easily build ML services into their project.

Which Google Cloud product should the organi-zation use?

41. An organization has had a data leak scare because one employee made a sensitive Cloud Storage bucket available to the public. Given the nature of the company's business, it is understood that there is never any reason to give the public direct access to any file. The security head wants to ensure that such an event never occurs again.

How can you ensure this?

42. Your organization is moving an application to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to migrate the application’s working database from another cloud provider to Cloud SQL. The database runs on the MySQL engine. The migration must cause minimal disruption to users. Data must be secured while in transit.

Which should your organization use?

43. An organization wants to upskill their IT staff.

How can they do this in a transformational way?

44. What is artificial intelligence?

45. An organization wants to move from a tactical cloud adoption approach to a transformational approach.

How should they adapt the way they lead the organization?

46. A retail company stores their product inventory in a legacy system. Often, customers find products on the company's website and want to purchase them in-store.

However, when they arrive, they discover that the products are out of stock.

How could the company benefit from using an application programming interface (API)?

47. An organization is migrating their business applications from on-premises to the cloud.

How could this impact their operations and personnel costs?

48. Your organization runs a distributed application in the Compute Engine virtual machines. Your organization needs redundancy, but it also needs extremely fast communication (less than 10 milliseconds) between the parts of the application in different virtual machines.

Where should your organization locate this virtual machines?

49. An organization is running critical workloads in production and requires a Google Cloud support service with fast response times and a dedicated Technical Account Manager.

Which customer care service level should the organization choose?

50. Your organization is on a critical path with recently developed applications. They are going into production in a month. A few million users are expected to use the new application. They want to ensure minimum disruption when the application goes live. Any issues have to be dealt with within minutes and resolved as quickly as possible.

Which Support package should they take?

51. An organization is developing applications by using Kubernetes. They want their teams to spend more time developing rather than managing clusters.

Which Google Cloud service should the organization choose?

52. An organization provides a loyalty program for its customers. It recently partnered with other businesses so that customers can get loyalty points at a range of other stores.

Why should the organization use application programming interfaces (APIs)?

53. An organization needs to migrate specialized workloads to the cloud while maintaining their existing complex licensing and architecture.

What Google Cloud solution should the organization use?

54. What is monitoring within the context of cloud operations?

55. One of your clients is in the retail sector. They have a small team supporting their operations and a small development team taking care of application development. They have heard of the benefits of machine learning, but they do not have the capacity to hire data scientists or the work to retain them. They have a team of analysts who works primarily on BigQuery and knows how to run SQL queries. They want to be able to get into the new age of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

What options are available to run on Google Cloud?

56. You're negotiating SLAs with a customer. You have communicated that there will be a 99.99% (four 9s) availability for the service you are providing. Every aspect of the service is under your con-trol. They want to modify the reliability to 99.999% (five 9s).

What do you tell them? (Choose two answer)

57. In discussions with a prospective customer who wants to move to Google Cloud to make use of the latest, scalable technologies available therein, you learn that there are very strict regulations concerning the storage of data. They only have the approval to store it in their current private data center.

What would you advise them?

58. Your organization runs many workloads in different Google Cloud projects, each linked to the same billing account. Each project's workload costs can vary from month to month, but the overall combined cost of all projects is relatively stable. Your organization needs to optimize its cost.

What should your organization do?

59. What does Cloud Logging help an organization do?

60. An organization needs to store daily transactional data such as customer records and purchase history. The data follows a consistent schema and is cross-referenced.

Which type of service should the organization use?

61. An organization's applications run on an inflexible, on-premises architecture. The organization has decided to modernize their existing applications with the cloud.

What may have prompted this business decision?

62. An organization supplies electric car chargers in a nationwide network. They store customer and charging data in BigQuery. They want to efficiently upgrade and maintain their network to reduce waste and achieve their sustainability goals.

How can Google Cloud services help the organization?

63. You decide to migrate your on-premises environment to the cloud. You need to determine which resource components still need to be assigned ownership.

Which two functions are owned by a public cloud provider? (Choose two.)

64. An organization wants to introduce a new image recognition login system.

What should the organization do to follow SRE principles?

65. There are internal compliance requirements that demand that we do not use any APIs or services that are not backed by SLAs.

Which of these are acceptable for us? (Choose two answer)

66. Your team has developed a machine learning model for your customer. The test results indicate very strong predictive capability. The model is then deployed in production. Evaluation of the predictions in production show that they are off by a pronounced margin.

What is the issue and how can you solve for it?

67. Your organization needs to categorize objects in a large group of static images using machine learning.

Which Google Cloud product or service should your organization use?

68. A prospect wants to be able to store and analyze data. Their analysts already know SQL, but are not familiar with other technologies.

Which of these databases can the analysts use without addi-tional training?

69. An organization is training a machine learning model to predict extreme weather events in their country.

How should they collect data to maximize prediction accuracy?

70. Your organization needs to ensure that the Google Cloud resources of each of your departments are segregated from one another. Each department has several environments of its own: development, testing, and production.

Which strategy should your organization choose?

71. An organization wants to use multiple marketing datasets to forecast user acquisition.

How should they use cloud technology to gain new insights from the data?

72. What service is a fully managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications.

73. A large travel services company has been running all their workloads on Google Cloud in the previous year. They looked at their past usage of cloud resources and see that there is a consistent use of

10,000 virtual machines throughout the year. Based on the projections for the following year they have a strong indication that they will use at least this much or more capacity within Google Cloud.

What is one way in which they can take advantage of this knowledge?

74. Your client is a financial services company giving loans based on customer profiles. As part of the regulatory compliance, they have to collect a bunch of different documents with know your customer (KYC) information. They want to be able to process the information in these documents quickly and at scale. They want to integrate the chosen solution as quickly as possible.

What are your options on Google Cloud?

75. An organization wants to adopt the advanced machine learning capabilities of the Google Cloud.

However, regulations require data to be stored in an on-premises data center.

Which approach should the organization use?

76. An organization needs to categorize text-based customer reviews on their website using a pre-trained machine learning model.

Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

77. An organization wants full control of their virtual machine infrastructure for a custom home-grown application with a product that auto scales and automatically updates.

Which Google Cloud product or solution should the organization use?

78. An organization is making a strategic change to customer support in response to feedback. They plan to extend their helpline availability hours.

Why is the organization making this change?

79. An organization wants to dynamically adjust its application to serve different user needs.

What are the benefits of storing their data in the cloud for this use case?

80. You are a program manager for a team of developers who are building an event-driven application to allow users to follow one another’s activities in the app. Each time a user adds himself as a follower of another user, a write occurs in the real-time database.

The developers will develop a lightweight piece of code that can respond to database writes and generate a notification to let the appropriate users know that they have gained new followers. The code should integrate with other cloud services such as Pub/Sub, Firebase, and Cloud APIs to streamline the orchestration process. The application requires a platform that automatically manages underlying infrastructure and scales to zero when there is no activity.

Which primary compute resource should your developers select, given these requirements?

81. An organization wants to transform multiple types of structured and unstructured data in the cloud from various sources. The data must be readily accessible for analysis and insights.

Which cloud data storage system should the organization use?

82. You are leading projects in an IT services company. Your customer's project requires analyzing im-ages. They have many 10s of 1000s of raw images that they have made available to you. Your small technology team needs to build a machine learning model. The images are unlabeled. You don't have the people or the capacity to label the images.

What is your approach?

83. An organization wants to add a new function to their application. They want to write the code and let the public cloud provider handle the infrastructure.

Which infrastructure solution should they use?

84. An organization wants its users to validate a series of new features for their app.

Why should they use App Engine?

85. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides three main compliance resource webpages.

What are they? (Select Three Answer)

86. In terms of Dockers and Kubernetes, which of the following statements are correct?

87. What characteristics should an organization adopt to be a DevOps organization?

88. What cloud service model would you want to select if you want to solve a particular business problem by providing CRM services in the cloud to your enterprises?

89. Your organization needs to minimize how much it pays for data traffic from the Google network to the internet.

What should your organization do?

90. An organization is building advanced machine learning models in Google Cloud by using TensorFlow. They want to develop their models faster with purpose-built hardware.

Which solution should the organization use?

91. certain devices for cracks, rust, etc. Some of these issues are difficult to identify for a human and your company has seen increasing customer complaints - the customer has paid for an inspection and the field agent said there was no problem, but it later turned out there actually was. The team has come up with a proposal to engage AI to identify issues. On evaluating the existing system, it is seen that the mobile phone network connection is not good or consistent.

What solution can work for them?

92. An organization wants to develop an application that can be personalized to user preferences throughout the year.

Why should they build a cloud-native application instead of modernizing their existing on-premises application?

93. Your company’s development team is building an application that will be deployed on Cloud Run. You are designing a CI/CD pipeline so that any new version of the application can be deployed in the fewest number of steps possible using the CI/CD pipeline you are designing. You need to select a storage location for the images of the application after the CI part of your pipeline has built them.

What should you do?

94. An organization is evaluating its defenses against cyber security threats and is concerned about the risks of social engineering by cyber criminals.

How might these attacks happen?

95. An organization is struggling to meet user demand for change and wants to modernize their legacy applications by moving the applications to the cloud

Why would this help the organization satisfy user expectations?

96. A multinational retail company has approached you to help design its systems. They have millions of transactions at their point of sale systems across the world that need to be captured, stored, and analyzed. They are seeing more growth and expect to expand into even more geographies.

Which database would be appropriate for them?

97. 1.You are migrating workloads to the cloud. The goal of the migration is to serve customers worldwide

as quickly as possible According to local regulations, certain data is required to be stored in a specific

geographic area, and it can be served worldwide. You need to design the architecture and

deployment for your workloads.

What should you do?

98. An organization wants to leverage tooling and automation as part of its new DevOps philosophy.

Which operational challenge will this resolve?

99. An organization wants to migrate legacy applications currently hosted in their data center to the cloud. The current architecture dictates that each application needs its own operating system (OS) instead of sharing an OS.

Which infrastructure solution should they choose?

100. Customers are reporting very high latencies when accessing an application from the United States.

The application is currently running in a single region in Europe.

What should the organization do?

101. Your customer's IT team is in the process of modernizing their customer-facing applications. They've witnessed others getting good results from employing microservices, and they're keen to adopt it themselves. The first application that they are modernizing has about 5 different sub-parts, which they have identified will be the services. They also identify that each of them has different scale requirements - some services like user login are less frequently used while others like transactions are heavily used.

What technical strategy would you recommend for them?

102. An IoT platform is providing services to home security systems. They have more than a million customers, each with many home devices. Burglaries or child safety issues are concerns that the clients customers. Therefore, the platform has to respond very quickly in near real time.

What could be a typical data pipeline used to support this platform on Google Cloud?

103. An organization has a large VMWare environment that they want to migrate to the cloud. They want to retain existing operational processes and tools.

Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?

104. Your organization is developing an application that will manage payments and online bank accounts located around the world. The most critical requirement for your database is that each transaction is handled consistently. Your organization anticipates almost unlimited growth in the amount of data stored.

Which Google Cloud product should your organization choose?

105. An organization's developers are growing increasingly frustrated by the limitations of their on-premises infrastructure.

How would they benefit from leveraging cloud technology?

106. What is an organization exclusively responsible for when they access an application through a software as a service (SaaS) model?

107. An organization wants to use all available data to offer predictive suggestions on their website that improve over time.

Which method should the organization use?

108. An organization has created an application that can diagnose different medical conditions when users submit images of their affected body parts.

Which Google Cloud product or service did the organization use?

109. An organization is deciding on the layout of their resource hierarchy in Google Cloud. They have several projects within a folder.

What will happen when user access policies are applied to the folder?

110. An organization has created an ecommerce website.

What data on this website would be considered structured data?

111. An organization is using machine learning to make predictions. One of their datasets mistakenly includes mislabeled data.

How will the prediction be impacted?

112. An organization is using Compute Engine and wants to receive sustained-use discounts.

What should the organization do?

113. An organization wants to move from a tactical cloud adoption approach to a transformational approach.

How should they change their cloud security?