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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 5
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Comprehensive practice exam for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Covers setting up environments, planning solutions, deploying resources, operating workloads, and configuring security.
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 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 command-line interface.
Which gcloud command should you use?
Q02Medium1 mark
A developer on your team needs to manage App Engine applications, including deploying new versions and splitting traffic. However, they should not be able to create Compute Engine instances or manage Cloud Storage buckets.
Which predefined IAM role should you assign to this developer?
Q03Medium1 mark
You have created a new Google Cloud project. You need to allow a specific group of developers to provision Compute Engine virtual machines. The Compute Engine API has not been enabled yet.
Which TWO actions must you take to fulfill this requirement? (Select TWO)
Q04Easy1 mark
Which statement best describes the relationship between Google Cloud projects and billing accounts?
Q05Medium1 mark
Your company wants to be notified immediately in their Slack channel whenever their monthly Google Cloud spending exceeds 90% of their $5,000 budget.
What is the MOST efficient way to configure 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 command-line interface.
W...EasyQ02A developer on your team needs to manage App Engine applications, including deploying new versions and splitting traf...MediumQ03You have created a new Google Cloud project. You need to allow a specific group of developers to provision Compute En...MediumQ04Which statement best describes the relationship between Google Cloud projects and billing accounts?EasyQ05Your company wants to be notified immediately in their Slack channel whenever their monthly Google Cloud spending exc...MediumQ06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local workstation. You need to authenticate your user account, s...MediumQ07You are working in Cloud Shell and need to execute several commands against a project named 'analytics-prod-992'. You...MediumQ08You frequently switch between two different Google Cloud projects: 'dev-env' and 'prod-env'. Each project requires yo...HardQ09You need to write a bash script that uploads local log files to a Google Cloud Storage bucket every night.
Which com...EasyQ10You are using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running 10 Compute Engine virtual m...MediumQ11You have built a complex cost estimate in the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator for a new application architecture. You...MediumQ12Your team has developed a stateless, containerized web application that processes HTTP requests. Traffic is highly un...EasyQ13You are designing an architecture for a batch processing job that analyzes large datasets. The job is highly fault-to...MediumQ14You are migrating a legacy application to Compute Engine. The vendor specifies that the application requires exactly ...HardQ15Your company is migrating an on-premises MySQL database to Google Cloud. The database is 500 GB in size. The applicat...EasyQ16Your company needs to store petabytes of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 5 years but are expected to be ...EasyQ17You are deploying a web application that will be accessed by users globally. You need to terminate SSL/TLS connection...MediumQ18You are designing the network architecture for a highly available application. The application backend runs on Comput...MediumQ19You need to create a new Compute Engine instance using the gcloud CLI. The instance must run under a specific custom ...MediumQ20You have a Managed Instance Group (MIG) running a web application. You need to update the OS image for all instances ...MediumQ21Your security team requires that SSH access to Compute Engine instances be managed centrally using IAM roles. They wa...HardQ22You need to create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) standard cluster named 'web-cluster' with 3 nodes in the `us-...MediumQ23You have successfully provisioned a GKE cluster and authenticated your local `kubectl` tool to it. You have a contain...MediumQ24An application running on your GKE cluster is crashing. You need to view the application logs outputted by a specific...HardQ25You are deploying a new public-facing website using Cloud Run. You want anyone on the internet to be able to access t...EasyQ26You are writing a Cloud Function that needs to process messages as soon as they are published to a Cloud Pub/Sub topi...MediumQ27You have a large CSV file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket (`gs://my-bucket/sales_data.csv`). You need to load this d...MediumQ28You need to initialize a new Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance by importing a `.sql` dump file.
Which TWO requireme...MediumQ29You are setting up a custom network topology. You need to create a new VPC network that does not automatically create...MediumQ30You have a VPC network with several Compute Engine instances. You want to allow incoming HTTP (port 80) traffic from ...HardQ31A Compute Engine instance named `data-cruncher` has finished its processing task. You want to shut it down to stop in...EasyQ32You need to implement a disaster recovery strategy for a critical Compute Engine instance. You want to capture the st...MediumQ33You are configuring autoscaling for a Managed Instance Group (MIG). You want the group to automatically add instances...MediumQ34You are troubleshooting an application running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to see a list of all curre...EasyQ35Your team has an existing GKE standard cluster running web applications. A new data science team wants to deploy mach...MediumQ36You have deployed a new revision of a Cloud Run service. You want to perform a canary deployment by routing exactly 1...MediumQ37You have an object named `report.pdf` in a Cloud Storage bucket. It is currently stored in the Standard storage class...EasyQ38You need to optimize costs for a Cloud Storage bucket used for backups. You want objects to automatically transition ...MediumQ39Your company has a custom-mode VPC. A subnet in the `us-east1` region was created with a `/24` CIDR block (256 IP add...MediumQ40You are configuring a Global External HTTP(S) Load Balancer for a new web application. You need to ensure that the IP...HardQ41When configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Google Cloud, what is the recommended best practice regardin...EasyQ42You need to grant a new auditor access to your Google Cloud project. The auditor needs to be able to list and view th...MediumQ43You have reviewed all predefined IAM roles but cannot find one that exactly matches the specific set of permissions r...MediumQ44A user is assigned the `roles/editor` (Project Editor) role at the Folder level. However, at the Project level (for a...HardQ45When you enable the Compute Engine API in a new project, a default service account is automatically created.
What i...EasyQ46You are deploying a custom application on a Compute Engine VM. The application needs to read configuration files from...MediumQ47You have a Compute Engine VM running in `Project A`. The application on this VM needs to write data to a BigQuery dat...MediumQ48A critical Compute Engine instance was unexpectedly deleted. You need to find out which user or service account issue...EasyQ49You are using the Logs Explorer in the Google Cloud Console. You want to write a query to filter the logs so that you...MediumQ50Your organization is subject to strict compliance regulations. You are required to retain all Admin Activity and Data...Medium