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Google's Professional Cloud Architect You have a Compute Engine managed instance group that adds and removes Compute Engine instances from the group in response to the load on your application. The instances have a shutdown script that removes REDIS database entries associated with the instance. You see that many database entries have not been removed, and you suspect that the shutdown script is the problem. You need to ensure that the commands in the shutdown script are run reliably every time an instance is shut down. You create a Cloud Function to remove the database entries. What should you do next?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are managing several projects on Google Cloud and need to interact on a daily basis with BigQuery, Bigtable, and Kubernetes Engine using the gcloud CL tool. You are travelling a lot and work on different workstations during the week. You want to avoid having to manage the gcloud CLI manually. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company recently acquired a company that has infrastructure in Google Cloud. Each company has its own Google Cloud organization. Each company is using a Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to provide network connectivity for its applications. Some of the subnets used by both companies overlap. In order for both businesses to integrate, the applications need to have private network connectivity. These applications are not on overlapping subnets. You want to provide connectivity with minimal re-engineering. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are managing several internal applications that are deployed on Compute Engine. Business users inform you that an application has become very slow over the past few days. You want to find the underlying cause in order to solve the problem. What should you do first?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company has an application running as a Deployment in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. When releasing new versions of the application via a rolling deployment, the team has been causing outages. The root cause of the outages is misconfigurations with parameters that are only used in production. You want to put preventive measures for this in the platform to prevent outages. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a platform for all workloads. Your company has a single large GKE cluster that contains batch, stateful, and stateless workloads. The GKE cluster is configured with a single node pool with 200 nodes. Your company needs to reduce the cost of this cluster but does not want to compromise availability. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing on a pay-per-use basis. You want to monitor queries in real time to discover the most costly queries and which users spend the most. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company and one of its partners each have a Google Cloud project in separate organizations. Your company's project (prj-a) runs in Virtual Private Cloud(vpc-a). The partner's project (prj-b) runs in vpc-b. There are two instances running on vpc-a and one instance running on vpc-b. Subnets defined in both VPCs are not overlapping. You need to ensure that all instances communicate with each other via internal IPs, minimizing latency and maximizing throughput. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You want to store critical business information in Cloud Storage buckets. The information is regularly changed, but previous versions need to be referenced on a regular basis. You want to ensure that there is a record of all changes to any information in these buckets. You want to ensure that accidental edits or deletions can be easily rolled back. Which feature should you enable?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud Monitoring agent and configured the autoscaling policy as follows:✑ Metric identifier: agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used✑ Filter: metric.label.state = 'used'✑ Target utilization level: 80✑ Target type: GAUGEYou observe that the application does not scale under high load. You want to resolve this. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are deploying an application to Google Cloud. The application is part of a system. The application in Google Cloud must communicate over a private network with applications in a non-Google Cloud environment. The expected average throughput is 200 kbps. The business requires:✑ as close to 100% system availability as possible✑ cost optimizationYou need to design the connectivity between the locations to meet the business requirements. What should you provision?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company has an application running on App Engine that allows users to upload music files and share them with other people. You want to allow users to upload files directly into Cloud Storage from their browser session. The payload should not be passed through the backend. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are configuring the cloud network architecture for a newly created project in Google Cloud that will host applications in Compute Engine. Compute Engine virtual machine instances will be created in two different subnets (sub-a and sub-b) within a single region:• Instances in sub-a will have public IP addresses.• Instances in sub-b will have only private IP addresses.To download updated packages, instances must connect to a public repository outside the boundaries of Google Cloud. You need to allow sub-b to access the external repository. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company is planning to migrate their Windows Server 2022 from their on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You need to bring the licenses that are currently in use in on-premises virtual machines into the target cloud environment. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are deploying an application to Google Cloud. The application is part of a system. The application in Google Cloud must communicate over a private network with applications in a non-Google Cloud environment. The expected average throughput is 200 kbps. The business requires:• 99.99% system availability• cost optimizationYou need to design the connectivity between the locations to meet the business requirements. What should you provision?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company wants to migrate their 10-TB on-premises database export into Cloud Storage. You want to minimize the time it takes to complete this activity and the overall cost. The bandwidth between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud is 1 Gbps. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are working at a financial institution that stores mortgage loan approval documents on Cloud Storage. Any change to these approval documents must be uploaded as a separate approval file. You need to ensure that these documents cannot be deleted or overwritten for the next 5 years. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company has decided to make a major revision of their API in order to create better experiences for their developers. They need to keep the old version of the API available and deployable, while allowing new customers and testers to try out the new API. They want to keep the same SSL and DNS records in place to serve both APIs.What should they do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud Monitoring agent and configured the autoscaling policy as follows:You observe that the application does not scale under high load. You want to resolve this. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigOuery for data warehousing. The VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud is configured with Cloud VPN. Your security team wants to avoid data exfiltration by malicious insiders, compromised code, and accidental oversharing. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are managing a few hundred Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines running on Google Compute Engine (GCE). You need to patch the operating systems for those VMs periodically in a secure and scalable way. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company uses Salesforce for customer relationship management (CRM). ServiceNow for IT service management, and a Cloud SQL database to store customer transaction data You need to seamlessly connect, map. and transform data between these systems to ensure data consistency and enable real-time reporting. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are designing the architecture for a global social media site on Google Cloud. The site serves dynamic API content, static assets such as CSS. JS. images, and user-uploaded videos for streaming. You need to minimize latency for all content types for users worldwide. What should you do? (Choose two.) E. Use a multi-region Cloud Storage bucket to serve your entire web application.

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are creating a migration plan to move your organization’s infrastructure from on-premises to Google Cloud. You want to understand and manage costs effectively after the migration is complete. Which strategies should you include in the migration plan? (Choose two.) E. Adopt infrastructure as code (IaC) for the cloud resources.

Google's Professional Cloud Architect A Cloud Run service running your serverless application is unable to connect to an AlloyDB database created with default configurations. You need to troubleshoot and resolve the issue as quickly as possible. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your company is building containerized applications as part of their CI/CD pipeline. To improve the security and maintainability of the build process, you need to:• Identify potential vulnerabilities within your container images.• Generate verifiable metadata about the builds for auditing and compliance.• Create a comprehensive inventory of your application’s dependenciesWhat should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your team is running applications on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with a private endpoint. You've set up a Cloud Deploy pipeline, but deployments to the GKE cluster are failing. You need to resolve the issue. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are planning to migrate your on-premises compute and SAP workloads to Google Cloud. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to quickly create a cost estimate for running these workloads in Google Cloud. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect Your organization has a significant amount of log data stored in Cloud Logging. The data engineering team is accustomed to using SQL for analysis and wants the ability to create insightful dashboards for visualizing log trends and patterns. You want to follow the recommendations of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework to provide a solution for the data engineering team. What should you do?

Google's Professional Cloud Architect You are designing the storage architecture for a financial analytics platform. The platform ingests and stores terabytes of transactional data daily, which is used for both real-time fraud detection and long-term historical analysis. Transaction data from the last 30 days must be accessible with very low latency for the fraud detection engine. Data older than 30 days is accessed infrequently for quarterly reports, where retrieval times of a few seconds are acceptable. All data must be retained for five years to meet compliance regulations. You need to design a solution as cost-effective as possible. What should you do?