Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam (Associate-Cloud-Engineer) Free Practice Test

Question 1

You have been asked to migrate a docker application from datacenter to cloud. Your solution architect has suggested uploading docker images to GCR in one project and running an application in a GKE cluster in a separate project. You want to store images in the project img-
278322 and run the application in the project prod-278986. You want to tag the image as acme_track_n_trace:v1. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/img-278322/acme_track_n_trace

B. Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/prod-278986/acme_track_n_trace:v1

C. Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/img-278322/acme_track_n_trace:v1

D. Run gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/prod-278986/acme_track_n_trace

Correct Answer: C

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Question 2

As a cloud engineer, you have been asked to upgrade the free trial of your account and rename it to a production-inventory system. You are getting permission denied error while making the changes. Which of the following permissions will solve the problem?

A. Billing.accounts.upgrade

B. Billing.account.update

C. Billing.accounts.update

D. Billing.account.upgrade

Correct Answer: C

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Question 3

Your customer has implemented a solution that uses Cloud Spanner and notices some read latency-related performance issues on one table. This table is accessed only by their users using a primary key. The table schema is shown below.

You want to resolve the issue. What should you do?

A. Change the primary key to not have monotonically increasing values.

B. Create a secondary index using the following Data Definition Language (DDL):

C. Remove the profile_picture field from the table.

D. Add a secondary index on the person_id column.

Correct Answer: A

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Question 4

You want to configure a solution for archiving data in a Cloud Storage bucket. The solution must be cost- effective. Data with multiple versions should be archived after 30 days. Previous versions are accessed once a month for reporting. This archive data is also occasionally updated at month-end. What should you do?

A. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data from regional storage after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

B. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Nearline Storage.

C. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data with newer versions after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

D. Add a bucket lifecycle rule that archives data from regional storage after 30 days to Coldline Storage.

Correct Answer: B

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Question 5

Your company developed a mobile game that is deployed on Google Cloud. Gamers are connecting to the game with their personal phones over the Internet. The game sends UDP packets to update the servers about the gamers' actions while they are playing in multiplayer mode. Your game backend can scale over multiple virtual machines (VMs), and you want to expose the VMs over a single IP address. What should you do?

A. Configure an External HTTP(s) load balancer in front of the application servers.

B. Configure an External Network load balancer in front of the application servers.

C. Configure an Internal UDP load balancer in front of the application servers.

D. Configure an SSL Proxy load balancer in front of the application servers.

Correct Answer: B

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Question 6

You need to deploy an application in Google Cloud using serverless technology. You want to test a new version of the application with a small percentage of production traffic. What should you do?

A. Deploy the application to Cloud Run. Use gradual rollouts for traffic splitting.

B. Deploy the application to Google Kubernetes Engine. Use Anthos Service Mash for traffic splitting.

C. Deploy the application to Cloud Functions. Specify the version number in the functions name.

D. Deploy the application to App Engine. For each new version, create a new service.

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

You used the gcloud container clusters command to create two Google Cloud Kubernetes (GKE) clusters: prod-cluster and dev-cluster.
- prod-cluster is a standard cluster.
- dev-cluster is an auto-pilot cluster.
When you run the kubectl get nodes command, you only see the nodes from prod-cluster. Which commands should you run to check the node status for dev-cluster?

A. gcloud container clusters update -generate-password dev-cluster kubectl get nodes

B. kubectl config set-context dev-cluster
kubectl cluster-info

C. kubectl config set-credentials dev-cluster
kubectl cluster-info

D. gcloud container clusters get-credentials dev-cluster
kubectl get nodes

Correct Answer: D

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Question 8

Your company has a mission-critical application that serves users globally. You need to select a transactional, relational data storage system for this application. Which two products should you consider?

A. BigQuery

B. Cloud Bigtable

C. Cloud Datastore

D. Cloud Spanner

E. Cloud SQL

Correct Answer: D,E

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Question 9

You have a website hosted on App Engine standard environment. You want 1% of your users to see a new test version of the website. You want to minimize complexity. What should you do?

A. Deploy the new version in the same application and use the --splits option to give a weight of 99 to the current version and a weight of 1 to the new version.

B. Deploy the new version in the same application and use the --migrate option.

C. Create a new App Engine application in the same project. Deploy the new version in that application.
Configure your network load balancer to send 1% of the traffic to that new application.

D. Create a new App Engine application in the same project. Deploy the new version in that application.
Use the App Engine library to proxy 1% of the requests to the new version.

Correct Answer: A

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