Question 1

You have been asked to set up Object Lifecycle Management for objects stored in storage buckets. The objects are written once and accessed frequently for 30 days. After 30 days, the objects are not read again unless there is a special need. The objects should be kept for three years, and you need to minimize cost. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Set up a policy that uses Nearline storage for 30 days and then moves to Archive storage for three years. 
B)  Set up a policy that uses Standard storage for 30 days and then moves to Archive storage for three years. 
C)  Set up a policy that uses Nearline storage for 30 days, then moves the Coldline for one year, and then moves to Archive storage for two years. 
D)  Set up a policy that uses Standard storage for 30 days, then moves to Coldline for one year, and then moves to Archive storage for two years.

Question 2

Your company implemented BigQuery as an enterprise data warehouse. Users from multiple business units run queries on this data warehouse. However, you notice that query costs for BigQuery are very high, and you need to control costs. Which two methods should you use? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Split the users from business units to multiple projects. 
B)  Apply a user- or project-level custom query quota for BigQuery data warehouse. 
C)  Create separate copies of your BigQuery data warehouse for each business unit. 
D)  Split your BigQuery data warehouse into multiple data warehouses for each business unit. 
E)  Change your BigQuery query model from on-demand to flat rate. Apply the appropriate number of slots to each Project.

Question 3

You need to enable traffic between multiple groups of Compute Engine instances that are currently running two different GCP projects. Each group of Compute Engine instances is running in its own VPC. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Verify that both projects are in a GCP Organization. Create a new VPC and add all instances. 
B)  Verify that both projects are in a GCP Organization. Share the VPC from one project and request that the Compute Engine instances in the other project use this shared VPC. 
C)  Verify that you are the Project Administrator of both projects. Create two new VPCs and add all instances. 
D)  Verify that you are the Project Administrator of both projects. Create a new VPC and add all instances.

Question 4

You need to update a deployment in Deployment Manager without any resource downtime in the deployment. Which command should you use?

Accepted Answer

A) gcloud deployment-manager deployments create --config B) gcloud deployment-manager deployments update --config C) gcloud deployment-manager resources create --config D) gcloud deployment-manager resources update --config

Question 5

Several employees at your company have been creating projects with Cloud Platform and paying for it with their personal credit cards, which the company reimburses. The company wants to centralize all these projects under a single, new billing account. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Contact cloud-billing@google.com with your bank account details and request a corporate billing account for your company. 
B)  Create a ticket with Google Support and wait for their call to share your credit card details over the phone. 
C)  In the Google Platform Console, go to the Resource Manage and move all projects to the root Organizarion. 
D)  In the Google Cloud Platform Console, create a new billing account and set up a payment method.

Question 6

You are building an archival solution for your data warehouse and have selected Cloud Storage to archive your data. Your users need to be able to access this archived data once a quarter for some regulatory requirements. You want to select a cost-efficient option. Which storage option should you use?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cold Storage 
B)  Nearline Storage 
C)  Regional Storage 
D)  Multi-Regional Storage

Question 7

You have an application on a general-purpose Compute Engine instance that is experiencing excessive disk read throttling on its Zonal SSD Persistent Disk. The application primarily reads large files from disk. The disk size is currently 350 GB. You want to provide the maximum amount of throughput while minimizing costs. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Increase the size of the disk to 1 TB. 
B)  Increase the allocated CPU to the instance. 
C)  Migrate to use a Local SSD on the instance. 
D)  Migrate to use a Regional SSD on the instance.

Question 8

You are using Container Registry to centrally store your company's container images in a separate project. In another project, you want to create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You want to ensure that Kubernetes can download images from Container Registry. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  In the project where the images are stored, grant the Storage Object Viewer IAM role to the service account used by the Kubernetes nodes. 
B)  When you create the GKE cluster, choose the Allow full access to all Cloud APIs option under 'Access scopes'. When you create the GKE cluster, choose the Allow full access to all Cloud APIs option under 'Access scopes'. 
C)  Create a service account, and give it access to Cloud Storage. Create a P12 key for this service account and use it as an imagePullSecrets in Kubernetes. 
D)  Configure the ACLs on each image in Cloud Storage to give read-only access to the default Compute Engine service account.

Question 9

You create a Deployment with 2 replicas in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster that has a single preemptible node pool. After a few minutes, you use kubectl to examine the status of your Pod and observe that one of them is still in Pending status:  What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

A)  The pending Pod's resource requests are too large to fit on a single node of the cluster. 
B)  Too many Pods are already running in the cluster, and there are not enough resources left to schedule the pending Pod. 
C)  The node pool is configured with a service account that does not have permission to pull the container image used by the pending Pod. 
D)  The pending Pod was originally scheduled on a node that has been preempted between the creation of the Deployment and your verification of the Pods' status. It is currently being rescheduled on a new node.

Question 10

You need to set a budget alert for use of Compute Engineer services on one of the three Google Cloud Platform projects that you manage. All three projects are linked to a single billing account. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and alert for the appropriate project. 
B)  Verify that you are the project billing administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert. 
C)  Verify that you are the project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget for the appropriate project. 
D)  Verify that you are project administrator. Select the associated billing account and create a budget and a custom alert.

Question 11

Your company has workloads running on Compute Engine and on-premises. The Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is connected to your WAN over a Virtual Private Network (VPN). You need to deploy a new Compute Engine instance and ensure that no public Internet traffic can be routed to it. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Create the instance without a public IP address. 
B)  Create the instance with Private Google Access enabled. 
C)  Create a deny-all egress firewall rule on the VPC network. 
D)  Create a route on the VPC to route all traffic to the instance over the VPN tunnel.

Question 12

Your existing application running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) consists of multiple pods running on four GKE n1-standard-2 nodes. You need to deploy additional pods requiring n2-highmem-16 nodes without any downtime. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Use gcloud container clusters upgrade. Deploy the new services. 
B)  Create a new Node Pool and specify machine type n2-highmem-16. Deploy the new pods. 
C)  Create a new cluster with n2-highmem-16 nodes. Redeploy the pods and delete the old cluster. 
D)  Create a new cluster with both n1-standard-2 and n2-highmem-16 nodes. Redeploy the pods and delete the old cluster.

Question 13

Your company uses Cloud Storage to store application backup files for disaster recovery purposes. You want to follow Google's recommended practices. Which storage option should you use?

Accepted Answer

A)  Multi-Regional Storage 
B)  Regional Storage 
C)  Nearline Storage 
D)  Coldline Storage

Question 14

A Solutions Architect must select the storage type for a big data application that requires very high sequential I/O. The data must persist if the instance is stopped. Which of the following storage types will provide the best fit at the LOWEST cost for the application?

Accepted Answer

A)  An Amazon EC2 instance store local SSD volume. 
B)  An Amazon EBS provisioned IOPS SSD volume. 
C)  An Amazon EBS throughput optimized HDD volume. 
D)  An Amazon EBS general purpose SSD volume.

Question 15

You want to select and configure a cost-effective solution for relational data on Google Cloud Platform. You are working with a small set of operational data in one geographic location. You need to support point-in-time recovery. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Verify that the enable binary logging option is selected. Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Verify that the enable binary logging option is selected. 
B)  Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Select the create failover replicas option. Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Select the create failover replicas option. 
C)  Select Cloud Spanner. Set up your instance with 2 nodes. 
D)  Select Cloud Spanner. Set up your instance as multi-regional.

Question 16

You are setting up a Windows VM on Compute Engine and want to make sure you can log in to the VM via RDP. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  After the VM has been created, use your Google Account credentials to log in into the VM. 
B)  After the VM has been created, use gcloud compute reset-windows-password to retrieve the login credentials for the VM. After the VM has been created, use gcloud compute reset-windows-password to retrieve the login credentials for the VM. 
C)  When creating the VM, add metadata to the instance using 'windows-password' as the key and a password as the value. 
D)  After the VM has been created, download the JSON private key for the default Compute Engine service account. Use the credentials in the JSON file to log in to the VM.

Question 17

After reviewing their logs, a startup company noticed large, random spikes in traffic to their web application. The company wants to configure a cost-efficient Auto Scaling solution to support high availability of the web application. Which scaling plan should a Solutions Architect recommend to meet the company's needs?

Accepted Answer

A)  Dynamic 
B)  Scheduled 
C)  Manual 
D)  Lifecycle

Question 18

A Solutions Architect needs to design a centralized logging solution for a group of web applications running on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution requires minimal development effort due to budget constraints. Which of the following should the Architect recommend?

Accepted Answer

A)  Create a crontab job script in each instance to push the logs regularly to Amazon S3. 
B)  Install and configure Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent in the Amazon EC2 instances. 
C)  Enable Amazon CloudWatch Events in the AWS Management Console. 
D)  Enable AWS CloudTrail to map all API calls invoked by the applications.

Question 19

You have a web application deployed as a managed instance group. You have a new version of the application to gradually deploy. Your web application is currently receiving live web traffic. You want to ensure that the available capacity does not decrease during the deployment. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 0 and maxUnavailable set to 1. Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 0 and maxUnavailable set to 1. 
B)  Perform a rolling-action start-update with maxSurge set to 1 and maxUnavailable set to 0. set to 1 and set to 0. 
C)  Create a new managed instance group with an updated instance template. Add the group to the backend service for the load balancer. When all instances in the new managed instance group are healthy, delete the old managed instance group. 
D)  Create a new instance template with the new application version. Update the existing managed instance group with the new instance template. Delete the instances in the managed instance group to allow the managed instance group to recreate the instance using the new instance template.

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 8: GSuite