Exam 12: Professional Cloud Architect on Google Cloud Platform

You have created several pre-emptible Linux virtual machine instances using Google Compute Engine. You want to properly shut down your application before the virtual machines are preempted. What should you do?

You are helping the QA team to roll out a new load-testing tool to test the scalability of your primary cloud services that run on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Bigtable. Which three requirements should they include? Choose 3 answers.

You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database back-end. You want to store the credentials securely. Where should you store the credentials?

Which of the following is not helpful for mitigating the impact of an unexpected failure or reboot?

Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a specific database at regular intervals. The backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible and cannot be allowed to impact disk performance. How should you configure the storage?

Which of the following is not a best practice for mitigating Denial of Service attacks on your Google Cloud infrastructure?

Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on Google Cloud Platform. Each tier (web, API, and database) scales independently of the others. Network traffic should flow through the web to the API tier and then on to the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier. How should you configure the network?

To ensure that your application will handle the load even if an entire zone fails, what should you do?

A small number of API requests to your microservices-based application take a very long time. You know that each request to the API can traverse many services. You want to know which service takes the longest in those cases. What should you do?

Your solution is producing performance bugs in production that you did not see in staging and test environments. You want to adjust your test and deployment procedures to avoid this problem in the future. What should you do?

Which of the following practices can help you develop more secure software? (Select 3 answers.)

To set up a virtual private network between your office network and Google Cloud Platform and have the routes automatically updated when the network topology changes, what is the minimal number of each type of component you need to implement?

How are subnetworks different than the legacy networks?

You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your infrastructure in instance groups for self-healing. One of the changes negatively affects your key performance indicator. You are not sure how to fix it, and investigation could take up to a week. What should you do?

Which Google Cloud Platform service requires the least management because it takes care of the underlying infrastructure for you?

Which of the following services provides real-time messaging?

Which of these is not a principle you should apply when setting roles and permissions?

You want to enable your running Google Kubernetes Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application changes. What should you do?

During a high traffic portion of the day, one of your relational databases crashes, but the replica is never promoted to a master. You want to avoid this in the future. What should you do?

Which of the following is not an IAM best practice?