Google Associate Cloud Engineer practice questions
209 free questions with answers and explanations.
- 201.A media company needs to store petabytes of archival video footage. This data is rarely accessed (less than once a year) but must be retained for regulatory compliance for decades. When access is required, retrieval times of several hours are acceptable. Which Cloud Storage class is the most cost-effective for this scenario?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 202.A startup is deploying a new IoT platform that will ingest millions of small, high-throughput sensor readings per second. These readings need to be stored with very low latency for real-time dashboards and anomaly detection. The data is key-value based, non-relational, and will grow to petabytes over time. Which Google Cloud database is best suited for this workload?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 203.A development team is building a new microservices-based application using containers. Each microservice will have varying resource requirements and traffic patterns. The team wants to focus on writing code and minimize operational overhead for managing the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure, including node provisioning, scaling, and upgrades. Which Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) mode should they choose?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 204.A global e-commerce company needs to ensure that their web application, hosted on Compute Engine, maintains high availability and low latency for users across multiple continents. They anticipate frequent traffic spikes and require automatic scaling. Which Google Cloud networking product should they use to meet these requirements?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 205.A data analytics team needs to process large datasets (tens of terabytes) using SQL queries for business intelligence reporting. The data is structured and requires transactional consistency, but the primary use case is analytical querying, not high-volume transactional writes. They need a fully managed, serverless service that can scale to petabytes if needed. Which Google Cloud data storage option is most suitable?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 206.A financial institution is migrating its highly regulated on-premises applications to Google Cloud. They require a private, dedicated, and highly secure network connection between their data center and Google Cloud, with guaranteed bandwidth and minimal latency. The connection must support thousands of VLANs and provide a 99.99% availability SLA. Which Google Cloud networking product best fits these requirements?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 207.A global media company is planning to deploy a new video streaming platform on Google Cloud. They expect millions of users worldwide and need to deliver video content with the lowest possible latency and high throughput. The platform should offload static content delivery from the main application servers. Which Google Cloud networking product should they use to achieve these goals?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 208.A research institution needs to process a massive amount of genomic data (petabytes) for a single, large-scale scientific simulation. The simulation is fault-tolerant and can recover from interruptions. The institution wants to minimize compute costs as much as possible, and the job can run for several days. Which Compute Engine VM type is the most cost-effective for this scenario?Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 209.A cloud engineer needs to set up their local development environment to interact with Google Cloud using the `gcloud` CLI. They have already installed the Cloud SDK. What is the next essential step to authenticate their `gcloud` CLI and link it to their Google Cloud account?Setting up a cloud solution environment