Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect - Full Practice Exam 1

1. A business event must independently reach billing, analytics, and customer-notification consumers. Which approach best fits?
2. A CI workload runs outside Google Cloud and can present a trusted repository identity token. It must deploy only one approved project without storing long-lived Google credentials. Which two design choices meet these requirements? Select 2 answers.
3. A client retries a payment request after a network timeout. The server must avoid charging twice for the same logical operation. Which approach best fits?
4. A Cloud Run service sees latency from cold starts after quiet periods. The team accepts additional standing cost to keep capacity warm. Which approach best fits?
5. A company plans hybrid connectivity to several sites whose address ranges are known. It wants to avoid translation and ambiguous routing. Which approach best fits?
6. A company wants common IAM grants for every production project while keeping development grants separate. Projects already belong to one organization. Which approach best fits?
7. A compliance team needs administrative activity evidence showing the principal, resource, and time of supported Google Cloud changes. Which approach best fits?
8. A continuously used, predictable compute baseline is expected for the next year. Finance accepts a usage commitment in exchange for a discount. Which approach best fits?
9. A custom business role requires a stable set of supported permissions not covered narrowly by an existing predefined role. Which approach best fits?
10. A deployment needs more regional CPU quota than the project currently allows. The selected machine type and region are otherwise suitable. Which approach best fits?
11. A developer wants fast checks for a pure calculation function without depending on deployed databases or network services. Which approach best fits?
12. A financial system requires relational transactions, strong consistency, and horizontal database scaling across regions. Which approach best fits?
13. A GKE workload's Pods cannot be scheduled because existing nodes lack capacity. More identical nodes can satisfy the requests. Which approach best fits?
14. A Kubernetes application needs more replicas as CPU demand per Pod rises. Nodes already have spare capacity. Which approach best fits?
15. A legacy application requires an NFS-mounted shared file system that several Compute Engine VMs can access concurrently. Which approach best fits?
16. A managed workflow needs to invoke several APIs in sequence, branch on results, and retry a failed step with defined logic. Which approach best fits?
17. A mobile application needs a document data model, client SDK integration, and real-time listeners for application records. Which approach best fits?
18. A new Cloud Run revision must receive only 5% of requests while the stable revision keeps the rest, with rapid reversal if errors rise. Which approach best fits?
19. A new dependency may fail during peak demand. The team wants evidence that graceful degradation works before a real incident. Which approach best fits?
20. A policy requires the organization to control encryption-key lifecycle for a supported cloud data service. Which approach best fits?
21. A private VM needs outbound internet access for updates while remaining without an external IP address. Unsolicited inbound internet access is unnecessary. Which approach best fits?
22. A producer should publish work without waiting for each consumer to process it, and consumers should scale independently. Which approach best fits?
23. A public web application needs HTTP host- and path-based routing across backends. The load balancer must understand application-layer request attributes. Which approach best fits?
24. A release introduces a schema change while old and new application versions will temporarily run together. Which approach best fits?
25. A release may exceed backend capacity under expected peak traffic. The team needs evidence before increasing rollout traffic. Which approach best fits?
26. A security policy requires deployable images to be stored in a controlled repository with repository-level access permissions. Which approach best fits?
27. A software team needs automated source-triggered builds and tests that produce versioned deployment artifacts. Which approach best fits?
28. A stateless HTTP container must scale with incoming requests. The team wants minimal server administration and does not require Kubernetes APIs. Which approach best fits?
29. A team measures successful requests as a percentage and needs a name for the actual measured service behavior. Which approach best fits?
30. A team needs managed delivery progression through staging and production with approval gates and rollout tracking. Which approach best fits?
31. A team needs notification as actual or forecast spending approaches its monthly budget. It does not want resources automatically shut down. Which approach best fits?
32. A team wants 99.9% of valid requests to succeed over a rolling month. It needs to document that internal reliability target. Which approach best fits?
33. A telemetry service performs enormous volumes of low-latency key-based reads and writes. Its wide-column data model does not require relational joins. Which approach best fits?
34. After an outage, leaders want to learn which technical and process conditions enabled the failure without discouraging honest reporting. Which approach best fits?
35. An application already has an IAM role but a request is blocked by a matching applicable deny policy. Adding another allow binding did not help. Which approach best fits?
36. An application has elevated request latency across several services. The team needs to locate the slow dependency and inspect the detailed events for the same requests. Which two telemetry practices are most useful? Select 2 answers.
37. An application needs to balance TCP traffic while preserving the original client source IP at the backend, without HTTP routing features. Which approach best fits?
38. An application needs versioned database passwords with controlled access, rather than keeping plaintext credentials in source code. Which approach best fits?
39. An event consumer may receive the same event more than once and must avoid duplicate database updates. Which approach best fits?
40. An existing PostgreSQL transactional application needs a managed database with minimal engine changes. It does not need worldwide horizontal relational scaling. Which approach best fits?
41. An internet-facing web application needs HTTP-layer protection against common injection attacks and abusive request patterns at its supported load balancer. Which approach best fits?
42. CedarHealth already has hybrid connectivity. On-premises systems must call supported Google APIs using an endpoint from its own RFC 1918 address space. Which design fits?
43. CedarHealth has completed an initial database copy while the source continues receiving writes. The target is not yet serving users. Which evidence is needed before cutover?
44. CedarHealth is moving a legacy clinical application with many undocumented database and network dependencies. Downtime tolerance is low. What should guide the migration sequence?
45. CedarHealth must keep patient data and recovery copies in approved locations. It is choosing managed databases and analytics services. What should the architect do before finalizing placement?
46. CedarHealth requires control over encryption keys for a supported managed data service. It also needs recovery copies to remain usable. Which key-management plan is appropriate?
47. Frequently read objects need low access latency and no cold-storage minimum-duration economics. Which Cloud Storage class best fits?
48. HarborCart hosts multiple merchants in one reporting platform. Each merchant must see only its own records, even if it modifies browser requests. Where should the authorization boundary be enforced?
49. HarborCart is expanding its checkout platform across continents. Orders require relational transactions and strong consistency; projected growth exceeds a single-primary design. Which database architecture best matches?
50. HarborCart packages its stateless catalog API as an HTTP container. Demand varies sharply, and its small team wants managed scaling without Kubernetes-specific controls. Which runtime is the best initial fit?
51. HarborCart promises an internal checkout-success objective. Feature launches should slow when reliability consumes the agreed allowance. Which operational mechanism best connects releases to that objective?
52. HarborCart wants teams accountable for cloud cost. Finance needs detailed recurring allocation by project and business unit, with queryable historical records. Which approach fits?
53. Product and operations need a policy for balancing feature launches against unreliability. Releases should slow when the agreed allowance is exhausted. Which approach best fits?
54. Ridgefield deploys separate telemetry-ingestion and reporting services. Ingestion may write raw events; reporting may read approved aggregates only. Which identity design is appropriate?
55. Ridgefield is releasing a new ingestion container that can affect downstream data quality. It wants limited initial exposure and rapid reversal while preserving compatibility. Which delivery strategy fits?
56. Ridgefield needs encrypted hybrid connectivity over the internet and resilience to a supported single-path failure. Which design should it evaluate?
57. Ridgefield needs minute-level aggregates from sensor events. Events may arrive out of order, and analytics consumers should not block the producers. Which architecture best fits?
58. Ridgefield operates a large sensor fleet. It needs low-latency key-based reads and writes over time-series data, with no relational joins. Which data-store choice and design are most suitable?
59. Several applications depend on Kubernetes custom resources and admission policies. The team wants a managed Kubernetes control plane. Which approach best fits?
60. Two VPC networks with non-overlapping address ranges need direct private connectivity. No transitive routing through either VPC is required. Which approach best fits?

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