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Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer - Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer

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You need a dynamic way of provisioning VMs on Compute Engine. The exact specifications will be in a dedicated configuration file. You want to follow Google’s recommended practices. Which method should you use?

A.

Deployment Manager

B.

Cloud Composer

C.

Managed Instance Group

D.

Unmanaged Instance Group

You need to migrate invoice documents stored on-premises to Cloud Storage. The documents have the following storage requirements:

• Documents must be kept for five years.

• Up to five revisions of the same invoice document must be stored, to allow for corrections.

• Documents older than 365 days should be moved to lower cost storage tiers.

You want to follow Google-recommended practices to minimize your operational and development costs. What should you do?

A.

Enable retention policies on the bucket, and use Cloud Scheduler to invoke a Cloud Function to move or delete your documents based on their metadata.

B.

Enable retention policies on the bucket, use lifecycle rules to change the storage classes of the objects, set the number of versions, and delete old files.

C.

Enable object versioning on the bucket, and use Cloud Scheduler to invoke a Cloud Functions instance to move or delete your documents based on their metadata.

D.

Enable object versioning on the bucket, use lifecycle conditions to change the storage class of the objects, set the number of versions, and delete old files.

Your company is running a critical workload on a single Compute Engine VM instance. Your company's disaster recovery policies require you to backup the entire instance's disk data every day. The backups must be retained for 7 days. You must configure a backup solution that complies with your company's security policies and requires minimal setup and configuration. What should you do?

A.

Configure the instance to use persistent disk asynchronous replication.

B.

Configure daily scheduled persistent disk snapshots with a retention period of 7 days.

C.

Configure Cloud Scheduler to trigger a Cloud Function each day that creates a new machine image and deletes machine images that are older than 7 days.

D.

Configure a bash script using gsutil to run daily through a cron job. Copy the disk's files to a Cloud Storage bucket with archive storage class and an object lifecycle rule to delete the objects after 7 days.

You have a developer laptop with the Cloud SDK installed on Ubuntu. The Cloud SDK was installed from the Google Cloud Ubuntu package repository. You want to test your application locally on your laptop with Cloud Datastore. What should you do?

A.

Export Cloud Datastore data using gcloud datastore export.

B.

Create a Cloud Datastore index using gcloud datastore indexes create.

C.

Install the google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator component using the apt get install command.

D.

Install the cloud-datastore-emulator component using the gcloud components install command.

You need to create a new billing account and then link it with an existing Google Cloud Platform project. What should you do?

A.

Verify that you are Project Billing Manager for the GCP project. Update the existing project to link it to the existing billing account.

B.

Verify that you are Project Billing Manager for the GCP project. Create a new billing account and link the new billing account to the existing project.

C.

Verify that you are Billing Administrator for the billing account. Create a new project and link the new project to the existing billing account.

D.

Verify that you are Billing Administrator for the billing account. Update the existing project to link it to the existing billing account.

You have a Compute Engine instance hosting an application used between 9 AM and 6 PM on weekdays. You want to back up this instance daily for disaster recovery purposes. You want to keep the backups for 30 days. You want the Google-recommended solution with the least management overhead and the least number of services. What should you do?

A.

1. Update your instances’ metadata to add the following value: snapshot–schedule: 0 1 * * *2. Update your instances’ metadata to add the following value: snapshot–retention: 30

B.

1. In the Cloud Console, go to the Compute Engine Disks page and select your instance’s disk.2. In the Snapshot Schedule section, select Create Schedule and configure the following parameters:–Schedule frequency: Daily–Start time: 1:00 AM – 2:00 AM–Autodelete snapshots after 30 days

C.

1. Create a Cloud Function that creates a snapshot of your instance’s disk.2.Create a Cloud Function that deletes snapshots that are older than 30 days.3.Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger both Cloud Functions daily at 1:00 AM.

D.

1. Create a bash script in the instance that copies the content of the disk to Cloud Storage.2.Create a bash script in the instance that deletes data older than 30 days in the backup Cloud Storage bucket.3.Configure the instance’s crontab to execute these scripts daily at 1:00 AM.

You will have several applications running on different Compute Engine instances in the same project. You want to specify at a more granular level the service account each instance uses when calling Google Cloud APIs. What should you do?

A.

When creating the instances, specify a Service Account for each instance

B.

When creating the instances, assign the name of each Service Account as instance metadata

C.

After starting the instances, use gcloud compute instances update to specify a Service Account for each instance

D.

After starting the instances, use gcloud compute instances update to assign the name of the relevant Service Account as instance metadata

You created an instance of SQL Server 2017 on Compute Engine to test features in the new version. You want to connect to this instance using the fewest number of steps. What should you do?

A.

Install a RDP client on your desktop. Verify that a firewall rule for port 3389 exists.

B.

Install a RDP client in your desktop. Set a Windows username and password in the GCP Console. Use the credentials to log in to the instance.

C.

Set a Windows password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port 22 exists. Click the RDP button in the GCP Console and supply the credentials to log in.

D.

Set a Windows username and password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port 3389 exists. Click the RDP button in the GCP Console, and supply the credentials to log in.

Your web application is hosted on Cloud Run and needs to query a Cloud SOL database. Every morning during a traffic spike, you notice API quota errors in Cloud SOL logs. The project has already reached the maximum API quota. You want to make a configuration change to mitigate the issue. What should you do?

A.

Modify the minimum number of Cloud Run instances.

B.

Set a minimum concurrent requests environment variable for the application.

C.

Modify the maximum number of Cloud Run instances.

D.

Use traffic splitting.

(You are deploying a web application using Compute Engine. You created a managed instance group (MIG) to host the application. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to implement a secure and highly available solution. What should you do?)

A.

Use a proxy Network Load Balancer for the MIG and an A record in your DNS private zone with the load balancer's IP address.

B.

Use a proxy Network Load Balancer for the MIG and a CNAME record in your DNS public zone with the load balancer's IP address.

C.

Use an Application Load Balancer for the MIG and a CNAME record in your DNS private zone with the load balancer's IP address.

D.

Use an Application Load Balancer for the MIG and an A record in your DNS public zone with the load balancer's IP address.