Associate-Cloud-Engineer Practice Test

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?

A.

Multi-Regional Storage

B.

Regional Storage

C.

Nearline Storage

D.

Coldline Storage

You have a Linux VM that must connect to Cloud SQL. You created a service account with the appropriate access rights. You want to make sure that the VM uses this service account instead of the default Compute Engine service account. What should you do?

A.

When creating the VM via the web console, specify the service account under the ‘Identity and API
Access’ section.

B.

Download a JSON Private Key for the service account. On the Project Metadata, add that JSON as the
value for the key compute-engine-service-account.

C.

Download a JSON Private Key for the service account. On the Custom Metadata of the VM, add that
JSON as the value for the key compute-engine-service-account.

D.

Download a JSON Private Key for the service account. After creating the VM, ssh into the VM and save
the JSON under ~/.gcloud/compute-engine-service-account.json.

You create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and want to make sure that it always runs a
supported and stable version of Kubernetes. What should you do?

A.

Enable the Node Auto-Repair feature for your GKE cluster.

B.

Enable the Node Auto-Upgrades feature for your GKE cluster.

C.

Select the latest available cluster version for your GKE cluster.

D.

Select “Container-Optimized OS (cos)” as a node image for your GKE cluster

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.

You want to configure 10 Compute Engine instances for availability when maintenance occurs. Your
requirements state that these instances should attempt to automatically restart if they crash. Also, the instances should be highly available including during system maintenance. What should you do?

A.

Create an instance template for the instances. Set the ‘Automatic Restart’ to on. Set the ‘On-host
maintenance’ to Migrate VM instance. Add the instance template to an intsance group.

B.

Create an instance templated for the instances. Set ‘Automatic Restart’ to off. Set ‘On-host
maintenance’ to Terminate VM instances. Add the instance template to an instance group.

C.

Create an instance group for the instances. Set the ‘Autohealing’ health check to healthy (HTTP).

D.

Create an instance group for the instance. Verify that the ‘Advanced creation options’ setting for ‘do not
retry machine creation’ is set to off.