Professional-Cloud-Architect Practice Test

Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs being
run on your local datacenter You want to utilize the cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the least amount of operations work and code change. Which product should you use?

A.

Google Cloud Dataflow

B.

Google Cloud Dataproc

C.

Google Compute Engine

D.

Google Container Engine

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

A.

Add additional nodes to your Container Engine cluster using the following command:
gcloud container clusters resize CLUSTER_NAME --size 10

B.

Add a tag to the instances in the cluster with the following command:
gcloud compute instances add-tags INSTANCE --tags enable --autoscaling max-nodes-10

C.

Update the existing Container Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster --enable-autoscaling --min-nodes=1 --max-nodes=10

D.

Create a new Container Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster --enable-autocaling --min-nodes=1 --max-nodes=10
and redeploy your application.

Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants
detailed visibility of all projects in the organization. You provision the Google Cloud Resource Manager and set up yourself as the org admin. What Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security team'?

A.

Org viewer, project owner

B.

Org viewer, project viewer

C.

Org admin, project browser

D.

Project owner, network admin

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?

A.

Configure a cron job to use the gcloud tool to take regular backups using persistent disk snapshots.

B.

Mount a Local SSD volume as the backup location. After the backup is complete, use gsutil to move the
backup to Google Cloud Storage.

C.

Use gcsfuse to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a volume directly on the instance and write
backups to the mounted location using mysqldump

D.

Mount additional persistent disk volumes onto each virtual machine (VM) instance in a RAID10 array
and use LVM to create snapshots to send to Cloud Storage.

Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform from an on-premises
data center. The business owners require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team requirements
for storing passwords. What authentication strategy should they use?

A.

Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google.

B.

Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider.
Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool.

C.

Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool.

D.

Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password.