ACE — questions

You are in charge of provisioning access for all Google Cloud users in your organization. Your company recently acquired a startup company that has their own Google Cloud organization. You need to ensure that your Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) have the same project permissions in the startup company's organization as in your own organization. What should you do?

You need to extract text from audio files by using the Speech-to-Text API. The audio files are pushed to a Cloud Storage bucket. You need to implement a fully managed, serverless compute solution that requires authentication and aligns with Google-recommended practices. You want to automate the call to the API by submitting each file to the API as the audio file arrives in the bucket. What should you do?

Your customer wants you to create a secure website with autoscaling based on the compute instance CPU load. You want to enhance performance by storing static content in Cloud Storage. Which resources are needed to distribute the user traffic?

The core business of your company is to rent out construction equipment at large scale. All the equipment that is being rented out has been equipped with multiple sensors that send event information every few seconds. These signals can vary from engine status, distance traveled, fuel level, and more. Customers are billed based on the consumption monitored by these sensors. You expect high throughput – up to thousands of events per hour per device – and need to retrieve consistent data based on the time of the event. Storing and retrieving individual signals should be atomic. What should you do?

You just installed the Google Cloud CLI on your new corporate laptop. You need to list the existing instances of your company on Google Cloud. What must you do before you run the gcloud compute instances list command? (Choose two.)

You are planning to migrate your on-premises data to Google Cloud. The data includes: • 200 TB of video files in SAN storage • Data warehouse data stored on Amazon Redshift • 20 GB of PNG files stored on an S3 bucket You need to load the video files into a Cloud Storage bucket, transfer the data warehouse data into BigQuery, and load the PNG files into a second Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and avoid writing any code for the migration. What should you do?

You want to deploy a new containerized application into Google Cloud by using a Kubernetes manifest. You want to have full control over the Kubernetes deployment, and at the same time, you want to minimize configuring infrastructure. What should you do?

Your team is building a website that handles votes from a large user population. The incoming votes will arrive at various rates. You want to optimize the storage and processing of the votes. What should you do?

You are deploying an application on Google Cloud that requires a relational database for storage. To satisfy your company’s security policies, your application must connect to your database through an encrypted and authenticated connection that requires minimal management and integrates with Identity and Access Management (IAM). What should you do?

You have two Google Cloud projects: project-a with VPC vpc-a (10.0.0.0/16) and project-b with VPC vpc-b (10.8.0.0/16). Your frontend application resides in vpc-a and the backend API services are deployed in vpc-b. You need to efficiently and cost-effectively enable communication between these Google Cloud projects. You also want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Your company is running a critical workload on a single Compute Engine VM instance. Your company's disaster recovery policies require you to back up 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?

Your company requires that Google Cloud products are created with a specific configuration to comply with your company’s security policies. You need to implement a mechanism that will allow software engineers at your company to deploy and update Google Cloud products in a preconfigured and approved manner. What should you do?

You are a Google Cloud organization administrator. You need to configure organization policies and log sinks on Google Cloud projects that cannot be removed by project users to comply with your company's security policies. The security policies are different for each company department. Each company department has a user with the Project Owner role assigned to their projects. What should you do?

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?

You have several hundred microservice applications running in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. Each microservice is a deployment with resource limits configured for each container in the deployment. You've observed that the resource limits for memory and CPU are not appropriately set for many of the microservices. You want to ensure that each microservice has right sized limits for memory and CPU. What should you do?

Your company uses BigQuery to store and analyze data. Upon submitting your query in BigQuery, the query fails with a quotaExceeded error. You need to diagnose the issue causing the error. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Your team has developed a stateless application which requires it to be run directly on virtual machines. The application is expected to receive a fluctuating amount of traffic and needs to scale automatically. You need to deploy the application. What should you do?

Your web application is hosted on Cloud Run and needs to query a Cloud SQL database. Every morning during a traffic spike, you notice API quota errors in Cloud SQL 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?

You need to deploy a single stateless web application with a web interface and multiple endpoints. For security reasons, the web application must be reachable from an internal IP address from your company's private VPC and on-premises network. You also need to update the web application multiple times per day with minimal effort and want to manage a minimal amount of cloud infrastructure. What should you do?

You use Cloud Logging to capture application logs. You now need to use SQL to analyze the application logs in Cloud Logging, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?