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Cloud Engineer: Google Associate Flashcards

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  1. You need to run a batch job that processes data for 2 hours and can tolerate interruption. Which Compute Engine option minimizes cost?

    Answer: Spot VM (preemptible)

    Spot VMs (preemptible instances) offer up to 91% discount over on-demand pricing and are ideal for fault-tolerant batch workloads.

  2. A developer needs read-only access to BigQuery datasets in a project but should not be able to create or delete any resources. Which predefined role is most appropriate?

    Answer: roles/bigquery.dataViewer

    roles/bigquery.dataViewer grants read access to datasets and tables without allowing resource creation or deletion.

  3. You want to monitor CPU utilization of all Compute Engine VMs and receive an alert if any instance exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. What should you create in Cloud Monitoring?

    Answer: An alerting policy with a threshold condition

    An alerting policy with a metric threshold condition on compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization triggers notifications when the condition is met.

  4. Which GKE feature automatically adjusts the number of nodes in a cluster based on current workload resource requests?

    Answer: Cluster Autoscaler

    Cluster Autoscaler adds or removes nodes from a node pool based on pending pod resource requests and current utilization.

  5. Your application stores session data in Cloud Memorystore for Redis. After a Redis instance restart, all session data is lost. What should you enable to persist data across restarts?

    Answer: RDB snapshots or AOF persistence

    Enabling RDB persistence or AOF logging in Memorystore for Redis allows data to survive instance restarts.

  6. You need to transfer 500 TB of on-premises data to Google Cloud Storage within 10 days. The available internet bandwidth is 50 Mbps. Which transfer method is most appropriate?

    Answer: Transfer Appliance (physical device)

    At 50 Mbps, transferring 500 TB over the internet would take months; Transfer Appliance ships a physical device to move data offline.

  7. Which Cloud IAM feature allows you to grant temporary access to a resource that expires after a specified time without modifying permanent IAM policies?

    Answer: IAM conditions with a date/time attribute

    IAM conditions can restrict bindings to specific time windows using the `request.time` attribute, effectively creating time-limited access.