Cloud Engineer Associate Cloud Engineer v1.0 3

Question 1

You are designing a solution requiring global HTTP(S) load balancing with SSL termination and Cloud CDN. Which load balancer type should you use?

Accepted Answer

External Application Load Balancer (Global)

Answer

The External Application Load Balancer in global mode supports HTTPS, SSL termination, and integrates with Cloud CDN at Google's edge.

Question 2

A BigQuery dataset is being queried by analysts in a different project. How should you grant them query access without exposing sensitive columns?

Accepted Answer

Create a view without sensitive columns and grant access to the view

Answer

An authorized view exposes only the columns you choose, providing fine-grained access control without sharing the underlying table.

Question 3

Your application writes logs to stdout inside a container running on GKE. Where do the logs appear by default?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Logging (Logs Explorer)

Answer

GKE automatically captures stdout/stderr from containers and routes them to Cloud Logging via the built-in logging agent.

Question 4

Which Terraform command shows you what changes will be applied without actually making them?

Accepted Answer

terraform plan

Answer

terraform plan generates an execution plan displaying what actions Terraform will take without modifying any infrastructure.

Question 5

You need to migrate a 10 TB on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL with minimal downtime. Which approach is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Use Database Migration Service with continuous replication then cut over

Answer

Database Migration Service supports continuous replication, allowing the on-premises database to stay live until you choose to cut over.

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