Cloud Engineer Associate Cloud Engineer v1.0 5

Question 1

You are setting up monitoring for a multi-project GCP environment and want a single pane of glass. What should you create?

Accepted Answer

A Cloud Monitoring scoping project that aggregates metrics from all member projects

Answer

A Cloud Monitoring scoping project allows you to view and alert on metrics from multiple GCP projects in a single workspace.

Question 2

A Compute Engine VM is unresponsive and you cannot SSH into it. Which action lets you troubleshoot the VM's serial console output?

Accepted Answer

View the serial port output in the Cloud Console or via gcloud compute instances get-serial-port-output

Answer

The serial port output captures boot logs and kernel messages that are available even when SSH is not accessible.

Question 3

Which Cloud Storage storage class should you use for data that is accessed less than once a year and must have the lowest storage cost?

Accepted Answer

Archive

Answer

Archive storage has the lowest per-GB cost and is designed for data accessed less than once a year, with higher retrieval costs.

Question 4

You need to ensure that all new VM instances in your organization use only approved OS images. Which policy should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Organization policy constraint constraints/compute.trustedImageProjects

Answer

The trustedImageProjects organization policy constraint restricts VM creation to images from specified approved projects.

Question 5

A developer accidentally deleted a Cloud Storage object. The bucket has versioning enabled. How do you restore the deleted object?

Accepted Answer

Copy the noncurrent version back to the live version using gsutil or gcloud storage

Answer

With versioning enabled, deleting an object creates a delete marker; you can restore it by copying the noncurrent version back as the live object.

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