FREE Cloud Engineer: Google Associate Questions and Answers

Question 1

You need to move a group of media files totaling more than 50 GB each to Google Cloud Storage.
The documents are located in your on-site data center.
What kind of relocation strategy might you employ to hasten the transfer process?

Accepted Answer

Use parallel uploads to break the file into smaller chunks then transfer it simultaneously

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Use multi-threaded uploads using the -m option

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Start a recursive upload

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Use the Cloud Transfer Service to transfer

Question 2

Your team uses Splunk for centralized logging, and Splunk logs are the basis for many of your reports and dashboards. Splunk Forwarder must be installed on each node of your new Kubernetes Engine autoscaled cluster. The logs are forwarded to a central Splunk server by the Splunk forwarder. You want to reduce administrative costs. What is the most effective strategy to install Splunk Forwarder throughout the cluster's nodes?

Accepted Answer

Include the forwarder agent in a DaemonSet deployment

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Use Deployment Manager to orchestrate the deployment of forwarder agents on all nodes

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SH to each node and run a script to install the forwarder agent

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Include the forwarder agent in a StatefulSet deployment

Question 3

Your team strives to deploy your application to the GKE cluster in the desired state configuration. YAML files represent the Kubernetes deployment and service objects. The replicas parameter in app deployment.yaml specifies that your application is intended to run on two pods. The GKE load balancer is described in the app service. Your service uses YAML.

You created the Kubernetes resources by running
kubectl apply -f app-deployment.yaml
kubectl apply -f app-service.yaml

Although your deployment is now handling live traffic, it has performance problems. You would like to make five more replicas. What should you do to update the replicas in the deployed Kubernetes objects currently in use?

Accepted Answer

Edit the number of replicas in the YAML file and rerun the kubectl apply. kubectl apply -f app-deployment.yaml

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Disregard the YAML file. Enable autoscaling on the deployment to trigger on CPU usage and set max pods to 5. kubectl autoscale myapp --max=5 --cpu-percent=80

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Disregard the YAML file. Use the kubectl scale command to scale the replicas to 5. kubectl scale --replicas=5 -f app-deployment.yaml

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Modify the current configuration of the deployment by using kubectl edit to open the YAML file of the current configuration, modify and save the configuration. kubectl edit deployment/app-deployment -o yaml --save-config

Question 4

Every year, auditors visit your teams and request a review of all the prior year's Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) policy updates. The analysis and auditing processes have to be streamlined and accelerated. What ought you to do?

Accepted Answer

Enable Logging export to Google BigQuery and use ACLs and views to scope the data shared with the auditor

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Create custom Google Stackdriver alerts and send them to the auditor

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Enable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) log export to audit logs into a GCS bucket and delegate access to the bucket

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Use Cloud Functions to transfer log entries to Google Cloud SQL and use ACLs and views to limit an auditor's view

Question 5

A business plans to move its online application to Google App Engine. They would nonetheless keep using their on-site database. How do they configure the application?

Accepted Answer

Setup the application using App Engine Flexible environment with Cloud VPN to connect to database

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Configure the application using the App Engine Standard environment and Cloud VPN to connect to a database.

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Application setup using App Engine Flexible setting for connecting to databases using Cloud Router

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Create the application using the App Engine Standard environment and connect to the database using Cloud Router

Question 6

The corporate apps of your client are being moved to the Google Cloud Platform. The security team requests complete visibility into every project within the company. You create your account as the organization administrator and provide the Google Cloud Resource Manager. Which Cloud IAM (Google Cloud Identity and Access Management) roles ought the security team be assigned?

Accepted Answer

Org viewer, project viewer

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Org viewer, project owner

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Project owner, network admin

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Org admin, project browser

Question 7

Your virtual machines are operating on a network with the subnet mask 255.255.255.240. There are no more available IP addresses on the present subnet, and you need an additional 10 IP addresses for new virtual machines. All current and recent VMs should be able to connect without needing different routes. What ought you to do?

Accepted Answer

Use gcloud to expand the IP range of the current subnet

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Delete the subnet, and recreate it using a wider range of IP addresses

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Create a new subnet with the same starting IP but a wider range to overwrite the current subnet

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reate a new project. Use Shared VPC to share the current network with the new project

You need to move a group of media files totaling more than 50 GB each to Google Cloud Storage.The documents are located in your on-site data center.What kind of relocation strategy might you employ to hasten the transfer process?

You need to move a group of media files totaling more than 50 GB each to Google Cloud Storage.
The documents are located in your on-site data center.
What kind of relocation strategy might you employ to hasten the transfer process?