Google Cloud Certified Introduction to Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect 4

Question 1

Which Google Cloud service should be used to centrally manage and enforce security policies across an entire organization's GCP resource hierarchy?

Accepted Answer

Organization Policy Service

Answer

The Organization Policy Service lets administrators centrally constrain how Google Cloud resources can be configured across all projects in an organization.

Question 2

A data engineering team needs to run Apache Spark jobs without managing clusters. Which Google Cloud service is the best fit?

Accepted Answer

Dataproc Serverless

Answer

Dataproc Serverless lets you run Spark workloads without provisioning or managing clusters, automatically scaling resources as needed.

Question 3

An architect is designing for 99.99% availability for a critical web application. Which architecture best achieves this SLO?

Accepted Answer

Multi-region active-active deployment with a global load balancer and regional failover

Answer

A multi-region active-active deployment with global load balancing provides the highest availability by tolerating full regional failures.

Question 4

What is the key difference between Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Tasks in Google Cloud?

Accepted Answer

Pub/Sub is for real-time streaming fan-out; Cloud Tasks is for explicit, controlled task delivery with retries and rate limits

Answer

Pub/Sub is designed for high-throughput event streaming and fan-out, while Cloud Tasks provides explicit, managed, and rate-limited task queue delivery.

Question 5

A company wants to allow developers to deploy to Google Cloud without granting them broad IAM roles. Which approach best follows the principle of least privilege?

Accepted Answer

Use predefined roles scoped to specific resources and services developers need

Answer

Predefined roles scoped to specific resources grant only the permissions needed for defined job functions, enforcing least privilege.

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect Practice Test

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect Practice Test

Google Cloud Certified Introduction to Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect 4