1. You are running a complicated stream processing operation using Apache Beam. You want to start using a managed service. What GCP service would you use?

2. database architect for a game developer has determined that a NoSQL document database is the best option for storing players

3. Kubernetes pods sometimes need access to persistent storage. Pods are ephemeral

4. You have been tasked with setting up disaster recovery infrastructure in the cloud that will be used if the on-premises data center is not available. What network topology would you use for a disaster recovery environment?

5. You have installed the Google Cloud SDK. You would now like to work on transferring files to Cloud Storage. What command-line utility would you use?

6. PhotosForYouToday prints photographs and ships them to customers. The frontend application uploads photos to Cloud Storage. Currently, the backend runs a cron job that checks Cloud Storage buckets every 10 minutes for new photos. The product manager would like to process the photos as soon as they are uploaded. What would you use to cause processing to start when a photo file is saved to Cloud Storage?

7. You are setting up a cloud project and want to assign members of your team different permissions. What GCP service would you use to do that?

8. Building for Builders LLC manufactures equipment used in residential and commercial building. Each of its 500,000 pieces of equipment in use around the globe has IoT devices collecting data about the state of equipment. The IoT data is streamed from each device every 10 seconds. On average, 10 KB of data is sent in each message. The data will be used for predictive maintenance and product development. The company would like to use a managed database in Google Cloud. What would you recommend?

9. You have a backlog of audio files that need to be processed using a custom application. The files are stored in Cloud Storage. If the files were processed continuously on three n1-standard-4 instances, the job could complete in two days. You have 30 days to deliver the processed files, after which they will be sent to a client and deleted from your systems. You would like to minimize the cost of processing. What might you do to help keep costs down?

10. You have a backlog of audio files that need to be processed using a custom application. The files are stored in Cloud Storage. If the files were processed continuously on three n1-standard-4 instances, the job could complete in two days. You have 30 days to deliver the processed files, after which they will be sent to a client and deleted from your systems. You would like to minimize the cost of processing. What might you do to help keep costs down?

11. client of yours wants to run an application in a highly secure environment. They want to use instances that will only run boot components verified by digital signatures. What would you recommend they use in Google Cloud?

12. government regulation requires you to keep certain financial data for seven years. You are not likely to ever retrieve the data, and you are only keeping it to be in compliance. There are approximately 500 GB of financial data for each year that you are required to save. What is the most cost-effective way to store this data?

13. You would like to run a custom container in a managed Google Cloud Service. What are your two options?

14. Global 2000 company has hired you as a consultant to help architect a new logistics system. The system will track the location of parts as they are shipped between company facilities in Europe, Africa, South America, and Australia. Anytime a user queries the database, they must receive accurate and up-to-date information; specifically, the database must support strong consistency. Users from any facility may query the database using SQL. What GCP service would you recommend?

15. You have joined a startup selling supplies to visual artists. One element of the company

16. Developers at MakeYouFashionable have adopted agile development methodologies. Which tool might they use to support CI/CD?

17. major news agency is seeing increasing readership across the globe. The CTO is concerned that long page-load times will decrease readership. What might the news agency try to reduce the page-load time of readers around the globe?

18. What is a service-level indicator?

19. You have developed a web application that is becoming widely used. The frontend runs in Google App Engine and scales automatically. The backend runs on Compute Engine in a managed instance group. You have set the maximum number of instances in the backend managed instance group to five. You do not want to increase the maximum size of the managed instance group or change the VM instance type, but there are times the frontend sends more data than the backend can keep up with and data is lost. What can you do to prevent the loss of data?

20. You have been tasked with setting up disaster recovery infrastructure in the cloud that will be used if the on-premises data center is not available. What network topology would you use for a disaster recovery environment?

21. major news agency is seeing increasing readership across the globe. The CTO is concerned that long page-load times will decrease readership. What might the news agency try to reduce the page-load time of readers around the globe?

22. Your team has had a number of incidents in which Tier 1 and Tier 2 services were down for more than 1 hour. After conducting a few retrospective analyses of the incidents, you have determined that you could identify the causes of incidents faster if you had a centralized log repository. What GCP service could you use for this?

23. The chief financial officer of your company believes that you are spending too much money to run an on-premises data warehouse and wants to migrate to a managed cloud solution. What GCP service would you recommend for implementing a new data warehouse in GCP?

24. database architect for a game developer has determined that a NoSQL document database is the best option for storing players

25. You are setting up a cloud project and want to assign members of your team different permissions. What GCP service would you use to do that?