Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer : Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam

You manage a VPC network in Google Cloud with a subnet that is rapidly approaching its private IP address capacity. You expect the number of Compute Engine VM instances in the same region to double within a week. You need to implement a Google-recommended solution that minimizes operational costs and does not require downtime. What should you do?

• A. Permit additional traffic from the expected range of private IP addresses to reach your VMs by configuring firewall rules.
• B. Use the Google Cloud CLI tool to expand the primary IP range of your subnet.
• C. Delete the existing subnet, and create a new subnet with double the IP range available.
• D. Create a second VPC with the same subnet IP range, and connect this VPC to the existing VPC by using VPC Network Peering.

You need to host an application on a Compute Engine instance in a project shared with other teams. You want to prevent the other teams from accidentally causing downtime on that application. Which feature should you use?

• A. Use a Shielded VM.
• B. Enable deletion protection on the instance.
• C. Use a Preemptible VM.
• D. Use a sole-tenant node.

You are migrating a business critical application from your local data center into Google Cloud.
As part of your high-availability strategy, you want to ensure that any data used by the application will be immediately available if a zonal failure occurs. What should you do?

• A. Store the application data on a regional persistent disk. If an outage occurs, create an instance in another zone with this disk attached.
• B. Store the application data on a regional persistent disk. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk.
  If an outage occurs, create a new disk from the most recent snapshot and attach it to a new VM in another zone.
• C. Store the application data on a zonal persistent disk. Create a snapshot schedule for the disk. If an outage occurs, create a new disk from the most recent snapshot and attach it to a new VM in another zone.
• D. Store the application data on a zonal persistent disk. If an outage occurs, create an instance in another zone with this disk attached.

You want to host your video encoding software on Compute Engine. Your user base is growing rapidly, and users need to be able to encode their videos at any time without interruption or CPU limitations. You must ensure that your encoding solution is highly available, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate operations. What should you do?

• A. Deploy your solution to an instance group, and increase the number of available instances whenever you see high CPU utilization in Cloud Monitoring.
• B. Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and replace existing instances with high-CPU instances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.
• C. Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and increase the number of existing instances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.
• D. Deploy your solution to an instance group, and set the autoscaling based on CPU utilization.

You created an instance of SQL Server 2017 on Compute Engine to test features in the new version. You want to connect to this instance using the fewest number of steps.
What should you do?

• A. Install a RDP client in your desktop. Set a Windows username and password in the GCP Console.
  Use the credentials to log in to the instance.
• B. Set a Windows password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port 22 exists.
  Click the RDP button in the GCP Console and supply the credentials to log in.
• C. Set a Windows username and password in the GCP Console. Verify that a firewall rule for port
  3389 exists.
  Click the RDP button in the GCP Console, and supply the credentials to log in.
• D. Install a RDP client on your desktop. Verify that a firewall rule for port 3389 exists.