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NEW QUESTION 1
You need to run an important query in BigQuery but expect it to return a lot of records. You want to find out how much it will cost to run the query. You are using on-demand pricing. What should you do?

• A. Arrange to switch to Flat-Rate pricing for this query, then move back to on-demand.
• B. Use the command line to run a dry run query to estimate the number of bytes rea
• C. Then convert that bytes estimate to dollars using the Pricing Calculator.
• D. Use the command line to run a dry run query to estimate the number of bytes returne
• E. Then convert that bytes estimate to dollars using the Pricing Calculator.
• F. Run a select count (*) to get an idea of how many records your query will look throug
• G. Then convert that number of rows to dollars using the Pricing Calculator.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 2
You have a virtual machine that is currently configured with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory. It is running out of memory. You want to upgrade the virtual machine to have 8 GB of memory. What should you do?

• A. Rely on live migration to move the workload to a machine with more memory.
• B. Use gcloud to add metadata to the V
• C. Set the key to required-memory-size and the value to 8 GB.
• D. Stop the VM, change the machine type to n1-standard-8, and start the VM.
• E. Stop the VM, increase the memory to 8 GB, and start the VM.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 3
You need to enable traffic between multiple groups of Compute Engine instances that are currently running two different GCP projects. Each group of Compute Engine instances is running in its own VPC. What should you do?

• A. Verify that both projects are in a GCP Organizatio
• B. Create a new VPC and add all instances.
• C. Verify that both projects are in a GCP Organizatio
• D. Share the VPC from one project and request that the Compute Engine instances in the other project use this shared VPC.
• E. Verify that you are the Project Administrator of both project
• F. Create two new VPCs and add all instances.
• G. Verify that you are the Project Administrator of both project
• H. Create a new VPC and add all instances.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4
Your organization has user identities in Active Directory. Your organization wants to use Active Directory as their source of truth for identities. Your organization wants to have full control over the Google accounts used by employees for all Google services, including your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) organization. What should you do?

• A. Use Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) to synchronize users into Cloud Identity.
• B. Use the cloud Identity APIs and write a script to synchronize users to Cloud Identity.
• C. Export users from Active Directory as a CSV and import them to Cloud Identity via the Admin Console.
• D. Ask each employee to create a Google account using self signu
• E. Require that each employee use their company email address and password.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 5
You have been asked to set up Object Lifecycle Management for objects stored in storage buckets. The objects are written once and accessed frequently for 30 days. After 30 days, the objects are not read again unless there is a special need. The object should be kept for three years, and you need to minimize cost. What should you do?

• A. Set up a policy that uses Nearline storage for 30 days and then moves to Archive storage for three years.
• B. Set up a policy that uses Standard storage for 30 days and then moves to Archive storage for three years.
• C. Set up a policy that uses Nearline storage for 30 days, then moves the Coldline for one year, and then moves to Archive storage for two years.
• D. Set up a policy that uses Standard storage for 30 days, then moves to Coldline for one year, and then moves to Archive storage for two years.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 6
You are using Google Kubernetes Engine with autoscaling enabled to host a new application. You want to expose this new application to the public, using HTTPS on a public IP address. What should you do?

• A. Create a Kubernetes Service of type NodePort for your application, and a Kubernetes Ingress to expose this Service via a Cloud Load Balancer.
• B. Create a Kubernetes Service of type ClusterIP for your applicatio
• C. Configure the public DNS name of your application using the IP of this Service.
• D. Create a Kubernetes Service of type NodePort to expose the application on port 443 of each node of the Kubernetes cluste
• E. Configure the public DNS name of your application with the IP of every node of the cluster to achieve load-balancing.
• F. Create a HAProxy pod in the cluster to load-balance the traffic to all the pods of the application.Forward the public traffic to HAProxy with an iptable rul
• G. Configure the DNS name of your application using the public IP of the node HAProxy is running on.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 7
Your development team needs a new Jenkins server for their project. You need to deploy the server using the fewest steps possible. What should you do?

• A. Download and deploy the Jenkins Java WAR to App Engine Standard.
• B. Create a new Compute Engine instance and install Jenkins through the command line interface.
• C. Create a Kubernetes cluster on Compute Engine and create a deployment with the Jenkins Docker image.
• D. Use GCP Marketplace to launch the Jenkins solution.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 8
You have a Linux VM that must connect to Cloud SQL. You created a service account with the appropriate access rights. You want to make sure that the VM uses this service account instead of the default Compute Engine service account. What should you do?

• A. When creating the VM via the web console, specify the service account under the ‘Identity and API Access’ section.
• B. Download a JSON Private Key for the service accoun
• C. On the Project Metadata, add that JSON as the value for the key compute-engine-service-account.
• D. Download a JSON Private Key for the service accoun
• E. On the Custom Metadata of the VM, add that JSON as the value for the key compute-engine-service-account.
• F. Download a JSON Private Key for the service accoun
• G. After creating the VM, ssh into the VM and save the JSON under ~/.gcloud/compute-engine-service-account.json.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 9
You are the team lead of a group of 10 developers. You provided each developer with an individual Google Cloud Project that they can use as their personal sandbox to experiment with different Google Cloud solutions. You want to be notified if any of the developers are spending above $500 per month on their sandbox environment. What should you do?

• A. Create a single budget for all projects and configure budget alerts on this budget.
• B. Create a separate billing account per sandbox project and enable BigQuery billing export
• C. Create a Data Studio dashboard to plot the spending per billing account.
• D. Create a budget per project and configure budget alerts on all of these budgets.
• E. Create a single billing account for all sandbox projects and enable BigQuery billing export
• F. Create a Data Studio dashboard to plot the spending per project.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10
Your company runs one batch process in an on-premises server that takes around 30 hours to complete. The task runs monthly, can be performed offline, and must be restarted if interrupted. You want to migrate this workload to the cloud while minimizing cost. What should you do?

• A. Migrate the workload to a Compute Engine Preemptible VM.
• B. Migrate the workload to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster with Preemptible nodes.
• C. Migrate the workload to a Compute Engine V
• D. Start and stop the instance as needed.
• E. Create an Instance Template with Preemptible VMs O
• F. Create a Managed Instance Group from the template and adjust Target CPU Utilizatio
• G. Migrate the workload.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 11
Your company is moving from an on-premises environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You have
multiple development teams that use Cassandra environments as backend databases. They all need a development environment that is isolated from other Cassandra instances. You want to move to GCP quickly and with minimal support effort. What should you do?

• A. * 1. Build an instruction guide to install Cassandra on GCP.* 2. Make the instruction guide accessible to your developers.
• B. * 1. Advise your developers to go to Cloud Marketplace.* 2. Ask the developers to launch a Cassandra image for their development work.
• C. * 1. Build a Cassandra Compute Engine instance and take a snapshot of it.* 2. Use the snapshot to create instances for your developers.
• D. * 1. Build a Cassandra Compute Engine instance and take a snapshot of it.* 2. Upload the snapshot to Cloud Storage and make it accessible to your developers.* 3. Build instructions to create a Compute Engine instance from the snapshot so that developers can do it themselves.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12
You are building an application that processes data files uploaded from thousands of suppliers. Your primary goals for the application are data security and the expiration of aged data. You need to design the application to:
•Restrict access so that suppliers can access only their own data.
•Give suppliers write access to data only for 30 minutes.
•Delete data that is over 45 days old.
You have a very short development cycle, and you need to make sure that the application requires minimal maintenance. Which two strategies should you use? (Choose two.)

• A. Build a lifecycle policy to delete Cloud Storage objects after 45 days.
• B. Use signed URLs to allow suppliers limited time access to store their objects.
• C. Set up an SFTP server for your application, and create a separate user for each supplier.
• D. Build a Cloud function that triggers a timer of 45 days to delete objects that have expired.
• E. Develop a script that loops through all Cloud Storage buckets and deletes any buckets that are older than 45 days.

Answer: AE

NEW QUESTION 13
You created a Google Cloud Platform project with an App Engine application inside the project. You initially configured the application to be served from the us-central region. Now you want the application to be served from the asia-northeast1 region. What should you do?

• A. Change the default region property setting in the existing GCP project to asia-northeast1.
• B. Change the region property setting in the existing App Engine application from us-central to asia-northeast1.
• C. Create a second App Engine application in the existing GCP project and specify asia-northeast1 as the region to serve your application.
• D. Create a new GCP project and create an App Engine application inside this new projec
• E. Specify asia-northeast1 as the region to serve your application.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14
Your organization has a dedicated person who creates and manages all service accounts for Google Cloud projects. You need to assign this person the minimum role for projects. What should you do?

• A. Add the user to roles/iam.roleAdmin role.
• B. Add the user to roles/iam.securityAdmin role.
• C. Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role.
• D. Add the user to roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin role.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 15
You are setting up a Windows VM on Compute Engine and want to make sure you can log in to the VM via RDP. What should you do?

• A. After the VM has been created, use your Google Account credentials to log in into the VM.
• B. After the VM has been created, use gcloud compute reset-windows-password to retrieve the login credentials for the VM.
• C. When creating the VM, add metadata to the instance using ‘windows-password’ as the key and a password as the value.
• D. After the VM has been created, download the JSON private key for the default Compute Engine service accoun
• E. Use the credentials in the JSON file to log in to the VM.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 16
You want to select and configure a cost-effective solution for relational data on Google Cloud Platform. You are working with a small set of operational data in one geographic location. You need to support point-in-time recovery. What should you do?

• A. Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Verify that the enable binary logging option is selected.
• B. Select Cloud SQL (MySQL). Select the create failover replicas option.
• C. Select Cloud Spanne
• D. Set up your instance with 2 nodes.
• E. Select Cloud Spanne
• F. Set up your instance as multi-regional.

Answer: A

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