Free Professional-Cloud-Architect Questions for Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam as PDF & Practice Test Engine

You need to deploy an update to an application in Google App Engine. The update is risky, but it can only be tested in a live environment. What is the best way to introduce the update to minimize risk?

Case Study: 8 - Mountkirk Games, C
Company overview
Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud.
Their most recent endeavor is to create a retro-style first-person shooter (FPS) game that allows hundreds of simultaneous players to join a geo-specific digital arena from multiple platforms and locations. A real-time digital banner will display a global leaderboard of all the top players across every active arena.
Solution concept
Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular. They plan to deploy the game's backend on Google Kubernetes Engine so they can scale rapidly and use Google's global load balancer to route players to the closest regional game arenas. In order to keep the global leader board in sync, they plan to use a multi-region Spanner cluster.
Existing technical environment
The existing environment was recently migrated to Google Cloud, and five games came across using lift-and-shift virtual machine migrations, with a few minor exceptions. Each new game exists in an isolated Google Cloud project nested below a folder that maintains most of the permissions and network policies. Legacy games with low traffic have been consolidated into a single project.
There are also separate environments for development and testing.
Business requirements
- Support multiple gaming platforms.
- Support multiple regions.
- Support rapid iteration of game features.
- Minimize latency.
- Optimize for dynamic scaling.
- Use managed services and pooled resources.
- Minimize costs.
Technical requirements
- Dynamically scale based on game activity.
- Publish scoring data on a near real-time global leaderboard.
- Store game activity logs in structured files for future analysis.
- Use GPU processing to render graphics server-side for multi-platform support.
- Support eventual migration of legacy games to this new platform.
Executive statement
Our last game was the first time we used Google Cloud, and it was a tremendous success. We were able to analyze player behavior and game telemetry in ways that we never could before.
This success allowed us to bet on a full migration to the cloud and to start building all-new games using cloud-native design principles. Our new game is our most ambitious to date and will open up doors for us to support more gaming platforms beyond mobile. Latency is our top priority, although cost management is the next most important challenge. As with our first cloud-based game, we have grown to expect the cloud to enable advanced analytics capabilities so we can rapidly iterate on our deployments of bug fixes and new functionality.
You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a new game programmatic access to a legacy game's Firestore database. Access should be as restricted as possible.
What should you do?

Your company just finished a rapid lift and shift to Google Compute Engine for your compute needs. You have another 9 months to design and deploy a more cloud-native solution.
Specifically, you want a system that is no-ops and auto-scaling. Which two compute products should you choose? Choose 2 answers

Your organization has a 3-tier web application deployed in the same network on Google Cloud Platform. Each tier (web, API, and database) scales independently of the others Network traffic should flow through the web to the API tier and then on to the database tier. Traffic should not flow between the web and the database tier. How should you configure the network?

Your company has a Google Cloud project that uses BigQuery for data warehousing. They have a VPN tunnel between the on-premises environment and Google Cloud that is configured with Cloud VPN. The security team wants to avoid data exfiltration by malicious insiders, compromised code, and accidental oversharing. What should they do?

Case Study: 13 - KnightMotives Automotive
Company Overview
KnightMotives is a car manufacturer specializing in autonomous, self-driving vehicles, including Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), hybrids and traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. While KnightMotives has made strides with the in-vehicle experience in their BEV fleet, the hybrid and ICE vehicles have yet to implement these new systems and are viewed poorly by critics and drivers. The lack of modern in-vehicle technology in hybrid and ICE vehicles has resulted in declining sales and customer satisfaction.
KnightMotives wants to modernize the consumer experience across all vehicles within five years Artificial Intelligence offers a unique opportunity to revolutionize the in-vehicle experience, as well as the shopping buying and service/maintenance experience. Investment in this new technology will require a shift in financial priorities on a global scale.
KnightMotives also wants to improve their online ordering system, which is unreliable. Systems for customers to build their vehicle online for acquisition through a dealer are not delivering the data or reliability that dealers need, causing. A strain in the relationship between KnightMotives and dealers. Service technicians and sales staff need better tooling to enhance dealer successes, including built-to-order vehicles.
Solution Concept
KnightMotives wants to shift from manufacturing cars to creating a complete and compelling
"automotive experience." Then strategy prioritizes delivering a consistent experience across all models, developing AI-powered features, generating new revenue from data monetization, adopting a digital focus to differentiate their brand from competitors, and developing better tools for mechanics and salespeople.
Existing Technical Environment
KnightMotives's IT is largely on-premises with some applications on major cloud platforms. Their supply chain runs on an outdated mainframe, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is also outdated, making new promotions and dealer discounts difficult to implement. Dealers have no budget for new equipment. There is fragmentation across vehicles with multiple code bases, and significant technical debt from supporting backwards compatibility. Network connectivity to manufacturing plants and vehicle connectivity in rural areas are challenges.
Business Requirements
Key business requirements include fostering a personalized relationship with the driver and delivering a cohesive experience across all models. Creating a better build-to-order model will reduce time on the lot and provide transparency for both dealers and customers. Additionally, KnightMotives seeks to monetize corporate data to finance new technology investments, as their current AI infrastructure is obsolete and corporate data remains siloed. Security is a paramount concern due to past data breaches Adherence to European Union (EU) data protection regulations, especially for emerging autonomous platforms, is critical.
KnightMotives plans to make significant investments in fully autonomous driving capabilities, with initial implementation targeting regions with favorable regulatory environments. Prioritizing employee upskilling, attracting top-tier talent, and fostering better communication between business and technical teams are also critical objectives.
Technical Requirements
- Modernizing the in-vehicle experience includes developing a consistent user experience (UX)
that seamlessly integrates AI-powered features across all models, updating in-vehicle hardware and software in legacy models to support new UX features and AI capabilities, and ensuring reliable network connectivity, especially in rural areas, to support real-time AI features and data transmission.
- Network upgrades are necessary to support increased data traffic and improve connectivity
between plants and headquarters.
- IT infrastructure modernization requires adopting a hybrid cloud strategy to leverage the
benefits of both on-premises and cloud infrastructure, and gradually modernizing or replacing legacy systems to improve efficiency and agility.
- Autonomous vehicle development and testing requires investing in cutting-edge AI and machine
learning technologies, building a robust simulation environment, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations related to autonomous vehicles.
- Data monetization and insights requires implementing a robust data management platform,
strict data security and privacy measures, and a scalable AI/ML infrastructure.
- Increased focus on security and risk management involves implementing a comprehensive
security framework to protect against cyber threats and data breaches, developing an incident response plan, and providing security awareness training to employees.
- Providing a delightful experience for dealers and customers requires improving the online build-
to-order system; developing modern dealer tools to streamline dealer operations, including sales, service, and inventory management; and implementing a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to track customer interactions personalize experiences, and improve customer satisfaction.
Executive Statement
KnightMotives is committed to enhancing safety and saving lives by leveraging an extensive body of data - encompassing driving, road conditions, behavioral studies, and crash safety statistics - to create compelling digital experiences for drivers. Our AI consistently outperforms national safety statistics, ensuring the unique and coveted KnightMotives experience is aligned across all our vehicle models.
Michael Knight, KnightMotives CEO
For this question, refer to the KnightMotives Automotive case study. You are responsible for designing the network infrastructure architecture for KnightMotives's new environment on Google Cloud. You need to design the new VPC topology. You want to ensure a guaranteed bandwidth and low latency between the plants and Google Cloud resources. What should you do?

Your company wants to track whether someone is present in a meeting room reserved for a scheduled meeting. There are 1000 meeting rooms across 5 offices on 3 continents. Each room is equipped with a motion sensor that reports its status every second. The data from the motion detector includes only a sensor ID and several different discrete items of information. Analysts will use this data, together with information about account owners and office locations. Which database type should you use?

Your web application has several VM instances running within a VPC. You want to restrict communications between instances to only the paths and ports you authorize, but you don't want to rely on static IP addresses or subnets because the app can autoscale. How should you restrict communications?

You are managing several internal applications that are deployed on Compute Engine. Business users inform you that an application has become very slow over the past few days.
You want to find the underlying cause in order to solve the problem. What should you do first?