Free PROFESSIONAL CLOUD ARCHITECT Practice Exam Questions 2026

Question 61 Choose 1

You deploy your custom java application to google app engine.
It fails to deploy and gives you the following stack trace:

A Recompile the CLoakedServlet class using and MD5 hash instead of SHA1
B Digitally sign all of your JAR files and redeploy your application.
C Upload missing JAR files and redeploy your application

Question 62 Choose 2

A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud Deployment Manager What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? Choose 2 answers

A Cloud Deployment Manager uses Python.
B Cloud Deployment Manager APIs could be deprecated in the future.
C Cloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company's engineers.
D Cloud Deployment Manager requires a Google APIs service account to run.
E Cloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud resources.
F Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources.

Question 63 Choose 1

You created a pipeline that can deploy your source code changes to your infrastructure in instance groups for self healing. One of the changes negatively affects your key performance indicator.
You are not sure how to fix it and investigation could take up to a week.What should you do

A Log in to a server, and iterate a fix locally
B Change the instance group template to the previous one, and delete all instances.
C Revert the source code change and rerun the deployment pipeline
D Log into the servers with the bad code change, and swap in the previous code

Question 64 Choose 3

The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she should consider when migrating a J2EE application to the cloud. Which three practices should you recommend? Choose 3 answers

A Port the application code to run on Google App Engine.
B Integrate Cloud Dataflow into the application to capture real-time metrics.
C Instrument the application with a monitoring tool like Stackdriver Debugger.
D Select an automation framework to reliably provision the cloud infrastructure.
E Deploy a continuous integration tool with automated testing in a staging environment.<
F Migrate from MySQL to a managed NoSQL database like Google Cloud Datastore or Bigtable

Question 65 Choose 1

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?

A Add each tier to a different subnetwork.
B Set up software based firewalls on individual VMs.
C Add tags to each tier and set up routes to allow the desired traffic flow.
D Add tags to each tier and set up firewall rules to allow the desired traffic flow.

Question 66 Choose 1

Your company is forecasting a sharp increase in the number and size of Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs being run on your local datacenter You want to utilize the cloud to help you scale this upcoming demand with the least amount of operations work and code change. Which product should you use?

A Google Cloud Dataflow
B Google Cloud Dataproc
C Google Compute Engine
D Google Container Engine

Question 67 Choose 1

You want to enable your running Google Container Engine cluster to scale as demand for your application changes. What should you do?

A Add additional nodes to your Container Engine cluster using the following command:
gcloud container clusters resize CLUSTER_NAME --size 10
B Add a tag to the instances in the cluster with the following command:
gcloud compute instances add-tags INSTANCE --tags enable --autoscaling max-nodes-10
C Update the existing Container Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters update mycluster --enable-autoscaling --min-nodes=1 --max-nodes=10
D Create a new Container Engine cluster with the following command:
gcloud alpha container clusters create mycluster --enable-autocaling --min-nodes=1 --max-nodes=10
and redeploy your application.

Question 68 Choose 1

Your customer is moving their corporate applications to Google Cloud Platform. The security team wants detailed visibility of all projects in the organization. You provision the Google Cloud Resource Manager and set up yourself as the org admin. What Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) roles should you give to the security team'?

A Org viewer, project owner
B Org viewer, project viewer
C Org admin, project browser
D Project owner, network admin

Question 69 Choose 1

Your company runs several databases on a single MySQL instance. They need to take backups of a specific database at regular intervals. The backup activity needs to complete as quickly as possible and cannot be allowed to impact disk performance. How should you configure the storage?

A Configure a cron job to use the gcloud tool to take regular backups using persistent disk snapshots.
B Mount a Local SSD volume as the backup location. After the backup is complete, use gsutil to move the backup to Google Cloud Storage.
C Use gcsfuse to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a volume directly on the instance and write backups to the mounted location using mysqldump
D Mount additional persistent disk volumes onto each virtual machine (VM) instance in a RAID10 array and use LVM to create snapshots to send to Cloud Storage.

Question 70 Choose 1

Your customer is moving an existing corporate application to Google Cloud Platform from an on-premises data center. The business owners require minimal user disruption. There are strict security team requirements for storing passwords. What authentication strategy should they use?

A Use G Suite Password Sync to replicate passwords into Google.
B Federate authentication via SAML 2.0 to the existing Identity Provider. Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool.
C Provision users in Google using the Google Cloud Directory Sync tool.
D Ask users to set their Google password to match their corporate password.

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