A company is subject to data residency regulations that require customer data to be stored within a specific country. The company plans to use Google Cloud. What should they do to ensure compliance?

Deploy the application and data in a Google Cloud region located within that country.

Encrypt all data with customer-managed encryption keys.

Use VPC Service Controls to restrict data access.

Use a multi-region deployment to improve availability, even if it spans multiple countries.

A company needs to integrate its cloud application with an external partner's system. The partner only supports synchronous REST API calls. The cloud application must remain responsive even if the partner's system is slow. What integration pattern should they use?

Call the partner API directly from the cloud application and increase the request timeout.

Use a database table as a queue and have a cron job process it.

Use a Pub/Sub topic to decouple the cloud application from the partner API, and have a worker process the messages and call the API.

Use a Cloud Task queue to schedule the API calls.

A company needs to continuously replicate 2 TB of transactional data from an on-premises database to Cloud SQL for real-time analytics. The on-premises network has a 500 Mbps link. The company also has a 10 Gbps direct interconnect available. What is the most appropriate data movement strategy?

Use Database Migration Service to replicate data over the direct interconnect.

Use Storage Transfer Service to copy the database dump daily over the public internet.

Use a VPN connection and run a custom script to copy the database every hour.

Use Transfer Appliance to ship the database to Google once a week.

A company wants to ensure that its application remains available even if a single compute instance fails. Which strategy is most appropriate?

Storing backups in a different region

Using a VPN to connect to on-premises resources

Creating a single, larger instance with more CPU and memory

Implementing a high availability strategy with multiple instances in a managed instance group

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Domain 1Objective 1

1.1 Designing a Cloud Solution Infrastructure That Meets Business Requirements PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture domain, which accounts for ~25% of the PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT exam. Google Cloud does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~13–20 in this domain), expect 3–4 from this objective — we provide 39 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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13concepts

~25%of the exam

13 Concepts in This Objective

Business use cases and product strategy
Functional requirements analysis
Non-functional requirements analysis
Business continuity planning
Cost optimization strategies
Supporting application design
Integration patterns with external systems
Data movement strategies
Design decision trade-offs
Workload disposition strategies
Success measurement (KPI, ROI, metrics)
Security and compliance design
Observability implementation

Questions 6–10

6expert · medium
A company is subject to data residency regulations that require customer data to be stored within a specific country. The company plans to use Google Cloud. What should they do to ensure compliance?
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7foundation · easy
A developer wants to analyze the logs from multiple services to troubleshoot an issue. Which Google Cloud service is most appropriate for this?
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8expert · hard
A company needs to integrate its cloud application with an external partner's system. The partner only supports synchronous REST API calls. The cloud application must remain responsive even if the partner's system is slow. What integration pattern should they use?
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9expert · hard
A company needs to continuously replicate 2 TB of transactional data from an on-premises database to Cloud SQL for real-time analytics. The on-premises network has a 500 Mbps link. The company also has a 10 Gbps direct interconnect available. What is the most appropriate data movement strategy?
Select an answer first
10foundation · easy
A company wants to ensure that its application remains available even if a single compute instance fails. Which strategy is most appropriate?
Select an answer first

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