A company has an on-premises legacy CRM system that is expensive to maintain and lacks modern APIs. The business wants to improve customer experience and reduce IT costs. The CRM vendor offers a cloud SaaS version with the required features. What should the company do?

Modify the existing on-premises CRM by adding a REST API layer.

Deprecate the CRM and use spreadsheets for customer management.

Build a custom CRM on Google Cloud to meet all requirements.

Buy the SaaS version and migrate all data and users to it.

A company wants to ensure that its critical application can recover quickly after a regional outage. Which strategy is most directly related to this goal?

Enabling logging and monitoring for the application

Using a content delivery network (CDN) to cache static assets

Implementing a disaster recovery plan with a defined recovery time objective (RTO)

Setting up a load balancer to distribute traffic across multiple instances

A company needs to ensure that only authorized users can access its cloud resources. Which security design principle is most directly relevant?

Identity and access management (IAM)

An e-commerce company is designing a new cloud architecture for its online store. The business requires that the system be available 99.99% of the time and be able to handle a 10x increase in traffic during holiday sales. Which non-functional requirement is most critical to address in the architecture?

Maintainability, by using a monolithic architecture for simplicity.

Security, by implementing multi-factor authentication for all users.

Scalability, by designing the application to scale horizontally and using managed services that support autoscaling.

Cost optimization, by using preemptible VMs for all workloads.

A company needs a new customer support ticketing system. They have evaluated a commercial product that meets most of their requirements and can be customized. What is the most appropriate workload disposition strategy?

Buy the commercial product and customize it

Build a custom application from scratch

Deprecate the need for a ticketing system

Modify an existing legacy system

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Domain 1Objective 1

1.1 Designing a Cloud Solution Infrastructure That Meets Business Requirements PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 3)

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

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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 11–15

11application · medium
A company has an on-premises legacy CRM system that is expensive to maintain and lacks modern APIs. The business wants to improve customer experience and reduce IT costs. The CRM vendor offers a cloud SaaS version with the required features. What should the company do?
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12foundation · easy
A company wants to ensure that its critical application can recover quickly after a regional outage. Which strategy is most directly related to this goal?
Select an answer first
13foundation · easy
A company needs to ensure that only authorized users can access its cloud resources. Which security design principle is most directly relevant?
Select an answer first
14application · medium
An e-commerce company is designing a new cloud architecture for its online store. The business requires that the system be available 99.99% of the time and be able to handle a 10x increase in traffic during holiday sales. Which non-functional requirement is most critical to address in the architecture?
Select an answer first
15foundation · easy
A company needs a new customer support ticketing system. They have evaluated a commercial product that meets most of their requirements and can be customized. What is the most appropriate workload disposition strategy?
Select an answer first

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