A company needs to transfer a large amount of data (over 100 TB) from its on-premises data center to Google Cloud. The transfer must be completed within a week, but the available network bandwidth is limited. Which data movement strategy is most appropriate?

Using Storage Transfer Service over the internet

Using a VPN to transfer the data securely

Using Transfer Appliance to physically ship the data

Using Cloud Interconnect to increase bandwidth

A company notices that many of its virtual machines are consistently underutilized, using only 10% of their CPU. Which cost optimization strategy would best address this?

Enabling sustained use discounts

Moving the VMs to a different region

Adding more VMs to distribute the load

Right-sizing the VMs to smaller machine types

A company has an on-premises legacy application that is critical to operations but is no longer supported by the vendor. The application is custom-built and the source code is available. The business wants to reduce maintenance costs and improve scalability. What is the most appropriate disposition strategy?

Keep the application on-premises but move it to a newer server.

Rehost the application on Compute Engine and then gradually refactor it to use managed services.

Modify the application to run on Cloud Run without any other changes.

Deprecate the application and replace it with a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product.

A company runs a critical application in a single GCP region. The business has a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The application uses Cloud SQL for MySQL. The team is considering two options: (1) enabling point-in-time recovery and performing regular backups, or (2) configuring a cross-region replica. Which option meets the RTO and RPO requirements?

Both options together, because backups alone cannot meet the RTO and a replica alone cannot meet the RPO.

Option 2 only, because a cross-region replica provides a standby that can be promoted quickly, meeting both RTO and RPO.

Option 1 only, because backups can restore data to within 15 minutes and the RTO can be met by restoring to a new instance.

Neither option, because Cloud SQL cannot meet these requirements.

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1.1 Designing a Cloud Solution Infrastructure That Meets Business Requirements PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 4)

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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 16–20

16foundation · easy
A company needs to transfer a large amount of data (over 100 TB) from its on-premises data center to Google Cloud. The transfer must be completed within a week, but the available network bandwidth is limited. Which data movement strategy is most appropriate?
Select an answer first
17foundation · easy
A company notices that many of its virtual machines are consistently underutilized, using only 10% of their CPU. Which cost optimization strategy would best address this?
Select an answer first
18foundation · easy
A company wants to measure the success of its new e-commerce website by tracking how many visitors complete a purchase. Which metric is most appropriate?
Select an answer first
19expert · hard
A company has an on-premises legacy application that is critical to operations but is no longer supported by the vendor. The application is custom-built and the source code is available. The business wants to reduce maintenance costs and improve scalability. What is the most appropriate disposition strategy?
Select an answer first
20expert · hard
A company runs a critical application in a single GCP region. The business has a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The application uses Cloud SQL for MySQL. The team is considering two options: (1) enabling point-in-time recovery and performing regular backups, or (2) configuring a cross-region replica. Which option meets the RTO and RPO requirements?
Select an answer first

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Questions 16–20

A company needs to transfer a large amount of data (over 100 TB) from its on-premises data center to Google Cloud. The transfer must be completed within a week, but the available network bandwidth is limited. Which data movement strategy is most appropriate?

A company notices that many of its virtual machines are consistently underutilized, using only 10% of their CPU. Which cost optimization strategy would best address this?

A company wants to measure the success of its new e-commerce website by tracking how many visitors complete a purchase. Which metric is most appropriate?

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