A company runs a distributed application on GKE. The operations team needs to trace a request as it flows through multiple microservices to identify performance bottlenecks. What should they implement?

Cloud Trace to capture and analyze latency data for each request across services.

Cloud Audit Logs to track API calls made by users.

Cloud Monitoring to view CPU and memory utilization of each pod.

Cloud Logging to search for error messages in each service.

A company runs a web application on Compute Engine with a steady baseline load and occasional spikes. They want to reduce costs while maintaining performance. Which combination of strategies is most effective?

Use Committed Use Discounts for the baseline capacity and autoscaling for the spikes.

Use only autoscaling without any committed use discounts.

Use a larger instance type to handle all traffic without autoscaling.

Use only preemptible VMs for all instances.

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1.1 Designing a Cloud Solution Infrastructure That Meets Business Requirements PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 8)

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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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 36–39

36expert · medium
A company runs a distributed application on GKE. The operations team needs to trace a request as it flows through multiple microservices to identify performance bottlenecks. What should they implement?
Select an answer first
37expert · hard
A company runs a web application on Compute Engine with a steady baseline load and occasional spikes. They want to reduce costs while maintaining performance. Which combination of strategies is most effective?
Select an answer first
38foundation · easy
A team wants to monitor the performance of its application and set up alerts when CPU usage exceeds a threshold. Which Google Cloud service is most appropriate for this?
Select an answer first
39foundation · easy
An e-commerce platform requires that the system can handle a sudden spike in traffic during a flash sale without degrading performance. Which non-functional requirement does this describe?
Select an answer first

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1.1 Designing a Cloud Solution Infrastructure That Meets Business Requirements PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 8)

Questions 36–39

A company runs a distributed application on GKE. The operations team needs to trace a request as it flows through multiple microservices to identify performance bottlenecks. What should they implement?

A company runs a web application on Compute Engine with a steady baseline load and occasional spikes. They want to reduce costs while maintaining performance. Which combination of strategies is most effective?

A team wants to monitor the performance of its application and set up alerts when CPU usage exceeds a threshold. Which Google Cloud service is most appropriate for this?

An e-commerce platform requires that the system can handle a sudden spike in traffic during a flash sale without degrading performance. Which non-functional requirement does this describe?

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