1.2 Designing a Cloud Solution Infrastructure That Meets Technical Requirements PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1foundation · easy

   Which scaling strategy involves adding more instances of a resource to handle increased load?

   • AVertical scaling
   • BStatic scaling
   • CHorizontal scaling
   • DDiagonal scaling
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2. 2application · medium

   A company runs a batch processing workload that runs once a day and takes about 30 minutes to complete. The workload is CPU-intensive and can be parallelized. They want to minimize cost while meeting the processing deadline. What should they do?

   • AProvision a large Compute Engine instance and keep it running 24/7 to handle the batch job.
   • BCreate a managed instance group with autoscaling based on CPU utilization to run the batch job.
   • CUse a preemptible VM to run the batch job, accepting that it may be terminated at any time.
   • DUse Cloud Run jobs to run the batch workload on demand, paying only for the resources used during execution.
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4. 3application · medium

   A company has a global user base accessing a web application hosted in a single region. Users in other regions experience high latency. They want to improve the experience without moving the application. What should they do?

   • ADeploy the application in multiple regions and use a global load balancer.
   • BIncrease the machine type of the application server.
   • CUse Cloud CDN to cache static content at edge locations.
   • DUse Cloud CDN and optimize the application for dynamic content caching.
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5. 4foundation · easy

   Which Google Cloud feature is used to create a point-in-time backup of a Compute Engine persistent disk?

   • ACloud NAT
   • BCloud CDN
   • CDisk snapshots
   • DCloud Load Balancing
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6. 5application · medium

   A company runs a stateful application on a single Compute Engine instance that must remain available. They want to automate recovery if the instance fails. The application state is stored on a persistent disk. What should they do?

   • AUse a regional persistent disk and place the instance in a managed instance group with an HTTP health check that automatically recreates the instance in the same zone or another zone.
   • BCreate a snapshot of the persistent disk and use it to create a new instance in another zone when the primary fails.
   • CConfigure a cron job to periodically copy the disk to another region.
   • DPlace the instance in a managed instance group with a health check and configure the group to recreate the instance using the same persistent disk.
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