A company has an existing architecture that uses a single Compute Engine instance to run a web application. They want to evaluate this architecture against the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework and identify the most critical improvement. What should they do?

Create a snapshot of the instance for backup.

Immediately migrate the application to Cloud Run.

Use the Well-Architected Framework to assess the architecture and prioritize improvements.

Add a larger machine type to the instance.

A company runs a batch processing workload that takes 2 hours to complete and runs every night. The workload is CPU-intensive and can be parallelized. They want to minimize cost while ensuring the job completes within the 2-hour window. What should they do?

Use a single large Compute Engine instance with a standard persistent disk.

Use Cloud Batch to run the job on a pool of preemptible VMs.

Use a managed instance group with autoscaling based on CPU utilization and a startup script that runs the batch job.

Use Cloud Run jobs with a large amount of memory and CPU.

An architect is designing a new microservices architecture on Google Cloud and wants to get suggestions for service-to-service communication patterns. They want to use an AI-powered tool to assist in the design. What should they do?

Use Gemini Cloud Assist to ask for design recommendations.

Use Cloud Endpoints to define the API gateway.

Use Cloud Functions to implement the services.

Use Cloud Service Mesh to automatically configure service-to-service communication.

When applying the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework to evaluate an existing architecture, what is the primary purpose of the framework?

To automatically generate a fully optimized architecture for any workload

To provide a checklist of services that must be used in every architecture

To replace the need for manual architecture review and testing

To help architects identify and prioritize improvements based on best practices

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1.2 Designing a Cloud Solution Infrastructure That Meets Technical 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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8free pages

12concepts

~25%of the exam

12 Concepts in This Objective

Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework pillars
Applying the Well-Architected Framework
High availability design patterns
Failover strategies
Resource flexibility
Scalability strategies
Performance optimization
Latency reduction techniques
Gemini Cloud Assist capabilities
Using Gemini Cloud Assist
Backup strategies
Recovery mechanisms

Questions 11–15

11application · medium
A company has an existing architecture that uses a single Compute Engine instance to run a web application. They want to evaluate this architecture against the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework and identify the most critical improvement. What should they do?
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12expert · hard
A company runs a batch processing workload that takes 2 hours to complete and runs every night. The workload is CPU-intensive and can be parallelized. They want to minimize cost while ensuring the job completes within the 2-hour window. What should they do?
Select an answer first
13foundation · easy
Which Google Cloud service is commonly used to automatically route traffic away from unhealthy instances in a managed instance group?
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14application · medium
An architect is designing a new microservices architecture on Google Cloud and wants to get suggestions for service-to-service communication patterns. They want to use an AI-powered tool to assist in the design. What should they do?
Select an answer first
15foundation · easy
When applying the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework to evaluate an existing architecture, what is the primary purpose of the framework?
Select an answer first

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