A company runs a global e-commerce platform on Google Cloud. They want to route traffic to the nearest region based on user location, and also perform A/B testing by sending a small percentage of traffic to a new version of the application. They also need to support WebSocket connections. What should the architect use?

Cloud DNS with geo-routing and weighted round-robin

External TCP/UDP load balancer with traffic splitting

External HTTP(S) load balancer with a backend service, URL maps, and traffic splitting

Internal HTTP(S) load balancer with traffic splitting

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Domain 1Objective 3

1.3 Designing Network, Storage, and Compute Resources PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 5)

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 37 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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14concepts

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14 Concepts in This Objective

Hybrid and multicloud connectivity
Google Cloud AI and ML solution landscape
VPC design and subnetting
VPC peering and shared VPC
Firewall rules and network security
Load balancing and traffic management
Container networking
Private Service Connect and service networking
Data processing solution selection
Object storage selection
File storage selection
Database selection
Compute platform mapping
Compute resource optimization

Questions 21–25

21foundation · easy
A security team wants to apply a consistent set of firewall rules to all VPC networks in an organization, regardless of the project. Which type of firewall rule should they use?
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22foundation · easy
A web application needs to distribute HTTP traffic across multiple backend instances and provide SSL termination. Which load balancing service should be used?
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23foundation · easy
A team wants to run interactive SQL queries on large datasets stored in a data warehouse. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this purpose?
Select an answer first
24foundation · easy
A global application needs a horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database with global availability. Which Google Cloud database service is designed for this requirement?
Select an answer first
25expert · hard
A company runs a global e-commerce platform on Google Cloud. They want to route traffic to the nearest region based on user location, and also perform A/B testing by sending a small percentage of traffic to a new version of the application. They also need to support WebSocket connections. What should the architect use?
Select an answer first

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1.3 Designing Network, Storage, and Compute Resources PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

A security team wants to apply a consistent set of firewall rules to all VPC networks in an organization, regardless of the project. Which type of firewall rule should they use?

A web application needs to distribute HTTP traffic across multiple backend instances and provide SSL termination. Which load balancing service should be used?

A team wants to run interactive SQL queries on large datasets stored in a data warehouse. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this purpose?

A global application needs a horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database with global availability. Which Google Cloud database service is designed for this requirement?

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