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GCP Certification Exam Practice Questions

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1. You have a development project with appropriate IAM roles defined. You are creating a production project and want to have the same IAM roles on the new project, using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?
   1. Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify the production project as the destination project.
   2. Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify your organization as the destination organization.
   3. In the Google Cloud Platform Console, use the ‘create role from role’ functionality.
   4. In the Google Cloud Platform Console, use the ‘create role’ functionality and select all applicable permissions.
2. Your team is working on GKE cluster named dev. You have downloaded and installed the gcloud command line interface (CLI) and SDK. You want to avoid having to specify this GKE config with each CLI command when managing this cluster. What should you do?
   1. Set the dev cluster as the default cluster using the gcloud container update dev
   2. Set the dev cluster as the default cluster using the gcloud config set container/cluster dev
   3. Set the dev cluster as the default cluster by adding the config to gke.default in ~/gcloud folder
   4. Set the dev cluster as the default cluster by adding the config to defaults.json in ~/gcloud folder
3. You have a Kubernetes cluster with 1 node-pool. The cluster receives a lot of traffic and needs to grow. You decide to add a node. What should you do?
   1. Use “gcloud container clusters resize” with the desired number of nodes.
   2. Use “kubectl container clusters resize” with the desired number of nodes.
   3. Edit the managed instance group of the cluster and increase the number of VMs by 1.
   4. Edit the managed instance group of the cluster and enable autoscaling.
4. You’re trying to provide temporary access to some files in a Cloud Storage bucket with 20 minutes availability. What is the best way to generate a signed URL?
   1. Create a service account and JSON key. Use the gsutil signurl -t 20m command and pass in the JSON key and bucket.
   2. Create a service account and JSON key. Use the gsutil signurl -d 20m command and pass in the JSON key and bucket.
   3. Create a service account and JSON key. Use the gsutil signurl -p 20m command and pass in the JSON key and bucket.
   4. Create a service account and JSON key. Use the gsutil signurl -m 20m command and pass in the JSON key and bucket.

   Note: The modern equivalent command is gcloud storage sign-url gs://<bucket>/<object> --duration=20m --private-key-file=<key-file>
5. You need to deploy a containerized application to Google Cloud with minimal infrastructure management. The application handles variable traffic and you want it to scale to zero when not in use. Which service and command should you use?
   1. Deploy to GKE Autopilot using gcloud container clusters create-auto and kubectl apply.
   2. Deploy to Cloud Run using gcloud run deploy <service-name> –image=<image> –region=<region> –allow-unauthenticated.
   3. Deploy to Compute Engine using gcloud compute instances create-with-container.
   4. Deploy to App Engine using gcloud app deploy with a Dockerfile.
6. Your organization is migrating from gsutil to the new recommended CLI. Which command should you use to upload a local directory to Cloud Storage recursively?
   1. gsutil cp -r ./data gs://my-bucket/
   2. gcloud storage objects upload ./data gs://my-bucket/ –recursive
   3. gcloud storage cp -r ./data gs://my-bucket/
   4. gcloud storage buckets cp ./data gs://my-bucket/ –recursive
7. You need to create a cost-effective VM for a fault-tolerant batch processing workload. Google recommends using Spot VMs instead of preemptible VMs. Which command creates a Spot VM?
   1. gcloud compute instances create batch-vm –preemptible –max-run-duration=24h
   2. gcloud compute instances create batch-vm –spot
   3. gcloud compute instances create batch-vm –provisioning-model=SPOT –instance-termination-action=STOP
   4. gcloud compute instances create batch-vm –scheduling=spot –maintenance-policy=TERMINATE
8. You need to create a fully managed Kubernetes cluster where Google manages the nodes, scaling, and security. Which command should you use?
   1. gcloud container clusters create my-cluster –enable-autopilot
   2. gcloud container clusters create-auto my-cluster –region=us-central1
   3. gcloud container clusters create my-cluster –managed-mode=autopilot
   4. gcloud container clusters create my-cluster –num-nodes=0 –enable-autoscaling