All practice questions

A digital publishing company hosts a containerized REST API that serves breaking news content. Traffic is highly bursty and unpredictable: the service receives under 5 requests per minute during quiet periods, but surges to tens of thousands of requests per second during major breaking news events lasting 1 to 2 hours. The application reads from a regional relational database with standard transaction complexity. The company's chief financial officer requires an architectural design that eliminates baseline idle infrastructure costs while minimizing operational overhead. Which architecture best satisfies these business and cost requirements?

A digital media startup needs to host a stateless HTTP microservice that receives occasional web traffic throughout the day and store static thumbnail images that are rarely accessed after 30 days. Which TWO architectural decisions should you recommend to minimize operational and baseline compute costs while satisfying these business requirements?

Your organization is establishing an incident management workflow to ensure fast operational response and observability during outages for a newly launched application on Google Cloud. You need to configure automated alerting and log management in Cloud Operations to notify on-call staff and maintain log visibility during incidents. Which TWO actions should you take to achieve this objective?

An e-commerce platform processes user-uploaded product images using a stateless containerized microservice upon each upload. Media ingestion traffic is highly bursty during flash sales and drops to zero overnight. Additionally, images older than 30 days are accessed rarely but must remain accessible for regulatory auditing. The business objective is to minimize baseline infrastructure costs and operational overhead while satisfying all functional needs. Which TWO architectural choices should you recommend to achieve these goals?

A logistics enterprise executes a weekly batch reporting job every Saturday that takes 3 hours to complete. The application is designed to be fault-tolerant and can resume processing from saved checkpoints if instance preemption occurs. The business objective is to minimize compute infrastructure costs for this short-lived, fault-tolerant workload without long-term financial commitments. Which Google Cloud compute strategy should the cloud architect recommend?

A smart utility company receives periodic HTTP telemetry payloads from 500,000 smart energy meters every 15 minutes. Traffic spikes predictably for 2 minutes during each 15-minute interval and remains virtually idle in between. The company needs to ingest these HTTP requests, normalize the telemetry payload, and store the structured records in a regional relational database for daily reporting. Which architecture minimizes baseline operational costs and management overhead while meeting the workload's performance requirements?

A telecommunications enterprise is migrating an event processing platform to Google Cloud. The application processes bursty telemetry data during a 6-hour daily peak window and relies on a stateless containerized worker layer. Operational metadata requires a regional relational database with high availability and transactional consistency. The primary business requirement is to minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) and eliminate idle compute spending without introducing unnecessary management complexity. Which TWO architectural decisions should you combine to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A financial analytics company needs to establish continuous hybrid connectivity between its primary on-premises data center and a Google Cloud VPC to stream real-time market data. The network architecture requires a guaranteed, sustained bandwidth of $15\text{ Gbps}$. The company's on-premises facility is directly colocated in a facility housing a Google Cloud Interconnect location. The primary business requirement is to minimize ongoing monthly network infrastructure costs while reliably satisfying the throughput requirement. Which hybrid networking architecture should the cloud architect recommend?

An enterprise enterprise needs to securely connect its on-premises data center to Google Cloud. The requirement calls for a high-availability, encrypted connection over the public internet with a target bandwidth below 3 Gbps per tunnel. Which connectivity option best meets this requirement?

A financial analytics firm needs to store $50\text{ TB}$ of historical transaction logs on Google Cloud that are accessed less than once a year for legal compliance. Additionally, they need to execute an on-demand containerized processing script that runs briefly only when an audit report is generated. The firm wants to minimize baseline operational overhead and total cloud costs. Which TWO architectural choices should the cloud architect recommend? (Select TWO.)

A enterprise networking team is designing its hybrid connectivity architecture between an on-premises data center and Google Cloud. Match each Google Cloud hybrid networking component to its primary design requirement or architectural capability.

A financial services company is designing a hybrid network connection between its main on-premises data center and a Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) host network. The architecture must support a constant minimum throughput of 15 Gbps for database synchronization, guarantee enterprise SLA-backed availability, and dynamically exchange routes between on-premises routers and Google Cloud without relying on static routes. Which hybrid network architecture should the cloud architect recommend?

A financial analytics firm is migrating its transactional relational database to Google Cloud. The workload requires strict ACID compliance, relational SQL join support, and multi-zone High Availability within a single GCP region (`us-central1`). Peak operational throughput is estimated at $2,500$ write transactions per second. The primary business requirement is to minimize operational management overhead and infrastructure costs while maintaining regional resilience. Which architecture best satisfies these technical and cost-optimization requirements?

A digital marketing agency runs intermittent batch processing jobs to render promotional video clips for ad campaigns. Once rendered, the video files are accessed frequently during the first 30 days, but are rarely accessed after that point. The agency is required to retain these files for 3 years for contract compliance. The agency wants to minimize compute and storage costs while avoiding unnecessary operational management. Which TWO architectural decisions should the agency make to meet these requirements?

A healthcare technology startup is deploying a simple, stateless HTTP microservice for sending patient notification messages. The service experiences variable traffic during business hours and extended periods of zero activity overnight. The startup needs to minimize infrastructure costs by ensuring compute charges drop to zero when no requests are being processed, while also eliminating cluster management overhead. Which Google Cloud compute solution best fulfills these requirements?

A digital media analytics company provides on-demand data visualization dashboards and executes nightly batch calculations for enterprise clients. The dashboard query microservice receives highly intermittent HTTPS traffic, experiencing long periods of zero incoming requests during off-peak hours. The nightly batch calculations run once per day for 45 minutes on structured datasets. The organization aims to strictly optimize infrastructure expenditure by eliminating payments for idle capacity, while also minimizing operational management overhead for the cloud engineering team. Which architectural approach fulfills these business and cost constraints?

A healthcare software provider processes nightly batch export files (~50 GB daily) containing electronic health records. The processing pipeline executes heavy data transformations for 45 minutes each midnight. The transformed output must be stored in a relational database where internal business analysts run daily analytical reports during standard business hours. The company wants to minimize infrastructure costs while meeting all operational requirements. Which TWO architectural decisions should you recommend?

A global retail enterprise is re-architecting its e-commerce web platform on Google Cloud. The application experiences steady baseline usage throughout the day, but experiences unpredictable flash sales where traffic surges up to $20\times$ within seconds. The business requires an architecture that minimizes total cost of ownership by eliminating idle compute costs during off-peak hours while guaranteeing seamless responsiveness during sudden traffic spikes. Which TWO architectural decisions should you recommend to meet the business requirements? (Select TWO)

A healthcare organization is migrating clinical workloads and telemetry systems to Google Cloud. The infrastructure requires a tailored hybrid network topology that satisfies specific throughput, SLA, provider presence, and cross-VPC communication constraints. Match each GCP hybrid networking component to the architectural requirement it satisfies.

A healthcare startup needs to establish a secure, encrypted connection between its local office and a Google Cloud VPC network for database backup transfers requiring less than 1.5 Gbps of bandwidth. Which Google Cloud hybrid connectivity service should the cloud architect recommend to meet these requirements at the lowest cost and complexity?