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A global media broadcasting company is designing hybrid connectivity between its primary on-premises processing center and Google Cloud. The architecture requires a continuous, private network connection with a minimum baseline bandwidth of 20 Gbps to support uncompressed video rendering workloads. Applications are distributed across two distinct Google Cloud projects: a networking project housing core connectivity and a workload project housing render nodes in a separate VPC network. The network team needs to allow workloads in the rendering VPC to communicate directly with on-premises storage arrays without exposing traffic to the public internet while maintaining administrative separation. Which network architecture design meets these requirements?
An enterprise logistics firm manages its Google Cloud infrastructure using Terraform across multiple environments. The cloud architecture team must secure the automated deployment pipeline, enforce least-privilege access control, and protect against state file corruption and configuration drift. Which TWO actions should the engineering team implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A smart city traffic management platform manages its Google Cloud infrastructure across multiple environments using Terraform executed via Cloud Build CI/CD pipelines. The engineering team wants to enforce IaC governance, ensure remote state file security and integrity, prevent configuration drift, and adhere to least privilege security practices. Which TWO actions should the team implement to meet these requirements?
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A telecommunications company hosts an IoT telemetry ingestion service on a Compute Engine Managed Instance Group (MIG). The processing application is network I/O-bound, where capacity is constrained by open TCP socket connections per virtual machine rather than CPU usage. During scheduled hourly bursts of device reporting, incoming traffic drops connections because auto-scaling fails to trigger in time, and rapid scaling attempts fail due to reaching resource limits. Which TWO architecture modifications should you implement to ensure operational reliability and adequate capacity planning during peak reporting windows?
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A financial enterprise is designing a hybrid cloud network connecting its primary on-premises facility to two Google Cloud regions (us-east1 and us-west1). The architecture requires resilient, fault-tolerant routing between on-premises and GCP, private access to Google APIs from cloud workloads, and connectivity to a third-party partner's VPC peered with the central hub VPC. Which TWO architectural decisions must be implemented to fulfill these requirements correctly? (Select TWO)
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Match each Google Cloud database or storage service on the left with its corresponding workload capability and access pattern on the right.
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A logistics enterprise processes real-time delivery routing updates ingested from thousands of vehicle tracking devices into a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. A Compute Engine Managed Instance Group (MIG) running worker services pulls messages from the subscription. During morning dispatch hours, the message queue depth spikes rapidly, but CPU utilization across worker instances remains under 20% because workers spend most of their time waiting on network calls to external mapping APIs. The operations team needs to ensure timely processing during peak hours while avoiding unexpected infrastructure provisioning failures. Which autoscaling and capacity planning strategy should you recommend?
A Cloud Architect is establishing a progressive release process using Google Cloud Deploy to update a microservice running on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. To guarantee reliability and automated health verification before full traffic cutover, place the following deployment pipeline steps in the correct chronological order.
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An enterprise SaaS platform hosts an internal reporting portal in a single Google Cloud region (). The portal executes relational SQL queries against a 1.5 TB database. Query traffic follows a predictable pattern, occurring strictly during weekday business hours (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM), with negligible usage overnight and on weekends. The primary business objective is to minimize total infrastructure costs while ensuring adequate database performance during business hours. Which architectural strategy best satisfies these requirements?
An energy utility enterprise is connecting its primary on-premises data center to Google Cloud to ingest real-time Smart Grid telemetry. The architecture requires a sustained throughput of 12 Gbps with a 99.99% availability SLA. The telemetry processing workloads are distributed across multiple department-specific VPC networks within the same GCP region. Which network topology and hybrid connectivity design satisfies the performance, availability, and routing requirements?
An enterprise cloud engineering team needs to safely transition manually provisioned Google Cloud SQL databases and Cloud Storage buckets into Terraform management while establishing a remote backend for state storage. Order the following operational steps in the correct logical sequence to complete this brownfield IaC onboarding workflow while preventing state corruption or resource re-creation.
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An automotive technology company is migrating its legacy vehicle telemetry platform from an on-premises data center to Google Cloud. The legacy monolithic application relies on a central relational database. To resolve technical debt, the team plans to decouple the monolith into stateless microservices and modernize the database schema. The solution must ensure zero planned downtime and maintain full backward compatibility during the transition. Which strategy should the Cloud Architect recommend?
An enterprise financial analytics company runs an event-driven risk assessment workload on Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups (MIGs). The application receives trade messages from a queue, processes heavy calculations, and stores the results in a database. During periods of sudden market volatility, trade queue lengths increase dramatically while worker VM CPU utilization remains low due to database connection waiting times. Additionally, rapid scaling attempts during recent market events failed because the project hit regional instance limit ceilings. Which TWO architectural actions should a Cloud Architect implement to ensure auto-scaling reliability and adequate operational capacity during peak events? (Select TWO.)
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An energy enterprise collects telemetry from millions of smart grid sensors. They are establishing hybrid connectivity between their primary on-premises data center and Google Cloud. The workload requires a sustained throughput of 12 Gbps with a strict 99.99% availability SLA. Additionally, three isolated workload environments (Production, Analytics, and Staging) residing in distinct VPC networks must reach on-premises resources. A draft proposal suggests deploying an HA VPN gateway to a central Transit VPC and connecting the spoke VPCs via VPC Network Peering so they can route through the Transit VPC to on-premises. Which architectural modification should a Cloud Architect implement to meet all throughput, availability SLA, and multi-VPC connectivity requirements?
A multinational enterprise is designing a hybrid network architecture to connect its on-premises data centers with Google Cloud VPCs. Match each GCP hybrid networking component on the left with the architectural requirement or design constraint it satisfies on the right.
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A global pharmaceutical enterprise is modernizing its network architecture to support high-throughput genomic data transfers, remote lab connectivity, and multi-tenant environment isolation. Match each architectural constraint or requirement to the most appropriate Google Cloud hybrid networking service or deployment pattern.
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A telehealth organization is designing a solution to handle patient document processing and report generation. The document generation service is a stateless HTTP-based microservice that experiences unpredictable, bursty usage with long periods of zero traffic. Reports must be rendered on demand, and generated PDF files must be retained for seven years to comply with health regulations. The files are accessed frequently during the first 30 days after creation, but rarely accessed afterward. The organization wants to minimize operational maintenance and overall cloud expenditure, ensuring costs scale to zero during idle periods. Which architecture best meets these business and cost optimization requirements?
A global healthcare provider is modernizing a legacy patient scheduling monolithic application to resolve architectural technical debt during its migration from an on-premises data center to Google Cloud. The application relies on an on-premises PostgreSQL relational database and stateless HTTP web microservices. The migration plan requires continuous database replication with near-zero downtime cutover and safe zero-downtime database schema evolutionary updates. Which TWO architectural and migration strategy patterns should the cloud architect recommend? (Select TWO.)
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A global e-commerce analytics company is modernizing a legacy inventory management platform to resolve architectural technical debt during its migration to Google Cloud. The system relies on an on-premises 8 TB transactional PostgreSQL database with heavy read and write traffic. The legacy architecture suffers from significant tech debt, including hardcoded IP addresses embedded across legacy components and unversioned database schemas. The company requires a migration strategy that supports continuous data replication to achieve near-zero downtime (under 15 minutes cutover) while decoupling application components from hardcoded database IP endpoints without modifying the legacy core code. Which migration architecture should the cloud architect recommend?
An architectural modeling platform processes asynchronous 3D spatial rendering tasks submitted by enterprise users. The processing worker nodes are deployed on Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups (MIGs). Tasks are pulled from a Cloud Pub/Sub topic and processed by worker VMs, which spend most of their processing time waiting on I/O operations and database queries. The platform expects a fivefold traffic burst during an upcoming product launch. Which TWO actions should a Cloud Architect recommend to ensure the rendering system auto-scales efficiently and meets capacity demands during the burst? (Select TWO.)
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