GCP-ACE sample questions

Question 1

The finance department requires a programmatic method to stop production workloads automatically if monthly spending exceeds a critical threshold defined in the billing budget. You need to architect a solution that triggers this action with minimal latency. Which architecture should you implement?

Accepted Answer

Connect a Pub/Sub topic to the Cloud Billing Budget, and deploy a Cloud Function subscribed to that topic that calls the Compute Engine API to stop instances.

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Link the Billing Account to BigQuery, run a scheduled query every hour to check costs, and trigger a Cloud Run job if the threshold is met.

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Use Cloud Monitoring to create a metric for billing costs and set up an Alert Policy with a webhook notification to a third-party automation tool.

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Configure a Billing Budget alert to email the operations team, who will run a script to stop instances.

Question 2

You are initializing a new Google Cloud project using the `gcloud` CLI. You need to ensure that all subsequent commands run against this specific project and the `us-central1` region without specifying flags every time. Which command sequence achieves this persistence?

Accepted Answer

gcloud config set project my-project; gcloud config set compute/region us-central1

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gcloud projects update my-project --region us-central1

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gcloud init --project my-project --region us-central1

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gcloud auth login --project my-project --region us-central1

Question 3

A multinational corporation is setting up its Google Cloud resource hierarchy. They need to ensure that the 'Development' folder has a less restrictive IAM policy than the 'Production' folder, but both must inherit a baseline set of auditors from the Organization level. How does IAM inheritance function in this scenario?

Accepted Answer

Policies are merged; the effective policy is the union of parent and child policies. You cannot remove an inherited binding at the child level.

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Child policies override parent policies; the Development folder will ignore the Organization's auditor bindings.

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The effective policy is the intersection of parent and child policies; only permissions present in both are granted.

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You must disable inheritance on the Development folder to apply different permissions.

Question 4

You are managing a Google Cloud project with a team of developers. You need to grant a specific developer the ability to deploy applications to App Engine and view logs, but they should not be able to modify IAM roles or billing settings. Which combination of roles follows the principle of least privilege?

Accepted Answer

roles/appengine.deployer and roles/logging.viewer

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roles/appengine.appAdmin

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roles/owner

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roles/editor

Question 5

A startup is deploying a new microservices application. They need to provision 100 Compute Engine instances immediately for a launch event. However, the deployment fails with a 'Quota Exceeded' error. What is the correct sequence of steps to resolve this?

Accepted Answer

Navigate to IAM & Admin > Quotas, select the Compute Engine API, identify the relevant region and resource (CPUs), and submit a request for a higher limit.

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Enable billing on the project, then retry the deployment.

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Upgrade the project to a Gold Support plan to automatically remove all quotas.

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Contact Google Cloud Support via chat and ask them to unblock the project.

Question 6

You have a Python application that needs to access a Cloud SQL database. You are running this application on your local machine for development purposes. You want to use the Cloud SQL Auth Proxy to connect securely without whitelisting your dynamic IP address. Which command launches the proxy correctly?

Accepted Answer

./cloud_sql_proxy -instances=my-project:us-central1:my-db-instance=tcp:5432

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gcloud sql connect my-db-instance --user=admin

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gcloud beta sql proxy --instance=my-db-instance

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./cloud_sql_proxy --target_ip=192.168.1.1 --port=5432

Free GCP-ACE sample questions

You are initializing a new Google Cloud project using the `gcloud` CLI. You need to ensure that all subsequent commands run against this specific project and the `us-central1` region without specifying flags every time. Which command sequence achieves this persistence?

A startup is deploying a new microservices application. They need to provision 100 Compute Engine instances immediately for a launch event. However, the deployment fails with a 'Quota Exceeded' error. What is the correct sequence of steps to resolve this?

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