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The questions for Professional Cloud Architect were last updated at Jul 23,2025.
- Exam Code: Professional Cloud Architect
- Exam Name: Google Certified Professional – Cloud Architect (GCP)
- Certification Provider: Google
- Latest update: Jul 23,2025
You have an outage in your Compute Engine managed instance group: all instance keep restarting after 5 seconds. You have a health check configured, but autoscaling is disabled. Your colleague, who is a Linux expert, offered to look into the issue. You need to make sure that he can access the VMs .
What should you do?
- A . Grant your colleague the IAM role of project Viewer
- B . Perform a rolling restart on the instance group
- C . Disable the health check for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH keys
- D . Disable autoscaling for the instance group. Add his SSH key to the project-wide SSH Keys
Your operations team has asked you to help diagnose a performance issue in a production application that runs on Compute Engine. The application is dropping requests that reach it
when under heavy load. The process list for affected instances shows a single application process that is consuming all available CPU, and autoscaling has reached the upper limit of instances. There is no abnormal load on any other related systems, including the database. You want to allow production traffic to be served again as quickly as possible .
Which action should you recommend?
- A . Change the autoscaling metric to agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used.
- B . Restart the affected instances on a staggered schedule.
- C . SSH to each instance and restart the application process.
- D . Increase the maximum number of instances in the autoscaling group.
You are implementing a single Cloud SQL MySQL second-generation database that contains business-critical transaction data. You want to ensure that the minimum amount of data is lost in case of catastrophic failure .
Which two features should you implement? (Choose two.)
- A . Sharding
- B . Read replicas
- C . Binary logging
- D . Automated backups
- E . Semisynchronous replication
The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database server running on Google Compute Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their performance statistics and is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8 virtual machine with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk .
What should they change to get better performance from this system?
- A . Increase the virtual machine’s memory to 64 GB.
- B . Create a new virtual machine running PostgreSQL.
- C . Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB.
- D . Migrate their performance metrics warehouse to BigQuery.
- E . Modify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database.
Your BigQuery project has several users. For audit purposes, you need to see how many queries each user ran in the last month.
- A . Connect Google Data Studio to BigQuery. Create a dimension for the users and a metric for the amount of queries per user.
- B . In the BigQuery interface, execute a query on the JOBS table to get the required information.
- C . Use ‘bq show’ to list all jobs. Per job, use ‘bq Is’ to list job information and get the required information.
- D . Use Cloud Audit Logging to view Cloud Audit Logs, and create a filter on the query
operation to get the required information.
A recent audit that a new network was created in Your GCP project. In this network, a GCE instance has an SSH port open the world. You want to discover this network’s origin .
What should you do?
- A . Search for Create VM entry in the Stackdriver alerting console.
- B . Navigate to the Activity page in the Home section. Set category to Data Access and search for Create VM entry.
- C . In the logging section of the console, specify GCE Network as the logging section.
Search for the Create Insert entry. - D . Connect to the GCE instance using project SSH Keys. Identify previous logins in system logs, and match these with the project owners list.