ACE Set A

Which GCP service below provides a direct physical connection between your GCP environment and your on-premises network using GCP network co-locations?

• Cloud VPN
• Carrier Peering
• Dedicated Interconnect
• Partner Interconnect

Steve is the cloud admin for Blue Widget Corp. He has been asked to configure a Kubernetes-hosted app so that it can be accessed internally by the GKE cluster. It will NOT be accessed from the public internet. Which service is suitable for exposing an internal IP address for apps that do not need to be accessed from the public internet?

• NodePort
• ClusterlP
• LoadBalancer
• ExternalName

Which of the following Kubernetes controllers should be used for maintenance operations that must run with exactly one pod running on each node?

• DaemonSet
• ReplicaSet
• StatefuISet
• Deployment

You want to configure autohealing for network load balancing for a group of Compute Engine instances that run in multiple zones, using the fewest possible steps. You need to configure re-creation of VMS if they are unresponsive after 3 attempts of 10 seconds each. What should you do?

• Create an HTTP load balancer with a backend configuration that references an existing instance group. Set the health check to healthy (HTTP)
• Create an HTTP load balancer with a backend configuration that references an existing instance group. Define a balancing mode and set the maximum RPS to 10.
• Create a managed instance group. Set the Autohealing health check to healthy (HTTP)
• Create a managed instance group. Verify that the autoscaling setting is on.

Jennifer is the cloud admin for the Blue Widget Corp. She has been asked to deploy a Kubernetes cluster so that the organizaton can perform some testing of a containerized app. After creating the cluster, her teams begins testing. Thirty days later, Jennifer's team informs her the the cluster appears to have been deleted. Nobody on the team has deleted the cluster. What is likely the cause of this?

• Jennifer deployed a private cluster with a 30-day window
• Jennifer deployed a zonal cluster
• Jennifer deployed a dev cluster
• Jennifer deployed an alpha cluster

You are deploying an application to App Engine. You want the number of instances to scale based on request rate. You need at least 3 unoccupied instances at all times. Which scaling type should you use?

• Manual Scaling with 3 instances.
• Basic Scaling with min_instances set to 3.
• Basic Scaling with max_instances set to 3.
• Automatic Scaling with min_idle_instances set to 3.

As the GCP admin in your organization, you need to perform some tasks using the Google Cloud SDK, using your Windows 10 workstation. To begin using the SDK on your workstation, you've created a Google Cloud Platform project, downloaded the Google Cloud SDK installer, and completed the installation. At this point, you need to initialize the SDK. Which command do you use to complete this task?

• initialize gcloud
• gcloud init
• gcloud start
• start gcloud

Every employee of your company has a Google account. Your operational team needs to manage a large number of instances on Compute Engine. Each member of this team needs only administrative access to the servers. Your security team wants to ensure that the deployment of credentials is operationally efficient and must be able to determine who accessed a given instance. What should you do?

• Generate a new SSH key pair. Give the private key to each member of your team. Configure the public key in the metadata of each instance.
• Ask each member of the team to generate a new SSH key pair and to send you their public key. Use a configuration management tool to deploy those keys on each instance.
• Ask each member of the team to generate a new SSH key pair and to add the public key to their Google account. Grant the compute.osAdminLogin role to the Google group corresponding to this team.
• Generate a new SSH key pair. Give the private key to each member of your team. Configure the public key as a project-wide public SSH key in your Cloud Platform project and allow project-wide public SSH keys on each instance.

Jennifer is the cloud admin for Blue Widget Corp. She has been asked to build out a cloud application in GCP that leverages the serverless architecture model. Which GCP service will be of most interest to her?

• Compute Engine
• Kubernetes Engine
• App Engine
• Direct Peering

You are using multiple configurations for gcloud. You want to review the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster of an inactive configuration using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?

• Use gcloud config configurations describe to review the output.
• Use gcloud config configurations activate and gcloud config list to review the output.
• Use kubectl config get-contexts to review the output.
• Use kubectl config use-context and kubectl config view to review the output.