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Associate-Cloud-Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Prepare effectively for your Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.

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You need to select and configure compute resources for a set of batch processing jobs. These jobs take around 2 hours to complete and are run nightly. You want to minimize service costs. What should you do?

A.

Select Google Kubernetes Engine. Use a single-node cluster with a small instance type.

B.

Select Google Kubernetes Engine. Use a three-node cluster with micro instance types.

C.

Select Compute Engine. Use preemptible VM instances of the appropriate standard machine type.

D.

Select Compute Engine. Use VM instance types that support micro bursting.

You have one GCP account running in your default region and zone and another account running in a non-default region and zone. You want to start a new Compute Engine instance in these two Google Cloud Platform accounts using the command line interface. What should you do?

A.

Create two configurations using gcloud config configurations create [NAME]. Run gcloud config configurations activate [NAME] to switch between accounts when running the commands to start the Compute Engine instances.

B.

Create two configurations using gcloud config configurations create [NAME]. Run gcloud configurations list to start the Compute Engine instances.

C.

Activate two configurations using gcloud configurations activate [NAME]. Run gcloud config list to start the Compute Engine instances.

D.

Activate two configurations using gcloud configurations activate [NAME]. Run gcloud configurations list to start the Compute Engine instances.

You have experimented with Google Cloud using your own credit card and expensed the costs to your company. Your company wants to streamline the billing process and charge the costs of your projects to their monthly invoice. What should you do?

A.

Grant the financial team the IAM role ofג€Billing Account Userג€ on the billing account linked to your credit card.

B.

Set up BigQuery billing export and grant your financial department IAM access to query the data.

C.

Create a ticket with Google Billing Support to ask them to send the invoice to your company.

D.

Change the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company.

You are developing a new application and are looking for a Jenkins installation to build and deploy your source code. You want to automate the installation as quickly and easily as possible. What should you do?

A.

Deploy Jenkins through the Google Cloud Marketplace.

B.

Create a new Compute Engine instance. Run the Jenkins executable.

C.

Create a new Kubernetes Engine cluster. Create a deployment for the Jenkins image.

D.

Create an instance template with the Jenkins executable. Create a managed instance group with this template.

You have an application that is currently processing transactions by using a group of managed VM instances. You need to migrate the application so that it is serverless and scalable. You want to implement an asynchronous transaction processing system, while minimizing management overhead. What should you do?

A.

Install Kafka on VM instances to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use Cloud Run to process transactions.

B.

Install Kafka on VM Instances to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use VM Instances to process transactions.

C.

Use Pub/Sub to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use VM instances to process transactions.

D.

Use Pub/Sub to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use Cloud Run to process transactions.

You use Cloud Logging lo capture application logs. You now need to use SOL to analyze the application logs in Cloud Logging, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A.

Develop SQL queries by using Gemini for Google Cloud.

B.

Enable Log Analytics for the log bucket and create a linked dataset in BigQuery.

C.

Create a schema for the storage bucket and run SQL queries for the data in the bucket.

D.

Export logs to a storage bucket and create an external view in BigQuery.

You have a development project with appropriate IAM roles defined. You are creating a production project and want to have the same IAM roles on the new project, using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?

A.

Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify the production project as the destination project.

B.

Use gcloud iam roles copy and specify your organization as the destination organization.

C.

In the Google Cloud Platform Console, use the ‘create role from role’ functionality.

D.

In the Google Cloud Platform Console, use the ‘create role’ functionality and select all applicable permissions.

You are building a data lake on Google Cloud for your Internet of Things (loT) application. The loT application has millions of sensors that are constantly streaming structured and unstructured data to your backend in the cloud. You want to build a highly available and resilient architecture based on Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A.

Stream data to Pub/Sub, and use Dataflow to send data to Cloud Storage

B.

Stream data to Pub/Sub. and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.

C.

Stream data to Dataflow, and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.

D.

Stream data to Dataflow, and use Dataprep by Trifacta to send data to Bigtable.

You need to host an application on a Compute Engine instance in a project shared with other teams. You want to prevent the other teams from accidentally causing downtime on that application. Which feature should you use?

A.

Use a Shielded VM.

B.

Use a Preemptible VM.

C.

Use a sole-tenant node.

D.

Enable deletion protection on the instance.

You created several resources in multiple Google Cloud projects. All projects are linked to different billing accounts. To better estimate future charges, you want to have a single visual representation of all costs incurred. You want to include new cost data as soon as possible. What should you do?

A.

Configure Billing Data Export to BigQuery and visualize the data in Data Studio.

B.

Visit the Cost Table page to get a CSV export and visualize it using Data Studio.

C.

Fill all resources in the Pricing Calculator to get an estimate of the monthly cost.

D.

Use the Reports view in the Cloud Billing Console to view the desired cost information.

Your managed instance group raised an alert stating that new instance creation has failed to create new instances. You need to maintain the number of running instances specified by the template to be able to process expected application traffic. What should you do?

A.

Create an instance template that contains valid syntax which will be used by the instance group. Delete any persistent disks with the same name as instance names.

B.

Create an instance template that contains valid syntax that will be used by the instance group. Verify that the instance name and persistent disk name values are not the same in the template.

C.

Verify that the instance template being used by the instance group contains valid syntax. Delete any persistent disks with the same name as instance names. Set the disks.autoDelete property to true in the instance template.

D.

Delete the current instance template and replace it with a new instance template. Verify that the instance name and persistent disk name values are not the same in the template. Set the disks.autoDelete property to true in the instance template.

You want to host your video encoding software on Compute Engine. Your user base is growing rapidly, and users need to be able 3 to encode their videos at any time without interruption or CPU limitations. You must ensure that your encoding solution is highly available, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices to automate operations. What should you do?

A.

Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and increase the number of existing instances wnen CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.

B.

Deploy your solution on multiple standalone Compute Engine instances, and replace existing instances with high-CPUinstances when CPU utilization on Cloud Monitoring reaches a certain threshold.

C.

Deploy your solution to an instance group, and increase the number of available instances whenever you see high CPU utilization in Cloud Monitoring.

D.

Deploy your solution to an instance group, and set the autoscaling based on CPU utilization.

You created a Kubernetes deployment by running kubectl run nginx image=nginx replicas=1. After a few days, you decided you no longer want this deployment. You identified the pod and deleted it by running kubectl delete pod. You noticed the pod got recreated.

$ kubectlgetpods

NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE

nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt 1/1 Running 0 9m41s

$ kubectldeletepod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt

pod nginx-84748895c4-nqqmt deleted

$ kubectlgetpods

NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE

nginx-84748895c4-k6bzl 1/1 Running 0 25s

What should you do to delete the deployment and avoid pod getting recreated?

A.

kubectl delete deployment nginx

B.

kubectl delete –deployment=nginx

C.

kubectl delete pod nginx-84748895c4-k6bzl –no-restart 2

D.

kubectl delete inginx

Your company completed the acquisition of a startup and is now merging the IT systems of both companies. The startup had a production Google Cloud project in their organization. You need to move this project into your organization and ensure that the project is billed lo your organization. You want to accomplish this task with minimal effort. What should you do?

A.

Use the projects. move method to move the project to your organization. Update the billing account of the project to that of your organization.

B.

Ensure that you have an Organization Administrator Identity and Access Management (IAM) role assigned to you in both organizations. Navigate to the Resource Manager in the startup's Google Cloud organization, and drag the project to your company's organization.

C.

Create a Private Catalog tor the Google Cloud Marketplace, and upload the resources of the startup’s production project to the Catalog. Share the Catalog with your organization, and deploy the resources in your company’s project.

D.

Create an infrastructure-as-code template tor all resources in the project by using Terraform. and deploy that template to a new project in your organization. Delete the protect from the startup's Google Cloud organization.

You create a Deployment with 2 replicas in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster that has a single preemptible node pool. After a few minutes, you use kubectl to examine the status of your Pod and observe that one of them is still in Pending status:

What is the most likely cause?

A.

The pending Pod's resource requests are too large to fit on a single node of the cluster.

B.

Too many Pods are already running in the cluster, and there are not enough resources left to schedule the pending Pod.

C.

The node pool is configured with a service account that does not have permission to pull the container image used by the pending Pod.

D.

The pending Pod was originally scheduled on a node that has been preempted between the creation of the Deployment and your verification of the Pods’ status. It is currently being rescheduled on a new node.

(Your company is modernizing its applications and refactoring them to containerized microservices. You need to deploy the infrastructure on Google Cloud so that teams can deploy their applications. The applications cannot be exposed publicly. You want to minimize management and operational overhead. What should you do?)

A.

Provision a Standard zonal Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster.

B.

Provision a fleet of Compute Engine instances and install Kubernetes.

C.

Provision a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot cluster.

D.

Provision a Standard regional Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster.

You want to send and consume Cloud Pub/Sub messages from your App Engine application. The Cloud Pub/Sub API is currently disabled. You will use a service account to authenticate yourapplication to the API. You want to make sure your application can use Cloud Pub/Sub. What should you do?

A.

Enable the Cloud Pub/Sub API in the API Library on the GCP Console.

B.

Rely on the automatic enablement of the Cloud Pub/Sub API when the Service Account accesses it.

C.

Use Deployment Manager to deploy your application. Rely on the automatic enablement of all APIs used by the application being deployed.

D.

Grant the App Engine Default service account the role of Cloud Pub/Sub Admin. Have your application enable the API on the first connection to Cloud Pub/Sub.

Your company is moving from an on-premises environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You have multiple development teams that use Cassandra environments as backend databases. They all need a development environment that is isolated from other Cassandra instances. You want to move to GCP quickly and with minimal support effort. What should you do?

A.

1. Build an instruction guide to install Cassandra on GCP.2. Make the instruction guide accessible to your developers.

B.

1. Advise your developers to go to Cloud Marketplace.2. Ask the developers to launch a Cassandra image for their development work.

C.

1. Build a Cassandra Compute Engine instance and take a snapshot of it.2. Use the snapshot to create instances for your developers.

D.

1. Build a Cassandra Compute Engine instance and take a snapshot of it.2.Upload the snapshot to Cloud Storage and make it accessible to your developers.3.Build instructions to create a Compute Engine instance from the snapshot so that developers can do it themselves.

You have designed a solution on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that uses multiple GCP products. Your company has asked you to estimate the costs of the solution. You need to provide estimates for the monthly total cost. What should you do?

A.

For each GCP product in the solution, review the pricing details on the products pricing page. Use the pricing calculator to total the monthly costs for each GCP product.

B.

For each GCP product in the solution, review the pricing details on the products pricing page. Create a Google Sheet that summarizes the expected monthly costs for each product.

C.

Provision the solution on GCP. Leave the solution provisioned for 1 week. Navigate to the Billing Report page in the Google Cloud Platform Console. Multiply the 1 week cost to determine the monthly costs.

D.

Provision the solution on GCP. Leave the solution provisioned for 1 week. Use Stackdriver to determine the provisioned and used resource amounts. Multiply the 1 week cost to determine the monthly costs.

You are running multiple microservices in a Kubernetes Engine cluster. One microservice is rendering images. The microservice responsible for the image rendering requires a large amount of CPU time compared to the memory it requires. The other microservices are workloads that are optimized for n1-standard machine types. You need to optimize your cluster so that all workloads are using resources as efficiently as possible. What should you do?

A.

Assign the pods of the image rendering microservice a higher pod priority than the older microservices

B.

Create a node pool with compute-optimized machine type nodes for the image rendering microservice Use the node pool with general-purposemachine type nodes for the other microservices

C.

Use the node pool with general-purpose machine type nodes for lite mage rendering microservice Create a nodepool with compute-optimized machine type nodes for the other microservices

D.

Configure the required amount of CPU and memory in the resource requests specification of the image rendering microservice deployment Keep the resource requests for the other microservices at the default

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