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Professional-Cloud-Architect Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Free Practice Exam Questions (2026 Updated)

Prepare effectively for your Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) 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 2026, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.

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You are using a single Cloud SQL instance to serve your application from a specific zone. You want to

introduce high availability. What should you do?

A.

Create a read replica instance in a different region

B.

Create a failover replica instance in a different region

C.

Create a read replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone

D.

Create a failover replica instance in the same region, but in a different zone

You need to set up Microsoft SQL Server on GCP. Management requires that there’s no downtime in case of a data center outage in any of the zones within a GCP region. What should you do?

A.

Configure a Cloud SQL instance with high availability enabled.

B.

Configure a Cloud Spanner instance with a regional instance configuration.

C.

Set up SQL Server on Compute Engine, using Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover

Clustering. Place nodes in different subnets.

D.

Set up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups using Windows Failover Clustering. Place nodes in different zones.

Your organization uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to manage a complex Kubernetes environment across multiple cloud providers. You need to deploy a solution that streamlines configuration management, enforces security policies, and ensures consistent application deployment across all of the environments. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A.

Leverage Argo CD for GitOps-based continuous delivery and Open Policy Agent (OPA) for policy enforcement, and develop a controller for multi-cluster configuration management.

B.

Deploy Customize for configuration customization. Config Sync with multiple Git repositories, and a script to enforce security policies.

C.

Utilize Config Sync as part of GKE to synchronize configurations from a centralized repository, and utilize Policy Controller to enforce policies using OPA Gatekeeper.

D.

Deploy Crossplane for managing cloud resources as Kubernetes objects. FluxCD for GitOps-based configuration synchronization, and Kyverno for policy enforcement.

You need to migrate Hadoop jobs for your company’s Data Science team without modifying the underlying infrastructure. You want to minimize costs and infrastructure management effort. What should you do?

A.

Create a Dataproc cluster using standard worker instances.

B.

Create a Dataproc cluster using spot worker instances.

C.

Manually deploy a Hadoop cluster on Compute Engine using standard instances.

D.

Manually deploy a Hadoop cluster on Compute Engine using preemptible instances.

Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles.

You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation.

Which two architecture should you consider?

Choose 2 answers:

A.

Treat every micro service call between modules on the vehicle as untrusted.

B.

Require IPv6 for connectivity to ensure a secure address space.

C.

Use a trusted platform module (TPM) and verify firmware and binaries on boot.

D.

Use a functional programming language to isolate code execution cycles.

E.

Use multiple connectivity subsystems for redundancy.

F.

Enclose the vehicle's drive electronics in a Faraday cage to isolate chips.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study

You analyzed TerramEarth's business requirement to reduce downtime, and found that they can achieve a majority of time saving by reducing customers' wait time for parts You decided to focus on reduction of the 3 weeks aggregate reporting time Which modifications to the company's processes should you recommend?

A.

Migrate from CSV to binary format, migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

B.

Migrate from FTP to streaming transport, migrate from CSV to binary format, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

C.

Increase fleet cellular connectivity to 80%, migrate from FTP to streaming transport, and develop machine learning analysis of metrics.

D.

Migrate from FTP to SFTP transport, develop machine learning analysis of metrics, and increase dealer local inventory by a fixed factor.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth's 20 million vehicles are scattered around the world. Based on the vehicle's location its telemetry data is stored in a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) regional bucket (US. Europe, or Asia). The CTO has asked you to run a report on the raw telemetry data to determine why vehicles are breaking down after 100 K miles. You want to run this job on all the data. What is the most cost-effective way to run this job?

A.

Move all the data into 1 zone, then launch a Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job.

B.

Move all the data into 1 region, then launch a Google Cloud Dataproc cluster to run the job.

C.

Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a multi region bucket and use a Dataproc cluster to finish the job.

D.

Launch a cluster in each region to preprocess and compress the raw data, then move the data into a region bucket and use a Cloud Dataproc cluster to finish the jo

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections. What should you do?

A.

Use one Google Container Engine cluster of FTP servers. Save the data to a Multi-Regional bucket. Run the ETL process using data in the bucket.

B.

Use multiple Google Container Engine clusters running FTP servers located in different regions. Save the data to Multi-Regional buckets in us, eu, and asia. Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket.

C.

Directly transfer the files to different Google Cloud Multi-Regional Storage bucket locations in us, eu, and asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process using the data in the bucket.

D.

Directly transfer the files to a different Google Cloud Regional Storage bucket location in us, eu, and asia using Google APIs over HTTP(S). Run the ETL process to retrieve the data from each Regional bucket.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

The TerramEarth development team wants to create an API to meet the company's business requirements. You want the development team to focus their development effort on business value versus creating a custom framework. Which method should they use?

A.

Use Google App Engine with Google Cloud Endpoints. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.

B.

Use Google App Engine with a JAX-RS Jersey Java-based framework. Focus on an API for the public.

C.

Use Google App Engine with the Swagger (open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for the public.

D.

Use Google Container Engine with a Django Python container. Focus on an API for the public.

E.

Use Google Container Engine with a Tomcat container with the Swagger (Open API Specification) framework. Focus on an API for dealers and partners.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study.

TerramEarth's CTO wants to use the raw data from connected vehicles to help identify approximately when a vehicle in the development team to focus their failure. You want to allow analysts to centrally query the vehicle data. Which architecture should you recommend?

A)

B)

C)

D)

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study

Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field How can you accomplish this goal?

A.

Have your engineers inspect the data for patterns, and then create an algorithm with rules that make operational adjustments automatically.

B.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and run locally to make operational adjustments automatically.

C.

Implement a Google Cloud Dataflow streaming job with a sliding window, and use Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to make operational adjustments automatically.

D.

Capture all operating data, train machine learning models that identify ideal operations, and host in Google Cloud Machine Learning (ML) Platform to make operational adjustments automatically.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study

Your development team has created a structured API to retrieve vehicle data. They want to allow third parties to develop tools for dealerships that use this vehicle event data. You want to support delegated authorization against this data. What should you do?

A.

Build or leverage an OAuth-compatible access control system.

B.

Build SAML 2.0 SSO compatibility into your authentication system.

C.

Restrict data access based on the source IP address of the partner systems.

D.

Create secondary credentials for each dealer that can be given to the trusted third party.

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. A recent finance audit of cloud

infrastructure noted an exceptionally high number of Compute Engine instances are allocated to do video

encoding and transcoding. You suspect that these Virtual Machines are zombie machines that were not deleted

after their workloads completed. You need to quickly get a list of which VM instances are idle. What should you

do?

A.

Log into each Compute Engine instance and collect disk, CPU, memory, and network usage statistics for

analysis.

B.

Use the gcloud compute instances list to list the virtual machine instances that have the idle: true label set.

C.

Use the gcloud recommender command to list the idle virtual machine instances.

D.

From the Google Console, identify which Compute Engine instances in the managed instance groups are

no longer responding to health check probes.

For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Recently HRL started a new regional

racing league in Cape Town, South Africa. In an effort to give customers in Cape Town a better user

experience, HRL has partnered with the Content Delivery Network provider, Fastly. HRL needs to allow traffic

coming from all of the Fastly IP address ranges into their Virtual Private Cloud network (VPC network). You are

a member of the HRL security team and you need to configure the update that will allow only the Fastly IP

address ranges through the External HTTP(S) load balancer. Which command should you use?

A.

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using a named IP list for Fastly.

B.

Apply a Cloud Armor security policy to external load balancers using the IP addresses that Fastly has published. C. Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for Fastly IP address ranges.

C.

Apply a VPC firewall rule on port 443 for network resources tagged with scurceiplisr-fasrly.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You are responsible for the security of data stored in

Cloud Storage for your company, Dress4Win. You have already created a set of Google Groups and assigned the appropriate users to those groups. You should use Google best practices and implement the simplest design to meet the requirements.

Considering Dress4Win’s business and technical requirements, what should you do?

A.

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Encrypt data with a customer-supplied encryption key when storing files in Cloud Storage.

B.

Assign custom IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Enable default storage encryption before storing files in Cloud Storage.

C.

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements.

Utilize Google’s default encryption at rest when storing files in Cloud Storage.

D.

Assign predefined IAM roles to the Google Groups you created in order to enforce security requirements. Ensure that the default Cloud KMS key is set before storing files in Cloud Storage.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Considering the given business requirements, how would you automate the deployment of web and transactional data layers?

A.

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Deployment Manager to Compute Engine. Deploy a Cloud SQL server to replace MySQL. Deploy Jenkins using Cloud Deployment Manager.

B.

Deploy Nginx and Tomcat using Cloud Launcher. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Deployment Manager scripts.

C.

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a Cloud Datastore server to replace the MySQL server in a high-availability configuration. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

D.

Migrate Nginx and Tomcat to App Engine. Deploy a MySQL server using Cloud Launcher. Deploy Jenkins to Compute Engine using Cloud Launcher.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Dress4Win is expected to grow to 10 times its size in 1 year with a corresponding growth in data and traffic that mirrors the existing patterns of usage. The CIO has set the target of migrating production infrastructure to the cloud within the next 6 months. How will you configure the solution to scale for this growth without making major application changes and still maximize the ROI?

A.

Migrate the web application layer to App Engine, and MySQL to Cloud Datastore, and NAS to Cloud Storage. Deploy RabbitMQ, and deploy Hadoop servers using Deployment Manager.

B.

Migrate RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to BigQuery, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage. Deploy Tomcat, and deploy Nginx using Deployment Manager.

C.

Implement managed instance groups for Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Compute Engine with Persistent Disk storage.

D.

Implement managed instance groups for the Tomcat and Nginx. Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL, RabbitMQ to Cloud Pub/Sub, Hadoop to Cloud Dataproc, and NAS to Cloud Storage.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. Which of the compute services should be migrated as –is and would still be an optimized architecture for performance in the cloud?

A.

Web applications deployed using App Engine standard environment

B.

RabbitMQ deployed using an unmanaged instance group

C.

Hadoop/Spark deployed using Cloud Dataproc Regional in High Availability mode

D.

Jenkins, monitoring, bastion hosts, security scanners services deployed on custom machine types

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. To be legally compliant during an audit, Dress4Win must be able to give insights in all administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources on Google Cloud.

What should you do?

A.

Use Stackdriver Trace to create a trace list analysis.

B.

Use Stackdriver Monitoring to create a dashboard on the project’s activity.

C.

Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy in all projects, and add the group of Administrators as a member.

D.

Use the Activity page in the GCP Console and Stackdriver Logging to provide the required insight.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.

What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?

A.

Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.

B.

Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.

C.

Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.

D.

Containerize the micro services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.

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