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 have an application deployed on Kubernetes Engine using a Deployment named echo-deployment. The deployment is exposed using a Service called echo-service. You need to perform an update to the application with minimal downtime to the application. What should you do?
You are designing the architecture for a stateless, public-facing, containerized web application. The marketing department uses this web application to run unpredictable flash sales that cause sudden, massive spikes in user traffic. The application is a critical revenue driver and must always be available and responsive to users. Your design must automatically handle high traffic fluctuations and allow for new application versions to be deployed with zero downtime and a safe, fast rollback capability. What should you do?
Your company is building a new architecture to support its data-centric business focus. You are responsible for setting up the network. Your company’s mobile and web-facing applications will be deployed on-premises, and all data analysis will be conducted in GCP. The plan is to process and load 7 years of archived .csv files totaling 900 TB of data and then continue loading 10 TB of data daily. You currently have an existing 100-MB internet connection.
What actions will meet your company’s needs?
You are a cloud architect for a global financial services company. Your primary production environment is in a VPC network in Google Cloud. Your company also operates a secondary VPC network in Google Cloud and a separate, smaller analytics workload in another major cloud provider. You need to design a network architecture that provides reliable, high-bandwidth connectivity between all three environments. Your goal is to use Google ' s private backbone as much as possible for all intercloud and inter-VPC traffic to ensure low latency and simplify network management. What should you do?
You are developing a retail application on Vertex AI that uses a large language model to give customers real-time product recommendations. The app uses text, code, images, audio, and video prompts to communicate with customers. You need to minimize the application ' s latency to ensure a responsive and delightful user experience. What should you do?
Your company has a networking team and a development team. The development team runs applications on Compute Engine instances that contain sensitive data. The development team requires administrative permissions for Compute Engine. Your company requires all network resources to be managed by the networking team. The development team does not want the networking team to have access to the sensitive data on the instances. What should you do?
You are the cloud architect for a team developing a new application that integrates with the Gemini API. You observe a sudden, massive spike in API costs and usage. An investigation reveals that a developer accidentally committed a service account key with Gemini API access to a public GitHub repository, and a malicious actor is using it. The on-call SRE immediately disabled the key, stopping the unauthorized usage. Your responsibility is to lead the post-incident review to prevent future credential leaks. What should you do?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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:
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?
For this question refer to the TerramEarth case study.
Which of TerramEarth ' s legacy enterprise processes will experience significant change as a result of increased Google Cloud Platform adoption.
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?
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For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You are responsible for ensuring that EHR ' s use of Google Cloud will pass an upcoming privacy compliance audit. What should you do? (Choose two.)
For this question, refer to the EHR Healthcare case study. You need to define the technical architecture for securely deploying workloads to Google Cloud. You also need to ensure that only verified containers are deployed using Google Cloud services. What should you do? (Choose two.)
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