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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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Mountkirk Games wants you to secure the connectivity from the new gaming application platform to Google

Cloud. You want to streamline the process and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A.

Configure Workload Identity and service accounts to be used by the application platform.

B.

Use Kubernetes Secrets, which are obfuscated by default. Configure these Secrets to be used by the

application platform.

C.

Configure Kubernetes Secrets to store the secret, enable Application-Layer Secrets Encryption, and use

Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to

be used by the application platform.

D.

Configure HashiCorp Vault on Compute Engine, and use customer managed encryption keys and Cloud

Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) to manage the encryption keys. Configure these Secrets to be used

by the application platform.

You need to implement a network ingress for a new game that meets the defined business and technical

requirements. Mountkirk Games wants each regional game instance to be located in multiple Google Cloud

regions. What should you do?

A.

Configure a global load balancer connected to a managed instance group running Compute Engine

instances.

B.

Configure kubemci with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

C.

Configure a global load balancer with Google Kubernetes Engine.

D.

Configure Ingress for Anthos with a global load balancer and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Your development team has created a mobile game app. You want to test the new mobile app on Android and

iOS devices with a variety of configurations. You need to ensure that testing is efficient and cost-effective. What

should you do?

A.

Upload your mobile app to the Firebase Test Lab, and test the mobile app on Android and iOS devices.

B.

Create Android and iOS VMs on Google Cloud, install the mobile app on the VMs, and test the mobile app.

C.

Create Android and iOS containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), install the mobile app on the

containers, and test the mobile app.

D.

Upload your mobile app with different configurations to Firebase Hosting and test each configuration.

You need to optimize batch file transfers into Cloud Storage for Mountkirk Games’ new Google Cloud solution.

The batch files contain game statistics that need to be staged in Cloud Storage and be processed by an extract

transform load (ETL) tool. What should you do?

A.

Use gsutil to batch move files in sequence.

B.

Use gsutil to batch copy the files in parallel.

C.

Use gsutil to extract the files as the first part of ETL.

D.

Use gsutil to load the files as the last part of ETL.

You are implementing Firestore for Mountkirk Games. Mountkirk Games wants to give a new game

programmatic access to a legacy game ' s Firestore database. Access should be as restricted as possible. What

should you do?

A.

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game ' s Google Cloud project, add this SA in the new game ' s IAM page, and then give it the Firebase Admin role in both projects

B.

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game ' s Google Cloud project, add a second SA in the new game ' s IAM page, and then give the Organization Admin role to both SAs

C.

Create a service account (SA) in the legacy game ' s Google Cloud project, give it the Firebase Admin role, and then migrate the new game to the legacy game ' s project.

D.

Create a service account (SA) in the lgacy game ' s Google Cloud project, give the SA the Organization Admin rule and then give it the Firebase Admin role in both projects

Your development teams release new versions of games running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) daily.

You want to create service level indicators (SLIs) to evaluate the quality of the new versions from the user’s

perspective. What should you do?

A.

Create CPU Utilization and Request Latency as service level indicators.

B.

Create GKE CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization as service level indicators.

C.

Create Request Latency and Error Rate as service level indicators.

D.

Create Server Uptime and Error Rate as service level indicators.

Mountkirk Games wants to limit the physical location of resources to their operating Google Cloud regions.

What should you do?

A.

Configure an organizational policy which constrains where resources can be deployed.

B.

Configure IAM conditions to limit what resources can be configured.

C.

Configure the quotas for resources in the regions not being used to 0.

D.

Configure a custom alert in Cloud Monitoring so you can disable resources as they are created in other

regions.

TerramEarth has about 1 petabyte (PB) of vehicle testing data in a private data center. You want to move the data to Cloud Storage for your machine learning team. Currently, a 1-Gbps interconnect link is available for you. The machine learning team wants to start using the data in a month. What should you do?

A.

Request Transfer Appliances from Google Cloud, export the data to appliances, and return the appliances to Google Cloud.

B.

Configure the Storage Transfer service from Google Cloud to send the data from your data center to Cloud Storage

C.

Make sure there are no other users consuming the 1 Gbps link, and use multi-thread transfer to upload the data to Cloud Storage.

D.

Export files to an encrypted USB device, send the device to Google Cloud, and request an import of the data to Cloud Storage

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. You need to implement a reliable, scalable GCP solution for the data warehouse for your company, TerramEarth. Considering the TerramEarth business and technical requirements, what should you do?

A.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use table partitioning.

B.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs.

C.

Replace the existing data warehouse with BigQuery. Use federated data sources.

D.

Replace the existing data warehouse with a Compute Engine instance with 96 CPUs. Add an additional Compute Engine pre-emptible instance with 32 CPUs.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. Considering the technical requirements, how should you reduce the unplanned vehicle downtime in GCP?

A.

Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and stream data into BigQuery using Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Dataflow. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.

B.

Use BigQuery as the data warehouse. Connect all vehicles to the network and upload gzip files to a Multi-Regional Cloud Storage bucket using gcloud. Use Google Data Studio for analysis and reporting.

C.

Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Upload gzip files to a MultiRegional Cloud Storage

bucket. Upload this data into BigQuery using gcloud. Use Google data Studio for analysis and reporting.

D.

Use Cloud Dataproc Hive as the data warehouse. Directly stream data into prtitioned Hive tables. Use Pig scripts to analyze data.

TerramEarth has a legacy web application that you cannot migrate to cloud. However, you still want to build a cloud-native way to monitor the application. If the application goes down, you want the URL to point to a " Site is unavailable " page as soon as possible. You also want your Ops team to receive a notification for the issue. You need to build a reliable solution for minimum cost

What should you do?

A.

Create a scheduled job in Cloud Run to invoke a container every minute. The container will check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the " Site is unavailable " page, and notify the Ops team.

B.

Create a cron job on a Compute Engine VM that runs every minute. The cron job invokes a Python program to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the " Site is unavailable " page, and notify the Ops team.

C.

Create a Cloud Monitoring uptime check to validate the application URL If it fails, put a message in a Pub/Sub queue that triggers a Cloud Function to switch the URL to the " Site is unavailable " page, and notify the Ops team.

D.

Use Cloud Error Reporting to check the application URL If the application is down, switch the URL to the " Site is unavailable " page, and notify the Ops team.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To be compliant with European GDPR regulation, TerramEarth is required to delete data generated from its European customers after a period of 36 months when it contains personal data. In the new architecture, this data will be stored in both Cloud Storage and BigQuery. What should you do?

A.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

B.

Create a BigQuery table for the European data, and set the table retention period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action when with an Age condition of 36 months.

C.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition expiration period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to enable lifecycle management using a DELETE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

D.

Create a BigQuery time-partitioned table for the European data, and set the partition period to 36 months. For Cloud Storage, use gsutil to create a SetStorageClass to NONE action with an Age condition of 36 months.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. A new architecture that writes all incoming data to

BigQuery has been introduced. You notice that the data is dirty, and want to ensure data quality on an

automated daily basis while managing cost.

What should you do?

A.

Set up a streaming Cloud Dataflow job, receiving data by the ingestion process. Clean the data in a Cloud Dataflow pipeline.

B.

Create a Cloud Function that reads data from BigQuery and cleans it. Trigger it. Trigger the Cloud Function from a Compute Engine instance.

C.

Create a SQL statement on the data in BigQuery, and save it as a view. Run the view daily, and save the result to a new table.

D.

Use Cloud Dataprep and configure the BigQuery tables as the source. Schedule a daily job to clean the data.

For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. TerramEarth has decided to store data files in Cloud Storage. You need to configure Cloud Storage lifecycle rule to store 1 year of data and minimize file storage cost.

Which two actions should you take?

A.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Delete”.

B.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Coldline”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”.

C.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “90”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Nearline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “91”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”.

D.

Create a Cloud Storage lifecycle rule with Age: “30”, Storage Class: “Standard”, and Action: “Set to Coldline”, and create a second GCS life-cycle rule with Age: “365”, Storage Class: “Nearline”, and Action: “Delete”.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has asked you for advice on how to migrate their on-premises MySQL deployment to the cloud. They want to minimize downtime and performance impact to their on-premises solution during the migration. Which approach should you recommend?

A.

Create a dump of the on-premises MySQL master server, and then shut it down, upload it to the cloud environment, and load into a new MySQL cluster.

B.

Setup a MySQL replica server/slave in the cloud environment, and configure it for asynchronous replication from the MySQL master server on-premises until cutover.

C.

Create a new MySQL cluster in the cloud, configure applications to begin writing to both on-premises and cloud MySQL masters, and destroy the original cluster at cutover.

D.

Create a dump of the MySQL replica server into the cloud environment, load it into: Google Cloud Datastore, and configure applications to read/write to Cloud Datastore at cutover.

You have broken down a legacy monolithic application into a few containerized RESTful microservices. You want to run those microservices on Cloud Run. You also want to make sure the services are highly available with low latency to your customers. What should you do?

A.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create Cloud Endpoints that point to the services. Create a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance and attach the Cloud Endpoints to its backend.

B.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple regions Create serverless network endpoint groups pointing to the services. Add the serverless NE Gs to a backend service that is used by a global HTIP(S) Load Balancing instance.

C.

Cloud Run services to multiple regions. In Cloud DNS, create a latency-based DNS name that points to the services.

D.

Deploy Cloud Run services to multiple availability zones. Create a TCP/IP global load balancer. Add the Cloud Run Endpoints to its backend service.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

At Dress4Win, an operations engineer wants to create a tow-cost solution to remotely archive copies of database backup files. The database files are compressed tar files stored in their current data center. How should he proceed?

A.

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

B.

Create a cron script using gsutil to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

C.

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service Job to copy the files to a Coldline Storage bucket.

D.

Create a Cloud Storage Transfer Service job to copy the files to a Regional Storage bucket.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win would like to become familiar with deploying applications to the cloud by successfully deploying some applications quickly, as is. They have asked for your recommendation. What should you advise?

A.

Identify self-contained applications with external dependencies as a first move to the cloud.

B.

Identify enterprise applications with internal dependencies and recommend these as a first move to the cloud.

C.

Suggest moving their in-house databases to the cloud and continue serving requests to on-premise applications.

D.

Recommend moving their message queuing servers to the cloud and continue handling requests to on-premise applications.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

Dress4Win has end-to-end tests covering 100% of their endpoints. They want to ensure that the move to the cloud does not introduce any new bugs. Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?

A.

They should enable Google Stackdriver Debugger on the application code to show errors in the code.

B.

They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.

C.

They should run the end-to-end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is working as intended.

D.

They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release causes to latency.

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study.

As part of their new application experience, Dress4Wm allows customers to upload images of themselves. The customer has exclusive control over who may view these images. Customers should be able to upload images with minimal latency and also be shown their images quickly on the main application page when they log in. Which configuration should Dress4Win use?

A.

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Use Google Cloud Datastore to maintain metadata that maps each customer ' s ID and their image files.

B.

Store image files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. Add custom metadata to the uploaded images in Cloud Storage that contains the customer ' s unique ID.

C.

Use a distributed file system to store customers ' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Assign each customer a unique ID, which sets each file ' s owner attribute, ensuring privacy of images.

D.

Use a distributed file system to store customers ' images. As storage needs increase, add more persistent disks and/or nodes. Use a Google Cloud SQL database to maintain metadata that maps each customer ' s ID to their image files.

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