Free Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer Exam Questions

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Total 346 Questions | Updated On: Apr 15, 2026

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Question 1

Your company runs its Linux workloads on Compute Engine instances. Your company will be working with a new operations partner that does not use Google Accounts. You need to grant access to the instances to your operations partner so they can maintain the installed tooling. What should you do?

A : Enable Cloud IAP for the Compute Engine instances, and add the operations partner as a Cloud IAP Tunnel User.

B : Tag all the instances with the same network tag. Create a firewall rule in the VPC to grant TCP access on port 22 for traffic from the operations partner to instances with the network tag.

C : Set up Cloud VPN between your Google Cloud VPC and the internal network of the operations partner.

D : Ask the operations partner to generate SSH key pairs, and add the public keys to the VM instances.

Answer: D

Question 2

You have an application on a general-purpose Compute Engine instance that is experiencing excessive disk read throttling on its Zonal SSD Persistent Disk. The application primarily reads large files from disk. The disk size is currently 350 GB. You want to provide the maximum amount of throughput while minimizing costs. What should you do?

A : Increase the size of the disk to 1 TB.

B : Increase the allocated CPU to the instance.

C : Migrate to use a Local SSD on the instance.

D : Migrate to use a Regional SSD on the instance.

Answer: C

Question 3

You have several hundred microservice applications running in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. Each microservice is a deployment with resource limits configured for each container in the deployment. You've observed that the resource limits for memory and CPU are not appropriately set for many of the microservices. You want to ensure that each microservice has right sized limits for memory and CPU. What should you do?

A : Modify the cluster's node pool machine type and choose a machine type with more memory and CPU.

B : Configure a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for each microservice.

C : Configure GKE cluster autoscaling.

D : Configure a Vertical Pod Autoscaler for each microservice.

Answer: C

Question 4

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.

Answer: B

Question 5

You have one GCP account running in your default region and zone and another account running in a nondefault 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.

Answer: A

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Total 346 Questions | Updated On: Apr 15, 2026

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