Free Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer Exam Questions

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Question 1

Your company is moving its continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to Compute Engine instances. The pipeline will manage the entire cloud infrastructure through code. How can you ensure that the pipeline has appropriate permissions while your system is following security best practices?

A : • Add a step for human approval to the CI/CD pipeline before the execution of the infrastructureprovisioning.• Use the human approvals IAM account for the provisioning.

B : • Attach a single service account to the compute instances.• Add minimal rights to the service account.• Allow the service account to impersonate a Cloud Identity user with elevated permissions to create, update, or delete resources.

C : • Attach a single service account to the compute instances.• Add all required Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to this service account to create, update, or delete resources

D : • Create multiple service accounts, one for each pipeline with the appropriate minimal Identity andAccess Management (IAM) permissions.• Use a secret manager service to store the key files of the service accounts.• Allow the CI/CD pipeline to request the appropriate secrets during the execution of the pipeline.

Answer: B

Question 2

You have 32 GB of data in a single file that you need to upload to a Nearline Storage bucket. The WAN connection you are using is rated at 1 Gbps, and you are the only one on the connection. You want to use as much of the rated 1 Gbps as possible to transfer the file rapidly. How should you upload the file?

A : Use the GCP Console to transfer the file instead of gsutil.

B : Enable parallel composite uploads using gsutil on the file transfer.

C : Decrease the TCP window size on the machine initiating the transfer.

D : Change the storage class of the bucket from Nearline to Multi-Regional.

Answer: B

Question 3

You are writing a shell script that includes a few gcloud CLI commands to access some Google Cloudresources. You want to test the script in your local development environment with a service account in themost secure way. What should you do?

Answer:

Question 4

Your company's accounting department needs to run an overnight batch workload every day. You mustimplement a solution that minimizes the cost to run this workload and automatically retries the batch if anexecution fails. What should you do?

A : Develop an application that runs the batch workload, and deploy the application as a GoogleKubernetes Engine (GKE) CronJob.

B : Develop a web application that listens for incoming requests and deploy the application as a GoogleKubernetes Engine (GKE) Deployment. Use Cloud Scheduler to call the HTTP endpoint.

C : Develop an application that runs the batch workload, and deploy the application as a Cloud Run Job.Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger the Job.

D : Develop a web application that listens for incoming requests and deploy the application as a Cloud Runservice. Use Cloud Scheduler to call the HTTP endpoint.

Answer: C

Question 5

Your company wants to provide engineers with access to explore Google Cloud freely in a sandboxenvironment. The total budget for testing across your organization is $1,000. You need to ensure thatengineers are notified when the budget is about to be reached. You want to automate your solution as much aspossible. What should you do?

A : Configure a billing data export to a BigQuery dataset on the Cloud Billing account. Create a dashboard for all costs related to the sandbox experiments. Share the dashboard with all engineers.

B : Create a Google Cloud Folder and ensure that all sandbox projects are located under that Folder. Createa Budget Alert for $1,000 and scope it to the Folder. Configure an email alert to billing administratorsand users once the budget is 90% reached.

C : Create a separate Cloud Billing account for all sandbox projects. Link a credit card with a limit of$1,000 to this billing account. Ensure all sandbox projects are linked to this new Cloud Billing account.

D : Create an email template reminding people to regularly check their Google Cloud spend. Create aCloud Run function that sends the email to all the project owners. Create a daily job in Cloud Schedulerthat triggers the Cloud Run function. Deploy this solution for each sandbox.

Answer: B

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Total 346 Questions | Updated On: Apr 03, 2026

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