Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Questions and Answers
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GCP-PCA
600 questions
6 topics
Updated Jul 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
156 questions20 easy71 medium65 hard~25% of exam
A write-heavy application uses Spanner in a multi-region configuration, and most write traffic now comes from one geogra...A new cloud architecture should minimize baseline operational effort where possible. Which Well-Architected core princip...A company runs MySQL on Google Cloud and wants automatic zonal failover with the same connection string or IP address af...
Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure
108 questions12 easy48 medium48 hard~17.5% of exam
A web application is deployed in multiple regions and needs automatic multi-region failover, Cloud CDN integration, and ...A network architect is designing Cloud Interconnect for a mission-critical production workload and wants the highest doc...A company needs the highest Pub/Sub resilience to regional outages and is willing to pay more to keep latency as low as ...
Designing for security and compliance
108 questions14 easy49 medium45 hard~17.5% of exam
A regulated workload needs secrets replicated only to a custom set of regions selected by the organization. Which Secret...Which IAM role type should generally not be used in production because it is highly permissive and provides broad access...An application needs a managed service to store database passwords and API keys with versioning, rollback support, and f...
Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes
84 questions9 easy40 medium35 hard~15% of exam
Which of the four official PCA case studies explicitly requires a Human-in-the-Loop review interface so associates can a...A BigQuery dataset is in the Belgium region `europe-west1`, and the team wants to query a Cloud SQL database with a fede...Cymbal Retail wants associates to review, reject, or modify generated catalog suggestions before those suggestions updat...
Managing implementation
72 questions10 easy33 medium29 hard~12.5% of exam
A team creates a GKE regional cluster and later decides it wants to convert that cluster to a zonal cluster to reduce co...A database team assumes the standby instance in a Cloud SQL high-availability configuration can serve read queries to re...In the EHR Healthcare case study, the business wants to onboard new insurance providers quickly while keeping legacy int...
Ensuring solution and operations excellence
72 questions9 easy27 medium36 hard~12.5% of exam
A write-heavy Spanner multi-region deployment is showing higher write latency than expected. Which placement change is m...Which Google Cloud service can be used to monitor VPC Service Controls access patterns across service perimeters?A Cloud SQL high-availability failover occurs during a zonal outage. What should the application team expect?
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A write-heavy Spanner multi-region deployment is showing higher write latency than expected. Which p... | Ensuring solution and operations excellence | medium |
| 2 | A web application is deployed in multiple regions and needs automatic multi-region failover, Cloud C... | Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure | medium |
| 3 | Which of the four official PCA case studies explicitly requires a Human-in-the-Loop review interface... | Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes | easy |
| 4 | Which Google Cloud service can be used to monitor VPC Service Controls access patterns across servic... | Ensuring solution and operations excellence | easy |
| 5 | A team creates a GKE regional cluster and later decides it wants to convert that cluster to a zonal ... | Managing implementation | medium |
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