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Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture Questions

Practice questions for Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture topic in Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect. 52 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
hard

A write-heavy application uses Spanner in a multi-region configuration, and most write traffic now comes from one geographic area. What should the arc...

Q2
easy

A new cloud architecture should minimize baseline operational effort where possible. Which Well-Architected core principle most directly supports that...

Q3
medium

A company runs MySQL on Google Cloud and wants automatic zonal failover with the same connection string or IP address after failover. Which option bes...

Q4
medium

A customer-facing API must scale quickly during spikes and tolerate hard restarts with minimal downtime. Which design approach best supports that requ...

Q5
medium

A media company needs cross-region redundancy for object storage, wants precise control over the two regions used, and needs a 15-minute replication t...

Q6
hard

A platform team wants Kubernetes API availability during control plane upgrades and resilience to a single-zone failure for production workloads. Whic...

Q7
easy

Which Well-Architected Framework pillar focuses on maximizing the security of data and workloads in the cloud while aligning with regulatory requireme...

Q8
medium

An enterprise needs low-latency, high-availability connectivity between its on-premises network and Google Cloud without traversing the public interne...

Q9
medium

A retailer wants teams to deploy components independently, apply different security controls to each subsystem, and tune cost per component. Which arc...

Q10
hard

A global payments platform needs a relational database that remains available during regional failures and offers serializable transactions with exter...

Q11
medium

An architect chooses the US multi-region for a BigQuery dataset and assumes that choice gives automatic cross-region redundancy during a regional outa...

Q12
easy

According to the Well-Architected Framework, which core principle recommends delivering small changes regularly and using fast feedback loops?

Q13
hard

In the EHR Healthcare case study, the company must maintain legacy interfaces with on-premises insurance providers and needs a secure, high-performanc...

Q14
easy

Which Google Cloud node sits at the top of the resource hierarchy for an enterprise customer?

Q15
easy

Which Google Cloud service provides a globally distributed, strongly consistent relational database with horizontal scale?

Q16
hard

An e-commerce platform expects highly variable global traffic and requires session affinity, regional failover, and integrated DDoS protection. Which ...

Q17
easy

Which Google Cloud service is the managed object storage offering for unstructured data such as files, media, and backups?

Q18
medium

A regulated workload must store data only in EU regions to meet residency requirements. Which design control most directly enforces this?

Q19
medium

Architects need redundancy across regions for object storage so a regional outage does not interrupt active-active reads, but they do not need to choo...

Q20
medium

A workload requires a managed document NoSQL database with mobile and web client SDKs and offline data sync. Which service should be selected?

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