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Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications Questions

Practice questions for Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications topic in Google Professional Cloud Developer. 72 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
easy

An internal HTTPS application should use application-level access control instead of relying only on network firewalls. Which service is designed for ...

Q2
hard

A team wants to validate a new Cloud Run revision in production before any user traffic reaches it, then gradually shift traffic over hours without re...

Q3
medium

Application data must be written to a serverless analytics platform for SQL analysis and machine learning workloads. Which service is the best destina...

Q4
medium

A multi-tier GKE application must prevent a compromised frontend Pod from reaching the billing service directly. What should be configured?

Q5
medium

An order service should return a response quickly and offload invoice generation to a worker, with configurable retries and rate control. Which servic...

Q6
easy

A media app must let temporary external users download one object from Cloud Storage without giving them Google accounts. What should the app generate...

Q7
hard

A developer set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to a credential file and also previously ran gcloud auth application-default login on the laptop. Which...

Q8
hard

A Cloud Run service sits behind a load balancer with IAP enabled. The team assumes the auto-assigned run.app URL is now protected. What should they do...

Q9
medium

A microservices platform needs mutual TLS between services and wants service-to-service telemetry without rewriting business logic. Which product fits...

Q10
easy

Developers want the same application code to authenticate locally and in production without changing the authentication logic. Which approach is desig...

Q11
easy

A gaming backend needs a fully managed in-memory cache for session data and leaderboard lookups with sub-millisecond access. Which Google Cloud servic...

Q12
medium

A team wants Google Cloud events filtered by source and type and then routed to serverless targets without managing event infrastructure. Which servic...

Q13
medium

An application team rotates database passwords regularly and wants versioned secrets, rollback support, and aliases for easier cutover. Which service ...

Q14
medium

A claims workflow must call several services in order, wait for one response, retry transient failures, and keep state between steps. Which service sh...

Q15
medium

An application running in AWS needs access to Google Cloud resources without storing a service account key. What should the team use?

Q16
medium

Several services need to react independently to the same business event, and producers must not wait for consumers. Which service should carry the eve...

Q17
medium

A team needs to invoke a cleanup endpoint every 15 minutes and wants a managed cron service. Which product should they use?

Q18
easy

Security wants deployments blocked unless container images satisfy a defined policy. Which Google Cloud product enforces that at deploy time?

Q19
hard

A long-running asynchronous workflow must reliably orchestrate multiple Google Cloud services with retries, error handling, and visibility into each s...

Q20
medium

A developer wants to deduplicate identical Pub/Sub messages so each message is processed once when possible. Which Pub/Sub feature should they enable?

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