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Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | |
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| Exam Name: | Google Cloud Certified Professional - Cloud Architect Exam |
| Exam Number: | Professional-Cloud-Architect |
| Passing Score: | Not officially disclosed |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Real Exam Qty: | 50-60 |
| Exam Price: | USD 200 (plus tax where applicable) |
| Available Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Related Certifications: | Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer |
| Exam Format: | Case study-based questions, Multiple choice, Multiple select |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Recommended Training: | Google Cloud Architect Exam Guide Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Learning Path |
| Exam Registration: | Google Cloud Certification Registration |
| Sample Questions: | DOWNLOAD DEMO |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or onsite proctored at authorized test centers |
| Pre Condition: | No mandatory prerequisites; recommended 3+ years industry experience, including 1+ year designing and managing Google Cloud solutions |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/cloud-architect |
Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
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| Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture | 25% | - Evaluating and selecting Google Cloud services
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| Ensuring solution and operations excellence | 12.5% | - Implementing monitoring, logging, and observability
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| Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes | 15% | - Optimizing cost and resource efficiency
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| Managing implementation | 12.5% | - Testing and validating solutions
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| Designing for security and compliance | 17.5% | - Implementing identity and access management
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| Managing and provisioning solution infrastructure | 15% | - Configuring network topologies and connectivity
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Read Before You Register: Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Q&A
No mandatory prerequisites; recommended 3+ years industry experience, including 1+ year designing and managing Google Cloud solutions These conditions come from Google and can be revised, so confirm the current requirements on the official exam page: https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/cloud-architect — better a two-minute check than a wasted Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) registration.
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The Professional-Cloud-Architect exam is Google's official assessment leading to the Google Cloud Certified Professional - Cloud Architect certification, which sits at the Professional level. It validates job-ready, vendor-recognized skills — the kind employers screen for. It also belongs to a wider certification family that includes Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer, so it can anchor a longer credential roadmap.
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The Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) syllabus divides into 6 domains, led by Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes (15%), Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture (25%), Designing for security and compliance (17.5%). Heavier domains deserve heavier study time — the complete outline with every domain is listed above on this page.
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Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Sample Questions:
Your company is using BigQuery as its enterprise data warehouse. Data is distributed over several Google Cloud projects. All queries on BigQuery need to be billed on a single project. You want to make sure that no query costs are incurred on the projects that contain the data. Users should be able to query the datasets, but not edit them.
How should you configure users' access roles?
- A. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and BigQuery jobUser on the projects that contain the data.
- B. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery jobUser on the billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that contain the data.
- C. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the roles of BigQuery dataViewer on the billing project and BigQuery user on the projects that contain the data.
- D. Add all users to a group. Grant the group the role of BigQuery user on the billing project and BigQuery dataViewer on the projects that contain the data.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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You manage a highly distributed, hybrid- and multi-cloud IT environment and your developers rely heavily on Prometheus for their workflows. You need a cloud-based, highly scalable, low-maintenance enterprise solution that supports Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) queries, quick metric viewing, and efficient issue diagnosis. What should you do?
- A. Build a SaaS-based, Prometheus-compatible solution to display metrics for each cloud in a customizable way.
- B. Set up Cloud Monitoring as a single pane of glass across multi-cloud environments.
- C. Deploy a Prometheus operator in your existing Kubernetes and Serverless setup across multi-cloud environments.
- D. Enable Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to monitor and alert on your workloads at scale.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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For this question, refer to the JencoMart case study.
JencoMart has decided to migrate user profile storage to Google Cloud Datastore and the application servers to Google Compute Engine (GCE). During the migration, the existing infrastructure will need access to Datastore to upload the data. What service account key-management strategy should you recommend?
- A. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and for the GCE virtual machines (VMs).
- B. Authenticate the on-premises infrastructure with a user account and provision service account keys for the VMs.
- C. Provision service account keys for the on-premises infrastructure and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed keys for the VMs
- D. Deploy a custom authentication service on GCE/Google Container Engine (GKE) for the on-premises infrastructure and use GCP managed keys for the VMs.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants you to design a way to test the analytics platform's resilience to changes in mobile network latency. What should you do?
- A. Create an opt-in beta of the game that runs on players ' mobile devices and collects response times from analytics endpoints running in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world.
- B. Build a test client that can be run from a mobile phone emulator on a Compute Engine virtual machine, and run multiple copies in Google Cloud Platform regions all over the world to generate realistic traffic.
- C. Add the ability to introduce a random amount of delay before beginning to process analytics files uploaded from mobile devices.
- D. Deploy failure injection software to the game analytics platform that can inject additional latency to mobile client analytics traffic.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
All compute Engine instances in your VPC should be able to connect to an Active Directory server on specific ports. Any other traffic emerging from your instances is not allowed. You want to enforce this using VPC firewall rules.
How should you configure the firewall rules?
- A. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to deny all traffic for all instances. Create another egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic for all instances.
- B. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to deny all traffic for all instances. Create another egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic for all instances.
- C. Create an egress rule with priority 100 to allow the Active Directory traffic. Rely on the implied deny egress rule with priority 1000 to block all traffic for all instances.
- D. Create an egress rule with priority 1000 to allow the Active Directory traffic. Rely on the implied deny egress rule with priority 100 to block all traffic for all instances.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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