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Question 1
A large healthcare provider's primary electronic health record (EHR) application runs on Compute Engine instances with a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database, all located in the us-west1 region. A new regulatory mandate requires you to implement and document a business continuity plan (BCP). This plan must ensure that the EHR application can be fully recovered and operational in a different geographical region with a recovery time objective (RTO) of two hours and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. You need to design a disaster recovery strategy that meets these strict BCP requirements. What should you do?
Question 2
Your company runs a critical, revenue-generating ecommerce application that is served by a regional managed instance group (MIG) behind an external HTTP(S) Load Balancer. The operations team is currently overwhelmed with low-priority notifications and is starting to ignore alerts. Your team's service level objective (SLO) is to maintain 99.9% availability, which is measured by the ratio of successful requests (2xx status codes) to total requests. You want to minimize noise from non-critical events and ensure that the team is only notified of issues that are actionable and threaten the SLO. What should you do?
Question 3
Your team runs a complex risk modeling application on Google Cloud for a financial services company. The application consists of a large, in-memory database that must be available 24/7 and a fleet of VMs that run thousands of independent, fault-tolerant simulation jobs. These simulation jobs are designed to be preemptible and can be restarted without losing significant progress. You need to optimize the cost of the compute resources for this app, maintain the required availability for the database, and ensure the simulation jobs are processed cost-effectively. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Question 4
You are designing the architecture for a stateless, public-facing, containerized web application. The marketing department uses this web application to run unpredictable flash sales that cause sudden, massive spikes in user traffic. The application is a critical revenue driver and must always be available and responsive to users. Your design must automatically handle high traffic fluctuations and allow for new application versions to be deployed with zero downtime and a safe, fast rollback capability. What should you do?
Question 5
You are a cloud architect for a company that has migrated its on-premises VMware workloads to a Google Cloud VMware Engine. The VMware workloads running in the VMware Engine need to communicate with a set of microservices running in a dedicated Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network following Google Cloud best practices. You have already established a private services access connection. You need to enable the VMware VMs to access the microservices in the VPC. What should you do?
Question 6
To improve governance and security, your organization has structured the Google Cloud environment using folders for different business units. Each business unit folder has subfolders for development, staging, and production environments, which must comply with internal security controls: Production workloads must be protected from direct internet ingress by default unless explicitly tagged. The application must be accessible to customers over HTTPS. You need to design a scalable and enforceable model that blocks internet ingress traffic to the production folders while selectively allowing direct HTTPS traffic to the necessary virtual machines. You must also ensure that individual project teams cannot overwrite these controls once they are implemented for all current and future production projects. What should you do?

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Professional Cloud Architect Exam Topics and Study Plan

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Use these topics from the linked official guide to plan your preparation for Professional Cloud Architect. Check the current guide before booking, because objectives can change.

  • Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture25%
  • Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure17.5%
  • Designing for security and compliance17.5%
  • Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes15%
  • Managing implementation12.5%
  • Ensuring solution and operations excellence12.5%

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