Professional Cloud Developer Practice Test

Google-PCD Exam Format | Course Contents | Course Outline | Exam Syllabus | Exam Objectives

A Professional Cloud Developer builds scalable and highly available applications using Google-recommended practices and tools that leverage fully managed services. This individual has experience with cloud-native applications, runtime environments, developer tools, and next-generation databases. A Professional Cloud Developer also has proficiency with at least one general-purpose programming language and is skilled at producing meaningful metrics and logs to debug and trace code.

The Professional Cloud Developer exam assesses your ability to:
Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications
Build and test applications
Deploy applications
Integrate Google Cloud Platform services
Manage application performance monitoring

A Professional Cloud Developer builds scalable and highly available applications using Google-recommended practices and tools that leverage fully managed services. This individual has experience with cloud-native applications, runtime environments, developer tools, and next-generation databases. A Professional Cloud Developer also has proficiency with at least one general-purpose programming language and is skilled at producing meaningful metrics and logs to debug and trace code.

Section 1: Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications
1.1 Designing high-performing applications and APIs. Considerations include:
- Microservices
- Scaling velocity characteristics/tradeoffs of IaaS (infrastructure as a service) vs. CaaS (container as a service) vs. PaaS (platform as a service)
- Evaluating different services and technologies
- Geographic distribution of Google Cloud services (e.g., latency, regional services, zonal services)
- Defining a key structure for high-write applications using Cloud Storage, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, or Cloud SQL
- User session management
- Caching solutions
- Deploying and securing API services
- Loosely coupled applications using asynchronous Cloud Pub/Sub events
- Graceful shutdown on platform termination
- Google-recommended practices and documentation

1.2 Designing secure applications. Considerations include:
- Implementing requirements that are relevant for applicable regulations (e.g., data wipeout)
- Security mechanisms that protect services and resources
- Security mechanisms that secure/scan application binaries and manifests
- Storing and rotating application secrets using Cloud KMS
- Authenticating to Google services (e.g., application default credentials, JWT, OAuth 2.0)
- IAM roles for users/groups/service accounts
- Securing service-to-service communications (e.g., service mesh, Kubernetes network policies, and Kubernetes namespaces)
- Set compute/workload identity to least privileged access
- Certificate-based authentication (e.g., SSL, mTLS)
- Google-recommended practices and documentation

1.3 Managing application data. Tasks include:
- Defining database schemas for Google-managed databases (e.g., Cloud Firestore, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud SQL)
- Choosing data storage options based on use case considerations, such as:
- Cloud Storage-signed URLs for user-uploaded content
- Structured vs. unstructured data
- Strong vs. eventual consistency
- Data volume
- Frequency of data access in Cloud Storage
- Following Google-recommended practices and documentation

1.4 Refactoring applications to migrate to Google Cloud. Tasks include:
- Using managed services
- Migrating a monolith to microservices
- Google-recommended practices and documentation

Section 2: Building and Testing Applications
2.1 Setting up your local development environment. Considerations include:
- Emulating Google Cloud services for local application development
- Creating Google Cloud projects

2.2 Writing code. Considerations include:
- Algorithm design
- Modern application patterns
- Efficiency
- Agile software development
- Unit testing

2.3 Testing. Considerations include:
- Performance testing
- Integration testing
- Load testing

2.4 Building. Considerations include:
- Creating a Cloud Source Repository and committing code to it
- Creating container images from code
- Developing a continuous integration pipeline using services (e.g., Cloud Build, Container Registry) that construct deployment artifacts
- Reviewing and improving continuous integration pipeline efficacy

Section 3: Deploying applications
3.1 Recommend appropriate deployment strategies for the target compute environment (Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine). Strategies include:
- Blue/green deployments
- Traffic-splitting deployments
- Rolling deployments
- Canary deployments

3.2 Deploying applications and services on Compute Engine. Tasks include:
- Installing an application into a VM
- Modifying the VM service account
- Manually updating dependencies on a VM
- Exporting application logs and metrics
- Managing Compute Engine VM images and binaries

3.3 Deploying applications and services to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Tasks include:
- Deploying a containerized application to GKE
- Managing Kubernetes RBAC and Google Cloud IAM relationship
- Configuring Kubernetes namespaces and access control
- Defining workload specifications (e.g., resource requirements)
- Building a container image using Cloud Build
- Configuring application accessibility to user traffic and other services
- Managing container lifecycle
- Define deployments, services, and pod configurations

3.4 Deploying a Cloud Function. Types include:
- Cloud Functions that are triggered via an event (e.g., Cloud Pub/Sub events, Cloud Storage object change notification events)
- Cloud Functions that are invoked via HTTP
- Securing Cloud Functions

3.5 Using service accounts. Tasks include:
- Creating a service account according to the principle of least privilege
- Downloading and using a service account private key file

Section 4: Integrating Google Cloud Platform Services
4.1 Integrating an application with data and storage services. Tasks include:
- Read/write data to/from various databases (e.g., SQL, JDBC)
- Connecting to a data store (e.g., Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Bigtable)
- Writing an application that publishes/consumes data asynchronously (e.g., from Cloud Pub/Sub)
- Storing and retrieving objects from Cloud Storage
- Using the command-line interface (CLI), Google Cloud Console, and Cloud Shell tools

4.2 Integrating an application with compute services. Tasks include:
- Implementing service discovery in Google Kubernetes Engine and Compute Engine
- Reading instance metadata to obtain application configuration
- Authenticating users by using OAuth2.0 Web Flow and Identity Aware Proxy
- Using the command-line interface (CLI), Google Cloud Console, and Cloud Shell tools

4.3 Integrating Google Cloud APIs with applications. Tasks include:
- Enabling a Google Cloud API
- Making API calls with a Cloud Client Library, the REST API, or the APIs Explorer, taking into consideration:
- Batching requests
- Restricting return data
- Paginating results
- Caching results
- Error handling (e.g., exponential backoff)
- Using service accounts to make Google API calls

Section 5: Managing Application Performance Monitoring
5.1 Managing Compute Engine VMs. Tasks include:
- Debugging a custom VM image using the serial port
- Analyzing a failed Compute Engine VM startup
- Analyzing logs
- Sending logs from a VM to Cloud Monitoring
- Inspecting resource utilization over time
- Viewing syslogs from a VM

5.2 Managing Google Kubernetes Engine workloads. Tasks include:
- Configuring logging and monitoring
- Analyzing container lifecycle events (e.g., CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullErr)
- Analyzing logs
- Using external metrics and corresponding alerts
- Configuring workload autoscaling

5.3 Troubleshooting application performance. Tasks include:
- Creating a monitoring dashboard
- Writing custom metrics and creating metrics from logs
- Graphing metrics
- Using Cloud Debugger
- Reviewing stack traces for error analysis
- Exporting logs from Google Cloud
- Viewing logs in the Google Cloud Console
- Profiling performance of request-response
- Profiling services
- Reviewing application performance (e.g., Cloud Trace, Prometheus, OpenCensus)
- Monitoring and profiling a running applicationv
- Using documentation, forums, and Google support

100% Money Back Pass Guarantee

Google-PCD PDF Sample Questions

Google-PCD Sample Questions

Google-PCD Dumps
Google-PCD Braindumps
Google-PCD Real Questions
Google-PCD Practice Test
Google-PCD Actual Questions
Google
Google-PCD
Professional Cloud Developer
https://killexams.com/pass4sure/exam-detail/Google-PCD
Question: 39
Your teammate has asked you to review the code below. Its purpose is to efficiently add a large number of small rows to a BigQuery table.
Which improvement should you suggest your teammate make?
A. Include multiple rows with each request.
B. Perform the inserts in parallel by creating multiple threads.
C. Write each row to a Cloud Storage object, then load into BigQuery.
D. Write each row to a Cloud Storage object in parallel, then load into BigQuery.
Answer: B
Question: 40
You need to migrate an internal file upload API with an enforced 500-MB file size limit to App Engine.
What should you do?
A. Use FTP to upload files.
B. Use CPanel to upload files.
C. Use signed URLs to upload files.
D. Change the API to be a multipart file upload API.
Answer: C
Reference: https://wiki.christophchamp.com/index.php?title=Google_Cloud_Platform
Question: 41
Your company wants to expand their users outside the United States for their popular application. The company wants to ensure 99.999% availability of the
database for their application and also wants to minimize the read latency for their users across the globe.
Which two actions should they take? (Choose two.)
A. Create a multi-regional Cloud Spanner instance with "nam-asia-eur1" configuration.
B. Create a multi-regional Cloud Spanner instance with "nam3" configuration.
C. Create a cluster with at least 3 Spanner nodes.
D. Create a cluster with at least 1 Spanner node.
E. Create a minimum of two Cloud Spanner instances in separate regions with at least one node.
F. Create a Cloud Dataflow pipeline to replicate data across different databases.
Answer: BF
Question: 42
You have an application deployed in production. When a new version is deployed, some issues dont arise until the application receives traffic from users in
production. You want to reduce both the impact and the number of users affected.
Which deployment strategy should you use?
A. Blue/green deployment
B. Canary deployment
C. Rolling deployment
D. Recreate deployment
Answer: A
Reference: https://thenewstack.io/deployment-strategies/
Question: 43
You need to copy directory local-scripts and all of its contents from your local workstation to a Compute Engine virtual machine instance.
Which command should you use?
A. gsutil cp project my-gcp-project -r ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ zone us-east1-b
B. gsutil cp project my-gcp-project -R ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ zone us-east1-b
C. gcloud compute scp project my-gcp-project recurse ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ zone us-east1-b
D. gcloud compute mv project my-gcp-project recurse ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ zone us-east1-b
Answer: C
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/copy-files
Question: 44
You are deploying your application to a Compute Engine virtual machine instance with the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent installed. Your application is a unix
process on the instance. You want to be alerted if the unix process has not run for at least 5 minutes. You are not able to change the application to generate
metrics or logs.
Which alert condition should you configure?
A. Uptime check
B. Process health
C. Metric absence
D. Metric threshold
Answer: B
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/concepts-indepth
Question: 45
You have two tables in an ANSI-SQL compliant database with identical columns that you need to quickly combine into a single table, removing duplicate
rows from the result set.
What should you do?
A. Use the JOIN operator in SQL to combine the tables.
B. Use nested WITH statements to combine the tables.
C. Use the UNION operator in SQL to combine the tables.
D. Use the UNION ALL operator in SQL to combine the tables.
Answer: C
Reference: https://www.techonthenet.com/sql/union_all.php
Question: 46
Question: 47
Your website is deployed on Compute Engine. Your marketing team wants to test conversion rates between 3 different website designs.
Which approach should you use?
A. Deploy the website on App Engine and use traffic splitting.
B. Deploy the website on App Engine as three separate services.
C. Deploy the website on Cloud Functions and use traffic splitting.
D. Deploy the website on Cloud Functions as three separate functions.
Answer: A
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/splitting-traffic
Question: 48
You are planning to migrate a MySQL database to the managed Cloud SQL database for Google Cloud. You have Compute Engine virtual machine instances
that will connect with this Cloud SQL instance. You do not want to whitelist IPs for the Compute Engine instances to be able to access Cloud SQL.
What should you do?
A. Enable private IP for the Cloud SQL instance.
B. Whitelist a project to access Cloud SQL, and add Compute Engine instances in the whitelisted project.
C. Create a role in Cloud SQL that allows access to the database from external instances, and assign the Compute Engine instances to that role.
D. Create a CloudSQL instance on one project. Create Compute engine instances in a different project. Create a VPN between these two
projects to allow internal access to CloudSQL.
Answer: C
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/connect-external-app
Question: 49
You want to upload files from an on-premises virtual machine to Google Cloud Storage as part of a data migration. These files will be consumed by Cloud
DataProc Hadoop cluster in a GCP environment.
Which command should you use?
A. gsutil cp [LOCAL_OBJECT] gs://[DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME]/
B. gcloud cp [LOCAL_OBJECT] gs://[DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME]/
C. hadoop fs cp [LOCAL_OBJECT] gs://[DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME]/
D. gcloud dataproc cp [LOCAL_OBJECT] gs://[DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME]/
Answer: A
Explanation:
The gsutil cp command allows you to copy data between your local file. storage. boto files generated by running "gsutil config"
Question: 50
You migrated your applications to Google Cloud Platform and kept your existing monitoring platform. You now find that your notification system is too
slow for time critical problems.
What should you do?
A. Replace your entire monitoring platform with Stackdriver.
B. Install the Stackdriver agents on your Compute Engine instances.
C. Use Stackdriver to capture and alert on logs, then ship them to your existing platform.
D. Migrate some traffic back to your old platform and perform AB testing on the two platforms concurrently.
Answer: B
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/

Killexams has introduced Online Test Engine (OTE) that supports iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Mac. Google-PCD Online Testing system will helps you to study and practice using any device. Our OTE provide all features to help you memorize and practice test questions and answers while you are travelling or visiting somewhere. It is best to Practice Google-PCD Exam Questions so that you can answer all the questions asked in test center. Our Test Engine uses Questions and Answers from Actual Professional Cloud Developer exam.

Killexams Online Test Engine Test Screen   Killexams Online Test Engine Progress Chart   Killexams Online Test Engine Test History Graph   Killexams Online Test Engine Settings   Killexams Online Test Engine Performance History   Killexams Online Test Engine Result Details


Online Test Engine maintains performance records, performance graphs, explanations and references (if provided). Automated test preparation makes much easy to cover complete pool of questions in fastest way possible. Google-PCD Test Engine is updated on daily basis.

Read and Memorize these Google-PCD PDF Download

Killexams.com is a helpful resource for individuals who aim to achieve high marks in their exams and advance their careers. By registering and downloading their materials, you can ensure that you pass your Professional Cloud Developer exam with flying colors. Their Exam Questions are regularly updated, and you can access them through your account at any time.

Latest 2024 Updated Google-PCD Real Exam Questions

We provide Actual Google-PCD exam Questions and Answers Cram Guide in 2 formats: Google-PCD PDF document and Google-PCD VCE exam simulator. The Google-PCD real test is quite different from the Google exam, so simply reading the Google-PCD coursebook is not enough. You can download the Google-PCD Cram Guide PDF file on any device and even print Google-PCD real questions to make your own study guide. Our pass rate is high at 98.9% and the similarity between our Google-PCD questions and the genuine test is 98%. If you want to succeed in the Google-PCD exam in just one attempt, visit killexams.com to download the Google Google-PCD real exam questions. You can download the Google-PCD real questions PDF on any device such as iPad, iPhone, PC, smart TV, or Android to read and memorize the Google-PCD questions. However, just reading is not enough. You should invest as much time as possible in practicing the questions and taking tests with the VCE exam simulator. This will help you to remember the questions and answer them correctly, just as you would in a real test. With enough practice, you will improve your marks and be well-prepared for the genuine Google-PCD exam.

Tags

Google-PCD Practice Questions, Google-PCD study guides, Google-PCD Questions and Answers, Google-PCD Free PDF, Google-PCD TestPrep, Pass4sure Google-PCD, Google-PCD Practice Test, Download Google-PCD Practice Questions, Free Google-PCD pdf, Google-PCD Question Bank, Google-PCD Real Questions, Google-PCD Mock Test, Google-PCD Bootcamp, Google-PCD Download, Google-PCD VCE, Google-PCD Test Engine

Killexams Review | Reputation | Testimonials | Customer Feedback




As someone in the IT discipline, the Google-PCD exam was critical for me, but I had limited time to prepare. killexams.com Dumps helped me prepare within two weeks, allowing me to finish all the questions well before time. The easy-to-understand answers were like a complete reference guide, and I was astonished by the result.
Lee [2024-5-27]


When I was preparing for the Google-PCD exam, I had a hard time understanding the material. I tried to seek assistance from friends, but most of the material was vague and confusing. That's when I discovered killexams.com and their valuable material. The provided dump was unique, and I was able to answer all the questions with the correct choice. Thank you for bringing happiness to my career.
Lee [2024-6-18]


When I needed to obtain my Google-PCD certificate, I was in a rush to pass the exam. I turned to killexams.com for online help, and their material not only helped me pass the exam but exceeded my expectations.
Lee [2024-4-25]

More Google-PCD testimonials...

Frequently Asked Questions about Killexams Practice Tests


Does Killexams offer Live Chat Support?
Yes, killexams.com provides a live support facility 24x7. We try to handle as many queries as possible but it is always overloaded. Several agents provide live support but customers have to wait long for a live chat session. If you do not need urgent support you can use our support email address. Our team answers the queries as soon as possible.


Should I try this wonderful source of actual questions?
We recommend experiencing killexams brainpractice questions and study guides for your Google-PCD exam because these Google-PCD exam practice questions are specially collected to ease the Google-PCD exam questions when asked in the actual test. You will get good scores on the exam.

Where can I find free Google-PCD Practice Tests and questions?
Killexams online account is the best place where you can download up-to-date and latest Google-PCD brainpractice questions questions. Killexams recommend these Google-PCD questions to memorize before you go for the actual exam because this Google-PCD question bank contains to date and 100% valid Google-PCD question bank with the new syllabus. Killexams has provided the shortest Google-PCD practice questions for busy people to pass Google-PCD exam without reading massive course books. If you go through these Google-PCD questions, you are more than ready to take the test. We recommend taking your time to study and practice Google-PCD exam practice questions until you are sure that you can answer all the questions that will be asked in the actual Google-PCD exam. For a full version of Google-PCD brainpractice questions, visit killexams.com and register to download the complete question bank of Google-PCD exam brainpractice questions. These Google-PCD exam questions are taken from actual exam sources, that\'s why these Google-PCD exam questions are sufficient to read and pass the exam. Although you can use other sources also for improvement of knowledge like textbooks and other aid material these Google-PCD practice questions are sufficient to pass the exam.

Is Killexams.com Legit?

Sure, Killexams is completely legit plus fully good. There are several includes that makes killexams.com traditional and authentic. It provides knowledgeable and 100 % valid exam dumps that contains real exams questions and answers. Price is surprisingly low as compared to almost all services online. The questions and answers are modified on standard basis utilizing most recent brain dumps. Killexams account method and products delivery is rather fast. Document downloading can be unlimited and fast. Guidance is available via Livechat and E-mail. These are the characteristics that makes killexams.com a strong website that supply exam dumps with real exams questions.

Other Sources


Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Test Prep
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Cheatsheet
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer study tips
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Exam Cram
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Actual Questions
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer study help
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer study help
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer study tips
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer information search
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer exam contents
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer learn
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer questions
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer braindumps
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Free Exam PDF
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Exam Braindumps
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Cheatsheet
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer exam syllabus
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer study help
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Exam Questions
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer testing
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer PDF Questions
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer information search
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer real questions
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer learn
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer boot camp
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Dumps
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer testing
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer testing
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Practice Test
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Exam Questions
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Free PDF
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer PDF Download
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Free PDF
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer testing
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Question Bank
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer study help
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Free PDF
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer guide
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer testing
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer syllabus
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Dumps
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer Question Bank
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer boot camp
Google-PCD - Professional Cloud Developer exam syllabus

Which is the best testprep site of 2024?

There are several Questions and Answers provider in the market claiming that they provide Real Exam Questions, Braindumps, Practice Tests, Study Guides, cheat sheet and many other names, but most of them are re-sellers that do not update their contents frequently. Killexams.com is best website of Year 2024 that understands the issue candidates face when they spend their time studying obsolete contents taken from free pdf download sites or reseller sites. That is why killexams update Exam Questions and Answers with the same frequency as they are updated in Real Test. Testprep provided by killexams.com are Reliable, Up-to-date and validated by Certified Professionals. They maintain Question Bank of valid Questions that is kept up-to-date by checking update on daily basis.

If you want to Pass your Exam Fast with improvement in your knowledge about latest course contents and topics, We recommend to Download PDF Exam Questions from killexams.com and get ready for actual exam. When you feel that you should register for Premium Version, Just choose visit killexams.com and register, you will receive your Username/Password in your Email within 5 to 10 minutes. All the future updates and changes in Questions and Answers will be provided in your Download Account. You can download Premium Exam questions files as many times as you want, There is no limit.

Killexams.com has provided VCE Practice Test Software to Practice your Exam by Taking Test Frequently. It asks the Real Exam Questions and Marks Your Progress. You can take test as many times as you want. There is no limit. It will make your test prep very fast and effective. When you start getting 100% Marks with complete Pool of Questions, you will be ready to take Actual Test. Go register for Test in Test Center and Enjoy your Success.