Practice Associate-Cloud-Engineer Exam Online

Question 1

You have an application that is currently processing transactions by using a group of managed VM instances. You need to migrate the application so that it is serverless and scalable. You want to implement an asynchronous transaction processing system, while minimizing management overhead. What should you do?

A :

Install Kafka on VM instances to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use Cloud Run to process transactions.

B :

Install Kafka on VM Instances to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use VM Instances to process transactions.

C : Use Pub/Sub to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use VM instances to process transactions.

D : Use Pub/Sub to acknowledge incoming transactions. Use Cloud Run to process transactions.

Answer: D

Question 2

You have a managed instance group comprised of preemptible VM's. All of the VM's keepdeleting and recreating themselves every minute. What is a possible cause of thisbehavior?

A :

Your zonal capacity is limited, causing all preemptible VM's to be shutdown torecover capacity. Try deploying your group to another zone.

B : You have hit your instance quota for the region.

C : Your managed instance group's VM's are toggled to only last 1 minute inpreemptible settings.

D :

Your managed instance group's health check is repeatedly failing, either to amisconfigured health check or misconfigured firewall rules not allowing the healthcheck to access the instance

Answer: D

Question 3

You need to create a custom IAM role for use with a GCP service. All permissions in the role must be suitable for production use. You also want to clearly share with your organization the status of the custom role. This will be the first version of the custom role. What should you do?

A :

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘supported’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

B :

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘supported’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

C :

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘testing’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to ALPHA while testing the role permissions.

D :

Use permissions in your role that use the ‘testing’ support level for role permissions. Set the role stage to BETA while testing the role permissions.

Answer: A

Question 4

You are deploying an application to App Engine. You want the number of instances to scale based on request rate. You need at least 3 unoccupied instances at all times. Which scaling type should you use?

A : Manual Scaling with 3 instances.

B : Basic Scaling with min_instances set to 3.

C : Basic Scaling with max_instances set to 3.

D : Automatic Scaling with min_idle_instances set to 3.

Answer: D

Question 5

Your company has an internal application for managing transactional orders. The application is used exclusively by employees in a single physical location. The application requires strong consistency, fast queries, and ACID guarantees for multi-table transactional updates. The first version of the application is implemented inPostgreSQL, and you want to deploy it to the cloud with minimal code changes. Which database is most appropriate for this application?

A : BigQuery

B : Cloud SQL

C : Cloud Spanner

D : Cloud Datastore

Answer: B

Name:	Google Cloud Engineer Associate
Exam Code:	Associate-Cloud-Engineer
Certification:	Google Cloud Certified
Vendor:	Google
Total Questions:	346
Last Updated:	Apr 02, 2026

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