- (Exam Topic 2)
You manage your company's ecommerce platform's payment system, which runs on Google Cloud. Your company must retain user logs for 1 year for internal auditing purposes and for 3 years to meet compliance requirements. You need to store new user logs on Google Cloud to minimize on-premises storage usage and ensure that they are easily searchable. You want to minimize effort while ensuring that the logs are stored correctly. What should you do?

1. A. Store the logs in a Cloud Storage bucket with bucket lock turned on.
2. B. Store the logs in a Cloud Storage bucket with a 3-year retention period.
3. C. Store the logs in Cloud Logging as custom logs with a custom retention period.
4. D. Store the logs in a Cloud Storage bucket with a 1-year retention perio
5. E. After 1 year, move the logs to another bucket with a 2-year retention period.

Correct Answer: C
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/buckets#custom-retention

- (Exam Topic 2)
You recently developed an application. You need to call the Cloud Storage API from a Compute Engine instance that doesn’t have a public IP address. What should you do?

1. A. Use Carrier Peering
2. B. Use VPC Network Peering
3. C. Use Shared VPC networks
4. D. Use Private Google Access

Correct Answer: D
https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/private-google-access

- (Exam Topic 2)
This architectural diagram depicts a system that streams data from thousands of devices. You want to ingest data into a pipeline, store the data, and analyze the data using SQL statements. Which Google Cloud services should you use for steps 1, 2, 3, and 4?

1. A. 1) App Engine2) Pub/Sub3) BigQuery4) Firestore
2. B. 1) Dataflow2) Pub/Sub3) Firestore4) BigQuery
3. C. 1) Pub/Sub2) Dataflow3) BigQuery4) Firestore
4. D. 1) Pub/Sub2) Dataflow3) Firestore4) BigQuery

Correct Answer: D

- (Exam Topic 2)
Your application is deployed in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. When a new version of your application is released, your CI/CD tool updates the spec.template.spec.containers[0].image value to reference the Docker image of your new application version. When the Deployment object applies the change, you want to deploy at least 1 replica of the new version and maintain the previous replicas until the new replica is healthy.
Which change should you make to the GKE Deployment object shown below?

1. A. Set the Deployment strategy to RollingUpdate with maxSurge set to 0, maxUnavailable set to 1.
2. B. Set the Deployment strategy to RollingUpdate with maxSurge set to 1, maxUnavailable set to 0.
3. C. Set the Deployment strategy to Recreate with maxSurge set to 0, maxUnavailable set to 1.
4. D. Set the Deployment strategy to Recreate with maxSurge set to 1, maxUnavailable set to 0.

Correct Answer: D

- (Exam Topic 2)
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?

1. A. gsutil cp --project “my-gcp-project” -r ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/ server-scripts/ --zone “us-east1-b”
2. B. gsutil cp --project “my-gcp-project” -R ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/ server-scripts/ --zone “us-east1-b”
3. C. gcloud compute scp --project “my-gcp-project” --recurse ~/local-scripts/ gcpinstance- name:~/server-scripts/ --zone “us-east1-b”
4. D. gcloud compute mv --project “my-gcp-project” --recurse ~/local-scripts/ gcpinstance- name:~/server-scripts/ --zone “us-east1-b”

Correct Answer: C
Reference: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/copy-files