Free Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer Exam Practice Questions & Explanations

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Question 1

You are using Google Kubernetes Engine with autoscaling enabled to host a new application. You want to expose this new application to the public, using HTTPS on a public IP address. What should you do?

Answer Options
Correct Answer: A
Explanation

Create a Kubernetes Service of type ClusterIP for your application. Configure the public DNS name of your application using the IP of this Service. is not right.

Kubernetes Service of type ClusterIP exposes the Service on a cluster-internal IP. Choosing this value makes the Service only reachable from within the cluster so you can not route external traffic to this IP.

Ref:https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/

Question 2

You've deployed a microservice called myapp1 to a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster using the YAML file specified below:

You need to refactor this configuration so that the database password is not stored in plain text. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Answer Options
Correct Answer: B
Explanation

https://cloud.google.com/config-connector/docs/how-to/secrets#gcloud

Question 3

You are using multiple configurations for gcloud. You want to review the configured Kubernetes Engine cluster of an inactive configuration using the fewest possible steps. What should you do?

Answer Options
Correct Answer: D
Explanation

kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.users[].name}' # display the first user

kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.users[*].name}' # get a list of users

kubectl config get-contexts # display list of contexts

kubectl config current-context # display the current-context

kubectl config use-context my-cluster-name # set the default context to my-cluster-name

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/

Question 4

You assist different engineering teams in deploying their infrastructure on Google Cloud. Your company has defined certain practices required for all workloads. You need to provide the engineering teams with a solution that enables teams to deploy their infrastructure independently without having to know all implementation details of the company's required practices. What should you do?

Answer Options
Correct Answer: D
Explanation

The goal is to enable teams to deploy infrastructure independently while ensuring compliance with company practices, without requiring teams to understand the underlying details of those practices.

Option A provides deployment capability but doesn't enforce practices. The Editor role is overly broad, and using the gcloud CLI directly requires knowledge of how to configure resources compliantly.

Option B requires teams to learn all the practices, contradicting the requirement that they don't need to know the implementation details.

Option C (Organization Policies) is useful for setting constraints (e.g., disallowing public IPs, restricting regions), but it doesn't provide pre-configured, deployable components that embody best practices. Teams still need to figure out how to build compliant resources within the policy constraints.

Option D (Terraform Modules): This approach encapsulates the company's required practices within reusable infrastructure-as-code modules. Engineering teams can then use these modules as building blocks, providing only the necessary input parameters (like application name orsize). The module handles the compliant implementation details internally. This allows teams to deploy independently and ensures compliance without needing deep knowledge of every practice.

Using standardized, compliant modules is a common pattern for enabling self-service infrastructure deployment while maintaining standards and governance.


Terraform Modules: 'Modules are containers for multiple resources that are used together... Modules allow complex resources to be abstracted away behind a clean interface.' - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/modules

Google Cloud Architecture Framework - Security, privacy, and compliance: Recommends using IaC and pre-approved templates/modules to enforce security configurations. - https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/security-privacy-compliance/define-and-enforce-security-configurations

Organization Policy Service: 'The Organization Policy Service gives you centralized and programmatic control over your organization's cloud resources... define constraints...' (Focuses on constraints, not providing deployable components). - https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/organization-policy/overview

Question 5

You will have several applications running on different Compute Engine instances in the same project. You want to specify at a more granular level the service account each instance uses when calling Google Cloud APIs. What should you do?

Answer Options
Correct Answer: A
Explanation

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service-accounts#associating_a_service_account_to_an_instance