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Free GCP PCA mock test – Exam 2

Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect

Free Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect practice exam for GCP certification prep.

Q: Is this Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect practice exam free?

Yes. This Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect mock test is free to open, answer, and retake.

Use this free GCP Professional Cloud Architect practice exam to review networking, compute, storage, IAM, security, observability, deployment, and production architecture tradeoffs.

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Start Practice Exam 2 below. Answer each question first, then review the detailed explanation for every option to understand the Google Cloud cloud architecture pattern behind the answer.

Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2

Free Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect practice exam 2 with GCP networking, storage, security, deployment, and observability scenarios.

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An HTTP(S) load balancer uses an autoscaling managed instance group whose VMs do not have public IPs. Instances are repeatedly terminated and recreated, even though curl from inside the network returns the expected web response. What should you check first?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Allow public HTTP and HTTPS traffic to reach the load balancer frontend.

B. Assign a public IP address to every backend VM.

C. Create a firewall rule that allows Google Cloud load balancer health checks to reach the backend instances on the health check port.

D. Use the load balancer name as the firewall source and the instance tag as the destination.

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A weather application receives time-series readings from 50,000 sensors, each sending 10 readings per second. The app needs accurate real-time charting and high write throughput. Where should the data be stored?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. BigQuery

B. Cloud SQL

C. Cloud Bigtable

D. Cloud Storage objects only

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A MySQL database on Compute Engine uses an n1-standard-8 VM with an 80 GB SSD persistent disk. The DBA team wants better disk performance for importing and normalizing performance statistics. What should they change first?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Increase VM memory only.

B. Migrate immediately from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

C. Resize the SSD persistent disk to a larger capacity such as 500 GB.

D. Move the workload to BigQuery without further tuning.

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A security team needs detailed visibility across every project in the Google Cloud organization, but should not be able to change resources. Which IAM roles should you grant?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Organization Viewer and Project Owner.

B. Organization Viewer and Project Viewer.

C. Organization Admin and Project Browser.

D. Project Owner and Network Admin.

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A company values release speed and agility but wants to reduce the chance of security issues being introduced accidentally. Which two controls fit best in the CI/CD pipeline? (Choose TWO.)

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Require every code check-in to be peer reviewed by a security specialist.

B. Run source-code security analyzers as part of CI/CD.

C. Only add unit-test stubs for interfaces.

D. Rely only on signed binaries and skip vulnerability checks.

E. Run vulnerability scanning as part of the CI/CD pipeline.

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A team must load test services that run on Compute Engine and use Cloud Bigtable. Which three requirements should be included? (Choose THREE.)

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Validate Cloud Bigtable performance under expected load.

B. Use a separate Google Cloud project for the load-testing environment.

C. Schedule regular load tests directly against production as the primary practice.

D. Require all third-party systems to absorb full load during every test.

E. Record every production transaction for replay.

F. Instrument the load-testing tool and target services with detailed logging and metrics.

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You need to copy a production Linux VM from us-central to a different project in us-east, and you want the copy to be easy to manage and replace when the production VM changes. What should you do?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Use dd and netcat to stream the root disk directly to a new VM.

B. Create a snapshot and directly select it as the root disk for the new VM in the other region and project.

C. Create an image file manually with dd, then create a disk from that file.

D. Create a snapshot of the root disk, create an image from the snapshot, and create the new VM from that image in the target project and region.

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A MySQL instance hosts several databases. The team needs frequent backups of one specific database. Backups must complete quickly and must not consume persistent disk IOPS during backup creation. How should storage be configured?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Use persistent disk snapshots with a cron job for the individual database.

B. Stage database dumps on a Local SSD, then copy the completed backup to Cloud Storage.

C. Mount Cloud Storage with gcsfuse and write mysqldump output directly to it.

D. Use RAID10 persistent disks and LVM snapshots for every backup.

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A backend service writes large debug event records to Cloud Storage at up to 3,000 events per second. Objects range from 50 KB to 15 MB. You want to minimize data loss and avoid write hot spots. What object naming approach should you use?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Use serverName-timestamp object names.

B. Batch all events into one daily archive with a manifest.

C. Use serverName-sequentialNumber object names.

D. Compress individual event files and use object names with a random prefix pattern in a single bucket.

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Question

A company is revising a public API. Old and new versions must both remain available using the same SSL certificate and DNS records, while new customers test the new API. What should they do?

Which option meets the requirement?

A. Create a separate load balancer and certificate for the new API.

B. Force old clients to use a new endpoint.

C. Have the old API forward requests to the new API.

D. Use URL maps with separate backend services or backend pools for each API path behind the same HTTP(S) load balancer.

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What Practice Exam 2 covers

Load balancer health checks, URL maps, WebSockets, and API path routing
Bigtable, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and Dataproc service selection
Cloud IAM least privilege, PCI tokenization, and CI/CD vulnerability scanning
Snapshots, images, Local SSD staging, and high-throughput Cloud Storage naming
Trace, logging, blue-green releases, microservices, and production rollback reduction

Who should take this free mock test

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FAQ

Is this Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect practice exam free?

Yes. This GCP PCA mock test is free to open and retake for certification study.

Does the free practice exam include explanations?

Yes. Each question includes detailed explanations for the correct and incorrect options so you can learn the service tradeoff, not just memorize an answer.

How should I review missed questions?

Read every option explanation, map the scenario to the relevant Google Cloud service, then revisit the matching networking, compute, storage, IAM, security, observability, or reliability topic before retaking the free practice exam.

Free Google Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2 | GCP PCA Mock Test

Free Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect practice exam for GCP certification prep.

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Is this Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect practice exam free?

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