Google Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

Appendix A. Practice Exam

This appendix is a 30-question practice exam drawn from across all six sections of the Professional Cloud Architect exam guide, written in the scenario style you will meet on the real test. Set aside about an hour, work through all thirty questions before checking anything, and resist the urge to peek. A few questions ask you to choose two answers; those are marked. When you are done, score yourself against the “Practice Exam Answer Key”—each answer notes the Well-Architected Framework pillar it exercises so you can see where your weak spots are.

1. A Python development team is writing application code that reads and writes objects in a Cloud Storage bucket. They want to follow Google’s recommended approach for interacting with the Cloud Storage API from their app, minimizing boilerplate while using idiomatic Python conventions. What should they use?

   1. The Cloud Client Library for Cloud Storage in Python

   2. The older Google API Client Library for Python

   3. The gcloud CLI invoked from the application via subprocess calls

   4. Direct REST API calls to the Cloud Storage JSON API using an HTTP library

2. A retail analytics team stores a multipetabyte event table in BigQuery. The table grows by tens of billions of rows daily and is appended to continuously by streaming ingestion. More than 90% of analyst queries filter on an event timestamp range (usually one to seven days) and a specific customer_id; a smaller set of dashboards aggregates across all customers ...