Free Professional-Cloud-Developer Practice Test Questions and Answers (2026) | Cert Empire Practice Questions
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Q: 1
HipLocal's.net-based auth service fails under intermittent load.
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Q: 2
You need to containerize a web application that will be hosted on Google Cloud behind a global load
balancer with SSL certificates. You don't have the time to develop authentication at the application
level, and you want to offload SSL encryption and management from your application. You want to
configure the architecture using managed services where possible What should you do?
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Q: 3
You recently deployed your application in Google Kubernetes Engine, and now need to release a new
version of your application. You need the ability to instantly roll back to the previous version in case
there are issues with the new version. Which deployment model should you use?
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Q: 4
Your team develops stateless services that run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to
deploy a new service that will only be accessed by other services running in the GKE cluster. The
service will need to scale as quickly as possible to respond to changing load. What should you do?
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Q: 5
You are using Cloud Build to build a Docker image. You need to modify the build to execute unit and
run
integration tests. When there is a failure, you want the build history to clearly display the stage at
which the
build failed.
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Q: 6
You developed a JavaScript web application that needs to access Google Drive’s API and obtain
permission from users to store files in their Google Drives. You need to select an authorization
approach for your application. What should you do?
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Q: 7
Your company’s development teams want to use various open source operating systems in their
Docker builds. When images are created in published containers in your company’s environment,
you need to scan them for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). The scanning process must
not impact software development agility. You want to use managed services where possible. What
should you do?
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Q: 8
You are designing a schema for a table that will be moved from MySQL to Cloud Bigtable. The MySQL
table is as follows:
How should you design a row key for Cloud Bigtable for this table?
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Q: 9
You are building an API that will be used by Android and iOS apps The API must:
• Support HTTPs
• Minimize bandwidth cost
• Integrate easily with mobile apps
Which API architecture should you use?
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Q: 10
Users are complaining that your Cloud Run-hosted website responds too slowly during traffic spikes.
You want to provide a better user experience during traffic peaks. What should you do?
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Q: 11
You are developing an application that will store and access sensitive unstructured data objects in a
Cloud Storage bucket. To comply with regulatory requirements, you need to ensure that all data
objects are available for at least 7 years after their initial creation. Objects created more than 3 years
ago are accessed very infrequently (less than once a year). You need to configure object storage
while ensuring that storage cost is optimized. What should you do? (Choose two.)
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Q: 12
Which service should HipLocal use to enable access to internal apps?
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Q: 13
Your company has deployed a new API to a Compute Engine instance. During testing, the API is not
behaving as expected. You want to monitor the application over 12 hours to diagnose the problem
within the application code without redeploying the application. Which tool should you use?
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Q: 14
You manage an ecommerce application that processes purchases from customers who can
subsequently cancel or change those purchases. You discover that order volumes are highly variable
and the backend order-processing system can only process one request at a time. You want to ensure
seamless performance for customers regardless of usage volume. It is crucial that customers’ order
update requests are performed in the sequence in which they were generated. What should you do?
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Q: 15
Your company has a BigQuery dataset named "Master" that keeps information about employee
travel and
expenses. This information is organized by employee department. That means employees should
only be able
to view information for their department. You want to apply a security framework to enforce this
requirement
with the minimum number of steps.
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Q: 16
For this question, refer to the HipLocal case study.
HipLocal is expanding into new locations. They must capture additional data each time the
application is launched in a new European country. This is causing delays in the development process
due to constant schema changes and a lack of environments for conducting testing on the application
changes. How should they resolve the issue while meeting the business requirements?
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Q: 17
You are using Cloud Build to build and test application source code stored in Cloud Source
Repositories. The
build process requires a build tool not available in the Cloud Build environment.
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Q: 18
Your company just experienced a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) API outage due to a zone failure.
You want to deploy a highly available GKE architecture that minimizes service interruption to users in
the event of a future zone failure. What should you do?
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Q: 19
You are in the final stage of migrating an on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You are quickly
approaching your deadline, and discover that a web API is running on a server slated for
decommissioning. You need to recommend a solution to modernize this API while migrating to
Google Cloud. The modernized web API must meet the following requirements:
• Autoscales during high traffic periods at the end of each month
• Written in Python 3.x
• Developers must be able to rapidly deploy new versions in response to frequent code changes
You want to minimize cost, effort, and operational overhead of this migration. What should you do?
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Q: 20
You have written a Cloud Function that accesses other Google Cloud resources. You want to secure
the environment using the principle of least privilege. What should you do?
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