Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) - 340 Questions

1. A retail company is migrating its e-commerce platform to Google Cloud. The business requires 99.99% availability during peak shopping seasons and must ensure that a regional outage does not impact customer transactions. Which architecture best meets these requirements?

2. A startup is building a new SaaS product on Google Cloud. The team wants to minimize upfront infrastructure costs while retaining the ability to scale rapidly when customer demand grows. Which compute strategy best supports this business requirement?

3. A financial services company must store customer data in specific geographic regions to comply with data residency regulations. Which Google Cloud feature directly addresses this non-functional requirement?

4. A company's legacy on-premises application generates batch reports nightly by reading from an Oracle database and writing results to an NFS file share. The company wants to migrate to Google Cloud with minimal application code changes. Which disposition strategy applies here?

5. An architect is planning recovery objectives for a mission-critical order management system. The business states it can tolerate losing at most 1 hour of transaction data and that the system must be restored within 4 hours of a failure. Which pair of metrics captures these requirements?