Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer (PCD)

1. A developer is building a stateless HTTP microservice that needs to scale to zero when idle and handle unpredictable traffic spikes. The team wants minimal infrastructure management. Which Google Cloud platform is MOST appropriate?

2. A development team wants to decouple a monolithic application into microservices. Each service needs to react to events from other services without direct HTTP calls. Which Google Cloud service should they use to build this event-driven architecture?

3. A developer is building a Cloud Run service that needs to read a database password stored in Secret Manager. Which approach follows Google Cloud best practices for accessing the secret at runtime?

4. A startup is building a new mobile application that needs to store user profile data. The data is structured, relatively small in volume (under 10 GB), and requires simple key-value lookups with low latency. The team wants a fully managed solution with minimal operational overhead. Which Google Cloud storage service is the most appropriate choice?

5. A company runs a monolithic application on virtual machines that requires fine-grained control over the OS, custom kernel modules, and specific hardware configurations. Which Google Cloud platform is MOST appropriate?