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Google Professional Cloud Developer - 340 Questions

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Complete question bank for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer (PCD) certification exam. Covers cloud-native application design, building and testing, deployment, and Google Cloud service integration.

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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?

A Compute Engine with a managed instance group and autoscaler
B Cloud Run
C Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
D App Engine Standard environment

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?

A Use Cloud Tasks to queue work items and have each microservice poll for tasks
B Use Pub/Sub topics so services publish events and other services subscribe to those topics
C Use Cloud Scheduler to periodically call each microservice's REST endpoint
D Use Eventarc to create event triggers for all inter-service communication

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?

A Assign the Cloud Run service's service account the Secret Manager Secret Accessor role, then reference the secret version in the Cloud Run service configuration so it is mounted as an environment variable at startup.
B Hardcode the database password as a build argument in the Dockerfile so the container always has access to the latest credential.
C Upload the database password to a private Cloud Storage bucket and have the application download it on each cold start.
D Pass the database password as a plain-text environment variable directly in the gcloud run deploy command without using Secret Manager.

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?

A Cloud Firestore
B Cloud Spanner
C Cloud Bigtable
D AlloyDB

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?

A Compute Engine
B Cloud Run
C Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
D Cloud Functions

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Questions 340
Time 2h
Difficulty Hard
Minimum Score 70.00%

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