Google Certified Professional - Cloud Developer - Professional-Cloud-Developer Exam Questions [2025]

QUESTION NO: 1
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?

A. Create new Cloud SQL instances in Europe and North America for testing and deployment. Provide developers with local MySQL instances to conduct testing on the application changes. B. Migrate data to Bigtable. Instruct the development teams to use the Cloud SDK to emulate a local Bigtable development environment. C. Migrate data to Firestore in Native mode and set up instan D. Move from Cloud SQL to MySQL hosted on Compute Engine. Replicate hosts across regions in the Americas and Europe. Provide developers with local MySQL instances to conduct testing on the application changes.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 2
You have a web application that publishes messages to Pub/Sub. You plan to build new versions of the application locally and need to quickly test Pub/Sub integration tor each new build. How should you configure local testing?

A. Run the gclcud config set api_endpoint_overrides/pubsub https: / 'pubsubemulator.googleapi3.com.
coin/ command to change the Pub/Sub endpoint prior to starting the application B. Install the Pub/Sub emulator using gcloud and start the emulator with a valid Google Project ID. When developing locally, configure your application to use the local emulator by exporting the fuhsub emulator Host variable C. In the Google Cloud console, navigate to the API Library and enable the Pub/Sub API When developing locally, configure your application to call pubsub.googleapis com D. Install Cloud Code on the integrated development environment (IDE) Navigate to Cloud APIs, and enable Pub/Sub against a valid Google Project ID. When developing locally, configure your application to call pubsub.googleapis com

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 3
You migrated your applications to Google Cloud Platform and kept your existing monitoring platform. You now find that your notification system is too slow for time critical problems.
What should you do?

A. Install the Stackdriver agents on your Compute Engine instances. B. Migrate some traffic back to your old platform and perform AB testing on the two platforms concurrently. C. Use Stackdriver to capture and alert on logs, then ship them to your existing platform. D. Replace your entire monitoring platform with Stackdriver.

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 4
You want to migrate an on-premises container running in Knative to Google Cloud. You need to make sure that the migration doesn't affect your application's deployment strategy, and you want to use a fully managed service. Which Google Cloud service should you use to deploy your container?

A. Cloud Run B. Compute Engine C. Google Kubernetes Engine D. App Engine flexible environment

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 5
Your team is developing a Cloud Function triggered by Cloud Storage Events. You want to accelerate testing and development of your Cloud Function while following Google-recommended best practices. What should you do?

A. Install the Functions Frameworks library, and configure the Cloud Function on localhost. Make a copy of the function, and make edits to the new version Test the new version using cur1. B. Make a copy of the Cloud Function, and rewrite the code to be HTTP-triggered Edit and test the new version by triggering the HTTP endpoint. Send mock requests to the new function to evaluate the functionality. C. Make a copy of the Cloud Function in the Google Cloud Console Use the Cloud console's in-line editor to make source code changes to the new function Modify your web application to call the new function and test the new version in production. D. Create a new Cloud Function that is triggered when Cloud Audit Logs detects the cloudfunctions. functions. sourceCodeSet operation in the original Cloud Function Send mock requests to the new function to evaluate the functionality.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 6
Your application is built as a custom machine image. You have multiple unique deployments of the machine image. Each deployment is a separate managed instance group with its own template. Each deployment requires a unique set of configuration values. You want to provide these unique values to each deployment but use the same custom machine image in all deployments. You want to use out-of-the-box features of Compute Engine. What should you do?

A. Place the unique configuration values in the instance template instance metadata. B. Place the unique configuration values in a Cloud Bigtable table. C. Place the unique configuration values in the persistent disk. D. Place the unique configuration values in the instance template startup script.

Correct Answer: C

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QUESTION NO: 7
You are developing an event-driven application. You have created a topic to receive messages sent to Pub/Sub. You want those messages to be processed in real time. You need the application to be independent from any other system and only incur compute costs when new messages arrive. You want to configure the simplest and most efficient architecture What should you do?

A. Deploy your code on Cloud Functions. Use a Pub/Sub trigger to handle new messages in the topic. B. Deploy the application on Compute Engine. Use a Pub/Sub push subscription to process new messages in the topic. C. Deploy your code on Cloud Functions. Use a Pub/Sub trigger to invoke the Cloud Function. Use the Pub/Sub API to create a pull subscription to the Pub/Sub topic and read messages from it. D. Deploy the application on Google Kubernetes Engine. Use the Pub/Sub API to create a pull subscription to the Pub/Sub topic and read messages from it

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 8
You want to view the memory usage of your application deployed on Compute Engine. What should you do?

A. Install the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent. B. Install the Stackdriver Client Library. C. Use the Google Cloud Platform Console. D. Use the Stackdriver Metrics Explorer.

Correct Answer: D

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QUESTION NO: 9
You are deploying your application to a Compute Engine virtual machine instance. Your application is configured to write its log files to disk. You want to view the logs in Stackdriver Logging without changing the application code.
What should you do?

A. Provide the log file folder path in the metadata of the instance to configure it to send the application logs. B. Use a Stackdriver Logging Library to log directly from the application to Stackdriver Logging. C. Install the Stackdriver Logging Agent and configure it to send the application logs. D. Change the application to log to /var/log so that its logs are automatically sent to Stackdriver Logging.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 10
You are developing a microservice-based application that will be deployed on a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. The application needs to read and write to a Spanner database. You want to follow security best practices while minimizing code changes. How should you configure your application to retrieve Spanner credentials?

A. Configure the appropriate routing rules, and use a VPC-native cluster to directly connect to the database. B. Store the application credentials using Cloud Key Management Service, and retrieve them whenever a database connection is made. C. Configure the appropriate service accounts, and use Workload Identity to run the pods. D. Store the application credentials as Kubernetes Secrets, and expose them as environment variables.

Correct Answer: C

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QUESTION NO: 11
You plan to deploy a new application revision with a Deployment resource to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in production. The container might not work correctly. You want to minimize risk in case there are issues after deploying the revision. You want to follow Google-recommended best practices. What should you do?

A. Perform a rolling update with a HorizontalPodAutoscaler scale-down policy value of 0. B. Convert the Deployment to a StatefulSet, and perform a rolling update with a HorizontalPodAutoscaler scale-down policy value of 0. C. Perform a rolling update with a PodDisruptionBudget of 80%. D. Convert the Deployment to a StatefulSet, and perform a rolling update with a PodDisruptionBudget of
80%.

Correct Answer: C

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QUESTION NO: 12
Your web application is deployed to the corporate intranet. You need to migrate the web application to Google Cloud. The web application must be available only to company employees and accessible to employees as they travel. You need to ensure the security and accessibility of the web application while minimizing application changes. What should you do?

A. Configure Identity-Aware Proxy to allow employees to access the application through its public IP address. B. Configure a Compute Engine instance that requests users to log in to their corporate account. Change the web application DNS to point to the proxy Compute Engine instance. After authenticating, the Compute Engine instance forwards requests to and from the web application. C. Configure the application to check authentication credentials for each HTTP(S) request to the application. D. Configure a Compute Engine instance that requests users to log in to their corporate account. Change the web application DNS to point to the proxy Compute Engine instance. After authenticating, the Compute Engine issues an HTTP redirect to a public IP address hosting the web application.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 13
You want to notify on-call engineers about a service degradation in production while minimizing development time.
What should you do?

A. Use Cloud Function to monitor resources and raise alerts. B. Use Stackdriver Monitoring to monitor resources and raise alerts. C. Use Stackdriver Error Reporting to capture errors and raise alerts. D. Use Cloud Pub/Sub to monitor resources and raise alerts.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 14
Your team develops services that run on Google Kubernetes Engine. You need to standardize their log data using Google-recommended practices and make the data more useful in the fewest number of steps. What should you do? (Choose two.)

A. Create aggregated exports on application logs to Cloud Storage to facilitate log analytics. B. Create aggregated exports on application logs to BigQuery to facilitate log analytics. C. Mandate the use of the Pub/Sub API to write structured data to Pub/Sub and create a Dataflow streaming pipeline to normalize logs and write them to BigQuery for analytics. D. Write log output to standard output (stdout) as single-line JSON to be ingested into Cloud Logging as structured logs. E. Mandate the use of the Logging API in the application code to write structured logs to Cloud Logging.

Correct Answer: B,D

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QUESTION NO: 15
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?

A. Use a Pub/Sub subscriber in push mode and use a data store to manage ordering. B. Send the purchase and change requests over WebSockets to the backend. C. Send the purchase and change requests as REST requests to the backend. D. Use a Pub/Sub subscriber in pull mode and use a data store to manage ordering.

Correct Answer: D

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QUESTION NO: 16
You are monitoring a web application that is written in Go and deployed in Google Kubernetes Engine. You notice an increase in CPU and memory utilization. You need to determine which source code is consuming the most CPU and memory resources. What should you do?

A. Import OpenTelemetry and Trace export packages into your application, and create the trace provider.
Review the latency data for your application on the Trace overview page, and identify where bottlenecks are occurring. B. Create a Cloud Logging query that gathers the web application's logs. Write a Python script that calculates the difference between the timestamps from the beginning and the end of the application's longest functions to identity time-intensive functions. C. Download, install, and start the Snapshot Debugger agent in your VM. Take debug snapshots of the functions that take the longest time. Review the call stack frame, and identify the local variables at that level in the stack. D. Import the Cloud Profiler package into your application, and initialize the Profiler agent. Review the generated flame graph in the Google Cloud console to identify time-intensive functions.

Correct Answer: D