Google Professional Cloud Developer Exam Questions

Exam Name: Professional Cloud Developer

Exam Code: Professional Cloud Developer

Related Certification(s): Google Cloud Certified Certification

Certification Provider: Google

Actual Exam Duration: 120 Minutes

Number of Professional Cloud Developer Practice Questions: 265 (updated: )

Expected Professional Cloud Developer Exam Topics, as suggested by Google :
Topic 1
Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications. Geographic distribution of Google Cloud services.
Topic 2
Operating system versions and base runtimes of services. Google-recommended practices and documentation.
Topic 3
Security mechanisms that protect services and resources. Choosing data storage options based on use case considerations.
Topic 4
Defining database schemas for Google-managed databases. Re-architecting applications from local services to Google Cloud Platform.
Topic 5
Defining a key structure for high write applications using Cloud Storage. Using Cloud Storage to run a static website.
Topic 6
Google-recommended practices and documentation. Deploying and securing an API with Cloud Endpoints. Setting up your development environment and considerations. Building and testing applications.
Topic 7
Reviewing test results of continuous integration pipeline. Developing unit tests for all code written.
Topic 8
Developing an integration pipeline using services. Emulating GCP services for local application development. Deploying applications and services on Compute Engine. Deploying an application to App Engine.
Topic 9
Launching a compute instance using GCP Console and Cloud SDK. Creating an autoscaled managed instance group using an instance template.
Topic 10
Implementing appropriate deployment strategies based on the target compute environment. Creating a load balancer for Compute Engine instances.
Topic 11
Deploying applications and services on Google Kubernetes Engine. Deploying applications and services on Google Kubernetes Engine.
Topic 12
Automating resource provisioning with Deployment Manager. Creating an instance with a startup script that installs software.
Topic 13
Integrating an application with data and storage services. Writing an SQL query to retrieve data from relational databases.
Topic 14
Reading and updating an entity in a Cloud Datastore transaction from an application. Using APIs to read/write to data services.
Topic 15
Configuring compute services network settings. Configuring a Cloud Pub/Sub push subscription to call an endpoint.
Topic 16
Publishing and consuming data from ingestion sources. Authenticating users by using OAuth2 web flow and Identity-Aware Proxy.
Free Professional Cloud Developer Exam Actual Questions
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Q#1 You are porting an existing Apache/MySQL/PHP application stack from a single machine to Google Kubernetes Engine. You need to determine how to containerize the application. Your approach should follow Google-recommended best practices for availability. What should you do?

Q#2 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. What should you do?

Q#3 You are creating and running containers across different projects in Google Cloud. The application you are developing needs to access Google Cloud services from within Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). What should you do?

Q#4 Which database should HipLocal use for storing user activity?

Q#5 Your team is responsible for maintaining an application that aggregates news articles from many different sources. Your monitoring dashboard contains publicly accessible real-time reports and runs on a Compute Engine instance as a web application. External stakeholders and analysts need to access these reports via a secure channel without authentication. How should you configure this secure channel?