Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements.
8 practice questions under this official exam objective (PCA) — each with the community-verified answer, a full option-by-option explanation and instant feedback.
Resilience Testing for Regional MIG with Cloud SQL
This question tests how to properly perform resilience testing on an authentication layer composed of a regional managed instance group and a Cloud SQ
Cost-effective, highly reliable web app with Cloud Load Balancing
This PCA scenario asks how to architect a highly reliable web application with a few public APIs, low baseline traffic, and occasional spikes, while l
Which Google Cloud Service Unifies Batch and Stream Processing
For a company with no existing code that must run both hourly batch jobs and live stream processing, Google Cloud Dataflow is the intended choice beca
Load Testing Requirements for GCE and Bigtable Services
When load-testing primary services running on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Bigtable, the QA team must include requirements to validate Bigtable pe
Regional MIG Design to Survive Zonal Outage at Lowest Cost
This PCA design question asks for the cheapest architecture that survives a complete zonal outage for a payment-processing application. A regional man
Dataflow and BigQuery for real-time and batch fraud analytics
For a global financial services provider that must combine real-time credit card fraud detection with heavy batch reporting, the PCA design answer is
Cloud Run Multi-Region App with Spanner as Relational Store
This PCA design question asks how to host a write-heavy, containerized web application across multiple Google Cloud regions with a relational datastor
How to Speed Up Ecommerce Page Loads on Google Cloud
For an ecommerce site serving images and videos, page load speed and request latency are best improved by caching static media at the edge with a CDN