Google Cloud Certified Professional-Cloud-Architect

From your first practice question to exam day, Getcertkey covers the entire Professional-Cloud-Architect journey: a free demo, 348 practice questions in three formats, a full year of free updates, and a clear refund policy. Preparing for the Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) exam has rarely been this straightforward.

Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Overview:

Certification Vendor:	Google
Exam Name:	Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect
Exam Number:	Professional-Cloud-Architect
Exam Duration:	120 minutes
Passing Score:	Not publicly disclosed
Exam Format:	Multiple Select, Multiple Choice
Available Languages:	English, Spanish, Indonesian, Japanese, French, German, Portuguese
Related Certifications:	Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
Real Exam Qty:	50-60
Certificate Validity Period:	2 years
Exam Price:	$200 USD
Sample Questions:
Exam Way:	Online (proctored) or at a test center
Pre Condition:	No mandatory prerequisite, but recommended to have 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud
Official Syllabus URL:	https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/cloud-architect

Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Syllabus Topics:

Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Exam FAQ: What Candidates Ask Most

What is the Google Professional-Cloud-Architect exam?

The Professional-Cloud-Architect exam is the official Google exam behind the Google Cloud Certified certification, validating the skills measured by the Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) credential. It sits at the Professional level of the Google certification program. It also connects to Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect, so the knowledge you build here carries over to those tracks as well.

How many questions are on the Professional-Cloud-Architect exam, and how much time do I get?

The Professional-Cloud-Architect exam contains 50-60 questions to be completed within 120 minutes. Before exam day, divide the available time by the question count to work out a comfortable per-question pace, and mark any item that eats into it so you can return later instead of getting stuck. Timed sessions in the Getcertkey test engines make that pacing automatic — run at least two full-length mock exams under the clock so time pressure never becomes the reason you drop points.

What score do I need to pass the Professional-Cloud-Architect exam, and what does it cost?

The passing score for the Professional-Cloud-Architect exam is Not publicly disclosed, and the official registration fee is $200 USD. Retakes are not discounted — every new attempt means paying the full fee again — so it pays to measure yourself before you book. Work through the 348 practice questions on Getcertkey, sit a timed practice test, and schedule your exam only when your scores are consistently comfortable. That simple habit is the cheapest exam strategy there is.

Are there any prerequisites for the Professional-Cloud-Architect exam?

No mandatory prerequisite, but recommended to have 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud Requirements can change when Google revises its certification program, so confirm the current eligibility rules on the official exam page before you register.

Can I try the Professional-Cloud-Architect practice questions before I buy?

Yes. Getcertkey provides a free Professional-Cloud-Architect PDF demo so you can review the question style and answer quality before purchasing. Every purchase also includes 365 days of free updates — if Google revises the exam during that period, the updated material reaches you at no cost. Once the free-update year ends, you can extend your update service at a 50% discount.

What if I fail the Professional-Cloud-Architect exam, and how is my order delivered?

Every Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) purchase on Getcertkey is covered by a 100% money-back guarantee with clear conditions: if you take the corresponding exam within 60 days of your purchase and do not pass, you can claim a full refund by submitting a scanned copy of your exam enrollment slip and your official score report as a PDF within two days of the exam date; claims are processed within seven days of submission. The guarantee does not apply to exams taken within three days of purchase, to material that was downloaded but never used in an exam attempt, or to free products and expired orders, and the candidate name must match the payer name. If you would rather not take a refund, you can instead exchange your purchase for two free exam preparation products of equal value and keep the update service on your original product.

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What topics are covered in the Professional-Cloud-Architect exam?

The Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) exam blueprint is organized into 6 domains. The first three are:

• Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes
• Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
• Managing implementation

For the complete domain-by-domain breakdown, scroll up to the full exam topics outline above and use it to plan how you distribute your study time.

Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect (GCP) Sample Questions:

Question 1

For this question, refer to the Mountkirk Games case study. Mountkirk Games wants to design their solution for the future in order to take advantage of cloud and technology improvements as they become available.
Which two steps should they take? (Choose two.)

A. Begin packaging their game backend artifacts in container images and running them on Kubernetes Engine to improve the availability to scale up or down based on game activity.
B. Adopt a schema versioning tool to reduce downtime when adding new game features that require storing additional player data in the database.
C. Implement a weekly rolling maintenance process for the Linux virtual machines so they can apply critical kernel patches and package updates and reduce the risk of 0-day vulnerabilities.
D. Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate canary deployments and improve development velocity.
E. Store as much analytics and game activity data as financially feasible today so it can be used to train machine learning models to predict user behavior in the future.

Question 2

Dress4win has end to end tests covering 100% of their endpoints.
They want to ensure that the move of cloud does not introduce any new bugs.
Which additional testing methods should the developers employ to prevent an outage?

A. They should add additional unit tests and production scale load tests on their cloud staging environment.
B. They should enable google stack driver debugger on the application code to show errors in the code
C. They should run the end to end tests in the cloud staging environment to determine if the code is working as intended.
D. They should add canary tests so developers can measure how much of an impact the new release causes to latency

Question 3

You are designing a hybrid cloud network for a financial services company with two on-premises data centers in different geographical regions. The company requires a highly available (99.9% SLA) and low-latency connection to a single VPC in Google Cloud for business-critical, high-throughput applications. You need to design the most resilient connectivity solution to protect against a regional on-premises failure. What should you do?

A. Provision a single Dedicated Interconnect connection to the VPC.
B. Deploy an IPsec VPN on Compute Engine in the VPC network. Configure connectivity from each on- premises data center to the VPN.
C. Provision two Dedicated Interconnect connections from each on-premises data center to the VPC.
D. Provision an HA VPN connection from each on-premises data center to the VPC.

Question 4

For this question, refer to the Dress4Win case study. You want to ensure that your on-premises architecture meets business requirements before you migrate your solution.
What change in the on-premises architecture should you make?

A. Resize compute resources to match predefined Compute Engine machine types.
B. Downgrade MySQL to v5.7, which is supported by Cloud SQL for MySQL.
C. Replace RabbitMQ with Google Pub/Sub.
D. Containerize the micro services and host them in Google Kubernetes Engine.

Question 5

Your ecommerce platform uses a regional Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database to store critical order information. The business requests a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 10 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 2 minutes to ensure business continuity in the event of a full regional outage. You need to design a disaster recovery strategy for the Cloud SQL database that meets the business ' s strict RTO and RPO requirements. Your design must avoid operational complexity. What should you do?

A. Use Database Migration Service to continuously replicate the database to another instance in a different region. In a disaster, redirect application traffic to the replica.
B. Configure the primary instance for high availability (HA). In the event of a regional outage, trigger a failover to the standby instance.
C. Schedule hourly automated backups of the Cloud SQL instance to a multi-regional Cloud Storage bucket. In a disaster, restore the latest backup to a new instance in a different region.
D. Configure the Cloud SQL instance with a cross-region read replica. In a disaster, promote the read replica to a standalone, primary instance.

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