This certification validates practical ability to design, deploy, and operate scalable cloud services, with emphasis on cloud architecture and operations. It is intended for professionals who manage reliable, secure, and cost-aware environments.
You are setting up a Bare Metal Solution environment. You need to update the operating system to the latest version. You need to connect the Bare Metal Solution environment to the internet so you can receive software updates. What should you do?
Your organization is running a MySQL workload in Cloud SQL. Suddenly you see a degradation in database performance. You need to identify the root cause of the performance degradation. What should you do?
You work for a large retail and ecommerce company that is starting to extend their business globally. Your company plans to migrate to Google Cloud. You want to use platforms that will scale easily, handle transactions with the least amount of latency, and provide a reliable customer experience. You need a storage layer for sales transactions and current inventory levels. You want to retain the same relational schema that your existing platform uses. What should you do?
You host an application in Google Cloud. The application is located in a single region and uses Cloud SQL for transactional data. Most of your users are located in the same time zone and expect the application to be available 7 days a week, from 6 AM to 10 PM. You want to ensure regular maintenance updates to your Cloud SQL instance without creating downtime for your users. What should you do?
Your team recently released a new version of a highly consumed application to accommodate additional user traffic. Shortly after the release, you received an alert from your production monitoring team that there is consistently high replication lag between your primary instance and the read replicas of your Cloud SQL for MySQL instances. You need to resolve the replication lag. What should you do?