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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer
PCD
The Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer (PCD) exam validates the ability to build scalable and highly available applications using Google-recommended tools and best practices. Practice with realistic questions covering application design, deployment, APIs, and managed services, each with a clearly marked answer and detailed explanation.
Take a timed, 60-question mock exam that simulates the real test — or browse every question with answers and explanations at your own pace.
Questions
View all →- 1You want to upload files from an on-premises virtual machine to Google Cloud Storage as part of a data migration. These files will be consumed by Cloud DataProc Hadoop cluster in a GCP environment. Which command should you use?
- 2You 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?
- 3You are planning to migrate a MySQL database to the managed Cloud SQL database for Google Cloud. You have Compute Engine virtual machine instances that will connect with this Cloud SQL instance. You do not want to whitelist IPs for the Compute Engine instances to be able to access Cloud SQL. What should you do?
- 4You have deployed an HTTP(s) Load Balancer with the gcloud commands shown below. Health checks to port 80 on the Compute Engine virtual machine instance are failing and no traffic is sent to your instances. You want to resolve the problem. Which commands should you run?
- 5Your website is deployed on Compute Engine. Your marketing team wants to test conversion rates between 3 different website designs. Which approach should you use?
- 6You need to copy directory local-scripts and all of its contents from your local workstation to a Compute Engine virtual machine instance. Which command should you use?
- 7You are deploying your application to a Compute Engine virtual machine instance with the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent installed. Your application is a unix process on the instance. You want to be alerted if the unix process has not run for at least 5 minutes. You are not able to change the application to generate metrics or logs. Which alert condition should you configure?
- 8You have two tables in an ANSI-SQL compliant database with identical columns that you need to quickly combine into a single table, removing duplicate rows from the result set. What should you do?
- 9You have an application deployed in production. When a new version is deployed, some issues don't arise until the application receives traffic from users in production. You want to reduce both the impact and the number of users affected. Which deployment strategy should you use?
- 10Your company wants to expand their users outside the United States for their popular application. The company wants to ensure 99.999% availability of the database for their application and also wants to minimize the read latency for their users across the globe. Which two actions should they take? (Choose two.)
PCD practice exam FAQ
- Is this PCD practice exam free?
- Yes. All 359 Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer questions, answers, and explanations are free to use on ExamMini, with no account or payment required.
- How many PCD practice questions are included?
- This PCD bank currently has 359 practice questions. You can work through them one at a time with answers revealed, or take a timed mock exam that mixes them in random order.
- How long is the PCD exam?
- The Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer exam is scheduled for 120 minutes and covers roughly 60 questions. A score of about 70% is needed to pass.
- Are these the real PCD exam questions?
- No. These are practice questions written to mirror the style, format, and topics of the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer exam so you can test your understanding. ExamMini is an independent study resource and is not affiliated with Google Cloud.
- How should I use this PCD practice exam?
- Browse the full question list to study a topic at your own pace and read the explanation for every answer. When you are close to test day, take the timed mock exam to check your readiness under realistic conditions.
