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GCP-PCD English PDF practice questions: 379 questions in source order, with options supported by the source format, answers and available explanations. Access covers this exam only. One-time payment; no automatic renewal.

Exam overview

For developers designing, testing and deploying cloud-native applications and integrating Google Cloud services.

Exam code
GCP-PCD
Official exam / credential
Google Professional Cloud Developer
Exam format
50–60 single-answer and multiple-select questions (standard exam)
Exam duration
120 minutes
Official exam languages
English, Japanese

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Information checked: 2026-10-20

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First 20 practice questions

379 total questions

Questions follow the source order. Expand each answer to see its explanation.

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Question 6

Question#6Topic1

You 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?

  1. A. gsutil cp --project ג€my-gcp-projectג€ -r ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ --zone ג€us-east1-bג€
  2. B. gsutil cp --project ג€my-gcp-projectג€ -R ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ --zone ג€us-east1-bג€
  3. C. gcloud compute scp --project ג€my-gcp-projectג€ --recurse ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ --zone ג€us-east1-bג€
  4. D. gcloud compute mv --project ג€my-gcp-projectג€ --recurse ~/local-scripts/ gcp-instance-name:~/server-scripts/ --zone ג€us-east1-bג€
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Answer

C

Explanation

Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/copy-files

Question 7

Question#7Topic1

You 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?

  1. A. Uptime check
  2. B. Process health
  3. C. Metric absence
  4. D. Metric threshold
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Answer

B

Explanation

Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/concepts-indepth

Question 8

Question#8Topic1

You 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?

  1. A. Use the JOIN operator in SQL to combine the tables.
  2. B. Use nested WITH statements to combine the tables.
  3. C. Use the UNION operator in SQL to combine the tables.
  4. D. Use the UNION ALL operator in SQL to combine the tables.
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Answer

C

Explanation

Reference:
https://www.techonthenet.com/sql/union_all.php

Question 9

Question#9Topic1

You 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?

  1. A. Blue/green deployment
  2. B. Canary deployment
  3. C. Rolling deployment
  4. D. Recreate deployment
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Answer

B

Explanation

In this strategy, the new version of the application (the "canary") is rolled out to a small subset of users before it is made available to the entire user base. This allows you to monitor the performance and stability of the new version in the real-world production environment with actual traffic, but only affects a small group of users. If issues arise, the canary deployment can be rolled back with minimal impact.

Question 10

Question#10Topic1

Your 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.)

  1. A. Create a multi-regional Cloud Spanner instance with "nam-asia-eur1" configuration.
  2. B. Create a multi-regional Cloud Spanner instance with "nam3" configuration.
  3. C. Create a cluster with at least 3 Spanner nodes.
  4. D. Create a cluster with at least 1 Spanner node.
  5. E. Create a minimum of two Cloud Spanner instances in separate regions with at least one node.
  6. F. Create a Cloud Dataflow pipeline to replicate data across different databases.
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Answer

AC

Explanation

This configuration provides a multi-regional setup across North America, Asia, and Europe, ensuring high availability and low read latency for users distributed globally. Having at least 3 Spanner nodes ensures that the database is highly available and can handle failover scenarios effectively, contributing to the overall goal of 99.999% availability.

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