Objective 5.1

PCA

Advising development and operation teams to ensure the successful deployment of the solution

Objective 5.1 sits in Managing implementation, which carries 12.5% of the Cloud Architect exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.

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A worked example

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A team asks how the individual steps of a Cloud Build build are actually executed on the worker. What runs each step?

Each step runs in its own Docker containerCorrect · your answerCorrect. One image per step, run in turn.
All steps share a single long-lived processA shared process would make tool versions collide.
Steps run as functions inside the APISteps are containers rather than hosted functions.
Each step launches a dedicated VM instanceThe worker is provisioned per build, not per step.

Correct.

Concept

Isolating each step in its own runtime is what lets a pipeline mix tools and languages freely while keeping one step from contaminating the next.

Why A

A build is executed as a series of build steps, each of which runs in a Docker container, which the documentation compares to executing commands in a script.

Source

Cloud Build executes your build as a series of build steps, where each build step is run in a Docker container. Executing build steps is analogous to executing commands in a script.

Overview of Cloud Build, checked August 2026
#gcp#cloud-build#containers#ci

Now you: objective 5.1 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

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A build has to reach a database that only carries a private IP address inside the VPC network. What does that require?

Sample question 2 of 3

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An organization working toward SLSA level 2 still lets developers release software built on their own laptops. Which change does that level call for?

Sample question 3 of 3

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A security team wants evidence that a deployed image came from a trusted source location and build system. Which artifact carries that evidence?

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