# Google Skills Arcade Trivia January 2026 Week 3 (Solution)

## **Overview**

Welcome to Google Skills Arcade Trivia January 2026! Give your career a boost with hands-on experience with different Google Cloud and partner services.

Click **Start Lab** to begin.

P.S. You don't need to open the GCP Console for this, but you do need to keep this quiz open for at least **5 minutes** to register your completion in the game.

### **Quiz**

1. **You need to connect your corporate office to your Google Cloud VPC with a secure, encrypted connection. How will you establish this link?**  
    Select **ONE** answer that would be relevant
    
    * Use a public HTTP website
        
    * Use Cloud Functions
        
    * Use Google Drive
        
    * <mark>Create a Cloud VPN Gateway and Tunnel</mark>
        
2. **You have set up a VPN in Google Cloud and want to verify the speed using a benchmark tool. How will you generate traffic to test the bandwidth?**  
    Select **ONE** answer that would be relevant
    
    * <mark>Run the iperf tool between two VMs across the VPN</mark>
        
    * Use the ping command only
        
    * Open a web browser and load a page
        
    * Use Cloud Vision API
        
3. **You need to give a new team member permission to view files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket, but not delete them. How will you configure this?**  
    Select **ONE** answer that would be relevant
    
    * Create a new project for them
        
    * Send them the files via email
        
    * Give them the Owner role
        
    * <mark>Add the user to the Storage Object Viewer role in IAM</mark>
        
4. **You have a Python script running on a Compute Engine VM in Google Cloud that needs to access BigQuery. How will you authorize this script securely?**  
    Select **ONE** answer that would be relevant
    
    * <mark>Assign a Service Account with BigQuery permissions to the VM</mark>
        
    * Run the script on your local laptop instead
        
    * Make the BigQuery dataset public to everyone
        
    * Hardcode your username and password in the script
        
5. **You want to use Kubernetes on Google Cloud but want Google to handle all the node management and security patching. How will you do this?**  
    Select **ONE** answer that would be relevant
    
    * <mark>Select the Autopilot mode when creating a GKE cluster</mark>
        
    * Use Cloud Run
        
    * Select Standard mode and manage it yourself
        
    * Install Kubernetes on a raw VM
        
6. **You have a GKE Autopilot cluster running. How will you check the status of the nodes that Google has automatically provisioned for you?**  
    Select **ONE** answer that would be relevant
    
    * Run docker ps
        
    * <mark>Run kubectl get nodes</mark>
        
    * Use Cloud SQL
        
    * You cannot see nodes in Autopilot
        

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