GCP Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) pattern recognition

Compute selection, storage architecture, and organizational governance are the main recurring clusters

Compute selection questions recur across GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, and Cloud Functions with different operational and scaling constraints attached. Storage selection questions test the access pattern decision: BigQuery for analytics, Bigtable for high-throughput low-latency reads, Spanner for globally consistent transactional workloads, Cloud Storage for object storage, with the scenario specifying the deciding variable. Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity questions test the choice between Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect Dedicated, Cloud Interconnect Partner, and Cross-Cloud Interconnect based on bandwidth, latency, and traffic isolation requirements. Organizational governance questions test IAM hierarchy design, Shared VPC configuration, and VPC Service Controls scoping for the described regulatory and team structure.