EX-31 Rule 13a-14(d)/15d-14(d) Certification.

  Re: GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2012-GCJ7, Commercial Mortgage
  Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2012-GCJ7 (the Trust), issued
  pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of June 1, 2012
  (the Pooling and Servicing Agreement), by and among GS Mortgage
  Securities Corporation II, as Depositor, Deutsche Bank National Trust
  Company, as Trustee, Situs Holdings, LLC, as Operating Advisor, Wells
  Fargo Bank, National Association, as Certificate Administrator, Wells
  Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer, and Midland Loan
  Services, a Division of PNC Bank, National Association, as Special
  Servicer

  I, J. Theodore Borter, the President of GS Mortgage Securities
  Corporation II, the depositor into the above-referenced Trust, certify
  that:

  1.I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K, and all reports on
    Form 10-D required to be filed in respect of period covered by this
    annual report on Form 10-K, of the Trust (the Exchange Act Periodic
    Reports);

  2.Based on my knowledge, the Exchange Act Periodic Reports, taken as a
    whole, do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
    to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in
    light of the circumstances under which such statements
    were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
    report;

  3.Based on my knowledge, all of the distribution, servicing and other
    information required to be provided under Form 10-D for the period
    covered by this report is included in the Exchange Act Periodic Reports;

  4.Based on my knowledge and the servicer compliance statement(s) required
    in this report under Item 1123 of Regulation AB, and except as
    disclosed in the Exchange Act Periodic Reports, the servicers have
    fulfilled their obligations under the servicing agreements in all
    material respects; and

  5.All of the reports on assessment of compliance with servicing criteria
    and their related attestation reports on assessment of compliance with
    servicing criteria required to be included in this report in accordance
    with Item 1122 of Regulation AB and under the Securities Exchange Act
    of 1934 Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 have been included as an exhibit to
    this report, except as otherwise disclosed in this report. Any material
    instances of noncompliance described in such reports have been
    disclosed in this report on Form 10-K.

    In giving the certifications above, I have reasonably relied on
    information provided to me by the following unaffiliated parties:
    CoreLogic Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc. as Servicing Function
    Participant for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Deutsche Bank National Trust
    Company Americas as Trustee, Midland Loan Services, A Division of PNC
    Bank, National Association as Special Servicer, National Tax Search,
    LLC as Servicing Function Participant for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Situs
    Holdings, LLC as Operating Advisor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Master
    Servicer, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Certificate Administrator and Wells
    Fargo Bank, N.A. as Custodian.

    Dated:   March 29, 2013


    /s/ J. Theodore Borter
    Signature

    President
    (senior officer in charge of securitization of the depositor)