CDL 2024
Google's data centers were the first to achieve ISO 14001 certification. What is this standard's purpose?
It's a framework for an organization to enhance its environmental performance through improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
An organization has a new application, and user subscriptions are growing faster than on-premises infrastructure can handle. What benefit of the cloud might help them in this situation?
It's scalable, so the organization could shorten their infrastructure deployment time.
An organization is planning to create many new applications and needs a system for managing and orchestrating their containers. Why should they use Google Kubernetes Engine?
Kubernetes based applications are containerized and allow for rapid application deployment because different parts of the application can be built independently of the other in micro services architecture. Google Kubernetes Engine solution on Google Cloud enables for rapid application deployment and testing.
Budget Threshold Rules
Let you set alerts to be informed when your cloud costs exceed a certain threshold and let you take corrective action before costs get out of control.
Resource quota policies (Proactive)
Let you set limits on the amount of resources that can be used by a project or user. They can help prevent overspending on cloud resources; therefore, they help you ensure that your cloud usage is within your budget.
How would an organization benefit from using Looker?
Looker is a business intelligence (BI) and data analytics platform. Its core strength lies in helping organizations explore, visualize, and understand data from various sources for enabling informed decision-making.
Kubernetes (manage containers)
Originally developed by Google, is an open-source platform for "managing containerized workloads and services". Companies may have millions of containers and hard to manage. Kubernetes will manage it for you.
Why is it a benefit that the Google Cloud resource hierarchy follows inheritance and propagation rules?
Permissions set at higher levels of the resource hierarchy are automatically inherited by lower-level resources.
Which Google Cloud Customer Care support level is designed for enterprises with critical workloads and features the fastest response time?
Premium Support
Cloud Logging
Primarily function is to quickly search, filter, and analyze logs to identify issues, diagnose problems, and troubleshoot application issues efficiently.
Reimagine
Process of rethinking how an organization uses technology to achieve its business goals. Example using AI and ML
Cloud Data Loss Prevention
Protecting sensitive information, including PII
Cloud Spanner
Provides real-time data replication, supports only structured data, support online-transactions and supports global. It is not a data warehousing solution for analytics. That job belongs to BigQuery (analytics)
An organization wants to analyze data collected from a fleet of rental vehicles. Onboard sensors send location data every 30 seconds. They want to ingest this data. Which Google product or service should they use?
Pub/Sub is a messaging service that can receive data from device streams such as sensors, at the start of a data pipeline.
Which feature lets you set limits on the amount of resources that can be used by a project or user?
Quota policies
Refactored
Refers to the process of changing the code of a workload. For example, an organization might refactor a workload to use either a Cloud-based microservices architecture or a Cloud-based server-less architecture.
Which Google Cloud feature allows users to control their data's physical location?
Regions
Rehosted (lift and shift)
Rehost refers to the migration of a workload to the Cloud without changing anything in the workload's code or architecture.
An organization is moving its operations to the cloud, but needs to migrate a legacy application without making any changes to the code. Which migration path should the organization choose?
Rehosting allows a legacy application to be moved to the cloud without making any major changes to the application.
Replatform (move and improve)
Replatform refers to the process of migrating a workload to the Cloud while making some changes to the workloads code or architecture.
Which represents the lowest level in the Google Cloud resource hierarchy?
Resources
GKE Enterprise
Running Kubernetes applications across multi-cloud and hybrid support. It can run Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and other public clouds. Centralized management, Security and compliance, Networking and load balancing, Monitoring and logging
Site Reliability Engineering (fall under DevOps framework) ,
SRE jobs is to ensures the reliability, availability, and efficiency of software systems and services deployed in the cloud. SRE combines aspects of software engineering and operations to design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure. It aims to break down silos between these teams and foster a culture of shared responsibility, automation, and continuous improvement.
Which metric shows how well a system or service is performing?
Service level indicators
Whose job is to ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of software systems and services deployed in the cloud?
Site reliability engineer
An organization wants to compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of operating in the cloud versus on-premises. What on-premises costs should be compared to cloud operating costs?
The cost of on-premises hardware investment, operational overhead, and missed-opportunity costs
Virtual Machines vs Containers
The key difference between virtual machines and containers is that virtual machines virtualize an entire machine down to the hardware layers. Whereas containers only virtualize software layers above the operating system level and are well suited for a microservices based architecture.
According to Google's AI principles, which scenario is an irresponsible use of AI technology?
because creating fake blog posts or other misinformation is a deliberate attempt to manipulate public opinion.
How is privacy defined in the context of cloud technology?
because in the context of cloud technology, privacy means that there are restrictions on data access and how and who the data is shared.
In Google's cloud security model, which aspect emphasizes the importance of keeping sensitive information safe and secret?
because processes and policies around "confidentiality" help to ensure that only authorized people can access sensitive data.
An organization is implementing a cloud center of excellence by creating a central partnership across finance, technology and business function teams. What is a benefit of this approach?
because this partnership provides visibility onto on going cloud spend and accountability by combining the expertise of finance and technology teams.
When an organization adopts cloud technology, how does their total cost of ownership (TCO) shift?
cloud spend is metered on a pay-per-use basis and therefore customers are paying for resources that they use. In other words, total cost of ownership (TCO) shifts from capital expenditure of buying hardware to operational expenditure of consuming the cloud resources.
Cloud Logging
collects and stores all application and infrastructure logs.
Google Cloud's resource hierarchy
contains four levels, and starting from the bottom up they are: Resources, Projects, Folders, and an Organization node.
An organization needs to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in its raw, native format in the same repository. Which cloud data management solution should the organization use?
data lake offers a centralized, scalable storage repository that can accommodate any data format and volume.
Cloud Trace
helps identify performance bottlenecks in applications. It collects latency data from applications, and provides insights into how they're performing. "It primarily traces latency".
An organization wants to deploy new workloads to the cloud, but must keep some systems on-premises for compliance reasons. They need to centrally manage both environments. Which type of environment would suit the organization?
hybrid cloud environment allows some system components to remain on-premises while others are moved or deployed in the cloud.
Unstructured data examples
images, videos, and documents.
Which cybersecurity threat can lead to information being stolen or damaged without a user ever being aware?
malware attack is meticulously crafted to function without the user's knowledge. The attack may consist of viruses, spyware, trojans, or other forms of code capable of data theft, encryption, or damage.
What would provide near-unlimited availability of computing resources without requiring an organization to procure and provision new equipment?
public cloud would provide near-unlimited availability of computing resources without an organization needing to procure and provision new equipment. The public cloud also gives massive scalability, elasticity, a pay-as-you-go model, and all the hardware management is handled by the cloud provider.
Retired
A workload might be retired because it's unnecessary, not cost effective, secure, or compatible with a specific platform.
A retail store has discovered a cost-effective solution for creating self-service kiosks. They can use existing check-out hardware and purchase a virtual customer service application. Why do they also need an API?
APIs can create new business value by connecting legacy systems (the checkout hardware) with new software (the virtual customer service application).
Which is one of Google Cloud's seven trust principles?
All customer data is encrypted by default.
Serverless (example Cloud Run - manage containers and Cloud Functions - Write a code to trigger an event driven)
At its simplest definition, serverless means that businesses provide the "code" for whatever function they want and the public Cloud provider does everything else.
Which of these measures should be automated on a regular basis and stored in geographically separate locations to allow for rapid recovery from disasters or failures?
Backups
Which feature lets you set alerts for when cloud costs exceed a certain limit?
Budget threshold rules
Which term describes a centralized hub within an organization composed of a partnership across finance, technology, and business functions?
Center of excellence
An organization wants to track and understand its expenses on Google Cloud and receive recommendations on cost optimizations. Which tool should the organization use?
Cloud Billing reports offer a reactive method to help you track and understand what you've already spent on Google Cloud resources and provide ways to help optimize your costs.
An organization has a small app that sends a mobile notification to a customer whenever a new order is placed on their website. They require a simple, "event-driven", serverless service to host the code. Which service should the organization choose?
Cloud Functions is a simple service for hosting single-purpose functions that are executed in response to events, such as new orders being received.
An organization needs to control access for users and resources within Google Cloud. Which service should the organization use?
Cloud IAM provides fine-grained control over who can access cloud resources, and what actions can be performed upon those resources.
An organization is looking for a solution to help them build applications using their preferred programming language and tools. They also want to minimize time spent on infrastructure management. What solution should the organization use?
Cloud Run is a fully managed container deployment solution available in Google Cloud. Using Cloud Run, organizations can minimize time spent on infrastructure management.
Cloud Run vs Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cloud Run is ideal for when a simple, fully managed serverless platform that can scale up and down quickly is required. GKE is ideal when lots of control is required over a Kubernetes Environment and there are complex applications to run.
Structured data products
Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, or BigQuery
A global organization is developing an application to manage payments and online bank accounts in multiple regions. Each transaction must be handled consistently in their database, and they anticipate almost unlimited growth in the amount of data stored. Which Google Cloud product should the organization choose?
Cloud Spanner makes it possible to easily scale horizontally across regions while also providing consistency and low latency.
Unstructured data product
Cloud Storage
An organization wants an economical solution to store data such as files, graphical images, and videos and to access and share them securely. Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?
Cloud Storage can store any data type and offers flexible storage classes and cost models, scalability, global accessibility, and robust security features.
Google Cloud's operations suite provides a comprehensive set of monitoring, logging, and diagnostics tools. Which tool collects latency data from applications and provides insights into how they're performing?
Cloud Trace
Which offers a reactive method to help you track and understand what you've already spent on Google Cloud resources and provide ways to help optimize your costs?
Cloud billing reports
Cloud Logging
Cloud logging a service to collect and analyze security logs from your entire Google Cloud environment.
An organization's developers are growing increasingly frustrated by the limitations of their on-premises infrastructure. How would they benefit from leveraging cloud technology?
Cloud platforms offer access to new tools for rapid experimentation and empowering developers to innovate while optimizing resource cost with flexible on-demand consumption models. On-premises infrastructure, on the other hand, requires fixed, up-front technology investments.
An organization is migrating their business applications from on-premises to the cloud. How could this impact their operations and personnel costs?
Cloud service providers take on the onus of hardware, cooling, power, security, and maintenance of the physical infrastructure, thereby reducing the on-premises costs.
Where can you find details about certifications and compliance standards met by Google Cloud?
Compliance resource center
How do Migrate for Compute Engine and Migrate for Anthos distinguish themselves from each other?
Compute Engine focus on migrating VM Anthos focus on containerized applications like GKE
An organization wants to migrate multiple virtual machines to the cloud. Which Google service should they choose?
Compute Engine is Google Cloud's Infrastructure as a Service product for running virtual machines.
Containers
Containers are more suited for microservices or applications that can share the same OS. While they are efficient for deploying and running applications, they do not provide separate OS instances for each application
Reliability
Focuses on minimizing downtime, employing fault-tolerant systems, and employing disaster recovery strategies.
Folder (Resources Hierarchy)
Folders is where you assign policies to resources at the level of granularity that you choose.
Which Google Cloud tool lets you estimate how changes to cloud usage will affect costs?
Google Cloud Pricing Calculator
How can Google Cloud help an organization achieve its sustainability goals?
Google Cloud data centers are ISO certified for their environmental performance, efficiency and reducing waste.
Why is data stored in Google Cloud secure and private?
Google Cloud encrypts all data at rest and in transit by default.
Google Cloud VMware Engine (ideal for rehosted)
Helps migrate existing VMware workloads to the cloud without having to re architect the applications or retool operations.
An organization is monitoring a service level indicator (SLI) based on the volume of traffic that their application is receiving. Why is it important to monitor this indicator?
Historical trends in traffic can be used for capacity planning.
One of the four golden signals is latency. What does latency measure?
How long it takes for a particular part of a system to return a result.
Workload
In Cloud computing, a workload is a specific application, service, or capability that can be run in the Cloud or on premises. Workloads include containers, databases, and virtual machines.
SecOps - Security Operations
Is all about protecting your organization's data and systems in the Cloud. Help reduce the risk of data breaches, system outages, and other security incidents.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
It allows for seamless software updates without causing any application downtime. This means that the organization can frequently update their application with new features or fixes, and these updates can be implemented with minimal impact on the application's availability.
Compute Engine
It allows you to create and run VMs on Google's infrastructure, including the ability to import custom images. This makes it ideal for scenarios where you need to migrate and utilize custom Linux images.
Cloud Monitoring
It collects, view, and analyze metrics, logs, and metadata and present them on dashboards.
How does replication help the design of resilient and fault-tolerant infrastructure and processes in a cloud environment?
It creates multiple copies of data or services and distributes them across different servers or locations.
What does the Cloud Profiler tool do?
It identifies how much CPU power, memory, and other resources an application uses.
Operational excellence
It involves efficiently scaling the underlying infrastructure, automating resource provisioning, and implementing load balancing mechanisms.
App Eng
It is designed to automatically scale the hosted applications based on demand. During seasonal sales, when traffic to the customer app might spike significantly, App Engine can dynamically allocate more resources to handle the increased load, ensuring the app remains responsive and available.
Anthos
It is primarily used for application deployment, management, and orchestration across different environments, including on-premises, private cloud and multiple clouds. Anthos is not use building machine learning models like AutoML Natural Language.
Apigee API
It manages API's. It helps organizations secure their API's by providing features such as authentication, authorization and data encryption. It tracks and analyzes API usage with real time analytics and historical reporting.
Why is escalating a support ticket not always the best course of action when trying to resolve an issue?
It may disrupt the workflow of the Customer Care team and lead to delays in other cases.
Cloud Billing reports
It offers a reactive method, to help you track and understand what you've already spent on Google Cloud resources and provide ways to help optimize your costs.
Kaluza is an electric vehicle smart-charging solution. How does it use BigQuery and Looker Studio?
It uses BigQuery and Looker Studio to create dashboards that provide granular operational insights.
Which term describes the concept that data is subject to the laws and regulations of the country where it resides?
Data sovereignty
Semi-structured data products
Datastore and Bigtable.
An organization is establishing best practices for financial governance in the cloud. They have multiple teams building applications. Which Google-recommended approach should the organization use to manage spending?
Define ownership for projects, and establish financial accountability for project owners.
Google Cloud's Bare Metal
Designed for workloads that may not easily transition to the cloud due to dependencies on specific physical hardware, complex licensing requirements, or compatibility constraints.
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Enables your Google Cloud workloads to access on-premises data securely and with minimized latency.
An organization has raised a support case with Google Cloud Customer Care. When is it appropriate for a case to be escalated?
Escalation is meant for flagging process breaks or for the rare occasion that a case is stuck because a customer and the Customer Care team aren't fully in sync, despite actively communicating the issue to determine the next steps
What sustainability goal does Google aim to achieve by the year 2030?
To be the first major company to operate completely carbon free.
Which report provides a way for Google Cloud to share data about how the policies and actions of governments and corporations affect privacy, security, and access to information?
Transparency reports
An organization needs a platform to create custom end-to-end artificial intelligence models.Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?
Vertex AI is the comprehensive platform designed specifically for developing, deploying, and managing custom AI models across the entire machine learning lifecycle.
Retained
When a workload is retained, it's typically kept on premises or in a hybrid Cloud environment.
Transparency reports
Which report provides a way for Google Cloud to share data about how the policies and actions of governments and corporations affect privacy, security, and access to information?
Service level indicators
are measurements that show how well a system or service is performing. They're specific metrics like response time, error rate, or percentage uptime-which is the amount of time a system is available for use-that help us understand the system's behavior and performance.
Service level objectives
are the goals that we set for a system's performance based on SLIs. They define what level of reliability or performance that we want to achieve.
