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A relational database

A car insurance company has a large database that stores customer details, including the vehicles they own and past claims. The structure of the database means that information is stored in tables, rows, and columns. What type of database is this?

Coldline

A data analyst for an online retailer must produce a sales report at the end of each quarter. Which Cloud Storage class should the retailer use for data accessed every 90 days?

Flexibility of infrastructure configuration.

A financial services organization has bank branches in a number of countries, and has built an application that needs to run in different configurations based on the local regulations of each country. How can cloud infrastructure help achieve this goal?

Natural Language API

A large media company wants to improve how they moderate online content. Currently, they have a team of human moderators that review content for appropriateness, but are looking to leverage artificial intelligence to improve efficiency. Which of Google's pre-trained APIs could they use to identify and remove inappropriate content from the media company's website and social media platforms.

Reliability

A manufacturing company is considering shifting their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, but are concerned that access to their data and applications won't be available when they need them. They want to ensure that if one data center goes down, another will be available to prevent any disruption of service. What does this refer to?

Google Cloud Marketplace

A solar energy company wants to analyze weather data to better understand the seasonal impact on their business. On which platform could they find free-to-use weather datasets?

Virtual machine instances

A travel company is in the early stages of developing a new application and wants to test it on a variety of configurations: different operating systems, processors, and storage options. What cloud computing option should they use?

Through machine learning, with every click that the user makes, their website experience becomes increasingly personalized. Machine learning can be used to make all users see the same

An online retailer uses a smart analytics tool to ingest real-time customer behavior data to surface the best suggestions for particular users. How can machine learning guide this activity?

Vision API

An online retailer wants to help users find specific products faster on their website. One idea is to allow shoppers to upload an image of the product they're looking to purchase. Which of Google's pre-trained APIs could the retailer use to expand this functionality?

It's scalable, so the organization could shorten their infrastructure deployment time.

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?

Private Cloud

An organization has made significant investments in their own infrastructure and has regulatory requirements for their data to be hosted on-premises. Which cloud implementation would best suit their needs?

They will only pay for what they use.

An organization has shifted from a CapEx to OpEx based spending model. Which of these statements is true?

By putting resources in different zones.

An organization wants to ensure they have redundancy of their resources so their application remains available in the event of a disaster. How can they ensure this happens?

Hybrid Cloud

An organization wants to innovate using the latest technologies, but also has compliance needs that specify data must be stored in specific locations. Which cloud approach would best suit their needs?

Software as a Service (SaaS)

An organization wants to move their collaboration software to the cloud, but due to limited IT staff one of their main drivers is having low maintenance needs. Which cloud computing model would best suit their requirements?

Training a machine learning model to predict a search result ranking.

Artificial intelligence is best suited for replacing or simplifying rule-based systems. Which is an example of this in action?

Focusing on 'how' they operate can prevent organizations from seeing transformation opportunities.

As the world and business changes, organizations have to decide between embracing new technology and transforming, or keeping their technology and approaches the same. What risks might an organization face by not transforming as their market evolves?

Build and evaluate machine learning models in BigQuery by using SQL.

BigQuery ML is a machine learning service that lets users:

Data teams can eradicate data silos by analyzing data across multiple cloud providers.

BigQuery works in a multicloud environment. How do organizations benefit from this feature?

Cloud Storage

Data in the form of video, pictures, and audio recordings is well suited to object storage. Which product is best for storing this kind of data?

Data in use

Google Cloud encrypts data at various states. Which state refers to when data is being actively processed by a computer?

Custom training

Google Cloud offers four options for building machine learning models. Which is best when a business wants to code their own machine learning environment, the training, and the deployment?

A type of artificial intelligence that can produce new content, including text, images, audio, and synthetic data.

Google applies generative AI to products like Google Workspace, but what is generative AI?

AI should be socially beneficial.

Google's AI principles are a set of guiding values that help develop and use artificial intelligence responsibly. Which of these is one of Google's AI principles?

Data analytics and business intelligence identify trends from historical data, whereas AI and ML use data to make decisions for future business

How do data analytics and business intelligence differ from AI and ML?

Managed services

In modern application development, which is responsible for the day-to-day management of cloud-based infrastructure, such as patching, upgrades, and monitoring?

Microservices

In modern cloud application development, what name is given to independently deployable, scalable, and maintainable components that can be used to build a wide range of applications?

The customer is responsible for securing anything that they create within the cloud, such as the configurations, access policies, and user data.

In the cloud computing shared responsibility model, what types of content are customers always responsible for, regardless of the computing model chosen?

Analyzing social media posts to identify sentiment toward a brand

New cloud tools make it possible to harness the potential of unstructured data. Which of these use cases best demonstrates this?

Document AI

Which Google Cloud AI solution is designed to help businesses automate document processing?

Contact Center AI

Which Google Cloud AI solution is designed to help businesses improve their customer service?

Regions

Which Google Cloud feature allows users to control their data's physical location?

Datastream

Which Google Cloud product can be used to synchronize data across databases, storage systems, and applications?

Authentication

Which aspect of cloud identity management verifies the identity of users or systems?

Geo-redundancy if data is stored in a multi-region or dual-region

Which characteristic is true for all Cloud Storage classes?

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Which cloud computing service model offers a develop-and-deploy environment to build cloud applications?

Compliance

Which cloud security principle ensures that security practices and measures align with established standards and guidelines?

Integrity

Which cloud security principle relates to keeping data accurate and trustworthy?

Ransomware

Which cybersecurity threat demands a ransom payment from a victim to regain access to their files and systems.

Configuration mishaps

Which cybersecurity threat occurs when errors arise during the setup of resources, inadvertently exposing sensitive data and systems to unauthorized access?

Structured data

Which data type is highly organized and well-defined?

A network security device that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predefined security rules

Which definition best describes a firewall?

Validity

Which dimension for measuring data quality means that the data conforms to a set of predefined standards and definitions such as type and format?

AutoML

Which feature of Vertex AI lets users build and train end-to-end machine learning models by using a GUI (graphical user interface), without writing a line of code.

Increased scalability

Which is a benefit of cloud security over traditional on-premises security?

Bare metal solution

Which is a fully managed cloud infrastructure solution that lets organizations run their Oracle workloads on dedicated servers in the cloud?

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Which is a powerful encryption algorithm trusted by governments and businesses worldwide?

Data lake

Which is a repository designed to ingest, store, explore, process, and analyze any type or volume of raw data, regardless of the source?

All customer data is encrypted by default.

Which is one of Google Cloud's seven trust principles?

Cloud SQL

Which is the best SQL-based storage option for a transactional workload that requires local or regional scalability?

Maintaining the customer's infrastructure.

Which is the responsibility of the cloud provider in a cloud security model?

Break down data silos and generate real time insights.

Which item describes a goal of an organization seeking digital transformation?

Bandwidth

Which network performance metric describes the amount of data a network can transfer in a given amount of time?

It's efficient, as IaaS resources are available when needed and resources aren't wasted by overbuilding capacity.

Which option best describes a benefit of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

Artificial intelligence

Which option refers to the use of technologies to build machines and computers that can mimic cognitive functions associated with human intelligence?

Security operations (SecOps)

Which practice involves a combination of processes and technologies that help reduce the risk of data breaches, system outages, and other security incidents in the cloud?

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?

First-party data

Which represents the proprietary customer datasets that a business collects from customer or audience transactions and interactions?

Least privilege

Which security principle advocates granting users only the access they need to perform their job responsibilities?

It handles infrastructure setup and maintenance for processing pipelines.

Which statement is true about Dataflow?

Data processing

Which step in the data value chain is where collected raw data is transformed into a form that's ready to derive insights from?

Lift and shift

Which strategy describes when databases are migrated from on-premises and private cloud environments to the same type of database hosted by a public cloud provider?

Machine learning

Which technology relies on models to analyze large amounts of data, learn from the insights, and then make predictions and informed decisions?

Data sovereignty

Which term describes the concept that data is subject to the laws and regulations of the country where it resides?

Confidentiality, integrity, and availability

Which three essential aspects of cloud security form the foundation of the CIA triad?

Identifying the topic and sentiment of customer email messages so that they can be routed to the relevant department

Which use case demonstrates ML's ability to process natural language?

Cloud SQL

Which would be the best SQL-based storage option for a transactional workload that requires global scalability?

Personalized recommendations

You're watching a video on YouTube and are shown a list of videos that YouTube thinks you are interested in. What ML solution powers this feature?

Looker

What Google Cloud business intelligence platform is designed to help individuals and teams analyze, visualize, and share data?

Google Cloud Armor

What Google Cloud product provides robust protection from harmful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks?

Storage and analytics

What are the two services that BigQuery provides?

Phishing

What common cybersecurity threat involves tricking users into revealing sensitive information or performing actions that compromise security?

Serverless computing

What computing option automatically provisions resources, like compute power, in the background as needed?

Extract, transform, and load

What does ETL stand for in the context of data processing?

Whether the data is uniform and doesn't contain any contradictory information.

What does the consistency dimension refer to when data quality is being measured?

It's 100% web based.

What feature of Looker makes it easy to integrate into existing workflows and share with multiple teams at an organization?

Pub/Sub

What is Google Cloud's distributed messaging service that can receive messages from various device streams such as gaming events, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and application streams?

BigQuery

What is Google Cloud's modern and serverless data warehousing solution?

Bigtable

What is Google's big data database service that powers many core Google services, including Google Search, Google Analytics, Google Maps Platform, and Gmail?

The process of setting internal data policies and ensuring compliance with external standards

What is data governance?

By charging developers to access their APIs

What is one way that organizations can create new revenue streams through APIs?

The on-premises hardware procurement process can take a long time.

What is seen as a limitation of on-premises infrastructure, when compared to cloud infrastructure?

Open source software reduces the chance of vendor lock-in.

What is the benefit of implementing a transformation cloud that is based on open infrastructure?

A metaphor for a network of data centers.

What is the cloud?

Apigee

What is the name of Google Cloud's API management service that can operate APIs with enhanced scale, security, and automation?

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

What metric does Google Cloud use to measure the efficiency of its data centers to achieve cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint?

Hybrid cloud

What name is given to an environment that comprises some combination of on-premises or private cloud infrastructure and public cloud services?

Multicloud

What name is given to an environment where an organization uses more than one public cloud provider as part of its architecture?

Kubernetes

What open source platform, originally developed by Google, manages containerized workloads and services?

Lift and shift

What phrase refers to when a workload is rehosted without changing anything in the workload's code or architecture.

Software layers above the operating system level

What portion of a machine does a container virtualize?

Two-step verification (2SV)

What security feature adds an extra layer of protection to cloud-based systems?

Application programming interface

What term describes a set of instructions that lets different software programs communicate with each other?

Lift and shift

What term is commonly used to describe a rehost migration strategy for an organization that runs specialized legacy applications that aren't compatible with cloud-native applications?

GKE Enterprise

What's the name of Google Cloud's production-ready platform for running Kuberenetes applications across multiple cloud environments?

Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

What's the name of Google's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that is used to accelerate machine learning workloads?

IAM provides granular control over who has access to Google Cloud resources and what they can do with those resources.

Select the correct statement about Identity and Access Management (IAM).

When an organization uses new digital technologies to create or modify business processes, culture, and customer experiences.

Select the definition of digital transformation.

Data cloud provides a unified solution to manage data across the entire data lifecycle. Open infrastructure gives the freedom to innovate by running applications in the place that makes the most sense.

Select the two capabilities that form the basis of a transformation cloud? Select two correct answers.

Temperature sensors

Streaming analytics is the processing and analyzing of data records continuously instead of in batches. Which option is a source of streaming data?