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A video game organization has invested in cloud technology to generate insights from user behaviors. They want to ensure recommendations of games are aligned to players' interests. What may have prompted this business decision? A) Customers expect a personalized experience. B) Employees expect source code changes to be deployed faster. C) Employees expect more predictable data management spending. D) Customers expect faster time to market for games.

A - Customers expect a personalized experience

An organization's applications run on an inflexible, on-premises architecture. The organization has decided to modernize their existing applications with the cloud. What may have prompted this business decision? A) Developers want to test ideas and experiment with more ease. B) Developers want cloud providers to take full control of their application performance. C) IT managers want cloud providers to automatically deploy their infrastructure. D) IT managers want to stop making gradual changes.

A - Developers want to test ideas and experiment with more ease

Your organization is considering adopting cloud service but there is concern about Google Cloud meeting regulatory compliance. You need to download audit documents performed by third-party providers to prove to key stakeholders. Which choice will satisfy this requirement? Compliance Reports Manager Security Command Center Assured Workloads BeyondCorp

Compliance Reports Manager

Your company has hired an accountant to manage payments and invoices. Recently, your company has migrated to the cloud, and the accountant is unfamiliar with working on the cloud billing dashboard. You've been instructed to guide the accountant. Which of the following options would lead you to the cost details for a specific invoice month? Billing Report Pricing Report​ Cost Table Report Cost Breakdown Report

Cost Table Report - The cost table report, available in the Google Cloud Console, is a powerful, easy-to-use cost management tool to understand the costs that reconcile to your invoice. The report gives you a detailed, tabular view of your monthly costs for a given invoice or statement (by invoice month). NOTE: Cloud Billing Reports offers a get at-a-glance and user-configurable views of your cost history, current cost trends, and forecasted costs with intuitive reports available in the Google Cloud Console. Several different reports are available for your billing data analysis needs. The pricing table report is used to access SKU prices for Google's cloud services, including Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform, and Google Workspace, as of the date the report is viewed. The Cost Breakdown report gives you an at-a-glance waterfall view of how much you would have spent at the on-demand price for your Google Cloud usage, and how usage-based credits saved you money on your invoice.

An organization has created an ecommerce website. What data on this website would be considered structured data? A) Product ratings score B) Product reviews C) Product photographs D) Product descriptions

A - Product Ratings

What issues can arise when organizations integrate third-party systems into their cloud infrastructure? A) Without sufficient security measures and regular checks, unsecured third-party systems can pose a threat to data security. B) Third-party systems are less capable of addressing an organization's security requirements. C) Over-reliance on third-party systems limits an organization's potential for innovation. D) Third-party systems may not be powerful enough to run many critical business applications.

A) Without sufficient security measures and regular checks, unsecured third-party systems can pose a threat to data security.

What are the security aspects provided with the cloud? (Choose 3) Billing self-service based usage model: Pay-as-you-go model is offered so customers no longer have to worry about buying physical servers or hardware Access control: permission has to be provided to the users so that they can control the access of another user who is entering into the cloud environment. Authentication and Authorization: Allows only the authorized and authenticated user only to access the data and applications Identity management: It authorizes the application services Uptime: Ensures the resources and products have the maximum availability and resiliency"

Access Control Authentification Identity management

Your organization has asked that you ensure that any current or future Virtual Machine has no external internet access. When configuring your organization policy, how do you need to configure it to meet this requirement? Apply to the Root Node Apply to all Cloud Compute instances Apply to all Projects Apply to all Folders

Apply to the Root Node - " An Organization is the root node of the Google Cloud hierarchy of resources. When you apply the Root Node to the organization policy, you can define settings, permissions, and policies for all projects, folders, resources, and Cloud Billing accounts it parents​, etc to ensure that any current or future Virtual Machine has no external internet access. You can set an IAM policy at the organization level, the folder level, the project level, or (in some cases) the resource level. Resources inherit the policies of the parent node. If you set a policy at the Organization level, it is inherited by all its child folders and projects, and if you set a policy at the project level, it is inherited by all its child resources. NOTE: Apply to all Cloud Compute instances to the organization policy does not achieve this task as they are resources and are the lowest in the Google Cloud resource hierarchy in detail. Apply to all Projects to the organization policy does not achieve this task as a project is required to use Google Cloud, and forms the basis for creating, enabling, and using all Google Cloud services, managing APIs, enabling billing, adding and removing collaborators, and managing permissions. Apply to all Folders to the organization policy does not achieve this task as Folder resources provide an additional grouping mechanism and isolation boundaries between projects.

An organization with hybrid cloud architecture wants to build an application once and be able to run it both on-premises and in their public cloud. Which Google Cloud solution should the organization use? A) Cloud Functions B) Anthos C) App Engine D) Compute Engine

B - Anthos

An organization runs their application on a virtual machine, but every time they want to edit specific features, they have to bring the system offline to update the application. What would be a more appropriate solution for their app? A) Solid State Disk B) Containers C) Hypervisors D) GPUs

B - Containers

An organization wants to move from a strategic cloud adoption maturity level to a transformational one. How should the organization change the way they scale? A) Review changes manually. B) Deploy changes programmatically. C) Deploy changes when problems arise

B - Deploy changes programmatically

An organization has completely migrated all their infrastructure to the cloud to benefit from its agility. Now they want to innovate faster and achieve a higher return on investment. What should the organization do? A) Lower their service level objective (SLO). B) Modernize their applications. C) Manually provision all cloud infrastructure for increased control. D) Move to a hybrid architecture with some of their infrastructure on-premises.

B - Modernize their applications

An organization wants to scale their existing virtual machine architecture as quickly as possible. Why should the organization use VMware Engine? A) To migrate virtual machines to containers. B) To replatform virtual machines as they are. C) To deploy custom APIs seamlessly. D) To archive virtual machine instances

B - to replatform virtual machines as they are

How does a least privilege resource access model contribute to cloud security? A) Only managers and other senior employees have cloud resource access. B) Employees only have access to the cloud resources necessary for their job. C) Employees may only access on-premises software with special permission. D) Google is responsible for determining access to cloud resources.

B) Employees only have access to the cloud resources necessary for their job.

An organization wants to measure everything as part of its new DevOps philosophy. What should the organization measure? A) The satisfaction and happiness of their employees. B) The reliability and health of their systems. C) The risk and reward of their investments. D) The speed of their cloud adoption process.

B) The reliability and health of their systems.

An organization is reviewing its monthly operational expenditure on the Google Cloud platform and breaking down spending per region. Which built-in cloud billing report would be ideal for visualization regional spending? Cost Table Reports Billing Reports Cost Breakdown Report Committed use discounts reports

Billing Reports - Cloud Billing Reports offers easy to glance and user-configurable views of your cost history, current cost trends, and forecasted costs with intuitive reports available in the Google Cloud Console. Several different reports are available for your billing data analysis needs (eg: how is my spend trending, what a google cloud project cost the prior month, what service costs the most, how much am I spending by region, what was the cost associated with label X, etc). NOTE: The cost table report, available in the Google Cloud Console, is a powerful, easy to use cost management tool to understand the costs that reconcile to your invoice. The Cost Breakdown report gives you an at-a-glance waterfall view of how much you would have spent at the on-demand price for your Google Cloud usage, and how usage-based credits saved you money on your invoice. Committed use discounts (CUDs) are spend-based or resource-based discounts, depending on the Google Cloud service offering the discounts.

An organization wants to search for and share plug-and-play AI components which can easily build ML services into their project. Which Google Cloud product should the organization use? A) Recommendations AI B) Document AI C) AI Hub D) Cloud Talent Solution

C - AI Hub

An organization is looking for a data warehouse for analysis and reporting with seamless scaling. Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use? A) Cloud Storage B) Dataflow C) BigQuery D) Looker

C - BigQuery

A bank wants to track the success of their existing ATM network, which has been modernized with APIs to instantly notify customers about their transfers. What is the benefit of using Apigee to achieve this goal? A) It allows developers to connect the banking APIs with the public cloud. B) It measures and tracks their total cost of ownership (TCO). C) It has dashboards that chart dimensions and metrics to report on APIs. D) It replicates banking APIs to create new business value.

C) It has dashboards that chart dimensions and metrics to report on APIs.

An organization wants to introduce a new feature to their customer-facing application. They want to follow SRE best practices. What should the organization do? A) Roll out the new feature to all customers so that no customer feels left out. B) Postpone rolling out the new feature until they are 100% sure there will be no bugs. C) Roll out the new feature to a subset of customers to test it out. D) Postpone rolling out the new feature until toil automation is minimized.

C) Roll out the new feature to a subset of customers to test it out.

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? A) To update the check-out hardware remotely. B) To migrate all customer data for disaster recovery. C) To connect the new application with the legacy system. D) To connect the check-out hardware to the public cloud.

C) To connect the new application with the legacy system.

An organization currently stores its data on-premises and they receive different levels of traffic on their website every month. How could the organization benefit from modernizing their infrastructure with cloud technology? A) 100% service availability B) They can rely on the cloud provider for all website source code C) They can shift from heavy operational expenditure to a capital expenditure model D) Agile storage scalability.

D - Agile Storage Scalability

An organization wants to dynamically adjust its application to serve different user needs. What are the benefits of storing their data in the cloud for this use case? A) Data can be stored in archive for long term access B) No data access management required C) Automatic data cleaning and validation D) Real-time data ingestion and analysis

D - Real time data ingestion and analysis

An organization wants to evaluate the performance of their entire cloud infrastructure, including metrics like server uptime and response rate reports. Which Google Cloud tool should the organization use? A) Cloud Profiler B) Cloud Debugger C) Cloud Trace D) Cloud Monitoring

D) Cloud Monitoring

A large organization is struggling to manage their cloud costs effectively. They want to increase visibility into cloud costs. Which cost management approach should the organization use? A) Appoint a single person to monitor cloud spending across the organization. B) Review any cloud spending that exceeds the organization's error budget. C) Increase monitoring of on-premises infrastructure and services. D) Establish a partnership between finance, technology, and business teams.

D) Establish a partnership between finance, technology, and business teams.

Which of the following is the cloud service provider responsible for based on the shared responsibility model? (Choose 2) OS management Hardware patching Application patching Infrastructure architecture

OS management Hardware patching If you can configure or store it then you (the customer) are responsible for it including your own application patching. The customer is responsible for the data and the configuration of access controls that resides in GCP including Infrastructure architecture.

Your organization is utilizing an open-source distrusted computing workload on Compute Engine and they want to ensure high availability but there is a requirement latency of around 10ms. Which of the following availability architectures is best suited for this scenario? Multiple regions, multiple zones Multiple regions, single zone One region, multiple zones Single Region, single zone

One region, multiple zones - To ensure high availability and to handling failures, you should distribute your resources across multiple zones and regions to tolerate outages. To decrease network latency, you might want to choose a region or zone that is close to your point of service. For example, if you mostly have customers on the East Coast of the US, then you might want to choose a primary region and zone that is close to that area and a backup region and zone that is also close by. NOTE: Google recommends deploying applications across multiple zones and multiple regions. This helps protect against unexpected failures of components, up to and including a single zone or region. However, due to the multiple numbers of regions, you won't get the optimal decreased latency as "One region, multiple zones".To decrease network latency, you might want to choose a region or zone that is close to your point of service. Due to the multiple numbers of regions, you won't get the optimal decreased latency as "One region, multiple zones".This does not provide sufficient availability or fault tolerance, and network latency

An accountant has been assigned to your team. The accountant only needs access to view and manage payment methods, make payments, view invoices and see payment accounts. Based on the Google Cloud Resource hierarchy, what role should you give the accountant? Billing Account Admin Folder Administrator Billing User Payments Profile Admin

Payments Profile Admin - The Payments Profile Admin can view and manage payment methods, make payments, view invoices, and see Payments Accounts. Payments Profiles are managed outside of your Cloud Organization, in the Google Payments Center, a single location where you can manage the ways you pay for all Google products and services, such as Google Ads, Google Cloud, and Fi phone service. Payments Profiles are connected to Cloud Billing accounts. The Payments Profile Admins in your organization are typically part of your Finance or Accounting teams. NOTE: The Billing Account Admin can enable Billing Export, view cost/spend, set budgets and alerts, and link/unlink projects. The Folder Administrator can create and edit the IAM policy of folders. They decide how roles are inherited by projects in the folders. Billing Users can link projects to Cloud Billing accounts, but cannot unlink them. It is usually issued broadly in concert with the Project Creator role."

You are the team leader assigned to the development of an application. You must optimize the efficient workflow of multiple developers working on the development project while ensuring great flexibility for the entire process. Which of the following cloud computing services is best suited for the task? Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Function as a Service (FaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - PaaS delivers a framework for developers that they can build upon and use to create customized applications. All servers, storage, and networking can be managed by the enterprise or a third-party provider while the developers can maintain management of the applications.

A company is working on a project that requires the ingestion of user interaction from end-user apps and server events from many clients simultaneously. Which service best fits the requirement? Dataflow Firestore Pub/Sub Firebase

Pub/Sub - Ingestion user interaction and server events: To make use of user interaction events from end-user apps or server events from your system, you may forward them to Pub/Sub and then use a stream processing tool such as Dataflow) which delivers them to BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloud Storage and other databases. Pub/Sub allows you to gather events from many clients simultaneously. Therefore, Pub/Sub is the correct choice among others. NOTE: Unified stream and batch data processing that's serverless, fast, and cost-effective. Cloud Firestore is a flexible, scalable database for mobile, web, and server development from Firebase and Google Cloud. Like Firebase Realtime Database, it keeps your data in sync across client apps through realtime listeners and offers offline support for mobile and web so you can build responsive apps that work regardless of network latency or Internet connectivity. Firebase is Google's fully-managed platform for rapidly developing and deploying web and mobile applications.​ Firebase is an alternative to Google Cloud for users who want to focus on building and deploying their application in a highly opinionated framework.​

A company is architecting an application and wants to save on purchasing new machines, having underutilized machines, and planning for capacity. Which of the following choices would meet this requirement? Private cloud Public cloud Microservices Containers

Public Cloud

A company is currently developing an application that will run on Google Cloud. They want to ensure that if the application has any issues, it will be tolerant of any downtime. What is the described requirement? Resiliency Orchestration Dataflow Redundancy

Resiliency

What is the difference between elasticity and scalability in cloud computing? (Choose 2) Scalability is your ability to ​increase your capacity​ based on the increasing demand for traffic, memory, and computing power ​ Elasticity is your ability to ​increase your capacity​ based on the increasing demand for traffic, memory, and computing power ​ Elasticity is your ability to ​automatically​ increase or decrease your capacity based on the current demand of traffic, memory, and computing power. Scalability is your ability to ​automatically​ increase or decrease your capacity based on the current demand of traffic, memory, and computing power."

Scalability is your ability to ​increase your capacity​ based on the increasing demand for traffic, memory, and computing power ​ Elasticity is your ability to ​automatically​ increase or decrease your capacity based on the current demand of traffic, memory, and computing power.

Your company recently migrated from on-premise to the Google Cloud Platform. They are concerned about the security measures of cloud computing and need a service that is an intelligent risk dashboard and analytics systems for surfacing, understanding, and remediating Google Cloud security and data risks across the company. What service is best meets their needs? Cloud Armor Google Cloud's operations suite Security Command Center IAM

Security Command Center - Security Command Center is the canonical security and risk database for Google Cloud. Security Command Center is an intuitive, intelligent risk dashboard and analytics system for surfacing, understanding, and remediating Google Cloud security and data risks across an organization.

You are working for a market research company. You are responsible for determining your organization's consumption expenses in the Google Cloud Environment. You want your engineers to be able to access resources as needed to run their services as efficiently as possible while avoiding unexpected charges. You should also keep track of your real Google Cloud spending versus your budgeted amount. What form of expense tracking matches with Google's recommendations? Set a budget amount and a budget alert threshold to track your Google Cloud spend. Use the Google Cloud billing report to keep track of your expenditures and shut down resources that are costing you a lot of money. On the Google Cloud billing report, keep track of your expenditures and cancel projects with high charges Track your actual costs by exporting your billing data to a Google Sheet

Set a budget amount and a budget alert threshold to track your Google Cloud spend.

A firm wants an efficient way for employees to sign in once and gain access to all of their enterprise cloud services. In addition, their employees must be able to sign in to their third-party Identity Provider(IdP) and access Google apps directly. Which of the services listed below will enable them to do this task? Google Cloud Directory Sync​ Cloud Identity Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On - SSO lets users sign in just one time to get access to all their enterprise cloud applications. When SSO is set up, users can sign in to their third-party IdP, then access Google apps directly without a second sign-in. Therefore, Single Sign-On is the correct choice. NOTE: Google Cloud Directory Sync enables administrators to synchronize users, groups and other data from an Active Directory/LDAP service to their Google Cloud domain directory. Cloud Identity is an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) solution that centrally manages users and groups. You can configure Cloud Identity to federate identities between Google and other identity providers, such as Active Directory and Azure Active Directory. Cloud Identity also gives you more control over the accounts that are used in your organization. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.​

Which of the following are benefits of hypervisor? (Choose 3) Speed: Hypervisors allow virtual machines to be created instantly making it easier to provision resources Portability: Hypervisors allow multiple operating systems to reside on the same physical server (host machine) Security: Hypervisors have a high-security system that prevents data loss or data breaches. Efficiency: Hypervisors that run several virtual machines on one physical machine's resources also allow for more efficient utilization of one physical server. Connection: Networking speed runs faster on one physical server and does not rely on specific hardware devices or drivers.

Speed: Hypervisors allow virtual machines to be created instantly making it easier to provision resources Portability: Hypervisors allow multiple operating systems to reside on the same physical server (host machine) Efficiency: Hypervisors that run several virtual machines on one physical machine's resources also allow for more efficient utilization of one physical server."

An organization is using virtual machines for approximately 75% each month for over 4 months. They are receiving a discount of 20% for their virtual machines. What type of discount is being applied? Sustained use discounts Cost Breakdown Report Flat-rate Committed use discounts

Sustained use discounts - these are automatic discounts for running specific Compute Engine resources a significant portion of the billing month. For example, if you use a virtual machine for 50% of the month, you get an effective discount of 10%. If you use it for 75% of the month, you get an effective discount of 20%. If you use it for 100% of the month, you get an effective discount of 30%. NOTE: Committed use discounts (CUDs) are spend-based or resource-based discounts, depending on the Google Cloud service offering the discounts.

Your company is evaluating new GCP services and would like to use tools to help them evaluate the costs of using GCP. What are two tools available from GCP to help analyze costs? (Choose 2) ROI Calculator Total cost of ownership (TCO) Tool Pricing Calculator Committed use discounts

Total cost of ownership (TCO) Tool Pricing Calculator

A VP of a large enterprise is trying to convince the executives of the cost-saving benefits of moving their on-premise workloads to the cloud. Which of the following are characteristics of OPEX? (Choose 2) You pay based on usage You can stop paying for on-premise licenses You pay a single time cost for hardware The cloud service provider is responsible for everything

You pay based on usage You can stop paying for on-premise licenses