Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

A budget is set at $500 and an alert is set at 100%. What happens when the full amount is used? []Nothing. There is no point in sending a notification when there is no budget remaining. []You have a 4-hour courtesy period before Google shuts down all resources. []A notification email is sent to the Billing Administrator. []Everything in the associated project will suspend because there is not more budget to spend.

A notification email is sent to the Billing Administrator. Budgets in GCP are not a way to prevent spending or stop resources. They are a tool for raising awareness about the consumption of resources so that a business can implement its own consumption management processes.

No resources in GCP can be used without being associated with... []A project. []A bucket. []A virtual machine. []A user.

A project. All resources in GCP are tracked and their consumption is logged against a project. A project relates resources to a billing account.

Which of the following is not a type of IAM role? []Advanced []Basic []Predefined []Custom

Advanced There are three types of roles in Cloud IAM: basic roles, predefined roles, and custom roles.

Which data storage service provides data warehouse services for storing data but also offers an interactive SQL interface for querying the data? []Cloud Datalab []Cloud SQL []BigQuery []Cloud Dataproc

BigQuery BigQuery is a data warehousing service that allows the storage of huge data sets while making them immediately processable without having to extract or run the processing in a separate service.

What would not be considered a benefit of Cloud Operations?[]Boosts all network performance []Reduces monitoring overhead []Multi-cloud monitoring []Faster problem resolution

Boosts all network performance

How do Quotas protect GCP customers? []By preventing uncontrolled consumption of resources. []By preventing resource use of too many different GCP services. []By preventing resource use by unknown users. []By preventing resource use in too many zones in a region.

By preventing uncontrolled consumption of resources. Quotas are established at reasonable defaults for common cloud usage and proof of concept activities. If you are planning to scale-up a production cloud solution you may need to request that the quotas be raised. This is a reasonable checkpoint to verify that actions that might result in a large consumption of resources are reviewed.

What data storage service might you select if you just needed to migrate a standard relational database running on a single machine in a datacenter to the cloud? []Persistent Disk []Cloud Storage []Cloud SQL []BigQuery

Cloud SQL Cloud SQL offers PostgreSQL or MySQL as a managed service for relational databases.

Which GCP data storage service offers ACID transactions and can scale globally? []Cloud Spanner []Cloud SQL []Cloud Storage []Cloud CDN

Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner provides ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties that enable transactional reads and writes on the database and it can scale globally.

Which service requires a logging agent installed to collect and send logs to Cloud Operations? []Compute Engine []Kubernetes []App Engine Flexible []App Engine Standard

Compute Engine

Which service(s) are currently supported by Cloud Error Reporting? []Compute Engine []Kubernetes []App Engine Flexible []App Engine Standard

Compute Engine Kubernetes App Engine Flexible App Engine Standard

Why is monitoring important to Google? []It is at the base of site reliability which incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies that to operations whose goals are to create ultra-scalable and highly reliable software systems. []Monitoring is important to ensure that Google complies with regulatory requirements defined by both government and industry security bodies. []Google uses monitoring to ensure they have all the important metrics for reporting purposes to customers and the other interested bodies. The number of reports requires the collection and reporting to be both broad and deep.

It is at the base of site reliability which incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies that to operations whose goals are to create ultra-scalable and highly reliable software systems.

What is the foundational process at the base of Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? []Root cause analysis. []Monitoring. []Testing and release procedures. []Capacity planning.

Monitoring. Before you can take any of the other actions, you must first be monitoring the system.

Which of the following is not a type of IAM member? []Google Workspace domain []Cloud Identity domain []Google Account []Service Account []Google Group []Organization Account

Organization Account There are five different types of members: Google Accounts, Service Accounts, Google Groups, Google Workspace domains, and Cloud Identity domains.

Stackdriver integrates several technologies, including monitoring, logging, error reporting, and debugging that are commonly implemented in other environments as separate solutions using separate products. What are key benefits of integration of these services? []Better for GCP only so long as you don't need to monitor other applications or clouds []Detailed control over the connections between the technologies []Ability to replace one tool with another from a different vendor []Reduces overhead, reduces noise, streamlines use, and fixes problems faster

Reduces overhead, reduces noise, streamlines use, and fixes problems faster Stackdriver integration streamlines and unifies these traditionally independent services, making it much easier to establish procedures around them and to use them in continuous ways.

What is not a recommended best practice for alerts? []Configure alerting on symptoms and not necessarily causes. []Use multiple notification channels so you avoid a single point of failure. []Customize your alerts to the audience need. []Report all noise to ensure all data points are presented.

Report all noise to ensure all data points are presented.

What is the purpose of the Stackdriver Trace service? []Reporting on GCP resource consumption as part of managing performance. []Reporting on application errors. []Reporting on GCP system errors. []Reporting on latency as part of managing performance.

Reporting on latency as part of managing performance. Stackdriver Trace provides latency sampling and reporting for Google App Engine, Google HTTP(S) load balancers, and applications instrumented with the Stackdriver Trace SDKs. Reporting includes per-URL statistics and latency distributions.

What abstraction is primarily used to administer user access in Cloud IAM? []Privileges, an abstraction of access rights. []Leases, an abstraction of periodic entitlements. []Roles, an abstraction of job roles. []Credentials, an abstraction of an authorization token.

Roles, an abstraction of job roles. Cloud IAM administration uses pre-defined roles for administration of user access. The roles are defined by more granular permissions. Permissions are not applied to users directly, only through the roles that are assigned to them.

Select all valid targets for Cloud Monitoring uptime alert notifications. []EC2 service []webhook []email []SMS []3rd party service []Pub/sub

webhook email SMS 3rd party service Pub/sub