Cloud Digital Leader Sample Questions - Google

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.

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 score Explanation: A) is correct because product ratings are structured because they are numerical scores. B) is not correct because product reviews are unstructured because they are text files. C) is not correct because product photographs are unstructured because they are image files. D) is not correct because product descriptions are unstructured because they are text files.

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.

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 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. To move from a strategic cloud adoption maturity level to a transformational one, organizations need to embrace automation and programmability. This means that scaling should be done programmatically, using tools like Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks, instead of manually reviewing changes. Deploying changes when problems arise is a reactive approach and not aligned with the proactive, agile, and scalable approach required for a transformational cloud adoption strategy.

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. By modernizing their applications, the organization can take advantage of cloud-native technologies and best practices, which will help them innovate faster and achieve a higher return on investment. This can include refactoring legacy applications to make use of cloud services like serverless computing, containers, and managed databases. By doing so, they can take advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and cost savings benefits of the cloud. Lowering the service level objective or manually provisioning all cloud infrastructure can result in increased risk and decreased efficiency. Moving to a hybrid architecture with some of their infrastructure on-premises can make it harder to take advantage of cloud-native technologies and can result in increased complexity and higher costs.

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 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.

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 Explanation: C) is correct because AI Hub is a hosted repository of plug-and-play AI components.

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 The organization should use BigQuery for a data warehouse with seamless scaling, analysis, and reporting.

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. Explanation: C) is correct. Apigee includes analytics services which allow enterprises to report on various aspects of an API.

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 minimize

C) Roll out the new feature to a subset of customers to test it out. Explanation: C) is correct because implementing gradual changes is one of the SRE best practices.

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. Explanation: B) is not correct. Disaster recovery is not relevant to the business decision. C) is correct. APIs can create new business value by connecting legacy systems (the checkout hardware) with new software (the virtual customer service application).

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. Explanation: C) is not correct. Modernizing with the cloud creates a shift from capital expenditure to operational expenditure.D) is correct. Organizations can scale in the cloud by paying for what they use, when they use it.

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. Explanation: D) is correct because cross-team partnerships are part of the visibility cost management strategy.

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 Cloud services can provide scalable storage and computing power, which enable organizations to ingest and analyze large volumes of data in real-time. By analyzing this data, organizations can gain insights into user behavior and needs, which can help them adjust their applications to better serve their users. Additionally, cloud-based data platforms often provide tools for data cleaning and validation, which can help ensure the accuracy and quality of the data.