Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide By Dan Sullivan

17. What is not a characteristic of specialized services in Google Cloud Platform?

They require monitoring by the user.

13. Cloud Filestore is based on what file system technology?

Network File System (NFS)

7. When you create a machine learning service to identify text in an image, what type of servers should you choose to manage compute resources?

No servers;specialized servers are serverless

10. You plan to use Cloud Vision to analyze images and extracted text seen in the image. You plan to process between 1,000 and 2,500 images per hour. How many VMs should you allocate to meet peak demand?

None; Cloud Vision is a serverless service.

4.You have been asked to design a storage system for a web application that allows users to upload large data files to be analyzed by a business intelligence workflow. The files should be stored in a high-availability storage system. File system functionality is not required.Which storage system in Google Cloud Platform should he used?

Object storage

9. Your company is based in X and will be running a virtual server for Y. What factor determines the unit per minute cost?

The characteristics of the server

20. A user prefers services that require minimal setup;why would you recommend Cloud Storage, App Engine, and Cloud Functions?

They are serverless.

11. You have to run a number of services to support an application. Which of the following is a good deployment model?

Use containers in a managed cluster

8. Investing in servers for extended periods of time, such as committing to user server for three to five years,works well when?

A company can accurately predict server need for an extended period of time

12. You have created a VM. Which of the following system administration operations are you allowed to perform on it?

All of the above

2. If you use a cluster that is managed by a cloud provider,which of these will be managed for you by the cloud provider?

All of the above

3. You need serverless computing for file processing and running the backend of a website; which two products can you choose from Google Cloud Platform?

App Engine and Cloud Functions

5. All block storage systems use what block size?

Block size can vary.

18. Your client's transactions must access a drive attached to a VM that allows for random access to parts of files. What kind of storage does the attached drive provide?

Block storage

19. You are deploying a new relational database to support a web application. Which type of storage system would you use to store data files of the database?

Block storage

16. Why can cloud providers offer elastic resource allocation?

Extensive resources and the ability to quickly shift resources between customers enables public cloud providers to offer elastic resource allocation more efficiently than can be done in smaller data centers.

6. You have been asked to set up network security in a virtual private cloud. Your company wants to have multiple subnetworks and limit traffic between the subnetworks. Which network security control would you use to control the flow of traffic between subnets?

Firewall

15. You need to store data for X and therefore you are using a cache for Y. How will the cache affect data retrieval?

Using a cache will reduce latency, since retrieving from a cache is faster than retrieving from SSDs or HDDS.

1. What is the fundamental unit of computing in cloud computing?

VM

14. When setting up a network in GCP, your network the resources in it are treated as what?

Virtual private cloud