Digital Cloud Leader - Module Questions

An organization has created an ecommerce website. What data on this website would be considered structured data?

Product ratings score

What is Google Cloud's principle for granting access to users?

"Least privilege"

An Identity Access Management policy, or IAM policy, is made of what three parts?

"Who", "can do what", and "on which resource"

1. Tensorflow Processing Units (TPUs) are how many times more powerful than traditional chips.?

50

Machine learning is a subset of which body of knowledge?

Artificial intelligence

Which of the following are Google Cloud operations-focused tools?

Cloud Monitoring; and Cloud Logging

What primary factors contribute to the complexity of calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) when migrating to the cloud?

Cloud architecture (i.e. private, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture); and qualified personnel (i.e. Financial controller with expertise in cloud)

When an organization takes advantage of cloud technology to redesign and redefine relationships with its customers, employees, and partners, what is the result?

Company-wide digital transformation

One characteristic of high quality, bug-free data is that it has coverage. What are the other two qualities?

Completeness; and cleanliness

1. 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?

Containers

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?

Customers expect a personalized experience

What is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?

A Google Cloud managed service for container orchestration

What is App Engine?

A platform for building scalable web applications and mobile backends

What is a data lake?

A repository of raw data and tend to hold 'back up' data

What is a service level objective (SLO)?

The goal for your cloud service performance level

What issues can arise when organizations integrate third-party systems into their cloud infrastructure?

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

_____________ refers to breaking down silos and closing gaps between developer and operations teams?

DevOps

What is a critical outcome of API management?

Measuring and tracking business performance

Which of the following is an advantage for storing and managing data in the public cloud?

Speed; and Elasticity

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?

AI Hub

What factors have a direct impact on a team's ability to innovate?

Ability to try new things without failure or judgement; and team structure

To help you narrow down the scope of your user's expectations, which focus areas should you consider?

Access, Engagement, Customization, Communication

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?

Agile storage scalability

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?

Anthos

Michelle wants to manage her team's APIs and provide security policies for identity verification, authentication, and access control. What Google Cloud solution should she choose?

Apigee

What are two common business problems that machine learning solves?

Automating processes; and creating personalized customer experiences

Why is the expectation for 100% service availability misleading?

Because service maintenance is inevitable and requires downtime

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?

BigQuery

How do cost management operations change when a company starts using a service-based cloud architecture?

Budgeting needs to be assessed on a daily, monthly, or weekly basis

Organizations have traditionally used retrospective data to gain business insights. By using cloud technology, in what new way can businesses leverage data?

Businesses can gain real-time insights

What are the key benefits of using cloud technology to unlock value from data, especially for traditional Enterprises?

Businesses can process terabytes of data in real-time; and Businesses can query their data and retrieve results instantly

How can businesses use APIs to unlock value from their legacy systems?

By gaining access to data stored in legacy systems

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?

Cloud Monitoring

How does a least privilege resource access model contribute to cloud security?

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

How do databases and data warehouses differ?

Databases efficiently ingest large amounts of real-time data, while data warehouses rapidly analyze multi-dimensional datasets

Timothy owns and operates an organic food delivery service. Timothy must first define his company's mission. Which of the following mission statements best focuses on the WHY and not the HOW, providing clear direction?

Deliver the freshest seasonal produce reliably

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?

Deploy changes programmatically

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?

Developers want to test ideas and experiment with more ease

Eduardo is using a machine learning model to improve recruitment efficiency for his company. What candidate data is appropriate and relevant for training the model?

Education; and years of experience

Which specific cloud computing feature helps businesses serve their customers without service interruption and in a cost-effective way?

Elasticity

Which of these businesses failed to adapt as breakthrough technology became available?

Encyclopedia Companies; and Video Rental Stores

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?

Establish a partnership between finance, technology, and business teams

Mark owns a large pharmaceutical company that manufactures essential medical supplies. The production lines are required to operate efficiently at all times. How can Mark use cloud technology to ensure his production lines are meeting optimal performance requirements?

Evaluate real-time data to predict maintenance requirements

Which three business principles does Google recommend to ensure transformational outcomes?

Focus on the user, think 10X, launch and iterate

According to Google's culture of innovation business principles, what does "Think 10X" mean?

Fundamentally rethink business problems and solutions by a factor of 10

Olivia wants to use a machine learning (ML) model to categorize product images from social media and use that information to make predictions about future products. Her team includes experienced developers, but no specialized data scientists or ML experts. Which Google Cloud solution can they leverage to do this?

Google's APIs on Google Cloud's AI Hub

A national hotel chain is using a combination of on-premises data centers and public cloud services for their IT infrastructure. What type of IT infrastructure model is this?

Hybrid cloud

What Google Cloud security layer does "strong authentication for data access" relate to?

Identity

A financial services firm wants to migrate an existing application to the cloud but doesn't want to risk service downtime. For this reason, they have chosen to opt for redundancy and build a new application in the cloud while continuing to run their old application on-premises. Which standard pattern of cloud migration describes this scenario?

Invent in brownfield

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?

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

The technology team of a pharmaceutical business decides to adopt an automated continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) approach. What is the primary value of using a CI/CD approach for the overall business?

It increases application release velocity and reliability

Julia is worried that some of her team members will accidentally overspend on Google Cloud. How would creating a custom dashboard help address her concern?

It would give her (and her teammates) greater visibility into costs

Fraser has noticed that, in the past few months, several departments have been consistently exceeding their IT budgets. He needs to recommend solutions to control spending for each department. How would sharing cost views with these departments help him achieve his goal?

It would promote a culture of accountability

Customers now expect instant access to services anytime, anywhere. What do businesses need to prioritize to meet these changing needs?

Launching new applications quickly

Infrastructure modernization is foundational to an organization's digital transformation. It is a common term used to describe what process?

Leveraging hidden value from legacy systems and applications with cloud technologies

Aarav is a Chief Technical Officer and is considering using public cloud services, specifically to modernize their company's IT infrastructure. Which of the following can Aarav use to build a business case for using an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution?

Maintenance work is outsourced to the cloud provider

You have received an email that says the following: "We have identified that your account is vulnerable. Click this link to change your security settings." What cybersecurity risks do you need to consider before clicking on the link?

Malware attacks on files; and phishing for sensitive data

Sajid is a developer for an online apparel retail company. What kind of architecture should he use for the applications he develops, and why?

Microservice pattern, because it's modular and therefore easy to update

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?

Modernize their applications

What do containers recreate or virtualize?

Operating systems

The tools included in Google Cloud's operations suite fall into what two major categories?

Operations-focused tools; and Application performance management tools

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?

Real-time data ingestion and analysis

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?

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

App Engine, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run are all what type of Google Cloud compute option?

Serverless computing

An organization wants to measure everything as part of its new DevOps philosophy. What should the organization measure?

The reliability and health of their systems

What are the three components of Google Cloud's defense-in-depth data security design?

Sharding, encryption key, key encryption key

Lydia manages a large hotel chain. How can Looker enable Lydia to better serve her customers?

She can use it to create real-time dashboards

Talent, Environment, and Empowerment are three focus areas that Google has identified as foundational to organizational transformation. What are the other three focus areas?

Structure, Strategy, Innovation

Which of the following describes data completeness?

The availability of sufficient data about the world to replace human knowledge

In the cloud, the recommended practice for security is called a 'shared responsibility security model'. What does this mean?

The cloud provider is responsible for the physical infrastructure; and the business is responsible for access to data and applications

What does 'compute power' refer to?

The speed at which a computer is able to process data

What is the function of APIs?

They enable integration between systems

What is uniquely common between all inventions that have fueled innovation waves?

They have transformed the supply and demand at the same time

Why do legacy systems struggle to meet modern consumer expectations?

They scale slowly

The finance team just posted an open role for a Financial Manager. Jessica, the recruiter, wants to use a machine learning (ML) model to predict when the new position would be filled. Why is this use case not suitable for ML?

This is an infrequent decision for a specific role and department

How is data integrity achieved?

Through ongoing error checking and validation routines as data is collected; and by implementing a set of rules when a database is first designed

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?

To connect the new application with the legacy system

An organization wants to scale their existing virtual machine architecture as quickly as possible. Why should the organization use VMware Engine?

To replatform virtual machines as they are

Images and videos are examples of what type of data?

Unstructured

Lucinda is creating a data map for her online learning company. Her datasets include learner demographics, their purchases, and browsing history. What data 'bucket' would these datasets fall into?

User data

Google Cloud's tools offer four key benefits for managing cloud costs. What are they?

Visibility, accountability, control, intelligent recommendations