GCP: ACE Exam Prep Knowledge Check Questions

Which storage class is designed for long term storage has a 365 day minimum storage agreement, and a lower storage price as compared to other storage types?

Archive Storage has a 365 day minimum and a lower storage price.

Which serverless option is based on developing and executing small snippets of code?

Cloud Functions allows you to submit and execute small snippets of code that fire based on system events.

Which Google Cloud interface allows for scripting actions in a set of command line executables?

Cloud Shell provides a containerized command line interface that allows you to run commands and automate them with scripts.

Which data storage service is a unique globally available, horizontally scalable database with relational semantics?

Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud's globally available, horizontally scalable relational database.

What is the lowest level basic role that gives you permissions to change resource state?

Editor gives you permissions to change state.

Which services are based on logic implemented in containers?

Google Kubernetes Engine: Google Kubernetes Engine is Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes environment that lets you deploy containerized apps via pods, deployments, and services you specify. Cloud Run: Cloud Run is a serverless offering that runs your containerized code when monitored events take place.

What GKE object implements an http(s) load balancer?

Ingress objects implement an http(s) load balancer based on upstream services you specify in your configuration file.

Which Cloud Run autoscaling setting should you set if you want to limit cost?

Max instances directly affects cost by limiting the maximum amount of container instances deployed.

What kind of account is meant for machine-to-machine communication in Google Cloud?

Service accounts are designed to provide permissions for machine-to machine or service-to-service communications in Google Cloud.

You are authenticating an application to service APIs. Both resources are internal to the Google Cloud environment. What type of credentials should you use?

You should use temporary credentials of the service account provided by the environment.