GCP Digital Leader

What is Google Cloud's principle for granting access to users? Select the correct answer.

"Least privilege"

An Identity Access Management policy, or IAM policy, is made of three parts. What are they? Select the correct answer.

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

What is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)? Select the correct answer.

A Google Cloud managed service for container orchestration.

What is the cloud?

A metaphor for a network of data centers.

What is App Engine? Select the correct answer.

A platform for building scalable web applications and mobile backends.

What is a data lake? Select the correct answer.

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

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? Select the correct answer.

Apigee

Machine learning is a subset of which body of knowledge? Select the correct answer.

Artificial intelligence

Which network performance metric describes the amount of data a network can transfer in a given amount of time

Bandwidth

Why is the expectation for 100% service availability misleading? Select the correct answer.

Because service maintenance is inevitable and requires downtime

An organization needs a solution for their data analytics workloads. They need to store, do complex queries, and perform data analysis on large amounts of structured and semi-structured data. Which Google Cloud product would best suit this requirement? Select the correct answer.

BigQuery

Which item describes a goal of an organization seeking digital transformation?

Break down data silos and generate real time insights.

How do cost management operations change when a company starts using a service-based cloud architecture? Select the correct answer.

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

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

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

How can businesses use APIs to unlock value from their legacy systems? Select the correct answer.

By gaining access to data stored in legacy systems.

An organization wants to ensure they have redundancy of their resources so their application remains available in the event of a disaster. How can they ensure this happens?

By putting resources in different zones.

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

Cleanliness Completeness

Which of the following are Google Cloud operations-focused tools? Select the two correct answers.

Cloud Logging Cloud Monitoring

What are two common business problems that machine learning solves? Select the two correct answers.

Creating personalized customer experiences Automating processes

Select the two capabilities that form the basis of a transformation cloud? Select two correct answers.

Data cloud provides a unified solution to manage data across the entire data lifecycle. Open infrastructure gives the freedom to innovate by running applications in the place that makes the most sense.

How do databases and data warehouses differ? Select the correct answer.

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

_____________ refers to breaking down silos and closing gaps between developer and operations teams? Select the correct answer.

DevOps

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

Elasticity

Which of the following is an advantage for storing and managing data in the public cloud? Select the two correct answers.

Elasticity and Speed

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? Select the correct answer.

Evaluate real-time data to predict maintenance requirements

A financial services organization has bank branches in a number of countries, and has built an application that needs to run in different configurations based on the local regulations of each country. How can cloud infrastructure help achieve this goal?

Flexibility of infrastructure configuration.

As the world and business changes, organizations have to decide between embracing new technology and transforming, or keeping their technology and approaches the same. What risks might an organization face by not transforming as their market evolves?

Focusing on 'how' they operate can prevent organizations from seeing transformation opportunities.

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? Select the correct answer.

Google's APIs on Google Cloud's AI Hub

An organization wants to innovate using the latest technologies, but also has compliance needs that specify data must be stored in specific locations. Which cloud approach would best suit their needs?

Hybrid Cloud

What Google Cloud security layer does "strong authentication for data access" relate to? Select the correct answer.

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? Select the correct answer.

Invent in brownfield

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? Select the correct answer.

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? Select the correct answer.

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? Select the correct answer.

It would promote a culture of accountability.

Which option best describes a benefit of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

It's efficient, as IaaS resources are available when needed and resources aren't wasted by overbuilding capacity.

An organization has a new application, and user subscriptions are growing faster than on-premises infrastructure can handle. What benefit of the cloud might help them in this situation?

It's scalable, so the organization could shorten their infrastructure deployment time.

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? Select the correct answer.

Maintenance work is outsourced to the cloud provider.

What is a critical outcome of API management? Select the correct answer.

Measuring and tracking business performance.

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

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

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? Select the correct answer.

hybrid cloud

What do containers recreate or virtualize? Select the correct answer.

operating systems

What is a service level objective (SLO)? Select the correct answer.

The goal for your cloud service performance level.

What is seen as a limitation of on-premises infrastructure, when compared to cloud infrastructure?

The on-premises hardware procurement process can take a long time.

What is the function of APIs? Select the correct answer.

They enable integration between systems.

Why do legacy systems struggle to meet modern consumer expectations? Select the correct answer.

They scale slowly.

An organization has shifted from a CapEx to OpEx based spending model. Which of these statements is true?

They will only pay for what they use.

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? Select the correct answer.

This is an infrequent decision for a specific role and department.

How is data integrity achieved? Select the two correct answers.

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

Images and videos are examples of what type of data? Select the correct answer.

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? Select the correct answer.

User data

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

Visibility, accountability, control, intelligent recommendations.

Definition of digital transformation.

When an organization uses new digital technologies to create or modify business processes, culture, and customer experiences.

What is the benefit of implementing a transformation cloud that is based on open infrastructure?

Open source software reduces the chance of vendor lock-in.

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

Operations-focused tools Application performance management tools

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? Select two correct answers.

Phishing for sensitive data Malware attacks on files

Which cloud computing service model offers a develop-and-deploy environment to build cloud applications?

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

An organization has made significant investments in their own infrastructure and has regulatory requirements for their data to be hosted on-premises. Which cloud implementation would best suit their needs?

Private Cloud

What primary factors contribute to the complexity of calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) when migrating to the cloud? Select the two correct answers.

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

You are migrating workloads to the cloud. The goal of the migration is to serve customers worldwide as quickly as possible. According to local regulations, certain data is required to be stored in a specific geographic area, and it can be served worldwide. You need to design the architecture and deployment for your workloads. What should you do?

Select a public cloud provider that guarantees the data location in the required geographic area

App Engine, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run are all what type of Google Cloud compute option? Select the correct answer.

Serverless computing

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

She can use it to create real-time dashboards.

An organization wants to move their collaboration software to the cloud, but due to limited IT staff one of their main drivers is having low maintenance needs. Which cloud computing model would best suit their requirements?

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Which of the following describes data completeness? Select the correct answer.

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

In the cloud computing shared responsibility model, what types of content are customers always responsible for, regardless of the computing model chosen?

The customer is responsible for securing anything that they create within the cloud, such as the configurations, access policies, and user data.