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What are the different types of clouds for IT infrastructure implementations?

- On-premises - Private cloud - public cloud - hybrid cloud - multicloud

What are the 3 main types of data?

1. Structured 2. Semi-structured 3. Unstructured

What is generative Al? a. A type of artificial intelligence that can understand and respond to human emotions b. A type of artificial intelligence that can produce new content, including text, images, and audio c. A type of artificial intelligence that can make decisions and take actions d. A type of artificial intelligence that can create and sustain its own consciousness

A type of artificial intelligence that can produce new content, including text, images, and audio

How would an organization benefit from using Looker? A) Advanced business intelligence and analytics B) Optimal identity and access management C) Leading serverless warehousing technology D) Robust data roll-back accuracy

Advanced business intelligence and analytics

What term describes a set of instructions that lets different software programs communicate with each other? a. Application programming interface b. Programming communication link c. Network programming interface d. Communication link interface

Application programming interface

When an organization adopts cloud technology, how does their total cost of ownership (TCO) shift? A) Away from operational expenditure toward capital expenditure B) Away from capital expenditure toward operational expenditure C) Away from cost management toward capital expenditure D) Away from operational expenditure toward cost management

Away from capital expenditure toward operational expenditure

Which network performance metric describes the amount of data a network can transfer in a given amount of time? a. Latency b. Bandwidth c. Domain Name System (DNS) d. Fiber optics

Bandwidth

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

BigQuery

What product would be used considering the following characteristics? structured or semi-structured data. analytical workload. SQL.

BigQuery

What product would be used considering the following characteristics? structured or semi-structured data. analytical workload. NoSQL.

Cloud Bigtable

An organization wants to track and understand its expenses on Google Cloud and receive recommendations on cost optimizations. Which tool should the organization use? A) Cloud Billing reports B) Resource quotas and thresholds C) Committed use discounts D) Invoices

Cloud Billing reports

An organization has a small app that sends a mobile notification to a customer whenever a new order is placed on their website. They require a simple, event-driven, serverless service to host the code. Which service should the organization choose? A) Cloud Functions B) Kubernetes Engine C) Cloud Run D) Compute Engine

Cloud Functions

An organization needs to control access for users and resources within Google Cloud. Which service should the organization use? A) Hardware-based encryption B) Cloud VPN C) Cloud Interconnect D) Cloud IAM

Cloud IAM

An organization is looking for a solution to help them build applications using their preferred programming language and tools. They also want to minimize time spent on infrastructure management. What solution should the organization use? A) Bare Metal Solution B) Dataproc C) Pub/Sub D) Cloud Run

Cloud Run

What product would be used considering the following characteristics? structured or semi-structured data. transactional workload. SQL. Local/regional scalability.

Cloud SQL

Which is the best SQL-based storage option for a transactional workload that requires local or regional scalability? a. Cloud Storage b. Cloud Spanner c. BigQuery d. Cloud SQL

Cloud SQL

A global organization is developing an application to manage payments and online bank accounts in multiple regions. Each transaction must be handled consistently in their database, and they anticipate almost unlimited growth in the amount of data stored. Which Google Cloud product should the organization choose? A) Cloud Spanner B) BigQuery C) Cloud SQL D) Cloud Storage

Cloud Spanner

What product would be used considering the following characteristics? structured or semi-structured data. transactional workload. SQL. Global scalability.

Cloud Spanner

An organization wants an economical solution to store data such as files, graphical images, and videos and to access and share them securely. Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use? A) Cloud Spanner B) Cloud SQL C) Cloud Storage D) BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Data in the form of video, pictures, and audio recordings is well suited to object storage. Which product is best for storing this kind of data? a. Firestore b. Cloud Storage c. Cloud SQL d. BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Custom training (1/4 ML Options on Google Cloud)

Code your own ML environment to have control over the ML pipeline.

A data analyst for an online retailer must produce a sales report at the end of each quarter. Which Cloud Storage class should the retailer use for data accessed every 90 days? a. Coldline b. Standard c. Nearline d. Archive

Coldline

An organization wants to migrate multiple virtual machines to the cloud. Which Google service should they choose? A) Compute Engine B) Kubernetes Engine C) Cloud Functions D) Cloud Run

Compute Engine

In Google's cloud security model, which aspect emphasizes the importance of keeping sensitive information safe and secret? A) Integrity B) Confidentiality C) Availability D) Compliance

Confidentiality

Which three essential aspects of cloud security form the foundation of the CIA triad? a. Compliance, identity, and access management b. Confidentiality, integrity, and availability c. Containers, infrastructure, and architecture d. Certificates, intelligence, and authentication

Confidentiality, integrity, and availability

Which cybersecurity threat occurs when errors arise during the setup of resources, inadvertently exposing sensitive data and systems to unauthorized access? a. Phishing b. Virus c. Malware d. Configuration mishaps

Configuration mishaps

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

Containers

Which of these is a generative Al use case? a. Self-driving cars b. Spam filtering c. Conversational bots d. Image recognition

Conversational bots

According to Google's AI principles, which scenario is an irresponsible use of AI technology? A) Creating mass blog posts by using generative AI. B) Using data on previous customer interactions. C) Forecasting customers that are likely to have a higher lifetime value. D) Tracking user activity in financial organizations.

Creating mass blog posts by using generative AI.

How do data analytics and business intelligence differ from Al and ML? a. Data analytics and business intelligence identify trends from historical data, whereas Al and ML use data to make decisions for future business. b. Data analytics and business intelligence involve advanced algorithms for predicting future trends, whereas Al and ML focus on processing historical data. c. Data analytics and business intelligence use automated decision-making processes, whereas Al and ML require human intervention and interpretation of data. d. Data analytics and business intelligence are used only in small businesses, whereas Al and ML are used exclusively by large corporations.

Data analytics and business intelligence identify trends from historical data, whereas Al and ML use data to make decisions for future business.

Why is data stored in Google Cloud secure and private? A) Data is encrypted when an appropriate tag is applied. B) Data is encrypted by the Security Command Center. C) Data is encrypted by Cloud Data Loss Prevention. D) Data is encrypted by default.

Data is encrypted by default.

An organization needs to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in its raw, native format in the same repository. Which cloud data management solution should the organization use? A) Data lake B) Data warehouse C) Database D) Data mesh

Data lake

An organization is establishing best practices for financial governance in the cloud. They have multiple teams building applications. Which Google-recommended approach should the organization use to manage spending? A) Define ownership for projects, and establish financial accountability for project owners. B) Define ownership for projects, but centralize financial accountability. C) Set a fixed cloud spend budget across all projects. D) Centralize financial accountability, and review spending monthly.

Define ownership for projects, and establish financial accountability for project owners.

what is: - its server is a database of domain names mapped to IP addresses used by computers to communicate with each other. - like the phone book of the web. Every time you visit a website, your computer performs a lookup of this.

Domain Name System (DNS)

An organization is implementing a cloud center of excellence by creating a central partnership across finance, technology and business function teams. What is a benefit of this approach? A) Enabling individual project teams to apply their own approach to security. B) Ensuring that there is visibility into ongoing cloud spend. C) Reviewing cloud decisions on a quarterly basis. D) Owning all cloud spending budgets across the organization.

Ensuring that there is visibility into ongoing cloud spend.

What product would be used considering the following characteristics? structured or semi-structured data. transactional workload. NoSQL.

Firestore

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? a. Focusing on 'why' they operate can lead to inefficient use of resources and disruption. b. Organizations risk losing market leadership if they spend too much time on digital transformation c. Focusing on 'how' they operate can prevent organizations from seeing transformation opportunities. d. Embracing new technology can cause organizations to overspend on innovation.

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

What Google Cloud product provides robust protection from harmful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks? a. Google Cloud Armor b. Cloud Load Balancing c. Cloud IAM d. Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Armor

How can Google Cloud help an organization achieve its sustainability goals? A) Google Cloud data centers are carbon free. B) Data centers have maximum physical security. C) Data centers are regionally distributed around the world. D) Google Cloud data centers are ISO certified for their environmental performance and efficiency.

Google Cloud data centers are ISO certified for their environmental performance and efficiency.

An organization is monitoring a service level indicator based on the volume of traffic that their application is receiving. Why is it important to monitor this indicator? A) The volume of traffic always affects the user experience. B) High traffic levels are frequently tied to degrading performance. C) Historical trends in traffic can be used for capacity planning. D) Low traffic volumes always indicate configuration issues.

Historical trends in traffic can be used for capacity planning.

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? a. Public Cloud b. Multicloud c. On-premises infrastructure d. Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

What type of cloud implementation does the following describe? part on-prem + part cloud

Hybrid cloud

An organization wants to deploy new workloads to the cloud, but must keep some systems on-premises for compliance reasons. They need to centrally manage both environments. Which type of environment would suit the organization? A) Multi cloud environment B) Virtual machine environment C) Hybrid cloud environment D) Container environment

Hybrid cloud environment

What is a series of numbers that can identify a network or the location of a particular device on a network?

IP address (Internet protocol)

An ecommerce company is developing a new web application that will be used by customers to browse products, add items to their carts, and checkout. The company wants to deploy the application that is scalable and reliable, and that can handle a large number of concurrent users during peak periods. Should the company use GKE or Cloud Run to deploy the application?

In this scenario, the e-commerce company should choose Cloud Run. Cloud Run is ideal for running applications that need to scale up and down quickly in response to traffic. This makes Cloud Run most suitable for simple and lightweight applications, such as web applications. It is also a good choice for companies that do not want to worry about managing infrastructure.

An organization is planning to create many new applications and needs a system for managing and orchestrating their containers. Why should they use Google Kubernetes Engine? A) It optimizes virtual machine performance. B) It enables rapid application deployment and testing. C) It connects legacy systems to an application. D) It provides pre-written source code for application development.

It enables rapid application deployment and testing. B is correct because Kubernetes based applications are containerized and allow for rapid application deployment because different parts of the application can be built independently of the other in micro services architecture. Google Kubernetes Engine solution on Google Cloud enables for rapid application deployment and testing.

What does the Cloud Profiler tool do ? a. It collects and stores all application and infrastructure logs. b. It identifies how much CPU power, memory, and other resources an application uses. c. It counts, analyzes, and aggregates the crashes in running cloud services in real-time. d. It provides a comprehensive view of your cloud infrastructure and applications.

It identifies how much CPU power, memory, and other resources an application uses.

AutoML (1/4 ML Options on Google Cloud)

It's a no-code solution to build ML models on Vertex AI.

What open source platform, originally developed by Google, manages containerized workloads and services? a. TensorFlow b. Go c. Kubernetes d. Angular

Kubernetes

Which security principle advocates granting users only the access they need to perform their job responsibilities? a. Security by default b. Least privilege c. Zero-trust architecture d. Privileged access

Least privilege

Which strategy describes when databases are migrated from on-premises and private cloud environments to the same type of database hosted by a public cloud provider? a. Managed database migration b. Refactoring c. Remain on-premise d. Lift & shift

Lift & shift

Which is the responsibility of the cloud provider in a cloud security model? a. Setting access policies for the customer's data b. Maintaining the customer's infrastructure c. Configuring the customer's applications d. Managing the customer's user access

Maintaining the customer's infrastructure

Which cybersecurity threat can lead to information being stolen or damaged without a user ever being aware? A) Ransomware attack B) SLA policy violation C) Malware attack D) Incomplete data input

Malware attack

In modern cloud application development, what name is given to independently deployable, scalable, and maintainable components that can be used to build a wide range of applications? a. Containers b. Monoliths c. Microservices d. DevOps

Microservices

What name is given to an environment where an organization uses more than one public cloud provider as part of its architecture? a. Hybrid cloud b. multicloud c. Edge cloud d. Duocloud

Multicloud

What type of cloud implementation does the following describe? pro's: hosted on-site. located and operated in an organization's data center. traditional way of managing IT infrastructure. doesn't require 3rd party access. owners have physical control. no payment for ongoing access. cons: requires physical space. require a specialized room. require expert personnel. difficult to scale. acquire more computing resources than needed.

On-premises

Why is it a benefit that the Google Cloud resource hierarchy follows inheritance and propagation rules? a. Permissions set at higher levels of the resource hierarchy are automatically inherited by lower-level resources. b. Inheritance in the hierarchy reduces the overall cost of cloud computing. c. Resources at lower levels can improve the performance of cloud applications. d. Faster propagation can simplify a cloud migration.

Permissions set at higher levels of the resource hierarchy are automatically inherited by lower-level resources.

Which cloud computing service model offers a develop-and-deploy environment to build cloud applications? a. Infrastructure as a Service (laaS) b. Platform as a Service (PaaS) c. Software as a Service (SaaS) d. Function as a Service (FaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

An organization wants to analyze data collected from a fleet of rental vehicles. Onboard sensors send location data every 30 seconds. They want to ingest this data. Which Google product or service should they use? A) Dataflow B) Pub/Sub C) Cloud SQL D) Cloud Storage

Pub/Sub Pub/Sub is a messaging service that can receive data from device streams such as sensors, at the start of a data pipeline.

What would provide near-unlimited availability of computing resources without requiring an organization to procure and provision new equipment? A) Public cloud B) Private cloud C) Microservices D) Containers

Public cloud

Which feature lets you set limits on the amount of resources that can be used by a project or user? a. Quota policies b. Billing reports c. Budget alerts d. Committed use discounts

Quota policies

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

Real-time data ingestion and analysis

An organization is migrating their business applications from on-premises to the cloud. How could this impact their operations and personnel costs? A) Increased on-premises hardware maintenance costs B) Reduced cloud software licensing costs C) Reduced on-premises infrastructure management costs D) Increased cloud hardware management costs

Reduced on-premises infrastructure management costs C is correct because the cloud service providers take on the onus of hardware, cooling, power, security, and maintenance of the physical infrastructure, thereby reducing the on-premises costs.

An organization is moving its operations to the cloud, but needs to migrate a legacy application without making any changes to the code. Which migration path should the organization choose? A) Replatform B) Refactor C) Rehost D) Retire

Rehost

Which represents the lowest level in the Google Cloud resource hierarchy? a. Folders b. Projects c. Organization node d. Resources

Resources

How is privacy defined in the context of cloud technology? A) Procedures to authenticate user identity B) Restrictions on data access and sharing C) Compliance with regulatory standards D) Susceptibility to data breaches and cyber attacks

Restrictions on data access and sharing

Which practice involves a combination of processes and technologies that help reduce the risk of data breaches, system outages, and other security incidents in the cloud? a. Security operations (SecOps) b. Site reliability engineering (SRE) c. Zero trust security d. Cloud security posture management (CSPM)

Security operations (SecOps)

What computing option automatically provisions resources, like compute power, in the background as needed? a. Traditional on-premise computing b. Serverless computing c. laas (Infrastructure-as-a-service) d. Paas (Platform-as-a-service)

Serverless computing

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? a. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (laas) b. Software-as-a-Service (Saas) c. Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) d. IT-as-a-Service (ITaas)

Software-as-a-Service (Saas)

What are the two services that BigQuery provides? a. Storage and analytics b. Migration and analytics c. Compute and analytics d. Networking and storage

Storage and analytics

An organization wants to compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of operating in the cloud versus on-premises. What on-premises costs should be compared to cloud operating costs? A) The cost of on-premises operational overhead B) The initial investment cost of on-premises hardware C) The maintenance cost of replacing on-premises hardware D) The cost of on-premises hardware investment, operational overhead, and missed-opportunity costs

The cost of on-premises hardware investment, operational overhead, and missed-opportunity costs D is correct because it is important to consider all of these factors when calculating a total cost of ownership to compare with operating in the cloud.

What is seen as a limitation of on-premises infrastructure, when compared to cloud infrastructure? a. The on-premises networking is more complicated. b. Scaling processing is too difficult due to power consumption. c. Maintenance workers do not have physical access to the servers. d. The on-premises hardware procurement process can take a long time.

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

An organization's developers are growing increasingly frustrated by the limitations of their on-premises infrastructure. How would they benefit from leveraging cloud technology? A) They can optimize maintenance for their on-premises infrastructure. B) They can expect 100% service availability. C) They can avoid the limitations of serverless computing. D) They can have new tools to innovate and optimize resource usage.

They can have new tools to innovate and optimize resource usage.

An organization has shifted from a CapEx to OpEx based spending model. Which of these statements is true? a. They will only pay for what they forecast. b. Budgeting will only happen on an annual basis. c. They will only pay for what they use. d. Hardware procurement is done by a centralized team.

They will only pay for what they use.

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.

To connect the new application with the legacy system.

Artificial intelligence is best suited for replacing or simplifying rule-based systems. Which is an example of this in action? a. Implementing Al to develop a new product or service that has never been seen before. b. Using Al to replace a human decision-maker in complex situations, such as those involving life-or-death choices. c. Using a reinforcement learning algorithm to train autonomous drones for package delivery. d. Training a machine learning model to predict a search result ranking.

Training a machine learning model to predict a search result ranking.

Pre-trained APIs (1/4 ML Options on Google Cloud)

Use ML models that have already been built and trained by Google.

BigQuery ML (1/4 ML Options on Google Cloud)

Use SQL queries to create and execute machine learning models in BigQuery.

What do the following characteristics describe? no need to buy or operate hardware. major catalyst for cloud-native companies. very few startups operated their own data centers. optimizes the space on physical hardware.

VM cloud

An organization needs a platform to create custom end-to-end artificial intelligence models. Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use? A) Recommendations AI B) Dataproc C) Compute Engine D) Vertex AI

Vertex AI

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. VertexAI d. Cloud Talent Solution

VertexAI

A travel company is in the early stages of developing a new application and wants to test it on a variety of configurations: different operating systems, processors, and storage options. What cloud computing option should they use? a. Containers b. A local development environment c. Colocation d. Virtual machine instances

Virtual machine instances

An organization has raised a support case with Google Cloud Customer Care. When is it appropriate for a case to be escalated? A) When a high-impact issue needs to be resolved as fast as possible B) When the priority of the ticket has been set incorrectly C) When flagging a break in the process or a communication issue D) When a case has been resolved and needs to be reopened

When flagging a break in the process or a communication issue

What does the consistency dimension refer to when data quality is being measured? a. Whether all the required information is present. b. Whether the data is up-to-date and reflects the current state of the phenomenon that is being modeled. c. Whether a dataset is free from duplicate values that could prevent an ML model from learning accurately. d. Whether the data is uniform and doesn't contain any contradictory information.

Whether the data is uniform and doesn't contain any contradictory information.

What is a measure of how much data a network can transfer in a given amount of time?

bandwidth

What do the following characteristics describe? a unified solution to manage data across the entire data lifecycle. lets organizations identify and process data with great scale, speed, security, and reliability. leading companies use this to encourage data-driven transformation, all with AI built in.

data cloud

what is: - an easy-to-remember name that maps directly to an IP address or set of IP addresses on the internet. - the unique name that appears after the @ sign in email addresses and after www. in web addresses. - it's example.com that may translate to IP address 192.168.200.9

domain name

what is the amount of time it takes for data to travel from one point to another? It describes delays in communication over a network and can affect your app's performance.

latency

What type of cloud implementation does the following describe? having multiple cloud providers. part on-prem with multiple public clouds. access to the latest technologies. modernize at the right pace. improved return on investment. flexibility through choice of tools. improve reliability and resiliency. maintain regulatory compliance.

multicloud

describe the differences of Total cost of ownership (TCO) between on-premises and cloud.

on-prem - dominated by the initial purchase of hardware and software. cloud - based on monthly subscriptions or pay-per-use models.

What do the following characteristics describe? source code is publicly available. free for anyone to use, modify, and share. created through public collaboration.

open source

What do the following characteristics describe? software with particular specifications. accessible and usable by anyone. guidelines for software functionality.

open standard

What type of cloud implementation does the following describe? dedicated to a single organization. single-tenant or corporate cloud. same kind of ongoing maintenance and management as for traditional on-premises infrastructure. hosted within an organization's own private servers. benefits of a public cloud but with more customization available. accessed over the cloud but the company owns it. company sends computers to a 3rd party to maintain.

private cloud

What type of cloud implementation does the following describe? on-demand availability of computing and infrastructure resources. no need to acquire, configure, or manage resources. pay only for what is used.

public cloud

What do the following characteristics describe? app and infrastructure modernization. data democratization. people connections. trusted transactions. benefits from cloud computing. drives innovation. generates new revenue streams. adapts quickly to market changes. adapts quickly to customer needs.

transformation cloud