You are a program manager for a team of developers who are building an event-driven application to allow users to follow one another’s activities in the app. Each time a user adds himself as a follower of another user, a write occurs in the real-time database.
The developers will develop a lightweight piece of code that can respond to database writes and generate a notification to let the appropriate users know that they have gained new followers. The code should integrate with other cloud services such as Pub/Sub, Firebase, and Cloud APIs to streamline the orchestration process. The application requires a platform that automatically manages underlying infrastructure and scales to zero when there is no activity.
Which primary compute resource should your developers select, given these requirements?
Your company has been using a shared facility for data storage and will be migrating to Google Cloud. One of the internal applications uses Linux custom images that need to be migrated.
Which Google Cloud product should you use to maintain the custom images?
Your organization wants to run a container-based application on Google Cloud. This application is expected to increase in complexity. You have a security need for fine-grained control of traffic between the containers. You also have an operational need to exercise fine-grained control over the application’s scaling policies.
What Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?
Your manager wants to restrict communication of all virtual machines with internet access; with resources in another network; or with a resource outside Compute Engine. It is expected that different teams will create new folders and projects in the near future.
How would you restrict all virtual machines from having an external IP address?
Your organization wants to be sure that is expenditures on cloud services are in line with the budget. Which two Google Cloud cost management features help your organization gain greater visibility into its cloud resource costs? (Choose two.)
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?
You are working with the head of the IT team and planning the move of computing systems. The questionnaire indicates that they have a reporting application that runs almost 24 hours every day of the week. When there is extra load, it queues up the processing and executes tasks when there is less demand. Which of these compute options would you recommend for them?
A company with its own private data center has called you in for help with their disaster recovery planning. News of multiple ransomware attacks has made them very anxious. They want to make they are well prepared for such an eventuality. Which of these would be good recommendations?
Your organization is moving an application to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to migrate the application’s working database from another cloud provider to Cloud SQL. The database runs on the MySQL engine. The migration must cause minimal disruption to users. Data must be secured while in transit.
Which should your organization use?
Your 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 your organization use?
Your customer currently has a hybrid cloud setup including their on-premises data center and AWS. They are consolidating all their services on Google Cloud as part of a modernization plan and want to spend less IT effort in the future. There are about 10 MySQL and 25 PostgreSQL databases across the two DCs. What is the best option to for them?
A customer has new applications to build that has to handle both batch data and streaming data. Which product should they choose?
Your multinational organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on its premises around the world. You want to be able to manage these workloads consistently and centrally, and you want to stop managing infrastructure.
What should your organization do?
What conditions be true if a VM interface wants to send packets to the external IP addresses of Google APIs and services using Private Google Access?
Your organization needs to restrict access to a Cloud Storage bucket. Only employees who are based in Canada should be allowed to view the contents.
What is the most effective and efficient way to satisfy this requirement?
As your organization increases its release velocity, the VM-based application upgrades take a long time to perform rolling updates due to OS boot times. You need to make the application deployments faster.
What should your organization do?
Your organization is developing a mobile app and wants to select a fully featured cloud-based compute platform for it.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?
Your organization needs to establish private network connectivity between its on-premises network and its workloads running in Google Cloud. You need to be able to set up the connection as soon as possible.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should you use?
Your organization runs an application on virtual machines in Google Cloud. This application processes incoming images. This activity takes hours to create a result for each image. The workload for this application normally stays at a certain baseline level, but at regular intervals it spikes to a much greater workload. Your organization needs to control the cost to run this application.
What should your organization do?
Which of the following NIST Cloud characteristics uses the business model of shared re-sources in a cloud environment?
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 organi-zation use?
A Multiple projects within your organization have long-term VM usage. Based on current demand, they are able to project into the future and estimate how many VM hours they will use every year. Going in for a committed use contract seems sensible. How can you configure committed use easily across all the projects?
Your organization meant to purchase a 3-year Committed Use Discount, but accidentally purchased a 1-year Committed Use Discount instead. What should your organization do?
Your company provides car maintenance services. It is conducting an internal hackathon to identify new ideas that could expand their business. The teams have pitched different ideas and have started working on it. They have to present their application to the judges within 48 hours. A presentation alone is not enough; they have to demonstrate a working proof of concept. The team that you are mentoring is going to recommend additional ser-vices to drive in customers based on the brand of car they drive in. They need to be able to identify what brand of car the customer has, based on a photograph automatically taken at entry. They have already discovered an open source database of car images collected by online enthusiasts. How should they implement this solution?
Your ed-tech start-up was originally launched in a small geography. Any user sign-ups, course progress, tests taken, etc. are captured on a self-managed MySQL database. Every user generates many such transactions. Now you're taking the application globally and preparing for a much larger influx of users from all over the world. The existing MySQL server is unlikely to be able to scale. Which convenient option can be considered?
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?
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?
An organization wants to move from a strategic cloud adoption maturity level to a trans-formational one. How should the organization change the way they scale?
Your organization runs many workloads in different Google Cloud projects, each linked to the same billing account. Each project's workload costs can vary from month to month, but the overall combined cost of all projects is relatively stable. Your organization needs to optimize its cost.
What should your organization do?
A fitness band company is continuously ingesting data from millions of its consumers. Different kinds of data based on time, like location, heartbeat rate, temperature, movement, etc. are connect-ed. They need a high throughput database that can write data very fast. Since their users are spread across the world, they need the database to be geographically scalable. Consumers also want to see near-real-time visualizations of their activities. Which of these databases would be a good fit?
Which Google Cloud product is designed to reduce the risks of handling personally identifiable information (PII)?
There are internal compliance requirements that demand that we do not use any APIs or services that are not backed by SLAs. Which of these are acceptable for us? (Choose two answer)
Your team is using BigQuery as your central data warehouse. You are running a certain workload that you've run frequently over the last few days. It is a short, high capacity ana-lytics workload. Which of the following would be an appropriate pricing model to use?
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?
You want to build an application that will allow customers to register and login. It would be great to have the ability to secure it with multi-factor authentication and the ability to reset credentials. As a small startup, you want to build the main application as quickly as possible and have minimum overhead. Which might be a suitable option for you on Google Cloud?
What are the network requirements for Private Google Access?
Your organization stores highly sensitive data on-premises that cannot be sent over the public internet. The data must be processed both on-premises and in the cloud.
What should your organization do?
Your organization is building an application running in Google Cloud. Currently, software builds, tests, and regular deployments are done manually, but you want to reduce work for the team. Your organization wants to use Google Cloud managed solutions to automate your build, testing, and deployment process.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?
Your organization needs to analyze data in order to gather insights into its daily operations. You only want to pay for the data you store and the queries you perform. Which Google Cloud product should your organization choose for its data analytics warehouse?
Your application has repeated data requests of the exact same nature. At the same time, the number of user requests is increasing. Monitoring indicates that the load on the existing database is increasing, and there seems to be a bottleneck. An analysis of the data requested shows us that it is application-managed data and that it changes, but not often. How can you improve the efficiency of the application?
An organization recently launched a virtual customer support agent, generating vast amounts of text and speech data.
Why should they use a cloud data warehouse to interpret this data?
An organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on-premises around the world. They want to modernize their infrastructure with a multi-cloud architecture.
What benefit could the organization experience?
An organization meets their service level objective (SLO) of 99 999% ("five nines")
How much downtime do their end users experience per year?
An organization provides a loyalty program for its customers. It recently partnered with other businesses so that customers can get loyalty points at a range of other stores.
Why should the organization use application programming interfaces (APIs)?
An organization wants to use Apigee to manage all their application programming interfaces (APIs).
What will Apigee enable the organization to do?
An organization wants to move from a tactical cloud adoption approach to a transformational approach.
How should they adapt the way they lead the organization?
An organization wants to adopt the advanced machine learning capabilities of the Google Cloud. However, regulations require data to be stored in an on-premises data center.
Which approach should the organization use?
An organization wants to build a data pipeline to transform its data so it can be reconciled in a data warehouse. The solution must be scalable and require little or no management. Which Google product or service should the organization choose?
An organization wants a purpose-built Al solution to increase efficiency and provide personalized interactions for their customer care team Which Google Cloud Al solution should they use?
An organization needs to categorize a large group of photographs using pre-trained machine learning.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?
An organization is running critical workloads in production and requires a Google Cloud support service with fast response times and a dedicated Technical Account Manager. Which customer care service level should the organization choose?
An organization has hired a team of data scientists and developers They want to create unique value in their business by coding an advanced machine learning model in Vertex Al Workbench Which service should the organization use to train the model?
An organization is training a machine learning model to make predictions.
What could improve the prediction accuracy of their model?
An organization wants to refactor their application by using a microservices architecture when migrating to the cloud. Which benefit would this action provide?
An organization wants to transfer some of its data from Google Cloud Which of these statements is true?
How does Cloud SQL help organizations create business insights?
What is artificial intelligence?
A cinema company wants to build a model to predict customer visit patterns for the coming year. They have three years of customer visit data across 300 theaters; however, the data has been stored in different formats by different theaters. They must train the ML model. What should they do?
What is monitoring within the context of cloud operations?
An organization operates their entire IT infrastructure from Google Cloud.
What should they do to prepare for data breaches?
An organization is hosting an application in Europe, and customers in Asia are reporting slow response times despite their fast internet connection.
What is the problem?
An organization needs to store daily transactional data such as customer records and purchase history. The data follows a consistent schema and is cross-referenced. Which type of service should the organization use?
What DevOps practice should an organization use when developing their application to help minimize disruption caused by bugs?
How does a large hotel chain benefit from storing their customer reservation data in the cloud?
What is an organization exclusively responsible for when they access an application through a software as a service (SaaS) model?
An organization decides to migrate their on-prenwses environment to the cloud They need to determine which resource components still need to be assigned ownership
Which two functions does a public cloud provider own? (Choose 2)
Choose 2 answers
A food delivery service needs access to real-time menu information from all partner restaurants. They also need to share customer order information with the restaurants in real time.
What should the organization use?
When is data automatically encrypted in Google Cloud?
An organization stores its important industry data in a relational database They want to create a new revenue stream by enabling third parties to use that data in their applications Which cloud first approach should the organization choose?
An organization wants to search hundreds of scanned documents for key information like dates, names, and other specific words.
Why should the organization use application programming interfaces (APIs)?
What does the shift toward cloud computing represent for an organization's transformation?
An organization wants to ensure that they grant users only the permissions they require to perform their job responsibilities. Which security principle describes this approach?
After rolling out a new update, an organization found a minor bug in its online video game.
How should the organization approach this bug while following SRE principles?
Which technology allows organizations to run multiple computer operating systems on a single piece of physical hardware?
An organization is looking for a storage solution that will help them serve content to users worldwide. They need a solution that offers a high level of availability
What feature of Cloud Storage would they benefit from?
What is the benefit of using a unified cloud data solution?
An organization is moving away from an on-premises infrastructure. Instead, they want to create, access, and share information virtually in the cloud.
What should the organization consider?
A cloud-native organization is not meeting their service level objective (SLO) but has not exhausted their error budget.
What should the organization prioritize?
An international bank is looking for a serverless warehouse solution that lets them perform smart analytics
Which Google Cloud product or service should the bank use?
An organization is making a strategic change to customer support in response to feedback. They plan to extend their helpline availability hours.
Why is the organization making this change?
An organization is evaluating its defenses against cyber security threats and is concerned about the risks of social engineering by cyber criminals. How might these attacks happen?
You are working in a company that provides different services to its customer. Now it also wants to offer some paid API services to its B2B customers for e.g. google provides google maps API, cloud vision API, and language translation API. You need to figure out the best solution for the service.
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?
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 organi-zation use?
When creating machine learning models, a key initial step is to identify the type of model required. One of these is the classification model. Which of these statements define a classification model?
You have a well established development and operations team. Your teams were managing the entire software delivery/deployment cycle on-premise. When migrating to the cloud, you want to continue having this approach. Which is the ideal option for you?
How does a least privilege resource access model contribute to cloud security?
A customer deploys an application to App Engine and needs to check for Open Web Appli-cation Security Project (OWASP) vulnerabilities. Which service should be used to accom-plish this?
A large travel company has thus far invested heavily in their technology team. There is strategic pressure on the company to focus on their core business and innovate to survive in certain geogra-phies and thrive in others. They are evaluating whether a move to Google Cloud will be good for them. Which of these reasons would be relevant for them? (choose two answer)
You are consulting for a client who is migrating to Google Cloud. They presently have a matrix or-ganization. Their IT environments were managed around projects. Each team had multiple projects. All the projects had a flat structure under the company. What would you advise them when plan-ning for the move?
Which of the following statements is/are true about Google Cloud BigTable?
You are looking for a one stop reference page for GCP support. What Page would you se-lect?
Which of the following is/are core storage options available on the Google Cloud Platform?
The customer has applications that do data processing on-premise. They have been built using Ha-doop and Spark. What product should I use on Google Cloud?
What is a key difference between VMs and containers?
DriveSuper Inc. teaches its clients to drive cars and bikes and helps them get their license. They are planning to build a mobile application where users can sign up, plan their schedules, and take stock of progress. They want the onboarding process to be smooth and frictionless, giving users a great experience from the get-go. They want this done as quickly as possible and not be expensive. What is their best option on Google Cloud?
A customer has a tens of applications that are dependent on Oracle databases in their on-premise data centers. The customer wants to migrate to Google Cloud. Their long term goal is to move to other cloud native database technologies. What options do they have to initially move their data?
An organization wants to measure everything as part of its new DevOps philosophy. What should the organization measure?
Which of the following statements is / are correct about Machine Learning?
Considering Google Cloud Storage different Options which of the following is / are correct on the basis of their real world use cases?
A large travel services company has been running all their workloads on Google Cloud in the previous year. They looked at their past usage of cloud resources and see that there is a consistent use of 10,000 virtual machines throughout the year. Based on the projections for the following year they have a strong indication that they will use at least this much or more capacity within Google Cloud. What is one way in which they can take advantage of this knowledge?
Keeping Flavours of Apigee in mind, which of the following statements is/are correct?
You are a DevOps Engineer in an E-commerce company that sells products globally, across the countries, Customers buy products, add them to carts or check-in stock from different parts of the world with different timestamps, you need to choose a database that can scale globally without any hassle and lots of developer support, it should be consistent across regions, can scale horizontally to support enormous user, automatically replicates, shards and even auto transaction pro-cessing. Which of the following database do you choose?
Compute Engine provides machine type recommendations to help you optimize the re-source utilization of your virtual machine (VM) instances. What is this capability called?
A customer in the European Union region is very clear that their data should not go outside the Eu-ropean Union. Their end users are spread all over the European U. They have to choose a storage option that serves all the users within Asia via web browsers as quickly as possible. Which storage option will work for them?
Your client is a financial services company giving loans based on customer profiles. As part of the regulatory compliance, they have to collect a bunch of different documents with know your cus-tomer (KYC) information. They want to be able to process the information in these documents quickly and at scale. They want to integrate the chosen solution as quickly as possible. What are your options on Google Cloud?
You are running a data warehouse on BigQuery. A partner company is offering a recommendation engine based on the data in your data warehouse. The partner company is also running their applica-tion on Google Cloud. They manage the resources in their own project, but they need access to the BigQuery dataset in your project. You want to provide the partner company with access to the da-taset. What should you do?
The government has mandated that companies in a particular section of healthcare must retain all the data they collect for a period of 10 years in case an audit needs to be done. Your client, who is in that industry, needs to follow regulations. In addition, your client wants to do an analysis of the data quite frequently in the first year. They also don't want to be liable for any data beyond year 10. What would recommend for your customer?
Which of the following is true while creating a boot persistent disk from a snapshot.
A customer of yours has an SLA with their client that a particular service will respond within 4 sec-onds. The end client has reported that it feels slower. Your engineers do a trial at the client site and notice that there seems to be a delay for many of the requests. It's your team's responsibility to iden-tify the issue quickly within the strict timeline for fixes according to the contract, and then fix it. What should you do?
Your company has made plans to roll out OpenShift, a Kubernetes platform solution offered by IBM Red Hat, across all its on-premises and public cloud environments. Given that you are the lead architect responsible for your company's GCP deployments, what type of shared responsibility model will this deployment entail for you?
Your Coustomer's Organization has decided to move to the cloud. They currently run VMs on-promise but their goal on Google cloud is to run containers, primarily on Google Kuber-nete's Engine. They have a lease for their private data center for another year that they have already paid for. What could be strategy they could adopt in migrating?
You are discussing scaling requirements with a gaming company. When the game launches, they are expecting incoming data surges of 2 million users or more during weekends and holidays. Their on-premise systems have had issues scaling and they want your advice on solving the issue. What do you recommend?
In discussions with a prospective customer who wants to move to Google Cloud to make use of the latest, scalable technologies available therein, you learn that there are very strict regulations concern-ing the storage of data. They only have the approval to store it in their current private data cen-ter. What would you advise them?
You are working for a hospital that stores its medical images in an on-premises data room and it is provided that the hospitals want to use Cloud Storage for archival storage of these images. You are required to design and implement a solution where the hospital wants an automated process to up-load any new medical images to Cloud Storage. On the basis of this statements which of the follow-ing statement is correct.
All Google Cloud Platform services are associated with a project that is used to provide what functions?
A customer has an application running in virtual machines. They are migrating this application to Google Cloud. They have previously had scaling issues when on-premises as VMs had to be pre-allocated. Capacity planning was repeatedly off mark - it's either too many VMs or too less. They want to match the capacity to demand while keeping the application running always. They don't have the time or budget to re-architect the systems using containers and Kubernetes at the mo-ment. What would be your recommendation?
Your company has a requirement to run manual tests on their web products for UX research before it is released to end customers. The people who will do the tests are external to the company. They will either use their own Gmail id or be given temporary email ids using the applications and record-ing their inputs in another app. The UX testing is done in the last week of the month. Each month the UX testers could be different. How should the IT team manage the users?
One of your customers used to have a private data center. While within their data center itself, they were consuming some Google services via API calls and other public, well-known addresses pub-lished by Google. Now they're evacuating their private data center and are moving to Google Cloud. Could they improve some of their existing architecture with respect to security?
You are a cloud architect in a software solution provider company, one of the client that is a Na-tional Bank who wants to build an application that deals with transactions processing, and it needs a relational database with petabyte of scale data. Which of the following Google Cloud Services will you use?
Your company has signed up with a cloud provider and you will be using storage and vir-tual machines with the provider. The provider has provided your organization some expec-tations for what the service should perform at. What type of agreement provides a guar-antee of a certain level of service such as “Uptime”?
What type of cloud computing service provides raw compute, storage, and network, organized in ways that are familiar to physical data centers?