What kind of database has been the primary form of data storage for decades and supports frequent queries and updates to date?
Relational databases, such as Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner and BigQuery.
What kind of data model is used by Datastore?
Document.
What is HTTP/HTTPS load balancing?
A global load balancer available in GCP. It is used to load balance HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
What is Deployment Manager?
The GCP service for creating resources using a config file made up of resource specifications defined in YAML syntax.
How do you view roles assigned to identities?
Use the Roles tab in IAM & Admin section of the console to get a list of identities assigned to particular roles. You can also use gcloud projects get-iam-policy to list roles assigned to users in a project
When estimating the cost of running a BigQuery query what two services within the Google Cloud Platform will you need to use?
Pricing Calculator and BigQuery itself.
What three characteristics are load balancers distinguished by?
Global versus regional load balancing, external versus internal load balancing, and the protocols supported.
Is the file form YAML supported when importing data into BigQuery?
No. However CSV, Parquet, and Avro are supported.
When using versioning on a bucket, what is the latest version of the object called?
Live version
In the App Engine hierarchy, which two components are below the Service level?
Versions and Instances.
What are the two types of App Engine runtime environments?
Standard and Flexible.
When creating an instance, which tier of the hierarchy must contain it?
The Project tier.
According to Google best practices, how often should you update virtual machine packages using apt-get on your created Cloud Spanner instances and database?
Never. Cloud Spanner is a managed service.
What other Google Cloud Platform service does Cloud Spanner use when importing and exporting?
Dataflow.
What are the two types of billing accounts?
Invoiced and self-serve-billing accounts.
IAM roles include a collection of what?
Permissions.
What kind of bucket storage class cannot be changed to another class once it is set?
Coldline storage.
What are the three types of roles?
Primitive roles, Predefined roles and Custom roles.
Which Google Cloud Computing product is a good serverless option for running a set of tightly related services?
App Engine.
What command is used to create a DNS zone in the command line?
gcloud dns managed-zones create.
What is a log sink?
A storage source outside of Stackdriver for retaining logs greater than Stackdriver's 30-day retention period. Log sinks can be Cloud Storage buckets, BigQuery data sets, and Cloud Pub/Sub topics.
Which Cloud Storage class has the lowest per gigabyte charge?
Coldline storage class.
Which App Engine component enables migration to a newer component?
Versions.
What are key factors to keep in mind when choosing a storage solution?
Read and Write patterns, consistency, transaction support, cost and latency.
What is the name of a single running instance in a Kubernetes cluster?
A Pod.
What component(s) need to be configured when creating a TCP Proxy load balancer?
Frontend and backend.
A VM created using the command gcloud compute instances create --machine-type=n1-standard-4 web-server-1 will have how many CPUs?
Four.
What do you need to specify when defining a custom metric?
A type name, a project, a display name and description, a metric kind, metric labels and monitored resource objects to include with time-series data points.
Does the Compute Engine Network Admin role have permission to create instances?
No.
What is a bucket in terms of Cloud Storage?
A container for holding objects in Cloud Storage. Bucket names are unique across Cloud Storage. Buckets have a geographic location and a storage class. Storage classes are multi-regional, regional, nearline and coldline.
How long does Stackdriver Logging store log data?
30 days.
What query language is used by Datastore?
GQL.
In the context of GCP, what is a role?
A collection of permissions.
What is block storage?
A storage model that builds on contiguous sets of bytes known as blocks.
Where do you navigate to launch a Cloud Launcher solution?
Overview page of the solution.
Which storage classes are good options for infrequently accessed data? One is designed to be accessed once per month, while the other is designed to be accessed once per year.
Nearline (once per month) and Coldline (once per year).
What is object storage?
A storage system that manages data as objects, such as files. Cloud Storage is an object storage system.
When using gcloud to create a VPN, what three commands would you use?
When you are creating a new VPC and wants subnets to learn global rules, which parameter would you set?
Dynamic routing.
What databases are used for relational, transaction-oriented applications?
Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner.
At what level of the resource hierarchy can a Shared VPC be created?
Organizations and folders.
To ensure you have installed beta gcloud commands, which command should you run?
gcloud components install beta.
What is alert fatigue, and why is it a problem?
Too many alert notifications are sent for events that do not require human intervention, and eventually DevOps engineers begin to pay less attention to notifications.
What kind of identity usually has a service account assigned to it?
A Virtual machine or application.
Which Kubernetes Engine feature would you use to maintain availability during a network outage?
Node pools.
What are the three levels of the GCP resource hierarchy?
Org, Folder, Project.
How do you control the flow of traffic between subnets in a VPC?
By using firewall rules, which are applied to the subnets.
When using Create Deployment from the cloud console, can TTL be specified for a deployment?
No.
What command is used to create a backup of a Cloud SQL database?
gcloud sql backups create.
If you want to use a template file with Deployment Manager and you expect the file to be complicated, which language would you use?
Python.
What is BigQuery?
A petabyte-scale data warehousing and analytics processing managed service that uses relational tables to organize data and SQL as the query language.
What is the open source platform developed by Google that provides container management services such as deployment and autoscaling functionality?
Kubernetes.
When modifying the number of pods in a cluster, is it better to modify deployments or modify pods directly?
modify deployments.
What are the four storage classes in Cloud Storage?
Regional, Multi-regional, Nearline and Coldline.
What is the time delay called between sending data and receiving it?
Latency.
What is a persistent disk?
A durable block storage system that can be attached to virtual machines in Compute Engine/Kubernetes Engine.
What is a cluster?
A group of virtual or physical servers working in conjunction as a distributed system.
What is KVM, and what does it do?
The Kernel Virtual Machine provides virtualization in Linux that allows the operating system kernel to function like a hypervisor.
What is the correct command for importing to Dataproc?
gcloud dataproc clusters import [SOURCE_FILE]
What is multi-regional storage?
A class of cloud storage that stores objects in at least two separate geographic places that are separated by at least 100 miles. This practice of storing in separate geographic areas is called georedundant storage.
What is a VPC?
A logical organization of cloud resources isolated from other resources on the same cloud. In GCP, VPCs are created for projects. Resources in different projects can communicate over shared VPCs or VPC peering.
What command launches a deployment?
gcloud deployment-manager deployments create.
After Datastore exports a namespace to a bucket, the bucket will contain what?
A metadata file and a folder with the data.
Which GCP database service includes features to support mobile applications?
Firestore.
What is IAM?
A GCP service for implementing find-grained controls on resources. IAM implements predefined and custom roles that are more narrowly tailored than older, primitive roles.
Assuming you have cloud SDK installed, what command would you use to copy files from your local device to a bucket in Cloud Storage?
gsutil cp
Can the block size parameter be set when adding additional disk space through Google Cloud Console?
No.
When configuring a VM, what does machine type determine?
The number of CPUs and the amount of memory for the VM.
Which service is responsible for managing container images?
Container Registry.
Which has better performance in numeric intensive processing, GPUs or CPUs?
GPUs.
What is Stackdriver?
A set of services for monitoring, logging, tracing and debugging infra and apps in GCP and other platforms.
Which regional load balancer allows for load balancing based on IP protocol, address and port?
Network TCP/UDP.
When creating a VPN using the Cloud Console, what section of the Cloud Console should you use?
Hybrid Connectivity.
If you have been assigned the APP engine deployer role, what operations can you perform?
Read application configuration and settings, write new versions.
If you want to define a firewall rule that applies to all destination addresses, what IP address would you specify?
0.0.0.0/0.
Which structure must be created before you can monitor a Kubernetes cluster with Stackdriver?
A workspace.
Can the command gcloud app set-traffic be used to split traffic?
No. The correct command is gcloud app services set-traffic.
What does the GCP service Cloud Armor protect against?
Distributed denial-of-service attacks.
What is Cloud Debug?
An application debugger for inspecting the state of running program, which allows developers to insert log statements or take snapshots of the state of an application.
In which section of the Create an Instance page can you set the pre-emptiable property?
The Availability Policy section.
What is the maximum size of a Memorystore cache?
300 GB.
What is Cloud Storage?
An object storage service providers web access to scalable storage. Objects can be stored in different storage classes providing different levels of durability and access charges.
What is Cloud Firestore?
A serverless, managed NoSQL document database used for storing, synchronizing, and querying mobile and web apps data.
What is an action that occurs in the GCP that can invoke a Cloud Function called?
An event.
Which kind of Kubernetes instance executes workloads?
Nodes.
What types of events are available to Cloud Functions working with Cloud Storage?
Upload or finalize, delete, metadata update, and archive.
What is Cloud SQL?
It's GCP's managed relational database. It includes MySQL and PostgreSQL.
What command is used to create buckets in Cloud Storage?
gsutil mb.
What does the ReplicaSet Kubernetes component do?
It ensures the correct number of pods are running.
Since Cloud BigTable does not have export and import options in the Cloud console or gcloud, what are your two options to do this?
Using a java application for importing and exporting or using the HBase interface to execute HBase commands.
When creating a subnet, which option controls whether logs are sent to Stackdriver?
Flow Logs.
Do you need to configure or deploy servers to use Logging?
No. Logging is a managed service.
What does the command gcloud compute instances describe do?
It produces a sortable list of field names and properties of the instance.
Can you create a single VM instance using Kubernetes Engine?
No.
What are jobs in BigQuery?
Processes used to load, export, copy and query data. They are automatically created when you start any of these operations.
What is load balancing?
The process of distributing workload across a set of servers.
What is Cloud Trace?
A distributed tracking system for collecting latency data from an app, which helps developers understand where apps are spending their time and identity cases where performance is degrading.
What is the command to create a new VPC from the command line?
gcloud compute networks create.
How many applications can be in one project?
One.
What is a service account in GPC?
A form of identity that is owned by an app or VM. Service accounts can be assigned roles to enable the app or VM to perform some task.
What is the difference between a VM and a container when it comes to isolating computing resources?
VMs run a guest OS on a physical server. Containers use features of the host OS to isolate processes and resources.
How many master nodes does a Kubernetes cluster contain (assuming no HA features)?
One.
What are the five types of load balancers?
Global HTTP/HTTPS, TCP protocol, SSL protocol, Network TCP/UDP, and Internal TCP/UDP.
By default, how long does a Cloud Function run before timing out?
One minutes.
What is the gcloud command to create a custom role?
gcloud iam roles create.
Is the lifecycle of one cloud function dependent on all others?
No.
What are the two kinds of instances available in App Engine Standard?
Resident and dynamic.
What is a cache?
A high-speed, random access memory for storing frequently used data. GCP's Memorystore provides a managed caching service based on Redis.
Which tier of the GCP resource hierarchy contains VMs, persistent disks and Cloud SQL databases?
The Project tier.
What is the other name of Cloud Launcher?
Marketplace.
When adding a GPU to an instance, should the instance be set to terminate during maintenance?
Yes.
What is a virtual private network (VPN)?
A secure connection used to link GCP networks on external networks.
What kind of databases do not use the relational model and do not require a fixed structure or schema?
NoSQL databases.
What is the runtime parameter in app.yaml used to specify?
The language runtime environment and other config parameters.
What GCP VM has protections against rootkit and bootkit malware?
Shielded VM.
What is another name for a running VM?
An Instance.
Which structures can you have more than one of when creating a resource hierarchy?
Folders and projects.
Does SSL generate events that can be triggered using Cloud Functions?
No.
What paramters are required when using the cluster resize command?
Cluster size, Cluster name and node pool name.
What is subnet?
A subnet is a subset of resources in a network that are logically separated from the other resources in the network. Subnets are assigned a set of IP addresses specified in a CIDR block.
What is regional storage?
A cloud storage class with typically 99.99% monthly availability and 99.9% availability SLA. Objects are redundantly stored across zones in a region.