An organization has an ecommerce application that requires a cost-effective, transactional database. The application will only serve customers in a single region. Which service should they use?
What does the shift toward cloud computing represent for an organization's transformation?
An organization is running SQL Server on-premises and is struggling with capacity and management overhead. They want to modernize this database quickly by using Google products or services What should the organization do?
A retail organization has moved all of their inventory data to a relational database in the cloud.
What functionality does a relational database offer?
An organization is deploying applications to the cloud using platform as a service.
In the shared responsibility model, what remains the responsibility of the customer organization?
An organization is concerned about the risk of data loss that may occur due to hardware failures or cyber attacks. They want to restore their systems to a previous state if such an event occurs. What should the organization do?
What DevOps practice should an organization use when developing their application to help minimize disruption caused by bugs?
An organization is training a machine learning model to make predictions.
What could improve the prediction accuracy of their model?
An organization is struggling to keep up with the growth of their application which is running on legacy infrastructure.
What might be holding them back?
What is a defining feature of a non-relational database?
An organization has migrated all workloads to the cloud and is reviewing their cloud security posture. Who is now responsible for securing the physical infrastructure of the data centers?
An organization needs to search an application's source code to identify a potential issue. The application is distributed across multiple containers.
Which Google Cloud product should the organization use?
When customer data is uploaded to Google Cloud, who owns the data?
How is privacy defined in the context of cloud technology?
An organization operates their entire IT infrastructure from Google Cloud.
What should they do to prepare for data breaches?
An organization has decided to modernize their applications in the cloud to keep up with their customers' needs.
What may have prompted this business decision?
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?
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 wants to access a software application from a cloud vendor without the need to manage their own servers or write their own code Which service model does this represent?
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?
An organization processes batch sales data at the end of every month to analyze sales trends and derive business insights. They want to improve accuracy and make near real-time decisions. What should the organization do?
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?
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 needs to increase the speed at which they can train machine learning models Which domain-specific hardware is designed for this task?
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?
An organization needs protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?
An organization wants full control of their virtual machine infrastructure for a custom home-grown application with a product that autoscales and automatically updates.
Which Google Cloud product or solution should the organization use?
When is data automatically encrypted in Google Cloud?
An organization's developers are growing increasingly frustrated by the limitations of their on-premises infrastructure.
How would they benefit from leveraging cloud technology?
Several departments in an organization are working together on a project. The organization wants to customize access to resources for each department.
What is the quickest and most efficient way to achieve this?
An organization is concerned that one of their applications takes too long to return a result According to Google's "Four Golden Signals" which signal measures this aspect of the applications performance?
An organization wants to transform multiple types of structured and unstructured data in the cloud from various sources. The data must be readily accessible for analysis and insights.
Which cloud data storage system should the organization use?
An organization wants to upskill their IT staff.
How can they do this in a transformational way?
An organization wants a centralized view of their cloud infrastructure in a fully managed system that includes uptime checks Which Google Cloud service should they use?
An organization is planning its cloud expenditure.
What should the organization do to control costs?
An organization has a large dataset that contains text transcripts of conversations between their customers and service representatives. They want an automated solution to identify the topics their customers care most about. Which service should the organization use?
An organization is using machine learning to make predictions. One of their datasets mistakenly includes mislabeled data.
How will the prediction be impacted?
An organization wants to refactor their application by using a microservices architecture when migrating to the cloud. Which benefit would this action provide?
A manager wants to review Google Cloud data access among their employees.
Who is responsible for defining data access policies?
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 is concerned about the unlikely event that Google Cloud infrastructure is physically accessed by someone with malicious intent How is data protected in Google Cloud?
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?
How should a multinational organization that is migrating to Google Cloud consider security and privacy regulations to ensure that it is in compliance with global standards?
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?
Your organization is developing and deploying an application on Google Cloud. Tracking your Google Cloud spending needs to stay as simple as possible.
What should you do to ensure that workloads in the development environment are fully isolated from production workloads?
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 organization wants to migrate its data management solutions to Google Cloud because it needs to dynamically scale up or down and to run transactional SQL queries against historical data at scale. Which Google Cloud product or service should your organization use?
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?
The operating systems of some of your organization’s virtual machines may have a security vulnerability.
How can your organization most effectively identify all virtual machines that do not have the latest security update?
The government has ordered an audit of your company's data. You have hired an external company to conduct the audit. They need to be able to review the data stored in your Cloud Storage buckets across eight projects. How would you grant them access?
You decide to migrate your on-premises environment to the cloud. You need to determine which resource components still need to be assigned ownership.
Which two functions are owned by a public cloud provider? (Choose two.)
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?
Which Google Cloud service or feature lets you build machine learning models using Standard SQL and data in a data warehouse?
Your organization needs to build streaming data pipelines. You don’t want to manage the individual servers that do the data processing in the pipelines. Instead, you want a managed service that will automatically scale with the amount of data to be processed.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization choose?
Your organization offers public mobile apps and websites. You want to migrate to a Google Cloud-based solution for checking and maintaining your users’ usernames and passwords and controlling their access to different resources based on their identity.
Which should your organization choose?
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?
Which of the following options is/are correct about Preemptible VMs?
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?
Your organization is developing a plan for migrating to Google Cloud.
What is a best practice when initially configuring your Google Cloud environment?
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?
An organization has had a data leak scare because one employee made a sensitive Cloud Storage bucket available to the public. Given the nature of the company's business, it is understood that there is never any reason to give the public direct access to any file. The security head wants to ensure that such an event never occurs again. How can you ensure this?
Which Google Cloud product gives you a consistent platform for multi-cloud application deployments and extends other Google Cloud services to your environment?
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 organization needs to categorize objects in a large group of static images using machine learning. Which Google Cloud product or service should your organization use?
A startup is planning to create their entire suite of applications on Google Cloud. They are looking at various open source technologies to build applications. One of the considera-tion is about having a well integrated monitoring tool. They have to be able to constantly review load capacity and performance of their applications and virtual machines. What would you advise them to 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?
What would provide near-unlimited availability of computing resources without requiring your organization to procure and provision new equipment?
The CFO is attending one of the preliminary meetings in the migration strategy meeting. She brings up the concern about costs. They have contracts with their vendors and the payments they will need to make when purchasing any kind of infrastructure. This gives them a clear view of numbers for resource budgeting and planning. Can she get the same kind of clarity on Google Cloud?
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?
Your team has developed a machine learning model for your customer. The test results indicate very strong predictive capability. The model is then deployed in production. Evaluation of the predictions in production show that they are off by a pronounced margin. What is the issue and how can you solve for it?
Your organization needs to minimize how much it pays for data traffic from the Google network to the internet. What should your organization do?
Your organization wants to optimize its use of Google Cloud’s discounts on virtual machine-based workloads. You plan to use 200 CPUs constantly for the next 3 years, and you forecast that spikes of up to 300 CPUs will occur approximately 30% of the time. What should you choose?
Your organization runs a distributed application in the Compute Engine virtual machines. Your organization needs redundancy, but it also needs extremely fast communication (less than 10 milliseconds) between the parts of the application in different virtual machines.
Where should your organization locate this virtual machines?
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 plan its cloud infrastructure expenditures.
Which should your organization do?
Your organization consists of many teams. Each team has many Google Cloud projects. Your organization wants to simplify the management of identity and access policies for these projects.
How can you group these projects to meet this goal?
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?
Your company security team manages access control to production systems using an LDAP directory group.
How is this access control managed in the Google Cloud production project?
Your team is working on building a machine learning model. There are a bunch of terminologies that are being used. What is an "instance" or an "example"?
Your company is running the majority of its workloads in a co-located data center. The workloads are running on virtual machines (VMs) on top of a hypervisor and use either Linux or Windows server editions. As part of your company’s transformation strategy, you need to modernize workloads as much as possible by adopting cloud-native technologies. You need to migrate the workloads into Google Cloud.
What should you do?
Your Google Cloud Platform [GCP] admin has to manage a bunch of API keys for external services that are accessed by different applications, which are used by a few teams. What is the best way to manage them?
An IoT platform is providing services to home security systems. They have more than a million customers, each with many home devices. Burglaries or child safety issues are concerns that the clients customers. Therefore, the platform has to respond very quickly in near real time. What could be a typical data pipeline used to support this platform on Google Cloud?
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?
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?
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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?
Which of the following is true while creating a boot persistent disk from a snapshot.
A Customer has their current SAP systems using Microsoft SQL Server as the Database. They are migrating to Google Cloud and also preparing to later migrate to the latest ver-sion of SAP. The entire IT team is being directed to focus on the migration to the new ver-sion of SAP. The new version of SAP does not use Microsoft SQL Server as the Database, Any but the most critical IT management tasks are being deprioritized, How should they migrate their current database to Google Cloud?
Which of the following is/are core storage options available on the Google Cloud Platform?
In terms of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) what are the benefits of it?
What issues can arise when organizations integrate third-party systems into their cloud infrastruc-ture?
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?
Which of the following are the current options for paid support in GCP? (Select Three An-swer)
A financial services company is running an experimental application workload that has a very large number of mathematical calculations involving floating-point numbers. The current application that is running on compute engine is not providing enough speed and throughput. What are the options to increase the processing performance?
Your client has an on-premises data center. Due to technical limitations, they are unable to scale globally. They have decided to adopt the public cloud. However, they don't want to locked into any one vendor and, therefore, would like to work with multiple cloud providers. They have used open source container technologies and would like to continue using them.
Your client is building a custom machine learning pipeline to identify lesions in the lungs based on x-rays. Different teams of data scientists are sharing common source data and building many ver-sions of ML models. Which of these Cloud Storage options would be best for them?
What type of cloud computing service provides raw compute, storage, and network, organized in ways that are familiar to physical data centers?
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?
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?
You are a program manager in a company you need to submit a bare metal solution order for a se-cure, high performance connection with a low-latency network fabric. What network information you need to submit the order to Bare Metal Solutions.
Considering Different Storage and database options e.g. Cloud Datastore, Cloud SQL, Cloud Stor-age, etc. Which of the following statements is/are correct? ( Select two answer)
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?
Which of the following storage options should you use when your company is using Cloud Storage to store application backup files for disaster recovery purposes, provided you want to follow Goog-le's recommended practices.
In Google Cloud IAM: if a policy applied at the project level gives you Owner permissions, your access to an individual resource in that project might be restricted to View permission if someone applies a more restrictive policy directly to that resource. What is correct below the options
One of your clients is in the retail sector. They have a small team supporting their operations and a small development team taking care of application development. They have heard of the benefits of machine learning, but they do not have the capacity to hire data scientists or the work to retain them. They have a team of analysts who works primarily on BigQuery and knows how to run SQL queries. They want to be able to get into the new age of machine learning and artificial intelligence. What options are available to run on Google Cloud?
Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) can be used for encrypting data inside Cloud BigTable, which of the following statements is/are correct. (Select two answer)
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 customer has a reporting tool that is only occasionally used by the leadership team. Usage of it is frequent - once a week, once a month, or once the quarter. They want to run this application in a cost-effective manner. What are the compute options available on Google Cloud which would be suitable? (Choose Two answer)
An e-commerce company's business has been booming. To keep up with the growth the IT team also grew. Many new people are being added and new resources are being set up. The CIO is in conver-sation with you over coffee one day and expresses her growing concern that they might be moving too fast. Their security checks and policies have not kept pace. She worries that somebody would make a misconfiguration or compliance violation thus exposing the company to data and privacy loss. What can you advise her?
You are looking for a one stop reference page for GCP support. What Page would you se-lect?
What characteristics should an organization adopt to be a DevOps organization?
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?
An organization wants to measure everything as part of its new DevOps philosophy. What should the organization measure?
Your customer is moving to Google Cloud. They have many teams, each working on many projects. How should they organize resources?
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?
All Google Cloud Platform services are associated with a project that is used to provide what functions?
While on-premise, an enterprise had multiple teams, each with its own analytics data store. Attempts to converge the storage for centralized, company-wide analysis failed because of speed and scaling issues. What would be the preferred destination architecture on Google Cloud?
Your customer is moving from AWS to Google Cloud. Data also needs to be moved. There is about 50TB of data. On AWS, the data resides in an S3 bucket. It is going to be moved to Cloud Storage. Data is also being continuously generated on S3 prior to the cutover. It is preferable that this is also periodically transferred. What is the best way to move the data?
An application has become very popular and the number of requests/users is increasing quickly. There is a meeting to figure out how to scale the systems so that they can accept user requests and still have the capacity to spare. What is the preferred option?
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?
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.
You are storing sensitive information in a Cloud Storage bucket. For legal reasons, you need to be able to record all requests that read any of the stored data. You want to make sure you comply with these requirements. What should you do?
In terms of Cloud SQL for MySQL Features offered by Google Cloud Platform which of the statements is/are correct?