Objective 3.0

Google Cloud products, services, and solutions

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Use this page to practise Google Cloud products, services, and solutions questions for this certification. Focus on how the exam tests google cloud products, services, and solutions in scenario format — understanding the why behind each answer builds more durable knowledge than memorising options.

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What this objective tests

GCDL Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — Key Topics

Google Cloud products, services, and solutions questions on this certification test your ability to deploy and manage google cloud products, services, and solutions concepts in scenario-based situations.

Core Google Cloud products, services, and solutions concepts and how they apply in real-world cloud scenarios.
How to deploy google cloud products, services, and solutions correctly and verify the outcome.
Troubleshooting google cloud products, services, and solutions issues by interpreting error output and system state.
Cloud best practices and Google Cloud products, services, and solutions design trade-offs tested by this certification.

Common exam traps

Where candidates lose marks on Google Cloud products, services, and solutions

⚠Selecting the most expensive service when a simpler managed option meets the requirement.
⚠Forgetting that cloud resources must be explicitly secured — defaults are rarely secure.
⚠Choosing a global service fix when the issue is region-specific.
⚠Overlooking cost implications of cross-region data transfer in architecture questions.

GCDL Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — Practice Questions

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Google Cloud products, services, and solutions

GCDL Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — Key Topics

Where candidates lose marks on Google Cloud products, services, and solutions

GCDL Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — Practice Questions

A data analytics team needs to analyze petabytes of structured data using SQL queries without managing any database infrastructure. Query results must return within seconds for most queries. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this use case?

A developer wants to deploy a containerized web application without managing servers, clusters, or Kubernetes configuration. The application should automatically scale to zero when not in use and handle bursts of traffic. Which Google Cloud service is the best fit?

A company needs to store large volumes of unstructured data (images, videos, backups, documents) with high durability and global accessibility. Which Google Cloud service is designed for object storage at any scale?

A business intelligence team wants to create interactive dashboards and reports from their BigQuery data without writing code. They need to share reports with stakeholders who don't have GCP accounts. Which Google Cloud tool is most appropriate?

A company wants to build an application that can understand and respond to natural language queries from customers (e.g., a customer support chatbot). Which Google Cloud capability should they use?

A company needs to send messages between different microservices in a decoupled way. When one service publishes an event, multiple downstream services should receive and process it independently. Which Google Cloud service enables this publish-subscribe messaging pattern?

A global fintech company needs a database that can handle financial transactions across 50+ countries with consistent, ACID-compliant operations, SQL queries, and automatic global replication with no downtime for maintenance. Which Google Cloud database service meets all these requirements?

A team needs to process and analyze streaming data in real-time as it arrives from IoT sensors. The pipeline must apply transformations, filter events, and write results to BigQuery. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this stream processing use case?

A company wants to use pre-trained Google AI models to add vision capabilities to their application — specifically to detect objects in images and extract text from scanned documents — without training their own models. Which Google Cloud APIs provide these capabilities?

A company runs many containerized microservices that need orchestration — automatic scheduling, scaling, self-healing, and rolling updates. They want a managed service so they don't maintain the control plane themselves. Which Google Cloud service is purpose-built for this?

A development team builds a mobile app using Firebase. They need a real-time database that syncs data across all connected clients instantly (e.g., a collaborative to-do app where all users see updates in real-time). Which Firebase/Google Cloud service provides this?

A company's web application faces DDoS attacks and SQL injection attempts from the internet. They need a service that sits in front of their load balancer to block malicious traffic before it reaches their application servers. Which Google Cloud service provides this protection?

A company wants to send transactional emails (receipts, password resets) and marketing emails at scale from their application. Which approach is recommended when using Google Cloud?

A company wants its internal applications to be accessible via a custom domain name (e.g., `app.company.com`) that routes to their Google Cloud load balancer. Which Google Cloud service manages DNS records for this?

A company wants to use Google Cloud's Generative AI capabilities to build an internal assistant that can answer questions about company policies using documents stored in Google Drive. Which Google Cloud product provides pre-built infrastructure for building this type of AI application?

A company currently uses Hadoop and Spark for batch data processing on a large on-premises cluster. They want to migrate these workloads to Google Cloud with minimal rewriting of existing Spark and Hadoop jobs. Which Google Cloud service is the best fit?

A development team needs a managed relational database (MySQL or PostgreSQL) for their web application. They want automatic backups, patching, and high availability without managing a database server. Which Google Cloud service provides this?

A developer wants to run a small piece of code that resizes images whenever a new image is uploaded to Cloud Storage. The code runs for less than a second and should only be triggered by the upload event. No always-on server is needed. Which Google Cloud service is ideal?

A healthcare organization wants to build an application that ingests FHIR-formatted patient records from multiple hospital systems, normalizes them, and makes them queryable by clinical researchers. Which Google Cloud service is purpose-built for healthcare data interoperability?

A company wants to add location-based features to their mobile app: showing nearby stores, calculating driving routes, and embedding interactive maps. Which Google Cloud platform provides these mapping and location services?

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Google Cloud products, services, and solutions

GCDL Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — Key Topics

Where candidates lose marks on Google Cloud products, services, and solutions

GCDL Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — Practice Questions

A data analytics team needs to analyze petabytes of structured data using SQL queries without managing any database infrastructure. Query results must return within seconds for most queries. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this use case?

A developer wants to deploy a containerized web application without managing servers, clusters, or Kubernetes configuration. The application should automatically scale to zero when not in use and handle bursts of traffic. Which Google Cloud service is the best fit?

A company needs to store large volumes of unstructured data (images, videos, backups, documents) with high durability and global accessibility. Which Google Cloud service is designed for object storage at any scale?

A business intelligence team wants to create interactive dashboards and reports from their BigQuery data without writing code. They need to share reports with stakeholders who don't have GCP accounts. Which Google Cloud tool is most appropriate?

A company wants to build an application that can understand and respond to natural language queries from customers (e.g., a customer support chatbot). Which Google Cloud capability should they use?

A company needs to send messages between different microservices in a decoupled way. When one service publishes an event, multiple downstream services should receive and process it independently. Which Google Cloud service enables this publish-subscribe messaging pattern?

A global fintech company needs a database that can handle financial transactions across 50+ countries with consistent, ACID-compliant operations, SQL queries, and automatic global replication with no downtime for maintenance. Which Google Cloud database service meets all these requirements?

A team needs to process and analyze streaming data in real-time as it arrives from IoT sensors. The pipeline must apply transformations, filter events, and write results to BigQuery. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this stream processing use case?

A company wants to use pre-trained Google AI models to add vision capabilities to their application — specifically to detect objects in images and extract text from scanned documents — without training their own models. Which Google Cloud APIs provide these capabilities?

A company runs many containerized microservices that need orchestration — automatic scheduling, scaling, self-healing, and rolling updates. They want a managed service so they don't maintain the control plane themselves. Which Google Cloud service is purpose-built for this?

A development team builds a mobile app using Firebase. They need a real-time database that syncs data across all connected clients instantly (e.g., a collaborative to-do app where all users see updates in real-time). Which Firebase/Google Cloud service provides this?

A company's web application faces DDoS attacks and SQL injection attempts from the internet. They need a service that sits in front of their load balancer to block malicious traffic before it reaches their application servers. Which Google Cloud service provides this protection?

A company wants to send transactional emails (receipts, password resets) and marketing emails at scale from their application. Which approach is recommended when using Google Cloud?

A company wants its internal applications to be accessible via a custom domain name (e.g., `app.company.com`) that routes to their Google Cloud load balancer. Which Google Cloud service manages DNS records for this?

A company wants to use Google Cloud's Generative AI capabilities to build an internal assistant that can answer questions about company policies using documents stored in Google Drive. Which Google Cloud product provides pre-built infrastructure for building this type of AI application?

A company currently uses Hadoop and Spark for batch data processing on a large on-premises cluster. They want to migrate these workloads to Google Cloud with minimal rewriting of existing Spark and Hadoop jobs. Which Google Cloud service is the best fit?

A development team needs a managed relational database (MySQL or PostgreSQL) for their web application. They want automatic backups, patching, and high availability without managing a database server. Which Google Cloud service provides this?

A developer wants to run a small piece of code that resizes images whenever a new image is uploaded to Cloud Storage. The code runs for less than a second and should only be triggered by the upload event. No always-on server is needed. Which Google Cloud service is ideal?

A healthcare organization wants to build an application that ingests FHIR-formatted patient records from multiple hospital systems, normalizes them, and makes them queryable by clinical researchers. Which Google Cloud service is purpose-built for healthcare data interoperability?

A company wants to add location-based features to their mobile app: showing nearby stores, calculating driving routes, and embedding interactive maps. Which Google Cloud platform provides these mapping and location services?

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