Objective 4.0

Scaling with Google Cloud operations

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Use this page to practise Scaling with Google Cloud operations questions for this certification. Focus on how the exam tests scaling with google cloud operations in scenario format — understanding the why behind each answer builds more durable knowledge than memorising options.

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GCDL Scaling with Google Cloud operations — Key Topics

Scaling with Google Cloud operations questions on this certification test your ability to deploy and manage scaling with google cloud operations concepts in scenario-based situations.

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

Common exam traps

Where candidates lose marks on Scaling with Google Cloud operations

⚠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 Scaling with Google Cloud operations — Practice Questions

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Scaling with Google Cloud operations

GCDL Scaling with Google Cloud operations — Key Topics

Where candidates lose marks on Scaling with Google Cloud operations

GCDL Scaling with Google Cloud operations — Practice Questions

A company's web service has a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99.9% monthly availability. In a 30-day month, how many minutes of downtime are allowed before the SLO is violated?

A SRE team wants to alert when their service is consuming error budget faster than expected, rather than alerting only when the SLO threshold is crossed. Which Cloud Monitoring alerting strategy supports this approach?

A company's on-premises IT team spends 70% of their time on routine maintenance tasks: patching servers, replacing failed hardware, and upgrading storage. After migrating to Google Cloud managed services, which operational outcome should they expect?

A company has deployed a critical application on Google Cloud and wants to understand what happens to their workloads during a Google Cloud data center maintenance event (e.g., host system upgrades). What Google Compute Engine feature handles this automatically for most VMs?

A company's application experiences traffic spikes every weekday morning when employees log in at 9 AM. The team wants their infrastructure to automatically handle these spikes without manual intervention and without over-provisioning resources all day. Which Google Cloud capability addresses this?

Which Google Cloud service provides a centralized view of an application's performance metrics, logs, and traces — enabling teams to monitor system health, set up alerts, and diagnose issues from a single platform?

A company runs a mission-critical application that must be available 24/7. They want to ensure that if a Google Cloud region becomes unavailable (e.g., due to a natural disaster), the application automatically continues to serve users from another region. Which architecture pattern achieves this?

A company currently spends $200,000 annually on data center costs (hardware, power, cooling, staff). After migrating to Google Cloud, their cloud bill is $120,000 annually, but they also save $50,000 in data center costs they no longer pay. What is their net annual savings from the migration?

What is the difference between a Service Level Indicator (SLI), a Service Level Objective (SLO), and a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

After a major production outage, the engineering team conducts a review of what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it in the future. This document is shared with all engineering teams. What is this practice called, and why does Google's SRE culture emphasize it?

A company running critical applications on Google Cloud wants access to technical support with a response time under 1 hour for critical issues and a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which Google Cloud support tier should they purchase?

A company wants to optimize their Google Cloud spending. They have baseline compute workloads that run continuously 24/7 for at least one year. Which pricing option provides the greatest savings for these stable, long-running workloads?

A company has multiple teams deploying to Google Cloud and wants to allocate cloud costs by team. Each team should see only their own costs and be accountable for their spending. Which Google Cloud feature enables this cost allocation and visibility?

Google Cloud's infrastructure is designed to be highly available across multiple failure domains. What are 'availability zones' in Google Cloud, and how do they differ from 'regions'?

A company uses Google Cloud and wants to understand their monthly cloud spend before the invoice arrives, track spending trends, and identify the top cost drivers across all services. Which built-in Google Cloud tool provides this visibility?

A company exports all their Google Cloud logs to Cloud Storage for long-term retention required by their compliance policy (7-year log retention). Which Cloud Logging feature enables routing logs to Cloud Storage?

A company's application traffic is served by a Google Cloud global HTTP load balancer. They want to understand how request traffic distributes across backend instances in different regions. Which metric best represents this distribution?

A company wants to proactively identify underutilized Compute Engine VMs (high provisioned capacity but low actual usage) to reduce costs. Which Google Cloud tool provides recommendations for right-sizing VMs?

An SRE team has a monthly error budget of 43 minutes (99.9% SLO). In the first week of the month, a deployment causes a 50-minute outage. What should the SRE team do for the remainder of the month, and why?

Google Cloud's operations suite includes Cloud Monitoring for metrics. What is the difference between 'monitoring' and 'observability' in cloud operations?

A company's cloud costs have increased by 40% over the past quarter. The operations team wants to identify and address the root causes. Which cost optimization strategies should they investigate first?

Google Cloud runs its own infrastructure operations using the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model, which Google invented. What is the core principle that distinguishes SRE from traditional IT operations?

A company uses Google Cloud across 5 teams, 20 projects, and 3 regions. They want to enforce a standard that all resources include specific labels (e.g., `team`, `environment`, `cost-center`) for cost attribution and governance. What is the most scalable way to enforce this labeling standard?

A company's engineering organization wants to share operational knowledge across teams using a 'golden path' — a recommended, pre-configured set of tools, services, and templates that makes the easy path also the correct path. Which Google Cloud concept supports this practice?

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Scaling with Google Cloud operations

GCDL Scaling with Google Cloud operations — Key Topics

Where candidates lose marks on Scaling with Google Cloud operations

GCDL Scaling with Google Cloud operations — Practice Questions

A company's web service has a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99.9% monthly availability. In a 30-day month, how many minutes of downtime are allowed before the SLO is violated?

A SRE team wants to alert when their service is consuming error budget faster than expected, rather than alerting only when the SLO threshold is crossed. Which Cloud Monitoring alerting strategy supports this approach?

A company's on-premises IT team spends 70% of their time on routine maintenance tasks: patching servers, replacing failed hardware, and upgrading storage. After migrating to Google Cloud managed services, which operational outcome should they expect?

A company has deployed a critical application on Google Cloud and wants to understand what happens to their workloads during a Google Cloud data center maintenance event (e.g., host system upgrades). What Google Compute Engine feature handles this automatically for most VMs?

A company's application experiences traffic spikes every weekday morning when employees log in at 9 AM. The team wants their infrastructure to automatically handle these spikes without manual intervention and without over-provisioning resources all day. Which Google Cloud capability addresses this?

Which Google Cloud service provides a centralized view of an application's performance metrics, logs, and traces — enabling teams to monitor system health, set up alerts, and diagnose issues from a single platform?

A company runs a mission-critical application that must be available 24/7. They want to ensure that if a Google Cloud region becomes unavailable (e.g., due to a natural disaster), the application automatically continues to serve users from another region. Which architecture pattern achieves this?

A company currently spends $200,000 annually on data center costs (hardware, power, cooling, staff). After migrating to Google Cloud, their cloud bill is $120,000 annually, but they also save $50,000 in data center costs they no longer pay. What is their net annual savings from the migration?

What is the difference between a Service Level Indicator (SLI), a Service Level Objective (SLO), and a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

After a major production outage, the engineering team conducts a review of what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it in the future. This document is shared with all engineering teams. What is this practice called, and why does Google's SRE culture emphasize it?

A company running critical applications on Google Cloud wants access to technical support with a response time under 1 hour for critical issues and a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which Google Cloud support tier should they purchase?

A company wants to optimize their Google Cloud spending. They have baseline compute workloads that run continuously 24/7 for at least one year. Which pricing option provides the greatest savings for these stable, long-running workloads?

A company has multiple teams deploying to Google Cloud and wants to allocate cloud costs by team. Each team should see only their own costs and be accountable for their spending. Which Google Cloud feature enables this cost allocation and visibility?

Google Cloud's infrastructure is designed to be highly available across multiple failure domains. What are 'availability zones' in Google Cloud, and how do they differ from 'regions'?

A company uses Google Cloud and wants to understand their monthly cloud spend before the invoice arrives, track spending trends, and identify the top cost drivers across all services. Which built-in Google Cloud tool provides this visibility?

A company exports all their Google Cloud logs to Cloud Storage for long-term retention required by their compliance policy (7-year log retention). Which Cloud Logging feature enables routing logs to Cloud Storage?

A company's application traffic is served by a Google Cloud global HTTP load balancer. They want to understand how request traffic distributes across backend instances in different regions. Which metric best represents this distribution?

A company wants to proactively identify underutilized Compute Engine VMs (high provisioned capacity but low actual usage) to reduce costs. Which Google Cloud tool provides recommendations for right-sizing VMs?

An SRE team has a monthly error budget of 43 minutes (99.9% SLO). In the first week of the month, a deployment causes a 50-minute outage. What should the SRE team do for the remainder of the month, and why?

Google Cloud's operations suite includes Cloud Monitoring for metrics. What is the difference between 'monitoring' and 'observability' in cloud operations?

A company's cloud costs have increased by 40% over the past quarter. The operations team wants to identify and address the root causes. Which cost optimization strategies should they investigate first?

Google Cloud runs its own infrastructure operations using the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model, which Google invented. What is the core principle that distinguishes SRE from traditional IT operations?

A company uses Google Cloud across 5 teams, 20 projects, and 3 regions. They want to enforce a standard that all resources include specific labels (e.g., `team`, `environment`, `cost-center`) for cost attribution and governance. What is the most scalable way to enforce this labeling standard?

A company's engineering organization wants to share operational knowledge across teams using a 'golden path' — a recommended, pre-configured set of tools, services, and templates that makes the easy path also the correct path. Which Google Cloud concept supports this practice?

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