Cloud Digital Leader Why Cloud Technology Can Transform Business Practice Test 4 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A financial services company must comply with regulations requiring data residency within the EU. They want to run workloads on Google Cloud. Which action should they take?

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Select a Google Cloud region located in the EU. Selecting a region within the EU ensures data stays within that geographic boundary, meeting data residency requirements.

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Use a multi-region deployment with regions in the US and EU

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Enable data encryption at rest

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Use Cloud VPN for connectivity

Question 2

Which Google Cloud commitment to open source has enabled portability for containerized applications across different cloud providers?

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Kubernetes. Google developed Kubernetes, which is now the industry standard for container orchestration, enabling portability across clouds.

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Kubeflow

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Istio

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TensorFlow

Question 3

A company is considering migrating its on-premises workloads to Google Cloud. Which TWO are common business drivers for cloud adoption? (Choose TWO.)

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Cost optimization by converting CapEx to OpEx. Agility (faster time to market) and cost optimization (pay-as-you-go) are key drivers. Guaranteed uptime and data sovereignty are not inherent cloud benefits.

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Guaranteed 100% uptime for all services

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Ability to avoid any vendor lock-in

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Elimination of all security risks

Question 4

A company wants to modernize its legacy monolithic application by adopting microservices on Google Cloud. They need to ensure high availability and manage service-to-service communication. Which THREE Google Cloud services should they use? (Choose THREE.)

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Cloud Service Mesh (or Istio). Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) orchestrates containers, Cloud Load Balancing distributes traffic, and Cloud Service Mesh (or Istio) manages service communication. Cloud Functions is serverless, not for long-running services, and Cloud Storage is for object storage.

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Cloud Storage

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Cloud Functions

Question 5

An organization wants to achieve a zero-trust security model on Google Cloud. Which TWO Google Cloud security capabilities support this goal? (Choose TWO.)

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BeyondCorp Enterprise. BeyondCorp enables zero-trust by verifying identity and context before granting access, and IAM provides fine-grained access control. Cloud Armor is for DDoS protection, Cloud KMS for encryption keys, and VPC firewalls for network security.

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VPC firewalls

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Cloud Armor

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Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)

Question 6

A startup wants to launch a new mobile app globally. They expect user traffic to be unpredictable and want to only pay for the compute resources they use. Which cloud benefit BEST addresses this need?

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Pay-as-you-go pricing. The pay-as-you-go model allows startups to avoid large upfront capital expenditure and only pay for actual usage, which is ideal for unpredictable workloads.

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Global Reach

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Agility

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Scalability

Question 7

A financial services company must comply with regulations requiring data residency within the EU. They want to run workloads on Google Cloud. Which action should they take?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

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Hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud connects on-premises infrastructure with public cloud, allowing the company to keep sensitive data on-premises while leveraging cloud analytics.

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Public cloud

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Private cloud

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Multi-cloud

Question 8

A retail company migrated its e-commerce platform to Google Cloud. During a flash sale, the application experiences high latency. The architecture uses managed instance groups with autoscaling based on CPU utilization. The database is Cloud SQL with read replicas. What is the MOST likely cause of the latency?

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Cloud SQL connection limit is reached. Database connection pooling is often misconfigured during autoscaling, leading to connection exhaustion and increased latency.

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Autoscaling is not triggered because CPU utilization is below threshold

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Insufficient Cloud SQL storage capacity

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SSL/TLS encryption is causing overhead

Question 9

An organization wants to reduce its carbon footprint by using Google Cloud. Which of the following statements about Google Cloud's sustainability efforts is correct?

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Google Cloud matches 100% of its global electricity consumption with renewable energy.. Google Cloud matches 100% of its global electricity consumption with renewable energy and aims for 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030.

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Google Cloud uses nuclear energy as its primary power source.

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Google Cloud data centers are powered by 100% carbon-free energy since 2020.

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Google Cloud purchases carbon offsets to neutralize all emissions.

Question 10

A company wants to run containerized applications on Google Cloud without managing the underlying infrastructure. Which service should they use?

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Cloud Run. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is the managed Kubernetes service that abstracts node management, but it still requires some cluster management. Cloud Run is serverless and fully manages infrastructure, so it is the best choice for zero infrastructure management.

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App Engine Flexible Environment

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Compute Engine

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Question 11

A media company stores video files on-premises and wants to migrate them to Google Cloud for processing and transcoding. The files are accessed by a legacy on-premises application that cannot be modified. Which migration strategy should they use?

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Use Storage Transfer Service to move data to Cloud Storage, then mount the bucket using Cloud Storage FUSE on the on-premises server.. Storage Transfer Service allows transferring data from on-premises to Cloud Storage, while using Cloud Storage FUSE or a VPN can keep the on-premises application accessing the files. The best approach is to use Storage Transfer Service for bulk migration and then configure hybrid access.

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Use Transfer Appliance to ship data to Google Cloud and set up a VPN for the application to access Cloud Storage via private IP.

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Migrate the application to run on Compute Engine and access Cloud Storage natively.

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Use gsutil rsync to copy files to Cloud Storage and update the application to use Cloud Storage URLs.

Question 12

A company is evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO) for moving its on-premises data center to Google Cloud. Which of the following costs should they include in the cloud TCO assessment?

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Compute and storage usage fees. Cloud costs include compute, storage, network egress, and managed service fees. On-premises costs like hardware, power, and cooling are avoided, so they are not part of cloud TCO.

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Data center facility rent and power

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Hardware purchase and maintenance costs

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Employee salaries for data center staff

Question 13

A developer needs to add machine learning capabilities to their application without training models from scratch. Which Google Cloud service provides pre-trained models via API?

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Cloud Vision API. Cloud Vision API offers pre-trained models for image analysis accessible via API, allowing developers to integrate ML without training.

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Vertex AI

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AI Platform Training

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Cloud AutoML

Question 14

A company uses multiple public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for different workloads. They want to centralize monitoring and logging. Which Google Cloud service can aggregate logs from all clouds?

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Cloud Logging. Cloud Logging (formerly Stackdriver) can aggregate logs from various sources, including other clouds, using agents or API ingestion.

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Cloud Audit Logs

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Cloud Console

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Cloud Monitoring

Question 15

A gaming company uses Google Cloud to run a multiplayer game. They use Compute Engine VMs with GPUs for game servers. During peak hours, latency increases. They want to automatically add more game server instances based on the number of concurrent players. Which scaling approach should they use?

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Create a managed instance group with autoscaling based on a custom metric representing concurrent players.. Utilizing a custom metric (number of concurrent players) with managed instance groups and autoscaling is the best approach. Cloud Load Balancing distributes traffic but does not scale based on custom metrics.

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Use Cloud Load Balancing to distribute traffic and add more VM instances manually.

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Use Cloud Functions to spin up new game server VMs when player count exceeds a threshold.

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Pre-provision a fixed number of VMs with GPUs to handle peak load at all times.