Cloud Digital Leader Fundamental Cloud Concepts Practice Test 5 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A developer wants a fully managed environment to deploy containerized applications without managing the underlying infrastructure. They need auto-scaling, load balancing, and a serverless experience. Which Google Cloud service should they choose?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Run. Cloud Run is a fully managed, serverless container platform that auto-scales, handles load balancing, and charges only for resources used. It abstracts all infrastructure management.

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Google Kubernetes Engine

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Compute Engine

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App Engine Standard

Question 2

An organization wants to reduce latency for users in Europe. They plan to deploy their application in a Google Cloud region located in Europe. Which region should they choose?

Accepted Answer

europe-west1. europe-west1 is located in Belgium, Europe, providing low latency for European users.

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us-central1

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asia-east1

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australia-southeast1

Question 3

A financial services company must run a legacy Windows application that requires a specific version of IIS and custom Windows patches. The company wants to minimize operational overhead but needs full control over the OS. Which Google Cloud service is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Compute Engine. Compute Engine provides IaaS, allowing full control over the OS and application stack, including custom patches and configurations.

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Google Kubernetes Engine

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App Engine Flexible Environment

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Cloud Run

Question 4

A data analytics team processes large datasets using Apache Spark. They want a fully managed service that allows them to run Spark jobs without provisioning clusters. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Dataproc. Dataproc is a managed Spark and Hadoop service. With Dataproc, you can create clusters quickly, but the fully managed serverless option is Dataproc Serverless, which runs Spark jobs without cluster management.

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BigQuery

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Dataflow

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Cloud Dataprep

Question 5

A company wants to ensure its application remains available even if an entire data center fails. They plan to deploy the application across multiple zones within a single region. Which Google Cloud feature enables this?

Accepted Answer

Zone-level deployment. Deploying across multiple zones within a region provides high availability, as zones are isolated from each other. If one zone fails, the application continues in other zones.

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Multi-region deployment

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Cloud CDN

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Global load balancing

Question 6

A startup uses Google Workspace for email and collaboration. They want to add a custom domain to their Gmail accounts. Which service model does Google Workspace represent?

Accepted Answer

SaaS. Google Workspace is a SaaS offering where Google manages all infrastructure, including the application, runtime, OS, and hardware.

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PaaS

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FaaS

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IaaS

Question 7

An e-commerce company experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. They need to ensure their web application automatically scales out during high demand and scales in when demand drops, paying only for resources used. Which cloud benefit best describes this?

Accepted Answer

Elasticity. Elasticity allows resources to automatically scale up and down based on demand, optimizing cost and performance.

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Economies of scale

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Broad network access

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Reliability

Question 8

A company stores sensitive healthcare data in Google Cloud and must comply with HIPAA. They are using Cloud Storage and BigQuery. Which of the following is the customer responsible for under the shared responsibility model?

Accepted Answer

Implementing IAM policies to restrict access to healthcare data. Under the shared responsibility model, the customer is responsible for access management (IAM), encryption of data at rest and in transit, and configuring firewall rules. Google is responsible for the physical security of data centers, hypervisor, and network infrastructure.

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Physical security of data centers

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Hardware maintenance of storage servers

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Network infrastructure security

Question 9

A global gaming company needs to serve low-latency content to players worldwide. They want to cache static assets (images, videos) at edge locations closest to users. Which Google Cloud product should they use?

Accepted Answer

Cloud CDN. Cloud CDN uses Google's global edge network Points of Presence (PoPs) to cache content, reducing latency for users worldwide.

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Cloud Storage

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Compute Engine with global load balancer

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Cloud Spanner

Question 10

A company wants to run a batch job that processes data every night. They need to provision a VM for this task but want to minimize costs. The job can tolerate interruptions and can be resumed. Which Compute Engine VM option should they use?

Accepted Answer

Preemptible VM. Preemptible VMs are short-lived, cost-effective instances that can be terminated at any time but are ideal for batch jobs that can handle interruptions.

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VM with committed use discount

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Sole-tenant node

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Standard VM

Question 11

Which of the following is a characteristic of the cloud according to the NIST definition?

Accepted Answer

Measured service. Measured service is one of the five essential characteristics of cloud computing as defined by NIST.

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Manual scaling

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Limited network access

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Single tenancy

Question 12

A multinational corporation must store and process data subject to GDPR. They need to ensure that personal data of EU residents remains within the EU. Which Google Cloud feature should they use?

Accepted Answer

Organization policies with location restrictions. Data residency constraints in Google Cloud allow organizations to specify where data is stored by using organization policies and choosing specific regions. This ensures data does not leave the EU.

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Cloud Audit Logs

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Cloud KMS

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VPC Service Controls

Question 13

A company is designing a disaster recovery strategy for a critical application. They need to ensure that if an entire Google Cloud region becomes unavailable, the application can still serve traffic from another region with minimal data loss. Which TWO strategies should they implement? (Choose 2.)

Accepted Answer

Deploy the application in multiple regions. Multi-region deployment across at least two regions provides region-level failure protection. To minimize data loss, synchronous replication (e.g., using Cloud Spanner or multi-region Cloud Storage) ensures data consistency across regions.

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Deploy the application in multiple zones within a single region

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Use asynchronous replication for the database

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Use a single load balancer

Question 14

A data engineer needs to process a large dataset stored in Cloud Storage using Apache Spark. They want to minimize cluster management overhead. Which TWO Google Cloud services can be used together to achieve this? (Choose 2.)

Accepted Answer

Dataproc. Dataproc is the managed Spark service. Cloud Storage can be used as a data source. Dataproc can read directly from Cloud Storage without needing HDFS.

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Cloud SQL

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BigQuery

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Dataflow

Question 15

An organization is migrating a sensitive application to Google Cloud and must comply with SOC 2 requirements. Which THREE actions should they take to meet their security responsibilities under the shared responsibility model? (Choose 3.)

Accepted Answer

Apply security patches to the guest OS and applications. Under the shared responsibility model, the customer is responsible for IAM, encryption of data, and patching their OS and applications. Google manages the physical infrastructure.

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Ensure that Google's data centers are guarded 24/7

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Implement network segmentation using VPC firewalls