Practice set
Google Cloud Digital Leader questions
Question 1easymultiple choice
Full question →A traditional retailer currently maintains its own data centers, purchasing servers every 3–5 years and paying for facilities, power, and staff regardless of demand. When it migrates its workloads to the public cloud, which change in cost model does it experience?
Question 2mediummultiple choice
Full question →An e-commerce company plans its infrastructure for peak shopping events (e.g., Black Friday) which drive 50× normal traffic. On-premises, they must maintain 50× capacity year-round. In the cloud, they provision 50× capacity only during peak periods. Which cloud characteristic enables this cost optimization?
Question 3easymultiple choice
Full question →Which term describes the process by which organizations integrate digital technology into all areas of their business, fundamentally changing how they operate and deliver value to customers?
Question 4easymultiple choice
Full question →When a company moves from maintaining its own data center to using Google Cloud, which operational responsibility does Google assume that the company previously managed?
Question 5mediummultiple choice
Full question →A hospital runs a patient records system that must remain on-premises due to strict regulatory data residency requirements. However, they also want to use cloud-based AI for diagnostic imaging analysis. Which cloud deployment model best describes their architecture?
Question 6easymultiple choice
Full question →What is virtualization in the context of cloud computing, and why is it fundamental to how cloud providers deliver services?
Question 7easymultiple choice
Full question →Which term describes the model where the cloud provider is responsible for the security of the cloud infrastructure, while the customer is responsible for security within their own cloud environment (data, applications, access management)?
Question 8easymultiple choice
Full question →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?
Question 9mediummultiple choice
Full question →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?
Question 10easymultiple choice
Full question →A startup wants to launch a new product globally within 2 weeks. If it relied on traditional on-premises infrastructure, provisioning servers would take 6–8 weeks. By using the public cloud, the startup can launch on time. Which cloud benefit does this scenario illustrate?
Question 11mediummultiple choice
Full question →A manufacturing company wants to improve product quality by analyzing sensor data from 10,000 factory machines in real-time to detect defects before they occur. Previously, this was impossible due to the massive compute requirements. Which cloud capability makes this feasible?
Question 12mediummultiple choice
Full question →A media company currently licenses proprietary software for video editing that costs $50,000 per seat annually. They are considering a cloud-based SaaS alternative at $5,000 per seat annually. Beyond the licensing cost, which additional financial benefits should they consider when calculating total cost of ownership (TCO)?
Question 13easymultiple choice
Full question →A company wants to use computing resources over the internet without managing physical servers. The cloud provider manages the underlying hardware and virtualization, while the company manages the operating system, middleware, and applications. Which cloud service model does this describe?
Question 14mediummultiple choice
Full question →According to the NIST definition of cloud computing, which characteristic allows users to unilaterally provision computing resources such as server time and network storage without requiring human interaction with the service provider?
Question 15hardmultiple choice
Full question →A company uses two different public cloud providers (AWS for their North American operations and Google Cloud for their European operations) to meet data residency requirements and avoid vendor lock-in. Which deployment model does this represent?
Question 16mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company is planning a cloud migration and wants to understand the difference between 'lift and shift' and 'cloud-native' approaches. Which statement correctly distinguishes these two migration strategies?
Question 17mediummultiple choice
Full question →A retail company wants to build a recommendation engine that suggests products to customers based on their browsing history. The team has ML expertise but wants to use Google's pre-built ML infrastructure to train and deploy models at scale without managing compute resources. Which Google Cloud service should they use?
Question 18mediummultiple choice
Full question →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?
Question 19mediummultiple choice
Full question →A traditional bank processes loan applications using manual paper-based workflows that take 2 weeks per application. The bank wants to use cloud technology to reduce this to under 24 hours. Which cloud-enabled capability primarily drives this transformation?
Question 20hardmultiple choice
Full question →A CEO asks why the company should invest in a cloud migration when the existing on-premises infrastructure 'still works fine.' Which business case arguments are MOST relevant to present? (Select the best answer.)
Question 21hardmultiple choice
Full question →A regional insurance company competes with an InsurTech startup that uses cloud-native AI to personalize policies, process claims in minutes, and launch new products weekly. The traditional insurer takes 6 months to launch new products and 2 weeks to process claims. Which cloud-enabled business model advantage does the startup have?
Question 22easymultiple choice
Full question →A team uses Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Sheets) for their daily work. They do not manage any servers or software installation — Google maintains everything. Which cloud service model does Google Workspace represent?
Question 23mediummultiple choice
Full question →An organization runs its entire infrastructure on a single public cloud provider (Google Cloud). All applications, data, and services live in Google Cloud's infrastructure. Which deployment model describes this?
Question 24mediummultiple choice
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