This GCDL practice question tests your understanding of google cloud products, services, and solutions. This is a configuration task: choose the command set that satisfies every stated requirement. Small differences — like 'secret' vs 'password' or 'transport input ssh' vs 'all' — change whether the answer is correct. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
A company wants to implement a CI/CD pipeline for their Cloud Run services. Which THREE Google Cloud services should they use? (Choose 3)
Cloud Operations Suite
Why wrong: Monitoring and logging, not part of CI/CD pipeline.
Cloud Build
Builds container images and runs tests.
Cloud Deploy
Manages rollouts and promotions to Cloud Run.
Cloud Deployment Manager
Why wrong: Used for infrastructure as code, not CI/CD pipeline.
Container Registry (or Artifact Registry)
Stores container images.
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
Cloud Build
Cloud Build is the correct service because it is Google Cloud's fully managed CI/CD platform that can automatically build, test, and deploy code from a repository. For Cloud Run services, Cloud Build can trigger builds on code changes, run tests, and then deploy the container image directly to Cloud Run using a cloudbuild.yaml configuration file.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
Cloud Operations Suite
Why it's wrong here
Monitoring and logging, not part of CI/CD pipeline.
Cloud Build
Why this is correct
Builds container images and runs tests.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Cloud Deploy
Why this is correct
Manages rollouts and promotions to Cloud Run.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Cloud Deployment Manager
Why it's wrong here
Used for infrastructure as code, not CI/CD pipeline.
Container Registry (or Artifact Registry)
Why this is correct
Stores container images.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates confuse Cloud Deploy (a continuous delivery service for managing rollout strategies like canary or blue/green) with Cloud Build (the actual CI engine that builds and pushes images), or they mistakenly think Cloud Operations Suite is part of the pipeline because it monitors the deployed service.
Detailed technical explanation
Under the hood, Cloud Build uses a series of build steps executed in a Docker container environment, where each step can run any command or tool (e.g., docker build, gcloud run deploy). It integrates natively with Artifact Registry to store built images and with Cloud Run's gcloud run deploy command to perform rolling updates, automatically handling traffic splitting and revision management. A real-world scenario is using Cloud Build triggers to watch a GitHub branch and, on each push, run unit tests, build a container, push it to Artifact Registry, and deploy to Cloud Run with zero downtime.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A cloud solutions architect for a retail company is evaluating services for a new workload. The correct answer here reflects best practice for the specific scenario described — not a general cloud recommendation. Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option. Cloud exam questions reward reading the constraint carefully: the same technology can be right or wrong depending on the use case.
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Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — This question tests Google Cloud products, services, and solutions — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: Cloud Build — Cloud Build is the correct service because it is Google Cloud's fully managed CI/CD platform that can automatically build, test, and deploy code from a repository. For Cloud Run services, Cloud Build can trigger builds on code changes, run tests, and then deploy the container image directly to Cloud Run using a cloudbuild.yaml configuration file.
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Last reviewed: Jun 25, 2026
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