Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer: Essential Google Infrastructure 2

Question 1

Which GCP service provides a fully managed, serverless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services using event-driven functions?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Functions

Answer

Cloud Functions is GCP's serverless, event-driven compute service that runs code in response to events without managing infrastructure.

Question 2

What is the default behavior of a newly created Google Cloud Storage bucket with respect to public access?

Accepted Answer

Public access is blocked by default at the project level

Answer

GCP enforces 'Prevent Public Access' by default at the project level, blocking public ACLs and policies unless explicitly overridden.

Question 3

A Cloud Engineer needs to ensure that a Compute Engine VM instance automatically restarts if the underlying host machine fails. Which setting should be enabled?

Accepted Answer

Automatic Restart

Answer

Automatic Restart causes GCP to restart a VM automatically if it is terminated due to a non-user-initiated reason such as hardware failure.

Question 4

Which Google Cloud networking feature allows you to extend your on-premises network to GCP using a private, encrypted connection over the public internet?

Accepted Answer

Cloud VPN

Answer

Cloud VPN establishes an encrypted IPsec tunnel between your on-premises network and GCP over the public internet.

Question 5

In Google Cloud IAM, what is the purpose of a 'condition' within an IAM binding?

Accepted Answer

To grant access only when specified attributes like time or resource tags match

Answer

IAM conditions allow attribute-based access control, granting permissions only when conditions such as resource name, date, or request origin are satisfied.

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