Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer: Essential Google Infrastructure 3

Question 1

A Cloud Engineer wants to store application configuration secrets such as database passwords securely in GCP. Which service is best suited for this?

Accepted Answer

Secret Manager

Answer

Secret Manager is GCP's dedicated service for storing, accessing, and auditing secrets like API keys and passwords with version control.

Question 2

Which Cloud Storage storage class is most cost-effective for data that is accessed less than once per year, such as long-term archival backups?

Accepted Answer

Archive

Answer

Archive storage class has the lowest storage cost but highest retrieval cost, making it ideal for data accessed less than once per year.

Question 3

What is the primary advantage of using a Managed Instance Group (MIG) with autoscaling in Compute Engine?

Accepted Answer

It automatically adjusts the number of VMs based on load metrics

Answer

Autoscaling MIGs automatically add or remove VM instances based on CPU utilization, load balancing capacity, or custom metrics.

Question 4

In GCP's resource hierarchy, at which level do Organization Policies apply when set at the organization node?

Accepted Answer

The organization node and all descendant folders and projects

Answer

Organization Policies set at the organization node cascade down the hierarchy to all folders, projects, and resources unless overridden at lower levels.

Question 5

Which GCP service enables real-time stream analytics by ingesting and processing large volumes of event data from IoT devices or application logs?

Accepted Answer

Pub/Sub

Answer

Pub/Sub is GCP's asynchronous messaging service that ingests high-throughput event streams and decouples producers from consumers.

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Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer: Essential Google Infrastructure 3