Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer: Essential Google Infrastructure 4

Question 1

Which GCP load balancer type operates at Layer 7 and supports URL-based routing to different backend services?

Accepted Answer

HTTP(S) Load Balancer

Answer

The HTTP(S) Load Balancer is a Layer 7 global load balancer that routes requests to backends based on URL maps, headers, and other HTTP attributes.

Question 2

A Cloud Engineer must ensure that all resources in a GCP project use only approved VM machine types. Which tool enforces this at creation time?

Accepted Answer

Organization Policy Service constraints

Answer

Organization Policy Service with the `constraints/compute.restrictCloudSqlInstanceType` or `compute.requireShieldedVm` style constraints restricts what resources users can create.

Question 3

What distinguishes Cloud Spanner from Cloud SQL in terms of scalability?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Spanner provides horizontal scaling across regions while maintaining ACID transactions

Answer

Cloud Spanner is Google's globally distributed relational database that scales horizontally across regions while guaranteeing strong consistency and ACID transactions.

Question 4

In Google Kubernetes Engine, what is a Node Pool?

Accepted Answer

A set of nodes within a cluster that share the same configuration such as machine type

Answer

A Node Pool is a group of nodes within a GKE cluster that all share the same machine type, OS image, and configuration.

Question 5

A developer wants to deploy a containerized web application on GCP without managing any infrastructure, scaling automatically to zero when idle. Which service fits best?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Run

Answer

Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform that runs containers and scales to zero when there is no traffic, eliminating idle costs.

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