Mixed Deck — All GCP Topics Flashcards

What is the professional obligation of a GCP certified practitioner regarding continuing education as cloud technologies evolve?

Answer: Professionals should continuously maintain and update their knowledge as the field evolves

Cloud technology evolves rapidly, and professionals have an ongoing duty to keep their knowledge and skills current.

What is 'data poisoning' as an attack against ML systems?

Answer: Deliberately corrupting training data to cause a model to learn incorrect or harmful behaviors

Data poisoning involves injecting malicious or misleading examples into training data to manipulate the model's learned behavior.

When analyzing data in BigQuery, what is a 'materialized view' and its key benefit?

Answer: A precomputed query result stored physically, auto-refreshed for faster queries

Materialized views precompute and store query results, allowing BigQuery to serve queries faster and cheaper by reading the cached result instead of re-running the full query.

What is a compliance audit in GCP practice?

Answer: A systematic review verifying adherence to regulatory requirements and policies

A compliance audit systematically examines adherence to external regulations, internal policies, and industry standards, identifying gaps and recommending corrective actions.

What does residual risk mean in GCP risk management?

Answer: The remaining risk after all control measures have been implemented

Residual risk is the level of risk that remains after all practical control measures have been applied. Some residual risk is usually accepted as it may not be feasible to eliminate all risk entirely.

A project manager is using three-point estimating. The optimistic estimate is 4 days, the most likely is 7 days, and the pessimistic is 16 days. Using PERT, what is the expected duration?

Answer: 8 days

PERT expected duration = (O + 4M + P) / 6 = (4 + 28 + 16) / 6 = 48 / 6 = 8 days.

During project execution, a new regulatory stakeholder is identified. The FIRST action the project manager should take is:

Answer: Assess their influence, interests, and communication needs

Assessing a new stakeholder's influence and needs allows the PM to tailor an appropriate engagement strategy.

The software used to communicate with cloud storage.

Answer: Gsutil

The binary tool used to interact with Cloud Storage is called gsutil. It is a command-line tool provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that allows you to perform various operations with Cloud Storage buckets and objects. Gsutil provides commands for tasks such as creating buckets, uploading and downloading objects, listing objects, setting permissions, and many more. It supports both simple and complex operations, making it a versatile tool for managing your Cloud Storage resources.

Which GCP service should you use to detect anomalies and trends in time-series metrics collected from your data pipelines?

Answer: Cloud Monitoring with alerting policies

Cloud Monitoring collects time-series metrics and supports alerting policies that can trigger on anomalies, thresholds, or trend deviations in pipeline metrics.

A team wants to prevent any single GCP project from exceeding $5,000/month without manual approval. Which mechanism best enforces this?

Answer: Create a Pub/Sub notification budget action that triggers a Cloud Function to disable billing

A budget with a Pub/Sub notification can trigger a Cloud Function to programmatically disable billing on the project when the threshold is reached.

What is a corrective action plan in GCP compliance?

Answer: A documented strategy to address compliance deficiencies and prevent their recurrence

A corrective action plan outlines specific steps including root cause analysis, remediation activities, responsible parties, timelines, and measures to prevent recurrence.

When building a high-performing team, what is the PRIMARY purpose of establishing a team charter?

Answer: To define team values, working agreements, and ground rules for collaboration

A team charter sets shared expectations for behavior and collaboration, creating a foundation for trust and accountability within the team.

Redis must be installed on GKE with distinct persistent IDs and consistent hostnames. How do you use deployment objects?

Answer: YAML configuration file

To deploy Redis with unique persistent identities and stable hostnames on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you would typically use a YAML configuration file to define the deployment object. In the YAML configuration file, you can specify the desired characteristics of your Redis deployment, including the persistent identities and stable hostnames. The deployment object is used to manage the lifecycle of the Redis pods and ensure their availability and scalability.

In Looker Studio, which dimension type enables users to dynamically filter a report by selecting values from a dropdown?

Answer: Control filter (dropdown list)

A dropdown list control in Looker Studio creates an interactive filter widget that lets viewers select dimension values to dynamically filter all charts on the page.

A GCP professional is developing a quality assurance checklist for dermaplaning services. Which element is most essential to include?

Answer: Verification that the single-use blade was disposed of after treatment

Confirming single-use blade disposal is a critical infection control step that directly protects client safety.

During execution, the project team discovers a previously unidentified risk. Where should this risk be documented?

Answer: Risk register

All identified risks, including those discovered during execution, are documented in the risk register for tracking and response planning.

A company wants to run containers without managing the underlying node infrastructure. Which GCP service best fits this requirement?

Answer: Cloud Run

Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform that runs containers without requiring users to manage servers or clusters.

Which scheduling method uses a network diagram where all activities are represented as nodes and arrows show dependencies?

Answer: Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)

PDM (also called Activity on Node) represents activities as boxes/nodes with arrows showing the logical relationships between them.

A project team member sends an unprofessional message to a client stakeholder. The project manager should FIRST:

Answer: Contact the client to apologize and address the situation privately with the team member

Addressing the client first repairs the relationship while a private conversation with the team member addresses behavior.

Which GCP service would you use to orchestrate a multi-step data pipeline that includes BigQuery jobs, Dataflow jobs, and Cloud Storage operations?

Answer: Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow)

Cloud Composer is a managed Apache Airflow service that orchestrates complex workflows across multiple GCP services with dependency management.