Technology & Digital Tools Flashcards

Which GCP service is best suited for running stateless HTTP containers without managing infrastructure?

Answer: Cloud Run

Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform that runs stateless containers triggered by HTTP requests with automatic scaling.

What does the gcloud CLI tool primarily allow you to do?

Answer: Interact with GCP services from the command line

The gcloud CLI is the primary command-line tool for creating and managing GCP resources across virtually all services.

Which GCP product would you use to orchestrate data pipelines and workflows across multiple services?

Answer: Cloud Composer

Cloud Composer is a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines.

What is Cloud Identity in Google Cloud used for?

Answer: Managing user identities and access across GCP resources

Cloud Identity is an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) solution for managing users, groups, and device policies for GCP access.

Which GCP service provides managed Apache Kafka-compatible streaming?

Answer: Managed Service for Apache Kafka

Managed Service for Apache Kafka on Google Cloud provides a fully managed, Kafka-compatible streaming service.

What is the role of Cloud CDN in a GCP architecture?

Answer: Caching content at Google's edge nodes to reduce latency

Cloud CDN uses Google's globally distributed edge points of presence to cache HTTP(S) load-balanced content closer to users.

Which tool helps teams manage and enforce organization-wide GCP policies?

Answer: Organization Policy Service

The Organization Policy Service allows administrators to set constraints on GCP resources across an entire organization hierarchy.