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  1. Which GCP feature automatically scales a managed instance group based on custom metrics from Cloud Monitoring?

    Answer: Managed Instance Group Autoscaler

    The MIG Autoscaler can scale instances based on CPU utilization, HTTP load balancing serving capacity, Cloud Monitoring metrics, or Cloud Pub/Sub queue depth.

  2. What is the primary use case for Cloud Spanner compared to Cloud SQL?

    Answer: Cloud Spanner provides globally distributed, horizontally scalable relational databases with strong consistency

    Cloud Spanner offers a globally distributed relational database with external consistency and horizontal scaling, whereas Cloud SQL is a regional managed relational database.

  3. In GCP VPC, what is the purpose of Private Google Access?

    Answer: Allows VMs without external IPs to reach Google APIs and services

    Private Google Access allows VM instances without external IP addresses to access Google APIs and services using internal IPs through Google's network.

  4. Which GCP Dataflow concept represents a parallel collection of data elements that can be processed in a pipeline?

    Answer: PCollection

    A PCollection is Dataflow's distributed dataset abstraction representing a potentially unbounded, immutable collection of data elements processed by the pipeline.

  5. What is the function of Cloud Endpoints in GCP?

    Answer: Provides API management with monitoring, authentication, and rate limiting

    Cloud Endpoints is a distributed API management system that provides authentication, monitoring, logging, and rate limiting for APIs deployed on GCP.

  6. Which GCP service should you use to detect anomalies and threats using machine learning on Cloud Logging data?

    Answer: Security Command Center

    Security Command Center provides threat detection, vulnerability scanning, and security analytics for GCP resources, integrating with Cloud Logging data.

  7. What happens to data stored in a regional Cloud Storage bucket if the entire region experiences an outage?

    Answer: Data is unavailable until the region recovers, but is not lost

    Regional buckets store data redundantly across multiple zones within a region, so data persists after recovery but is inaccessible during a full regional outage.