GCP Technology & Digital Tools 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which GCP service provides a fully managed, serverless data warehouse for analytics?
- Cloud Spanner
- BigQuery (Correct answer)
- Cloud SQL
- Bigtable
Correct answer: BigQuery
BigQuery is Google Cloud's fully managed, serverless data warehouse designed for large-scale analytics.
Question 2: What tool in GCP allows you to deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes?
- Cloud Run
- App Engine
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) (Correct answer)
- Compute Engine
Correct answer: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes.
Question 3: Which GCP tool provides centralized logging for all cloud services and applications?
- Cloud Trace
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Logging (Correct answer)
- Error Reporting
Correct answer: Cloud Logging
Cloud Logging (formerly Stackdriver Logging) is the centralized log management service for GCP resources and applications.
Question 4: What is the primary purpose of Cloud Deployment Manager in GCP?
- Managing user access and permissions
- Infrastructure as Code for automating resource provisioning (Correct answer)
- Monitoring application performance
- Scheduling batch jobs
Correct answer: Infrastructure as Code for automating resource provisioning
Cloud Deployment Manager is an infrastructure deployment service that automates resource creation using declarative YAML templates.
Question 5: Which GCP service enables real-time data ingestion and stream processing?
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Pub/Sub (Correct answer)
- Cloud Datastore
- Cloud Composer
Correct answer: Cloud Pub/Sub
Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully managed messaging service that enables asynchronous, real-time data ingestion and stream processing.
Question 6: What is the function of Cloud Armor in Google Cloud Platform?
- Encrypting data at rest
- DDoS protection and web application firewall (WAF) (Correct answer)
- Managing SSL certificates
- Network traffic routing
Correct answer: DDoS protection and web application firewall (WAF)
Cloud Armor provides DDoS protection and web application firewall (WAF) capabilities to defend applications from attacks.
Question 7: Which tool would you use to transfer large datasets from on-premises storage to Google Cloud Storage efficiently?
- Cloud Interconnect
- Transfer Appliance (Correct answer)
- VPN Gateway
- Cloud Router
Correct answer: Transfer Appliance
Transfer Appliance is a hardware appliance you use to securely transfer large volumes of data (up to 1 PB) to Google Cloud.
GCP Technology & Digital Tools 2
Which GCP service provides a fully managed, serverless data warehouse for analytics?