GCP Technology & Digital Tools 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which GCP service is best suited for running stateless HTTP containers without managing infrastructure?
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Cloud Run (Correct answer)
- Compute Engine
- App Engine Flexible
Correct answer: Cloud Run
Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform that runs stateless containers triggered by HTTP requests with automatic scaling.
Question 2: What does the gcloud CLI tool primarily allow you to do?
- Only manage billing accounts
- Interact with GCP services from the command line (Correct answer)
- Only create Kubernetes clusters
- Monitor application uptime
Correct 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.
Question 3: Which GCP product would you use to orchestrate data pipelines and workflows across multiple services?
- Cloud Dataflow
- Cloud Composer (Correct answer)
- Cloud Scheduler
- Cloud Tasks
Correct answer: Cloud Composer
Cloud Composer is a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines.
Question 4: What is Cloud Identity in Google Cloud used for?
- Encrypting data in transit
- Managing user identities and access across GCP resources (Correct answer)
- Monitoring network traffic
- Storing application secrets
Correct 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.
Question 5: Which GCP service provides managed Apache Kafka-compatible streaming?
- Cloud Dataflow
- Cloud Pub/Sub Lite
- Managed Service for Apache Kafka (Correct answer)
- Cloud Datastream
Correct answer: Managed Service for Apache Kafka
Managed Service for Apache Kafka on Google Cloud provides a fully managed, Kafka-compatible streaming service.
Question 6: What is the role of Cloud CDN in a GCP architecture?
- Providing serverless compute
- Caching content at Google's edge nodes to reduce latency (Correct answer)
- Managing DNS records
- Encrypting data at rest
Correct 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.
Question 7: Which tool helps teams manage and enforce organization-wide GCP policies?
- Cloud IAM Roles
- Organization Policy Service (Correct answer)
- Cloud Audit Logs
- VPC Service Controls
Correct answer: Organization Policy Service
The Organization Policy Service allows administrators to set constraints on GCP resources across an entire organization hierarchy.
GCP Technology & Digital Tools 3
Which GCP service is best suited for running stateless HTTP containers without managing infrastructure?