Choose fundamental characteristics of cloud computing.

Mark all that are correct (4

Customers pay only for what they use or reserve

Correct
Correct!

Computing resources available on-demand and self-service

Correct
Correct!

Providers always dedicate physical resources to each customer

All resources are open-source-based

Customers are required to commit to multi-year contracts

Resources are available from anywhere over the network

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Correct!

Customers can scale their resource use up and down

Correct
Correct!

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2.Question 2
Choose a fundamental characteristic of devices in a virtualized data center.

They are more secure.

They use less resources than devices in a physical data center.

They are available from anywhere on the Internet.

They are manageable separately from the underlying hardware.

Incorrect
Review the lecture "How did we get here?"

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3.Question 3
What type of cloud computing service lets you bind your application code to libraries that
give access to the infrastructure your application needs?

Platform as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Software as a Service

Hybrid cloud

Virtualized data centers

Correct
Correct!

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4.Question 4
What type of cloud computing service provides raw compute, storage, and network,
organized in ways that are familiar from physical data centers?

Software as a Service

Database as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Correct
Correct!

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5.Question 5
Which statement is true about the zones within a region?

Customers must choose exactly one zone in each region in which to run their resources.

Each zone corresponds to a single physical data center.

The zones within a region are never closer to each other than 160 km.

The zones within a region have fast network connectivity among them.

Correct
Correct!
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6.Question 6
What kind of customer benefits most from billing by the second for cloud resources such
as virtual machines?

Customers who create and run many virtual machines

Customers who create many virtual machines and leave them running for months

Customers who create too few virtual machines to get discounts

Customers who create virtual machines running commercially licensed operating systems

Incorrect
Review the lecture "Pricing innovations."

1.Question 1
True or False: In Google Cloud IAM: if a policy applied at the project level gives you
Owner permissions, your access to an individual resource in that project might be
restricted to View permission if someone applies a more restrictive policy directly to that
resource.

True

False

Correct
Correct! Policies are a union of those applied on resource itself and those inherited from higher
levels in the hierarchy. If a parent policy is less restrictive, it overrides a more restrictive policy
applied on the resource. If a parent policy is more restrictive, it does not override a less
restrictive policy applied on the resource. Therefore, access granted at a higher level in the
hierarchy cannot be taken away by policies applied at a lower level in the hierarchy.

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2.Question 2
True or False: All Google Cloud Platform resources are associated with a project.

True

False

Correct
Correct! All Google Cloud Platform resources are associated with a project.

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3.Question 3
Service accounts are used to provide which of the following? (Choose all that are correct.
Choose 3 responses.)

A way to restrict the actions a resource (such as a VM) can perform

Correct
Correct!

A way to allow users to act with service account permissions

Correct
Correct!

Authentication between Google Cloud Platform services

A set of predefined permissions

You didn't select all the correct answers

Google takes care of the lower parts of the stack, and customers are responsible for the higher
parts.

All aspects of security are the customer's responsibility.

All aspects of security are Google's responsibility.

Google takes care of the higher parts of the stack, and customers are responsible for the lower
parts.

Correct
Correct!

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5.Question 5
Which of these values is globally unique, permanent, and unchangeable, but chosen by
the customer?

The project ID

The project's billing credit-card number

The project name

The project number

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6.Question 6
Consider a single hierarchy of GCP resources. Which of these situations is possible?
(Choose all that are correct. Choose 3 responses.)

There is no organization node, and there are no folders.

Correct
Correct!

There are two or more organization nodes

There is an organization node, and there is at least one folder.

Correct
Correct!

There is an organization node, and there are no folders.

Correct
Correct!

There is no organization node, but there is at least one folder.

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7.Question 7
What is the difference between IAM primitive roles and IAM predefined roles?

Primitive roles can only be granted to single users. Predefined roles can be associated with a
group.

Primitive roles only apply to the owner of the GCP project. Predefined roles can be associated
with any user.

Primitive roles are changeable once assigned. Predefined roles can never be changed.

Primitive roles affect all resources in a GCP project. Predefined roles apply to a particular service
in a project.

Primitive roles only allow viewing, creating, and deleting resources. Predefined roles allow any
modification.

Incorrect
Review the lecture "Identity and Access Management (IAM)."
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8.Question 8
Which statement is true about billing for solutions deployed using Cloud Marketplace
(formerly known as Cloud Launcher)?

You pay only for the underlying GCP resources you use, with the possible addition of extra fees
for commercially licensed software.

You pay only for the underlying GCP resources you use; Google pays the license fees for
commercially licensed software.

Cloud Marketplace solutions are always free.

After a trial period, each Cloud Marketplace solution assesses a fixed recurring monthly fee.

Incorrect
Review the lecture "Cloud marketplace (formerly Cloud Launcher)."

How do Compute Engine customers choose between big VMs and many VMs?

Use big VMs for in-memory databases and CPU-intensive analytics; use many VMs for fault
tolerance and elasticity

You are developing an application that transcodes large video files. Which storage option
is the best choice for your application?

Cloud Spanner

Cloud Datastore

Google Drive

Cloud Storage

Correct
Correct!

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2.Question 2
You manufacture devices with sensors and need to stream huge amounts of data from
these devices to a storage option in the cloud. Which Google Cloud Platform storage
option is the best choice for your application?

Cloud Spanner
Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Datastore

BigQuery

Correct
Correct!

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3.Question 3
Which statement is true about objects in Cloud Storage?

They are immutable, and new versions overwrite old unless you turn on versioning.

They can be edited in place.

They are immutable, and versioned by default.

They are immutable unless you turn on versioning.

Correct
Correct!

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4.Question 4
You are building a small application. If possible, you'd like this application's data storage
to be at no additional charge. Which service has a free daily quota, separate from any free
trials?

Bigtable

Cloud Datastore

Cloud Spanner

Cloud SQL

Correct
Correct!

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5.Question 5
How do the Nearline and Coldline storage classes differ from Multi-regional and Regional?
Choose all that are correct (2 responses).

Nearline and Coldline assess lower storage fees.

Nearline and Coldline have lower durability.

Data in Nearline and Coldline is not retrievable immediately.

Nearline and Coldline use a differently-architected API.

Nearline and Coldline assess additional retrieval fees.

Correct
Correct!

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6.Question 6
Your application needs a relational database, and it expects to talk to MySQL. Which
storage option is the best choice for your application?

Cloud Spanner

Bigtable

Cloud SQL

Cloud Storage

Correct
Correct!

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7.Question 7
Your application needs to store data with strong transactional consistency, and you want
seamless scaling up. Which storage option is the best choice for your application?

Cloud Storage

Cloud Spanner

Cloud SQL

Cloud Datastore

Correct
Correct!

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8.Question 8
Which GCP storage service is often the ingestion point for data being moved into the
cloud, and is frequently the long-term storage location for data?

Cloud Datastore

Cloud Storage

Local SSD

Cloud Spanner

Correct
Correct!

What is a Kubernetes pod?

A group of clusters

A group of nodes

A group of containers

Correct
That's correct. In Kubernetes, a group of one or more containers is called a pod. Containers in a
pod are deployed together. They are started, stopped, and replicated as a group.

The simplest workload that Kubernetes can deploy is a pod that consists only of a single
container.

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2.Question 2
What is a Kubernetes cluster?

A group of machines where Kubernetes can schedule workloads

A group of containers that provide high availability for applications

Correct
That's correct. A Kubernetes cluster is a group of machines where Kubernetes can schedule
containers in pods. The machines in the cluster are called “nodes.”

Where do the resources used to build Kubernetes Engine clusters come from?
Compute Engine

App Engine

Bare-metal servers

Correct
Correct! Because the resources used to build Kubernetes Engine clusters come from Compute
Engine, Kubernetes Engine gets to take advantage of Compute Engine’s and Google VPC’s
capabilities.

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2.Question 2
True or false: Google keeps Kubernetes Engine refreshed with successive versions of
Kubernetes.

True.

False.

Correct
That's correct! The Kubernetes Engine team periodically performs automatic upgrades of your
cluster master to newer stable versions of Kubernetes, and you can enable automatic node
upgrades too.

Which GCP data storage service offers ACID transactions and can scale globally?

Cloud Storage

Cloud CDN

Cloud Spanner

Cloud SQL

Correct
Cloud Spanner provides ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties that
enable transactional reads and writes on the database. It can also scale globally.

How do quotas protect GCP customers?

By preventing uncontrolled consumption of resources.

By preventing resource use in too many zones in a region.

By preventing resource use of too many different GCP services.

Correct
Quotas are established at reasonable defaults for common cloud usage and proof of concept
activities. If you are planning to scale up a production cloud solution you may need to request
that the quotas be raised. This is a reasonable checkpoint to verify that actions that might result
in a large consumption of resources are reviewed.