Google Cloud Digital Leader exam Questions and Answers
As your organization increases its release velocity, the VM-based application upgrades take a long time to perform rolling updates due to OS boot times. You need to make the application deployments faster.
What should your organization do?
Your customer currently has a hybrid cloud setup including their on-premises data center and AWS. They are consolidating all their services on Google Cloud as part of a modernization plan and want to spend less IT effort in the future. There are about 10 MySQL and 25 PostgreSQL databases across the two DCs. What is the best option to for them?
A prospect wants to be able to store and analyze data. Their analysts already know SQL, but are not familiar with other technologies. Which of these databases can the analysts use without addi-tional training?
The CFO is attending one of the preliminary meetings in the migration strategy meeting. She brings up the concern about costs. They have contracts with their vendors and the payments they will need to make when purchasing any kind of infrastructure. This gives them a clear view of numbers for resource budgeting and planning. Can she get the same kind of clarity on Google Cloud?
Your application is onboarding a number of users. The details of the users very widely. What kind of database would be most suitable for this use case?
An organization currently stores its data on-premises and they receive different levels of traffic on their website every month. How could the organization benefit from modernizing their infrastructure with cloud technology?
Your company has recently acquired three growing startups in three different countries. You want to reduce overhead in infrastructure management and keep your costs low without sacrificing security and quality of service to your customers.
How should you meet these requirements?
You are leading projects in an IT services company. Your customer's project requires analyzing im-ages. They have many 10s of 1000s of raw images that they have made available to you. Your small technology team needs to build a machine learning model. The images are unlabeled. You don't have the people or the capacity to label the images. What is your approach?
A startup is planning to create their entire suite of applications on Google Cloud. They are looking at various open source technologies to build applications. One of the considera-tion is about having a well integrated monitoring tool. They have to be able to constantly review load capacity and performance of their applications and virtual machines. What would you advise them to do?
Your company has multiple internal applications used by your employees. You also have to give access to certain vendors and contractors. What is a good option for you to adopt?
Your organization runs all its workloads on Compute Engine virtual machine instances. Your organization has a security requirement: the virtual machines are not allowed to access the public internet. The workloads running on those virtual machines need to access BigQuery and Cloud Storage, using their publicly accessible interfaces, without violating the security requirement.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?
What would provide near-unlimited availability of computing resources without requiring your organization to procure and provision new equipment?
Your organization needs to ensure that the Google Cloud resources of each of your departments are segregated from one another. Each department has several environments of its own: development, testing, and production. Which strategy should your organization choose?
Your organization is developing an application that will capture a large amount of data from millions of different sensor devices spread all around the world. Your organization needs a database that is suitable for worldwide, high-speed data storage of a large amount of unstructured data.
Which Google Cloud product should your organization choose?
Your organization wants to run a container-based application on Google Cloud. This application is expected to increase in complexity. You have a security need for fine-grained control of traffic between the containers. You also have an operational need to exercise fine-grained control over the application’s scaling policies.
What Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?
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Description automatically generatedYour company security team manages access control to production systems using an LDAP directory group.
How is this access control managed in the Google Cloud production project?
Your organization needs to analyze data in order to gather insights into its daily operations. You only want to pay for the data you store and the queries you perform. Which Google Cloud product should your organization choose for its data analytics warehouse?
You are migrating workloads to the cloud. The goal of the migration is to serve customers worldwide as quickly as possible According to local regulations, certain data is required to be stored in a specific geographic area, and it can be served worldwide. You need to design the architecture and deployment for your workloads.
What should you do?
Your organization wants to optimize its use of Google Cloud’s discounts on virtual machine-based workloads. You plan to use 200 CPUs constantly for the next 3 years, and you forecast that spikes of up to 300 CPUs will occur approximately 30% of the time. What should you choose?
Your multinational organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on its premises around the world. You want to be able to manage these workloads consistently and centrally, and you want to stop managing infrastructure.
What should your organization do?
How should a multinational organization that is migrating to Google Cloud consider security and privacy regulations to ensure that it is in compliance with global standards?
Your organization uses Active Directory to authenticate users. Users’ Google account access must be removed when their Active Directory account is terminated.
How should your organization meet this requirement?
Your organization needs to establish private network connectivity between its on-premises network and its workloads running in Google Cloud. You need to be able to set up the connection as soon as possible.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should you use?
Your company’s development team is building an application that will be deployed on Cloud Run. You are designing a CI/CD pipeline so that any new version of the application can be deployed in the fewest number of steps possible using the CI/CD pipeline you are designing. You need to select a storage location for the images of the application after the CI part of your pipeline has built them.
What should you do?
Your company is running the majority of its workloads in a co-located data center. The workloads are running on virtual machines (VMs) on top of a hypervisor and use either Linux or Windows server editions. As part of your company’s transformation strategy, you need to modernize workloads as much as possible by adopting cloud-native technologies. You need to migrate the workloads into Google Cloud.
What should you do?
Your customer is making a decision on whether to move to Google Cloud. Their key concern is about 10,000 VMs that are part of their IT infrastructure used across more than 110 applications. They are apprehensive of too many changes at this stage. They want to get to Google Cloud in the easiest way possible with minimal disruption. What option would you recommend for them?
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Description automatically generatedYour organization offers public mobile apps and websites. You want to migrate to a Google Cloud-based solution for checking and maintaining your users’ usernames and passwords and controlling their access to different resources based on their identity.
Which should your organization choose?
Each of the three cloud service models - infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) - offers benefits between flexibility and levels of management by the cloud provider and the customer.
Why would SaaS be the right choice of service model?
Your Google Cloud Platform [GCP] admin has to manage a bunch of API keys for external services that are accessed by different applications, which are used by a few teams. What is the best way to manage them?
An organization has completely migrated all their infrastructure to the cloud to benefit from its agility. Now they want to innovate faster and achieve a higher return on investment. What should the organization do?
Which of the following options is/are correct about Preemptible VMs?
A video game organization has invested in cloud technology to generate insights from user behaviors. They want to ensure recommendations of games are aligned to players' interests. What may have prompted this business decision?
Your organization wants to be sure that is expenditures on cloud services are in line with the budget. Which two Google Cloud cost management features help your organization gain greater visibility into its cloud resource costs? (Choose two.)
Your organization runs a distributed application in the Compute Engine virtual machines. Your organization needs redundancy, but it also needs extremely fast communication (less than 10 milliseconds) between the parts of the application in different virtual machines.
Where should your organization locate this virtual machines?
You are a program manager for a team of developers who are building an event-driven application to allow users to follow one another’s activities in the app. Each time a user adds himself as a follower of another user, a write occurs in the real-time database.
The developers will develop a lightweight piece of code that can respond to database writes and generate a notification to let the appropriate users know that they have gained new followers. The code should integrate with other cloud services such as Pub/Sub, Firebase, and Cloud APIs to streamline the orchestration process. The application requires a platform that automatically manages underlying infrastructure and scales to zero when there is no activity.
Which primary compute resource should your developers select, given these requirements?
Your organization is running all its workloads in a private cloud on top of a hypervisor. Your organization has decided it wants to move to Google Cloud as quickly as possible. Your organization wants minimal changes to the current environment, while using the maximim amount of managed services Google offers.
What should your organization do?
Your organization needs to restrict access to a Cloud Storage bucket. Only employees who are based in Canada should be allowed to view the contents.
What is the most effective and efficient way to satisfy this requirement?
Your organization needs a large amount of extra computing power within the next two weeks.
After those two weeks, the need for the additional resources will end.
Which is the most cost-effective approach?
Which of the following is/are true about Anthos?
Your organization needs to categorize objects in a large group of static images using machine learning. Which Google Cloud product or service should your organization use?
What is the difference between Standard and Coldline storage?
An organization stores its important industry data in a relational database They want to create a new revenue stream by enabling third parties to use that data in their applications Which cloud first approach should the organization choose?
structured data?
What is an example of unstructured data that organizations can capture from social media?
An organization wants to introduce a new image recognition login system
What should the organization do to follow SRE principles?
An organization is searching for an open-source machine learning platform to build and deploy their own custom machine learning applications using TPUs.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?
How does Cloud SQL help organizations create business insights?
An organization is using new technologies to change its business processes and culture to develop new customer experiences and adapt to market dynamics.
What is the name of this approach?
An organization is using three cloud vendors to maximize their available deployment locations worldwide They are using GKE Enterprise to deploy Kubernetes applications across different clouds What type is this deployment?
An organization wants to deploy new workloads to the cloud but must keep some systems on-premises for compliance reasons Both environments must be managed centrally Which type of environment should the organization use1?
An organization needs to search an application's source code to identify a potential issue. The application is distributed across multiple containers.
Which Google Cloud product should the organization use?
An organization needs frequent access to only a subset of their data. They want to reduce costs by depositing the rest of their data across Nearline Coldlme and Archive repositories
Which Google Cloud product should the organization use?
An organization wants full control of their virtual machine infrastructure for a custom home-grown application with a product that autoscales and automatically updates.
Which Google Cloud product or solution should the organization use?
An organization is training a machine learning model to make predictions.
What could improve the prediction accuracy of their model?
An organization wants to move from a tactical cloud adoption approach to a transformational approach.
How should they change their cloud security?
An organization needs a flexible and scalable NoSQL database with strong web and mobile application support. Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?
An organization wants to collect metrics and metadata from their cloud applications and put them into dashboards.
Which Google Cloud tool should they use?
Why do organizations often struggle to scale their on-premises application infrastructure?
How does the legal concept of data sovereignty affect data*?
An organization wants to digitize and share large volumes of historical text and images.
Why is a public cloud a better option than an on-premises solution?
An organization is struggling to meet user demand for change and wants to modernize their legacy applications by moving the applications to the cloud
Why would this help the organization satisfy user expectations'?
An organization is building advanced machine learning models in Google Cloud by using TensorFlow. They want to develop their models faster with purpose-built hardware. Which solution should the organization use?
An organization needs to rapidly scale its use of computing resources and honor its commitment to environmental sustainability. What should the organization do?
An organization is concerned about the unlikely event that Google Cloud infrastructure is physically accessed by someone with malicious intent How is data protected in Google Cloud?
An organization is deciding on the layout of their resource hierarchy in Google Cloud. They have several projects within a folder. What will happen when user access policies are applied to the folder?
Customers are reporting very high latencies when accessing an application from the United States. The application is currently running in a single region in Europe.
What should the organization do?
What is logging within the context of cloud technology?
An organization wants to control what types of network traffic are allowed to enter and leave its network and access its applications. Which security measure should the organization use?
An organization wants to run their custom application in the cloud in a flexible and scalable way without managing any infrastructure.
Which service model should they use?
An organization wants to build an entirely new infrastructure and applications in the cloud.
Which application modernization approach should the organization use?
When is data automatically encrypted in Google Cloud?
What is the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) term for an organizations desired level of reliability and performance?
An organization is using Compute Engine and wants to receive sustained-use discounts. What should the organization do?
An organization is developing applications by using Kubernetes. They want their teams to spend more time developing rather than managing clusters. Which Google Cloud service should the organization choose?
What does Cloud Logging help an organization do?
How is privacy defined in the context of cloud technology?
An organization is looking for a business intelligence solution that allows individual employees and end users to analyze business data and generate insights.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?
Within Google's Site Reliability Engineering framework, which concept measures how well a system is performing?
Why should an organization consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) when moving from on-premises to the cloud?
An organization is deploying applications to the cloud using platform as a service.
In the shared responsibility model, what remains the responsibility of the customer organization?
How would a global organization benefit from managing their data with Cloud Spanner?
A large retail organization uses traditional technology for their ecommerce website During peaks m traffic resources are often underutilized or overprovisioned They have decided to migrate to cloud technology
What aspect of cloud technology will benefit their ecommerce business?
Your customer is moving from AWS to Google Cloud. Data also needs to be moved. There is about 50TB of data. On AWS, the data resides in an S3 bucket. It is going to be moved to Cloud Storage. Data is also being continuously generated on S3 prior to the cutover. It is preferable that this is also periodically transferred. What is the best way to move the data?
Which Firebase quality tools help the developer track, prioritize & fix stability issues that erode the application quality?
Firebase Hosting provides the following services-
How does a least privilege resource access model contribute to cloud security?
Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) can be used for encrypting data inside Cloud BigTable, which of the following statements is/are correct. (Select two answer)
You are working with a user to set up an application in a new VPC behind a firewall and it is no-ticed that the user is concerned about data egress. Therefore, to provide assistance you want to con-figure the fewest open egress ports. Which of the following statement is correct?
What characteristics should an organization adopt to be a DevOps organization?
A financial services company is running an experimental application workload that has a very large number of mathematical calculations involving floating-point numbers. The current application that is running on compute engine is not providing enough speed and throughput. What are the options to increase the processing performance?
Your client is building a custom machine learning pipeline to identify lesions in the lungs based on x-rays. Different teams of data scientists are sharing common source data and building many ver-sions of ML models. Which of these Cloud Storage options would be best for them?
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Description automatically generated with medium confidenceThe customer has applications that do data processing on-premise. They have been built using Ha-doop and Spark. What product should I use on Google Cloud?
One of your customers used to have a private data center. While within their data center itself, they were consuming some Google services via API calls and other public, well-known addresses pub-lished by Google. Now they're evacuating their private data center and are moving to Google Cloud. Could they improve some of their existing architecture with respect to security?
A startup client of yours does offline data processing for a few of its clients. They are mi-grating their applications and the associated data to Google Cloud. They have 100TB of data to move. They presently have a very small private data center setup connected to a local internet provider. The maximum bandwidth they are able to get is 100Mbps. How long will it take them to transfer the data over the internet if the transfer goes smoothly?
What are the different storage & database services in GCP? Which is Google cloud storage and da-tabase below the option
In terms of Dockers and Kubernetes, which of the following statements are correct?
Your client has an on-premises data center. Due to technical limitations, they are unable to scale globally. They have decided to adopt the public cloud. However, they don't want to locked into any one vendor and, therefore, would like to work with multiple cloud providers. They have used open source container technologies and would like to continue using them.
Your Coustomer's Organization has decided to move to the cloud. They currently run VMs on-promise but their goal on Google cloud is to run containers, primarily on Google Kuber-nete's Engine. They have a lease for their private data center for another year that they have already paid for. What could be strategy they could adopt in migrating?
A customer has an application running in virtual machines. They are migrating this application to Google Cloud. They have previously had scaling issues when on-premises as VMs had to be pre-allocated. Capacity planning was repeatedly off mark - it's either too many VMs or too less. They want to match the capacity to demand while keeping the application running always. They don't have the time or budget to re-architect the systems using containers and Kubernetes at the mo-ment. What would be your recommendation?
You are working in a company that provides different services to its customer. Now it also wants to offer some paid API services to its B2B customers for e.g. google provides google maps API, cloud vision API, and language translation API. You need to figure out the best solution for the service.
Which of the following are the current options for paid support in GCP? (Select Three An-swer)
Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a fully managed service designed to help discover, classify, and protect the most sensitive data. DLP provides three key features (Select Three Answers)
You are discussing scaling requirements with a gaming company. When the game launches, they are expecting incoming data surges of 2 million users or more during weekends and holidays. Their on-premise systems have had issues scaling and they want your advice on solving the issue. What do you recommend?
You are a database manager working for a new product that will need millions of reading and writ-ing from the database, with zero downtime, key-value i.e. NoSQL features, no manual steps should be required to ensure consistency, repair data, synchronize writes and deletes, Which of the follow-ing database you choose?
Which of the following methods should you use when you require a dynamic way of provisioning VMs on Compute Engine when it is observed that the exact specifications will be in a dedicated configuration file and you want to follow Google’s recommended practices.
An application has become very popular and the number of requests/users is increasing quickly. There is a meeting to figure out how to scale the systems so that they can accept user requests and still have the capacity to spare. What is the preferred option?
What issues can arise when organizations integrate third-party systems into their cloud infrastruc-ture?
Your company has signed up with a cloud provider and you will be using storage and vir-tual machines with the provider. The provider has provided your organization some expec-tations for what the service should perform at. What type of agreement provides a guar-antee of a certain level of service such as “Uptime”?
Your customer has a reporting tool that is only occasionally used by the leadership team. Usage of it is frequent - once a week, once a month, or once the quarter. They want to run this application in a cost-effective manner. What are the compute options available on Google Cloud which would be suitable? (Choose Two answer)
With respect to the Core Feature of Standby Instances of Cloud SQL which one of the options is correct.?
Virtual Machine vCPU and memory usage for each of these categories can receive one of the following discounts? (Select Three Answer)
Your customer is moving to Google Cloud. They have many teams, each working on many projects. How should they organize resources?
Which of the following is / are true for Preemptible Instances.
Which of the following statements is/are true about Cloud Spanner offered by Google Cloud Plat-form.
You have contracted a partner to conduct some medical trials. This is a limited, 2-month contract. At the end of each day, you are expecting about 10 Gbs of data. The data is highly sensitive. What networking option would you employ?
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides three main compliance resource webpages. What are they? (Select Three Answer)
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App Engine has been deployed in your customers GCP cloud deployment. The customer would like to know more about the benefits of App Engine Flexible. Please advise them on the benefits of App Engine Flexible (Select Two Answers)
What type of cloud computing service provides raw compute, storage, and network, organized in ways that are familiar to physical data centers?
DriveSuper Inc. teaches its clients to drive cars and bikes and helps them get their license. They are planning to build a mobile application where users can sign up, plan their schedules, and take stock of progress. They want the onboarding process to be smooth and frictionless, giving users a great experience from the get-go. They want this done as quickly as possible and not be expensive. What is their best option on Google Cloud?
Considering Google Cloud Storage different Options which of the following is / are correct on the basis of their real world use cases?
You are working with a government agency. A web application serves users of the country. It al-lows citizens to receive certain services in providing their national identity. Citizens have com-plained that they are seeing delays in web page loading compared to before. On investigating, they are seeing a lot of spurious traffic coming in from a few IPs which they have identified as for-eign. What should they do?
What cloud deployment model is generally deployed between organizations such as non-profits, hospitals or even enterprises that share similar requirements or interests?
