ESSENTIAL GOOGLE CLOUD
INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Which statement is true of Virtual Machine Instances in Google Compute Engine?
A. All Compute Engine VMs are single tenancy and do not share CPU hardware
B. Compute Engine uses VMware to create Virtual Machine Instances
C. A VM in Compute Engine always maps to a single hardware computer in a rack
D. In Compute Engine, a VM is a networked service that simulates the features of a
computer - ANSWER-D. VMs in Compute Engine are a collection of networked
services. This includes disks (persistent disks) which are network-attached. In some
cases the GCP VM behaves unlike hardware or other kinds of virtual machines, for
example, when a multi-tenant virtual CPU ""bursts"", using excess capacity beyond the
VM spec.
What are sustained use discounts?
A. Per-second billing that starts after a 1 minute minimum
B. Automatic discounts that you get for running specific Compute Engine resources for
a significant portion of the billing month
C. Purchase commitments for specific resources you know you will use
D. Discounts you receive by using preemptible VM instances - ANSWER-B. Sustained
use discounts are automatic discounts that you get for running specific Compute Engine
resources (vCPUs, memory, GPU devices) for a significant portion of the billing month.
To take advantage of the full 30% discount, create your VM instances on the first day of
the month, because discounts reset at the beginning of each month.
Which statement is true of persistent disks?
A. Once created, a persistent disk cannot be resized
B. Persistent disks are always HDDs (magnetic spinning disks)
C. Persistent disks are physical hardware devices connected directly to VMs
D. Persistent disks are encrypted by default - ANSWER-D. Persistent Disks are not
physical disks, they are a virtual-networked service. Each persistent disk remains
encrypted either with system-defined keys or with customer-supplied keys.
What abstraction is primarily used to administer user access in Cloud IAM?
A. Leases, and abstraction of periodic entitlement
B. Roles, an abstraction of job roles
C. Credentials, an abstraction of an authorization token
D. Privileges, an abstraction of access rights - ANSWER-B. Cloud IAM administration
uses pre-defined roles for administration of user access. The roles are defined by more
, granular permissions. But permissions are not applied to users directly, only through the
roles that are assigned to them.
Which of the following is not a type of IAM role?
A. Advanced
B. Custom
C. Pre-defined
D. Primitive - ANSWER-D. There are three types of roles in Cloud IAM: primitive roles,
predefined roles, and custom roles. There are no "advanced" roles in Cloud IAM.
What of the following is not a type of IAM member?
A. Google Account
B. Service Account
C. Google Group
D. Cloud Identity domain
E. G Suite domain
F. Organization Account - ANSWER-F. There are five different types of members:
Google Accounts, Service Accounts, Google groups, G Suite domains, and Cloud
Identity domains. There are no "Organization Accounts" in Cloud IAM.
What data storage service might you select if you just needed to migrate a standard
relational database running on a single machine in a datacenter to the cloud?
A. Cloud SQL
B. Big Query
C. Persistent Disk
D. Cloud Storage - ANSWER-A. Cloud SQL offers a PostgreSQL server or a MySQL
server as a managed service.
Which GCP data storage service offers ACID transactions and can scale globally?
A. Cloud Storage
B. Cloud CDN
C. Cloud Spanner
D. Cloud SQL - ANSWER-C. Cloud Spanner provides ACID (Atomicity, Consistency,
Isolation, Durability) properties that enable transactional reads and writes on the
database. It can also scale globally.
Which data storage service provides data warehouse services for storing data but also
offers an interactive SQL interface for querying the data?
A. Big Query
B. Cloud Data proc
C. Cloud Data lab
D. Cloud SQL - ANSWER-A. Big Query is a data warehousing service that allows the
storage of huge data sets while making them immediately processable without having to
extract or run the processing in a separate service.
No resources in GCP can be used without being associated with...
INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Which statement is true of Virtual Machine Instances in Google Compute Engine?
A. All Compute Engine VMs are single tenancy and do not share CPU hardware
B. Compute Engine uses VMware to create Virtual Machine Instances
C. A VM in Compute Engine always maps to a single hardware computer in a rack
D. In Compute Engine, a VM is a networked service that simulates the features of a
computer - ANSWER-D. VMs in Compute Engine are a collection of networked
services. This includes disks (persistent disks) which are network-attached. In some
cases the GCP VM behaves unlike hardware or other kinds of virtual machines, for
example, when a multi-tenant virtual CPU ""bursts"", using excess capacity beyond the
VM spec.
What are sustained use discounts?
A. Per-second billing that starts after a 1 minute minimum
B. Automatic discounts that you get for running specific Compute Engine resources for
a significant portion of the billing month
C. Purchase commitments for specific resources you know you will use
D. Discounts you receive by using preemptible VM instances - ANSWER-B. Sustained
use discounts are automatic discounts that you get for running specific Compute Engine
resources (vCPUs, memory, GPU devices) for a significant portion of the billing month.
To take advantage of the full 30% discount, create your VM instances on the first day of
the month, because discounts reset at the beginning of each month.
Which statement is true of persistent disks?
A. Once created, a persistent disk cannot be resized
B. Persistent disks are always HDDs (magnetic spinning disks)
C. Persistent disks are physical hardware devices connected directly to VMs
D. Persistent disks are encrypted by default - ANSWER-D. Persistent Disks are not
physical disks, they are a virtual-networked service. Each persistent disk remains
encrypted either with system-defined keys or with customer-supplied keys.
What abstraction is primarily used to administer user access in Cloud IAM?
A. Leases, and abstraction of periodic entitlement
B. Roles, an abstraction of job roles
C. Credentials, an abstraction of an authorization token
D. Privileges, an abstraction of access rights - ANSWER-B. Cloud IAM administration
uses pre-defined roles for administration of user access. The roles are defined by more
, granular permissions. But permissions are not applied to users directly, only through the
roles that are assigned to them.
Which of the following is not a type of IAM role?
A. Advanced
B. Custom
C. Pre-defined
D. Primitive - ANSWER-D. There are three types of roles in Cloud IAM: primitive roles,
predefined roles, and custom roles. There are no "advanced" roles in Cloud IAM.
What of the following is not a type of IAM member?
A. Google Account
B. Service Account
C. Google Group
D. Cloud Identity domain
E. G Suite domain
F. Organization Account - ANSWER-F. There are five different types of members:
Google Accounts, Service Accounts, Google groups, G Suite domains, and Cloud
Identity domains. There are no "Organization Accounts" in Cloud IAM.
What data storage service might you select if you just needed to migrate a standard
relational database running on a single machine in a datacenter to the cloud?
A. Cloud SQL
B. Big Query
C. Persistent Disk
D. Cloud Storage - ANSWER-A. Cloud SQL offers a PostgreSQL server or a MySQL
server as a managed service.
Which GCP data storage service offers ACID transactions and can scale globally?
A. Cloud Storage
B. Cloud CDN
C. Cloud Spanner
D. Cloud SQL - ANSWER-C. Cloud Spanner provides ACID (Atomicity, Consistency,
Isolation, Durability) properties that enable transactional reads and writes on the
database. It can also scale globally.
Which data storage service provides data warehouse services for storing data but also
offers an interactive SQL interface for querying the data?
A. Big Query
B. Cloud Data proc
C. Cloud Data lab
D. Cloud SQL - ANSWER-A. Big Query is a data warehousing service that allows the
storage of huge data sets while making them immediately processable without having to
extract or run the processing in a separate service.
No resources in GCP can be used without being associated with...
