Cloud Digital Leader Free Practice Questions — Page 12
Question 111
What kind of architecture does a hybrid cloud offer organizations?
A. A combination of different virtualized servers
B. A combination of serverless computing and public cloud services
C. A combination of private cloud infrastructure and public cloud services
D. A combination of multiple public cloud provider services
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Correct Answer: C
Explanation: A hybrid cloud is defined as an architecture that integrates a private cloud (often on‑premises infrastructure) with public cloud services, allowing data and applications to be shared between them. This combination enables organizations to balance control, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Question 112
An organization has started to develop cloud-native applications to replace their legacy applications.
What else should the organization do to adopt the cloud?
A. Provide privileged cloud network access to third-party partners.
B. Migrate some of their legacy infrastructure to the cloud.
C. Conduct maintenance on their legacy hardware.
D. Increase CapEx on existing projects.
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: To adopt the cloud beyond just building cloud-native applications, the organization should also transition existing workloads and infrastructure to the cloud. Migrating legacy infrastructure (where appropriate) is a core part of cloud adoption, enabling benefits such as scalability, elasticity, and reduced on‑premises dependency. The other options do not meaningfully contribute to cloud adoption: granting privileged access to third parties is not required, maintaining legacy hardware delays adoption, and increasing CapEx contradicts the cloud’s OpEx-based model.
Question 113
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?
A. Cloud Spanner
B. BigQuery
C. Looker
D. Dataflow
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Correct Answer: C
Explanation: The requirement is a business intelligence solution that enables individual employees and end users to analyze data and generate insights. Looker is Google Cloud’s dedicated BI and analytics platform designed for self-service exploration, dashboards, and data visualization. BigQuery is a data warehouse, Dataflow is for data processing pipelines, and Cloud Spanner is a database, not BI tools.
Question 114
An organization is struggling to keep up with the growth of their application which is running on legacy infrastructure.
What might be holding them back?
A. The time it takes their serverless compute function to scale
B. The overreliance on platform as a service
C. The inaccessibility of their data due to perimeter security
D. The cost of provisioning hardware for peak usage
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: Legacy infrastructure usually relies on fixed, on‑premises hardware that must be purchased and provisioned in advance for peak demand. As an application grows, this leads to high upfront and ongoing costs, slow scaling, and inefficient resource utilization, which can significantly hold the organization back.
Question 115
Which cybersecurity threat can lead to information being stolen or damaged without a user ever being aware?
A. SLA policy violation
B. Malware attack
C. Ransomware attack
D. Incomplete data input
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Malware can operate covertly in the background, allowing attackers to steal, alter, or damage information without the user noticing. In contrast, ransomware typically alerts the user by locking files, and the other options are not cyber threats that stealthily compromise data.
Question 116
What is out-of-the-box observability within the context of cloud operations?
A. Monitoring project development timelines
B. Monitoring IT infrastructure and applications
C. Monitoring customer satisfaction and feedback
D. Monitoring cloud subscription costs
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Out-of-the-box observability in cloud operations refers to preconfigured monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities that provide immediate visibility into IT infrastructure and applications without extensive setup. It focuses on system health, performance, availability, and troubleshooting, which aligns with monitoring IT infrastructure and applications.
Question 117
An organization has created a medical fitness app and wants to store a very large amount of data about exercise times, activity, and calories burned for later analysis.
Which data management solution should the organization use?
A. Data lake
B. Data warehouse
C. Data field
D. Database
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The scenario describes storing a very large volume of application-generated data (exercise times, activities, calories burned) primarily for later analysis. This is characteristic of a data lake, which is designed to ingest and store massive amounts of raw, structured and semi-structured data at low cost and analyze it later using various analytics tools. A data warehouse is typically used after data has been curated, modeled, and structured for predefined analytical queries.
Question 118
An international law firm needs their HR application to be able to share and access varying amounts of sensitive data across their branch offices.
Why would using Cloud Storage be beneficial for them?
A. It stores geographically dispersed copies of data to prevent loss.
B. It offers an affordable upgrade that enables data encryption.
C. It randomly allocates data to different storage locations to protect against threats.
D. It has a low minimum storage amount requirement.
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The key requirement is sharing and accessing data across international branch offices with reliability. Cloud Storage provides geographic replication, storing copies of data in multiple locations so offices worldwide can access it with high availability and protection against regional failures. Encryption (B) is already built in by default and is not an upgrade-driven benefit, making A the best answer.
Question 119
An organization is looking for a solution to help them build applications using their preferred programming language and tools. They also want to minimize time spent on infrastructure management.
What solution should the organization use?
A. Cloud Run
B. Dataproc
C. Pub/Sub
D. Bare Metal Solution
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The organization wants to use their preferred programming languages and tools while minimizing infrastructure management. Cloud Run is a fully managed, serverless compute platform that runs containerized applications, allowing developers to use almost any language or framework while Google handles scaling, provisioning, and infrastructure. Dataproc is for big data processing, Pub/Sub is a messaging service, and Bare Metal Solution requires full infrastructure management, which contradicts the requirement.
Question 120
A retail organization has moved all of their inventory data to a relational database in the cloud.
What functionality does a relational database offer?
A. It stores large amounts of raw data in its original format
B. It stores transactional data, which can then be accessed electronically
C. It rapidly analyzes large and multi-dimensional datasets
D. It analyzes unstructured data, which can then be accessed in multiple regions
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Relational databases are designed to store structured, transactional data in tables with defined relationships, supporting frequent reads/writes and ACID transactions—well-suited for inventory and other operational data.
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