Cloud Digital Leader Free Practice Questions — Page 3
Question 21
An organization needs to store daily transactional data such as customer records and purchase history. The data follows a consistent schema and is cross-referenced. Which type of service should the organization use?
A. Non-relational database
B. Data warehouse
C. Relational database
D. Data lake
Show Answer
Correct Answer: C
Explanation: Daily transactional data with a consistent schema and cross-referenced entities requires structured tables, relationships, and ACID guarantees. Relational databases are designed for this workload. Non-relational databases suit un/semi-structured data, data warehouses are for analytics, and data lakes store raw data rather than support transactions.
Question 22
An organization needs protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?
A. Google Cloud Armor
B. Cloud Build
C. Cloud VPN
D. Security Command Center
Show Answer
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Google Cloud Armor provides managed protection against DDoS attacks, including Layer 3/4 and Layer 7 mitigation, and integrates with Google Cloud load balancers to filter malicious traffic. The other options are unrelated to DDoS protection: Cloud Build is CI/CD, Cloud VPN provides secure connectivity, and Security Command Center focuses on security posture management rather than traffic mitigation.
Question 23
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?
A. Set up a new billing account in the United States.
B. Run the application in additional zones in the European region.
C. Run the application in additional regions in Europe.
D. Run a replica of the application in a region in the United States.
Show Answer
Correct Answer: D
Explanation: High latency is caused by geographic distance between U.S. users and a Europe-only deployment. Deploying a replica in a U.S. region serves traffic closer to users, significantly reducing network latency. Billing accounts and additional zones or regions within Europe do not address transatlantic latency.
Question 24
An organization runs a batch data analysis workload on a virtual machine (VM). The workload can be easily restarted without losing work, and is not time critical. Organizations must choose the lowest cost option to run the workload. What option should they choose?
A. A Preemptible or Spot VM on Compute Engine
B. A custom VM in a pay-as-you-go model on Compute Engine
C. A standard VM in a pay-as-you-go model on Compute Engine
D. A Cloud Function with a small memory limit
Show Answer
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The workload is fault-tolerant, restartable, and not time critical, which matches the intended use case for Preemptible/Spot VMs. These instances offer the lowest cost because they can be terminated when capacity is needed elsewhere. Standard or custom pay-as-you-go VMs cost more, and Cloud Functions are not suitable for long-running batch workloads on VMs.
Question 25
An organization is deploying their servers to the cloud using the infrastructure as a service model.
In the shared responsibility model, what is the cloud provider responsible for?
A. Data access policies
B. Security of the operating system
C. Security of the software
D. Physical security
Show Answer
Correct Answer: D
Explanation: In the IaaS shared responsibility model, the cloud provider is responsible for the security *of* the cloud, which includes physical security of data centers, hardware, networking, and the virtualization layer. Customers are responsible for security *in* the cloud, such as the operating system, applications, software, and data access policies.
Question 26
When customer data is uploaded to Google Cloud, who owns the data?
A. A third party
B. The customer and Google share ownership
C. Google
D. The customer
Show Answer
Correct Answer: D
Explanation: When customer data is uploaded to Google Cloud, ownership of that data remains with the customer. Google provides the cloud infrastructure and acts as a data processor under its terms of service and data processing agreements, but it does not take ownership or share ownership of customer data.
Question 27
An organization is operating multiple workloads in containers and requires full control of how the workloads are configured. Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?
A. Cloud Run
B. Compute Engine
C. Kubernetes Engine
D. Cloud Functions
Show Answer
Correct Answer: C
Explanation: The requirement is to run multiple containerized workloads with full control over configuration, orchestration, networking, scaling, and deployment behavior. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is specifically designed for this purpose and provides granular control through Kubernetes. Cloud Run and Cloud Functions are serverless and abstract much of the configuration, while Compute Engine focuses on VMs rather than native container orchestration.
Question 28
What is the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) term for an organization s desired level of reliability and performance?
A. Service-level objective
B. Enhanced support
C. Scalable infrastructure
D. Service-level indicator
Show Answer
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: In SRE, a Service-Level Objective (SLO) specifies the target level of reliability and performance an organization aims to achieve for a service. SLIs measure performance, while SLOs define the desired targets; the other options do not represent this concept.
Question 29
What is a benefit of Google’s purpose-built servers compared to standard servers?
A. They are optimized for specific tasks making them more efficient.
B. They are backward compatible with legacy disk drives.
C. They are cheaper to build than standard servers.
D. They run software that cannot be deployed on standard servers.
Show Answer
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: Google’s purpose-built servers are designed and optimized for specific workloads (such as search, data processing, or machine learning), which improves performance, efficiency, and resource utilization compared to general-purpose servers. The other options are incorrect because purpose-built servers are not focused on legacy compatibility, are not necessarily cheaper to build, and do not require unique software that cannot run on standard servers.
Question 30
An organization has collected petabytes of historical data. They need an advanced analysis solution that is fast, scalable, and fully managed. Which Google product or service should the organization use?
A. BigQuery
B. Cloud SQL
C. Firestore
D. Cloud Storage
Show Answer
Correct Answer: A
Explanation: The requirement is a fast, scalable, fully managed solution for advanced analysis over petabytes of historical data. BigQuery is Google’s serverless data warehouse designed specifically for large-scale analytical workloads, offering automatic scaling and high-performance SQL analytics without infrastructure management. Cloud SQL and Firestore are operational databases, not analytics platforms, and Cloud Storage is only for data storage, not advanced querying or analysis.
$19
Get all 288 questions with detailed answers and explanations
Instant download HTML + PDF delivered the moment payment clears.
Secure Stripe checkout we never see or store your card details.
7-day refund if files are defective see our refund policy.