Final

Question 1

What services does Google offer for serverless services?

Answer 1

Cloud run, cloud functions, app engine

Question 2

If the serverless service is fully managed, what would you pick?

Answer 2

Cloud run

Question 3

If the serverless service is event driven, what would you pick?

Answer 3

Cloud Function

Question 4

If the serverless service automatically handles scaling and load balancing but you need to config it what would you pick?

Answer 4

App Engine

Question 5

What service handles with RESTful APIs?

Answer 5

Cloud run and function

Question 6

What service deals with web and mobile backends?

Answer 6

App Engine

Question 7

What service deals with real time file procesing?

Answer 7

Cloud functions and cloud storage

Question 8

What service deals with data pipeliens?

Answer 8

Pub/Sub for traversing data

Dataflow for configuring data

BigQuery for analytical data

Question 9

Whats the command to create a VM?

Answer 9

gcloud compute isntances create NAME –zone=us

Question 10

Whats the command to connect to a VM?

Answer 10

gcloud computer ssh NAME –zone=ZONE

Question 11

If you need incremental backup of a disk, what should you use?

Answer 11

Snapshots

Question 12

If you need reusable OS templates, what should you use?

Answer 12

Images

Question 13

If you need a disk to survive when an instance is deleted or detached, what should you use?

Answer 13

Persistent Disks

Question 14

How do you create a cluster? Whats the command?

Answer 14

gcloud container clusters create my-cluster –num-nodes=3 –zone=us-central1-a

Question 15

How do you deploy a kubectl app? and expose it to the internet? Command

Answer 15

kubectl create deployment nginx –image=nginx

kubectl expose deployment nginx –port=80 –type=LoadBalancer

Question 16

How do you do Node Pool scaling command?

Answer 16

gcloud container clusters resize my-cluster –num-nodes=5

Question 17

If you need kubectl to work by needing credentials, what should you do? command

Answer 17

gcloud container clusters get-credentials

Question 18

What is a standard environment?

Answer 18

Standard: Sandboxed, cheaper, autoscaling

Question 19

What is flexible environment?

Answer 19

Flexible: custom runtime, slower startup

Question 20

How do you deploy an App Engine? command

Answer 20

gcloud app deploy app.yaml
gcloud app browse

Question 21

How many regions can you put per project?

Answer 21

Just one

Question 22

Whats the command to create an instance template?

Answer 22

gcloud compute instance-templates create

Question 23

Whats the command to create a MIG?

Answer 23

gcloud compute instance-groups managed create web-mig –template=my-template –size=2

Question 24

Whats the command to enable autoscaling?

Answer 24

gcloud compute instance-groups managed set-autoscaling web-mig –max-num-replicas=5 –target-cpu-utilization=0.8

Question 25

Why would you use a regional internal Load balancer?

Answer 25

For private traffic

Question 26

Tell me the type and keypoints of CloudSQL

Answer 26

Type: Relational Key Points: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, use private IP for internal apps

Question 27

Tell me the type and keypoints of BigQuery

Answer 27

Type: Data warehouse Keypoints: Serverless, SQL-based analytics

Question 28

Tell me the type and keypoints of Firestore

Answer 28

Type: NoSQL KeyPoints: Real-time, JSON documents

Question 29

Which database fits transactional usage?

Answer 29

Cloud SQL

Question 30

Which database fits analytics?

Answer 30

BigQuery

Question 31

Which database fits mobile/web app data sync?

Answer 31

Firestore

Question 32

What command to create a bucket?

Answer 32

gcloud storage buckets create gs://my-bucket --location=us-central1

Question 33

What is Cloud Terraform for?

Answer 33

More widely used, multi-cloud Focus only on basic blocks: provider, resource, variables

Question 34

What is gcloud good for?

Answer 34

Quick fast single command deployments

Question 35

If you are asked to pick a service for repeatable and consistent deployment, what would you do?

Answer 35

Pick deployment manager or terraform

Question 36

Whats the command for pub/sub?

Answer 36

gcloud pubsub topics create my-topic, subscriptions create

Question 37

Whats the command for cloud functions?

Answer 37

gcloud functions deploy helloPubSub --runtime nodejs18 --trigger-topic my-topic

Question 38

Whats the command for IAM bindings?

Answer 38

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member=user:me@gmail.com --role=roles/viewer

Question 39

What are the four Cs of a VM lifecycle?

Answer 39

Create, connect, configure, cleanup

Question 40

How would you handle scaling?

Answer 40

Template, MIG, Autoscale, LB

Question 41

How should configure your DNS so that applications on prem don't get forgotten for in the cloud?

Answer 41

Create a private zone on Cloud DNS. Configure the applications using the DNS name

Question 42

If you want to see who had access to what, what logs would you look at?

Answer 42

Data Access Aduit Logs

Question 43

What is Hyperdisk extreme?

Answer 43

Cloud's fastest, high performance disk type for VMs

Question 44

Errors are occuring on your VMs, what should you do?

Answer 44

Install and configure an Ops agent to view the logs from Cloud Logging

Question 45

What is Cloud filestore?

Answer 45

Managed netowrk file system Use when apps need a shared file system

Question 46

What is Cloud TPU?

Answer 46

Tensor Processing Unit

Question 47

What command line do you need to create a GKE cluster?

Answer 47

gcloud container clusters create my-cluster --zone us-central1-a

Question 48

What do flow logs do?

Answer 48

Allow you to log network traffic inside your network

Question 49

Auto-healing, what does it apply to?

Answer 49

Applies to managed instance groups

Question 50

Q: How do you send 2% of traffic to a new App Engine version?

Answer 50

A: Deploy the new version and use traffic splitting (--splits) to weight 98/2.

Question 51

Q: In Cloud Run for Anthos, how do you split traffic for App Engine?

Answer 51

A: Create a new revision of the same service and split traffic between revisions.

Question 52

Q: What’s the quickest way to rebuild one bad VM in a MIG?

Answer 52

A: Recreate just that instance.

Question 53

Q: How do MIGs detect and replace broken HTTPS instances?

Answer 53

A: Attach an HTTPS (port 443) health check to the MIG (or load balancer).

Question 54

Q: You need internal-only access to a GKE service across two VPCs. What’s the pattern?

Answer 54

A: Internal LoadBalancer Service + VPC Peering between VPCs.

Question 55

Q: When migrating a nightly 50-minute, 1–20 GB in-memory job, minimal effort/cost?

Answer 55

A: Lift-and-shift to Compute Engine VM and schedule start/stop.

Question 56

Q: What disk for extreme IOPS on a single VM?

Answer 56

A: Hyperdisk Extreme.

Question 57

Q: Best machine type for huge in-memory datasets?

Answer 57

A: Memory-optimized (M1, M2, etc.) machine types.

Question 58

Q: Which audit log shows who read data (e.g., GCS object reads)?

Answer 58

A: Data Access audit logs.

Question 59

Q: Which role lets an auditor see Admin Activity + Data Access logs?

Answer 59

A: roles/logging.privateLogViewer.

Question 60

Q: Two VMs in different regions need to talk privately—best practice?

Answer 60

A: Same VPC, create a subnet in the second region, use private IP.

Question 61

Q: Need internal-only access to a GKE service from another VPC. Steps?

Answer 61

A: Service type: LoadBalancer (internal) + VPC Peering.

Question 62

Q: Easiest way to flip between many projects in CLI?

Answer 62

A: Create a gcloud configuration per project and activate as needed.

Question 63

Q: MIG creation failing due to disks—what to check?

Answer 63

A: Instance template syntax and remove disks with colliding names (same as instance names).

Question 64

Q: Should you set autoDelete on disks to fix creation failures?

Answer 64

A: Not required for creation errors; it’s for cleanup, not creation success.