Cloud/Google General Knowledge

Question 1

When an organisation takes advantage of cloud technology to redesign and redefine relationships with its customers, employees and partners, what is the result?

Answer 1

Company-wide digital transformation.

Question 2

How does the cloud create value for businesses?

Answer 2

Allows businesses to collaborate, perceive, categorise, predict and recommend data.

Question 3

What is the burning platform effect?

Answer 3

Abandoning old technology for new technology and continuously adapting to meet new technological standards.

Question 4

What is uniquely common between all inventions that have fuelled innovation waves?

Answer 4

They have transformed both the supply and demand at the same time.

Question 5

What does compute power refer to?

Answer 5

The speed at which a computer is able to process data.

Question 6

What do customers always expect, which requires business models to adapt in order to stay relevant?

Answer 6

Relevant and easily accessible information almost instantly, and services that are always available at any location.

Question 7

What are the key elements required for modernising IT infrastructure and the modernisation focus areas?

Answer 7

Key Elements:

• Innovation
• Productivity
• Collaboration

Focus Areas:

• Infrastructure
• Business Platforms
• Applications

Question 8

Many business models may adopt a hybrid infrastructure model, what does this mean?

Answer 8

Operating across multiple public cloud providers, or a mixture of private on premises and public cloud solutions.

Question 9

Developer Operations (DEV-OPS) are integral to enhancing speed and innovation without compromising security. What do these operations aim to do?

Answer 9

Increase software delivery velocity, increase service reliability and build shared ownership among software stakeholders.

Question 10

What does leveraging data mean?

Answer 10

Capturing, storing and structuring data in such a way that aids informed business decisions.

Question 11

In the cloud, the recommended practice for security is called a ‘shared responsibility security model.’ What does this mean?

Answer 11

The cloud provider is responsible for the physical infrastructure and the business is responsible for access to data and applications.

Question 12

Many companies face challenges when transferring over to the cloud. Google Cloud solutions can help companies address these challenges using solution pillars. Name 3 solution pillars.

Answer 12

• Infrastructure modernisation
• Business applications platform portfolio
• Application modernisation
• Database and storage solutions
• Smart analytics
• Artificial intelligence and security

Question 13

What factors have a direct impact on a team’s ability to innovate?

Answer 13

Ability to try new things without fear of failure of judgement and team structure.

Question 14

Infrastructure modernisation is foundational to an organisation’s digital transformation. It is a common term used to describe what process?

Answer 14

Leveraging hidden value from legacy systems and applications with cloud technologies.

Question 15

Customers now expect instant access to services anytime, anywhere. What do businesses need to prioritise to meet these changing needs?

Answer 15

Launching new applications quickly.

Question 16

Organisations have traditionally used retrospective data to gain business insights. By using cloud technology, in what new way can businesses leverage data?

Answer 16

Businesses can gain real-time insights.

Question 17

Google Cloud has 6 focus areas for culture transformation. These areas are fundamental to creating a fast moving, customer centric and future proof business that optimises its use of cloud technology. What are these areas?

Answer 17

• Talent
• Environment
• Structure
• Strategy
• Empowerment
• Innovation

Question 18

Google has established three simple rules that govern its day-to-day business practice and help nurture and scale innovation culture. What are these rules?

Answer 18

• Focus on the user
• Think 10X (generate big ideas)
• Launch and iterate (continuous learning)

Question 19

To help you narrow down the scope of your users’ expectations, which focus areas should you consider?

Answer 19

• Access
• Engagement
• Customisation
• Communication

Question 20

According to Google’s culture of innovation business principles, what does ‘Think 10X’ mean?

Answer 20

Fundamentally rethink business problems and solutions by a factor of 10.

Question 21

Google defines which principle as “the shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking”?

Answer 21

Team psychological safety.

Question 22

The prototyping effect is the combination of which two google cloud principles?

Answer 22

Psychological safety, and launch and iterate.

Question 23

Outsourcing your IT needs at the infrastructure level is called…?

Answer 23

Infrastructure as a service.