Fundamentals Flashcards
To understand the fundamental services provided by Google Cloud.
What is the scope of a GCP VPC?
Global
What is the scope of a subnet on a VPC?
Regional
True/False: If you expand a subnet, existing VMs may be affected.
False
Why would customers choose a preemptible VM?
To reduce cost
How do customers usually scale? Up or out?
Outwards; take advantage of auto-scaling to match the load your workload requires.
What type of load balancer would you use for scaling UDP traffic?
Regional
What types of load balancers only work on specific ports?
SSL-proxy, TCP-proxy, HTTPS-proxy
What type of load balancer would you use to balance internal requests?
Regional Internal
What is cloud DNS
A managed, programmable service that hosts DNS information in redundant locations around the world.
What is required before enabling CDN?
HTTPS load balancing
What ways may a customer connect their on-premises network to a GCP VPC?
Dynamic VPNs via Cloud Router, Direct Peering, Carrier Peering, and Dedicated Interconnect
What is the drawback of peering methods for GCP VPCs?
Peering methods are not covered by Google SLAs
What is the SLA for Google direct interconnect?
99.99%
What are the types of storage classes for Cloud Storage?
Multi-regional, Regional, Nearline, and Coldline
What kind of access does Multi-regional storage give you?
Highest storage price, lowest retrieval costs, and use for multi-regional access to objects, like a website.
What type of storage would you use for blob type data, long term storage? Each object can be accessed via URL.
Cloud Storage
True/False: Storage objects in Cloud Storage are mutable.
False. Storage objects are immutable. New versions overwrite old unless versioning is enabled (disabled by default)
What two key pieces of information are needed for an ACL on Cloud Storage?
Scope: who can perform the actions
Permission: what actions (read/write?)
If you need finer grained security than IAM on Cloud Storage objects, what do you use?
ACL
In addition to Versioning, what feature of Cloud Storage allows you to manage the history of versions?
Cloud Storage lifecycle management policies
True/False: Nearline and Coldline storage in Cloud Storage offers slightly higher data retrieval times than Multi-Regional and Regional
False. All storage access classes offer millisecond access time.
When you have frequently accessed content, what Cloud Storage storage class should you use?
Multi-Regional
When you have data in Cloud Storage to support an App on Compute Engine, VMs, or Kubernetes, what Cloud Storage class should you use?
Regional
How often should you be accessing Nearline storage data?
Once a month or less on average