GCP Overview Flashcards

Introduction to GCP

1
Q

GCP offers which 4 categories of services.

A

Compute
Storage
Big Data
Machine Learning

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2
Q

According to the NIST, cloud computing has the following 5 traits:

A
  • On-demand self-service of computing resources
  • Broad network access
  • Resource pooling
  • Rapid elasticity and expansion
  • Measured service
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3
Q

What technology provided a breakthrough for cloud computing to emerge out of need for efficient resource utilization?

A

Virtualization

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4
Q

Cloud service model that offers raw compute, storage and networking similar data centers

A

IaaS

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5
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Cloud service model that enables application code to be bound to libraries that give access to infrastructure necessary for running the application

A

PaaS

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6
Q

Cloud service model that lets you pay for what you allocate for your application workload

A

IaaS

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7
Q

Service model that lets you pay for what your application uses

A

PaaS

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8
Q

GCP’s network architecture minimizes latency for users accessing applications on its infrastructure using what technique:

A

Edge Caching

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9
Q

GCP pricing model that differs from most cloud providers

A

Pay-per-second

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10
Q

GCP service that controls access to resources

A

IAM

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11
Q

Basis for organizing resources in GCP

A

Projects

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12
Q

Best practice for offering users access working with resources on GCP

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Principle of least privilege

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13
Q

Top-level node in a GCP account

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Organization

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14
Q

Which of these 3 attributes of a project are immutable?

  • Project name
  • Project ID
  • Project number
A
  • Project ID

- Project number

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15
Q

Helps to avoid duplication of policies across different projects

A

Folders

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16
Q

Used in GCP to group roles

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Policy

17
Q

An IAM policy defines the 3 essential attributes

A
  • Who uses the policy
  • What actions can be done (IAM Role)
  • What resources the actions can be performed on
18
Q

Primitive roles in GCP

A
  • Owner
  • Editor
  • Viewer
19
Q

Used to assign roles to a compute engine instance

A

Service account

20
Q

4 ways of interacting GCP Resources

A
  • Console
  • SDK
  • REST API
  • Mobile App
21
Q

Command utility for managing cloud storage

A

gsutil

22
Q

Tool to experiment with GCP REST APIs in web browser

A

API Explorer

23
Q

Use of Cloud Launcher

A

Marketplace for pre-packaged, ready to deploy software solutions