Google Cloud Leader Flashcards
What are the Google Cloud Solution Pillars?
Answer:
1) Infrastructure modernization
2) Business applications platform portfolio
3) Application modernization
4) Database and storage solutions
5) Smart analytics
6) Artificial intelligence
7) Security
What is Infrastructure modernization (pillar)?
Answer:
Google offers flexible infrastructure modernization approaches. Once companies have modernized their infrastructure, they can leverage the innovation built into GCP technology.
What is Business applications platform portfolio (pillar)?
Answer:
With GCP’s business application platforms portfolio, businesses can securely unlick their data with APIs, automating processes and creating applications across clouds and on-premises without coding.
What is Application modernization (pillar)?
Answer:
Businesses can better serve their users through application modernization. The tools within this pillar help businesses develop and run applications anywhere.
What is Database and storage solutions (pillar)?
Answer:
GCP database and storage solutions include tools to help businesses migrate and manage enterprise data with security, reliability, high availability, and fully managed data services.
What is Smart analytics (pillar)?
Answer:
The smart analytics portfolio helps businesses generate instant insights from data at any scale with a serverless, fully managed analytics platform.
What is Artificial Intelligence (pillar)?
Answer:
GCP tools built to enhance innovation and improve productivity by integrating seamlessly into a company’s existing workflow and products.
What is Security (pillar)?
Answer:
GCP security solutions cover all aspects of protecting your business. Businesses are able to detect, investigate, and protect themselves against online threats before attacks result in damage or loss.
What is the Google Cloud Adoption Framework?
Answer:
A best practice guide the provides a framework to assess where an organization is in its journey and what they need to do next.
What are the six focus areas for transforming culture?
Answer:
1) Talent
2) Environment
3) Structure
4) Strategy
5) Empowerment
6) Innovation
What is the “Talent” pillar for transforming culture?
Answer: Talent refers to a “holistic view” of the people that make up an organization. It covers the entire lifecycle from attracting, to hiring, to nurturing, to retaining, to celebrating, and growing the talent.
What is the “Environment” pillar for transforming culture?
Answer:
The ability of people to thrive in an organization–especially during major changes–is
connected to their work environment.
What is the “Structure” pillar for transforming culture?
Answer:
Structure is a blueprint for how certain programs and tasks are grouped and how
the people managing them are led toward a common goal.
What is the “Strategy” pillar for transforming culture?
Answer:
Strategy is how you align
people to your organization’s
purpose or mission.
What is the “Empowerment” pillar for transforming culture?
Answer: Empowerment means enabling employees by giving them access to relevant information and encouraging them to use it to take initiative to solve problems and improve the business.
What is the “Innovation” pillar for transforming culture?
Answer: Innovation is central to embracing new technology. Innovation is about doing something in a surprisingly new way, or discovering something entirely new that adds value.
Innovation, can’t be owned or ordained. But you can create the environment and right conditions for innovation to evolve organically
What are Google’s three simple rules to help nurture and scale a culture of innovation?
Answer: 1) Focus on the user --Focus on the user has two dimensions: 01 Who they are—paying customers, those outside the business and employees. 02 What they expect
2) Think 10X
–10X thinking is about generating big
ideas. It’s about transformation over
improvement and using technology
to achieve that transformation.
Improvement projects help make
things better by perhaps 10%.
3) Launch and iterate
–Launch and iterate is both a mindset and a practice where, instead of starting off with a perfect
solution, you figure it out through experimentations.
