Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

Question 1

What are the 4 GCP Storage options?

Answer 1

Multi-regional, Regional, Nearline, and Coldline

Question 2

What is durability for GCS?

Answer 2

The durability is 99.999999999% for all storage class types.

Question 3

What is the availability for Multi-regional Storage?

Answer 3

99.95%

Question 4

What is the availability for Regional Storage?

Answer 4

99.90%

Question 5

What is the availability for Nearline Storage?

Answer 5

99.00%

Question 6

What is the availability for Coldine Storage?

Answer 6

99.00%

Question 7

What is the use case for Multi-regional Storage?

Answer 7

Web content, streaming videos, mobile apps

Question 8

What is the use case for Regional Storage?

Answer 8

In-region data analytics, transcoding

Question 9

What is the use case for Nearline Storage?

Answer 9

Backups, long-tail content

Question 10

What is the use case for Coldline Storage?

Answer 10

Archiving, disaster recovery

Question 11

What is the use case for Cloud Storage?

Answer 11

To store files, pictures, binary large objects (blobs). This is also called object storage. It is just like a typical file systems with folders that have access permissions to them.

Question 12

What is the use case for Cloud SQL?

Answer 12

Relational database service on GCP. Can be used for No-ops? SQL database in the cloud

Question 13

What is the use case for Datastore?

Answer 13

NoSQL database for applications. Use for structured data from AppEngine apps.

Question 14

What is the use case for BigTable?

Answer 14

NoSQL database for big data applications. No-ops?, high throughput, scalable, flattened data

Question 15

What is the use case for BigQuery

Answer 15

Interactive SQL querying fully managed warehouse