Google Services

Question 1

What is the purpose of Google Compute Engine?

Answer 1

Creating VM’s, it much like AWS EC2

Question 2

What is the purpose of Google Cloud SQL?

Answer 2

It is a fully-managed MySQL/PostgresSQL database service.

Question 3

What is the purpose of Google Cloud SQL?

Answer 3

It is a fully-managed MySQL/PostgresSQL database service.

Question 4

What is the purpose of Google App Engine?

Answer 4

It is a PaaS platform for running cloud native, highly available and scalable application, it is a PAAS much like AWS Beanstalk.

Question 5

What is the purpose of Google Cloud Kubernetes engine?

Answer 5

What is the purpose of Google Cloud Kubernetes engine?

Question 6

What is Google Cloud Functions?

Answer 6

What is Google Cloud Functions?

Question 7

What is the main unit in GCP used to group resources?

Answer 7

Project

Question 8

Is a project tied to a region?

Answer 8

No, it is independent of the region.

Question 9

If you run an application for 1Hr and 5 min and shut it down, how long are you billed for?

Answer 9

1Hr 5min, GCP is a per min billed platform. AWS and Azure are per hour pricing.

Question 10

To receive discounts on pricing do you have to make an upfront commitment like you do with Azure and AWS using reserved instances?

Answer 10

No, you automatically receive a discount based on sustained usage by aggregating the instance usage over the month.

Question 11

When I store data on GCP do I need to enable encryption for data at rest and in transit?

Answer 11

No, all data in GCP is automatically encrypted for both transit and at rest.

Question 12

What are the big category areas in GCP?

Answer 12

Compute

Compute Engine
Container Engine
Cloud App engine
Cloud Functions

Storage

Cloud storage (Object storage)
Bigtable (Wide column DB)
Cloud SQL (MySQL and Postgres)
Cloud Datastore (Document DB)
Spanner (SQL like DB)

Big data

Pub/Sub (High performance messaging)
Dataflow (ETL)
BigQuery (Data wherehouse, SQL query)
Dataproc
Datalab

Machine Learning
-Vision API
Machine Learning
Speech API
Translate API

Question 13

For GCP what is the structure hierarchy?

Answer 13

Organizations->Folders->Projects-Resources

Question 14

For GCP what is the hierarchy parent of a resource?

Answer 14

Folder

Question 15

Can I attach a Project to two organizations?

Answer 15

No, an project can only be attached to a single organization.

Question 16

Is the project a core organizational component of GCP?

Answer 16

Yes, the project is the core hierarchy component used for,

Permission
Billing
API’s

Question 17

What are the 3 projetc attributes?

Answer 17

Frendly name : ‘keith-project-01’
Project ID: also known as an app ID
Project number: Used to identify resources belong to a project

Question 18

Can you have duplicate project name on GCP?

Answer 18

No the name has to be unique.

Question 19

Can you rename a GCP projetc?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

When you shutdown a GCP project, whne will the project be deleted and gone for ever?

Answer 20

30day from shutdown.

Question 21

How can i restore a projetc form the console screen?

Answer 21

In IAM -> Managed resources -> there is a link resources pending deletion.

Question 22

What are the pricing models on GCP Compute Engine ?

Answer 22

On-Demand - In the On-Demand pricing model, users pay only for the instances they run. This is the standard pricing model for all cloud providers and the base price for all discounted models.

Preemptible VM Instances - GCP provide their spare compute capacity, known as preemptible Instances, at a heavily reduced price. However, GCE might terminate (preempt) these instances if it requires access to those resources for other tasks. Preemptible VMs offer the same machine types and options as regular compute instances and last for up to 24 hours. pricing can be up to 80% less than On-Demand pricing.

Spot Virtual Machines
Spot Virtual Machines (VMs) are highly affordable compute instances suitable for batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads. Spot VMs offer the same machine types, options, and performance as regular compute instances. If your applications are fault tolerant and can withstand possible instance preemptions, then Spot instances can reduce your Compute Engine costs by up to 91%. Unlike Preemptible VMs that can be terminated by GCP for up to 24 hours, Spot VMs do not have this restriction. Spot VMs are currently supported via the Spot API. Learn more in the Google documentation about Spot VMs.

Committed Use Discounts (CUD)
GCE offers a discount of 37-55% in exchange for a long-term commitment. The exact discount depends on the length of commitment (1 or 3 years), the instance type and region.