M1 - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Question 1

What are the 5 equally important traits of Cloud Computing from Google’s perspective?

Answer 1

1) Customers get computing resources that are on -demand and self-service.
2) Customers get access to those resources over the internet, from anywhere.
3) The provider of those resources allocates them to users out of that pool.
4) The resources are elastic–which means they’re flexible, so customers can be.
5) Customers pay only for what they use, or reserve as they go.

Question 2

What are the three waves described in the history of Cloud Computing?

Answer 2

First -Colocation
Second - Virtualized Data Center
Third - Container Based Architecture

Question 3

IaaS delivers__________

Answer 3

delivers on-demand infrastructure resources via the cloud, such as raw compute, storage network capabilities.

Question 4

_____________bind code to libraries that provide access to the
infrastructure application needs. This allows more resources to be focused on application logic.

Answer 4

PaaS

Question 5

___________ deploy containerized microservices based application in a fully - managed environment.

Answer 5

Cloud Run

Question 6

________________manages event-driven code as a pay-as-you go service.

Answer 6

Cloud Run Functions

Question 7

_________provides the entire application stack, delivering an entire cloud-based application that customers can access and use.

Answer 7

SaaS - All the google applications that are part of the google workspace environment are examples of SaaS.

Question 8

Google Infrastructure locations

Answer 8

North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia.

Question 9

___________ measures the time a packet of information takes to travel from its source to its destination.

Answer 9

Latency

Question 10

_____________represent independent geographic areas, and are composed of zones. For
example, London, or europe-west2, is a __________that currently comprises three different
zones.

Answer 10

Regions

Question 11

Google Cloud currently supports _____zones in ___regions, although this number is
increasing all the time.

Answer 11

121
40

Question 12

Google’s data centers
were the first to achieve
___________certification

Answer 12

ISO 14001

Question 13

The hardware infrastructure layer comprises three key Infrastructure features:

Answer 13

1) Hardware design and provenance.
2) Secure boost stack.
3) Premises security.

Question 14

The service deployment level comprises:

Answer 14

Encryption of inner-service communication.

Question 15

What does encryption of inter-service communication mean?

Answer 15

Google’s infrastructure provides cryptographic privacy and integrity for remote procedure call (“RPC”) data on the network. Google’s services communicate with each other using RPC calls. The
infrastructure automatically encrypts all infrastructure RPC traffic which goes between data centers. Google has started to deploy hardware cryptographic accelerators that will allow it to extend this default encryption to all infrastructure RPC
traffic inside Google data centers.

Question 16

User identitiy layer

Answer 16

Intelligently challenges users for additional
information based on certain risk factors.
Users can use secondary factors when signing in,
including Factor (U2F) open standard.

Question 17

Storage services layer

Answer 17

Encryption at rest.
Using centrally managed keys, encryption is
applied at the layer of these storage services.
Google also enables hardware encryption support in hard drives and SSDs.

Question 18

The internet communication layer is comprised by:

Answer 18

Google front end and Denial of Service protection.

Question 19

The Google operational security layer is comprised by:

Answer 19

Intrusion detection, reducing insider risk, employee Universal Scond factor user, software development practices.

Question 20

Whats is Google frontend/whats its function?

Answer 20

Google Front end ensures that all registered services use TLS connections incorporating the correct certificates and following best practices. Google frontend is an Infrastructure service.

Question 21

What is Denial of Service (DoS) protection?

Answer 21

The one technology that reduces the risk of any DoS impact of an application running behind GFE.

Question 22

_____________ and ________________ give the ability to mix and match microservices running across different clouds.

Answer 22

Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Question 23

______________________ lets customer monitor workloads across multiple cloud providers.

Answer 23

Google Cloud Observability.

Question 24

When it comes to GCP billing, there are two types of quotas (both applied at the project level) these are:

Answer 24

rate quotas and allocation quotas.

Question 25

__________quotas reset after a specific time.

Answer 25

Rate

Question 26

___________quotas govern the number of resources you can have in your
projects. For example, by default, each Google Cloud project has a quota
allowing it no more than 15 Virtual Private Cloud networks.

Answer 26

Allocation