Memory, storage and billing

Question 1

Which data storage service provides data warehouse services for storing data but also offers an interactive SQL interface for querying the data?

Answer 1

BigQuery
It is a data warehousing service that allows the storage of huge data sets while making them immediately processable without having to extract or run the processing in a separate service.

Question 2

Which Google Cloud data storage service offers ACID transactions and can scale globally?

Answer 2

Cloud Spanner
provides ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties that enable transactional reads and writes on the database. It can also scale globally.

Question 3

What data storage service might you select if you just needed to migrate a standard relational database running on a single machine in a datacenter to the cloud?

Answer 3

Cloud SQL offers a PostgreSQL server or a MySQL server as a managed service.

Question 4

How do quotas protect Google Cloud customers?

Answer 4

By preventing uncontrolled consumption of resources.

Question 5

No resources in Google Cloud can be used without being associated with…

Answer 5

A project.

Question 6

A budget is set at $500 and an alert is set at 100%. What happens when the full amount is used?

Answer 6

check
A notification email is sent to the Billing Administrator.

Question 7

Google Cloud’s operations suite integrates several technologies, including monitoring, logging, error reporting, and debugging that are commonly implemented in other environments as separate solutions using separate products. What are key benefits of integration of these services?

Answer 7

Reduces overhead, reduces noise, streamlines use, and fixes problems faster

Question 8

What is the purpose of the Cloud Trace service?

Answer 8

Reporting on latency as part of managing performance.

Question 9

What is the foundational process at the base of Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) ?

Answer 9

Monitoring