Part 1

Question 1

Disabling billing on a project removes the link to a ___

Answer 1

Billing account

Question 2

A ___ stores a customer’s payment info and billing address

Answer 2

Billing account

Question 3

Billing can be exported to ___ for detailed reporting and visual representation.

Answer 3

BigQuery

Question 4

___ provide customers with the ability to pre-purchase Google Cloud resource usage at a discounted rate.

Answer 4

Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)

Question 5

___ are spend-based commitments that offer predictable and simple flat-rate discounts that apply across multiple VM families and regions.

Answer 5

Flexible CUDs

Question 6

Use ___ to obtain a high level of assurance that virtual machine (VM) instances with the same properties are available in a specific zone when you need them.

Answer 6

Reservations

Question 7

A ___ consists of three or more zones housed in three or more physical data centers.

Answer 7

Region

Question 8

A ___ is a deployment area for Google Cloud resources within a region. A ___ has independent power, cooling, and networking.

Answer 8

Zone

Question 9

___ are limits on the amount of resources a Google Cloud project can use

Answer 9

Resource Quotas

Question 10

Use ___ to protect projects from being accidentally deleted.

Answer 10

Project liens

Question 11

___ is an infrastructure deployment service that automates the creation and management of Google Cloud resources.

Answer 11

Deployment Manager

Question 12

Unlike Cloud Shell, Deployment Manager will deploy resources in ___.

Answer 12

Parallel

Question 13

___ is a set of AI-assisted IDE plugins for popular IDEs that make it easier to create, deploy and integrate applications with Google Cloud.

Answer 13

Cloud Code

Question 14

___ contains integrated solutions vetted by GCP to cover IT needs that aren’t native to Google Cloud.

Answer 14

GCP Marketplace

Question 15

___ is monitoring based on the internals of a system. This includes logs, interfaces, and HTTP handlers. This is good for predicting problems and failures

Answer 15

White-Box Monitoring

Question 16

___ is testing externally visible behavior as a user would experience it and will help find current active problems. Also known as end-to-end monitoring.

Answer 16

Black-Box Monitoring

Question 17

Four golden signals for monitoring

Answer 17

Latency
Errors
Traffic
Saturation

Question 18

___ is the smallest and simplest form of testing. It is used to assess a separable unit of software, such as a class or a function.

Answer 18

Unit Testing

Question 19

___ combines unit tests into larger components to verify that larger components run correctly.

Answer 19

Integration Testing

Question 20

System Testing is for testing end-to-end functionality of your application, and there are several different types:

Answer 20

• Smoke tests (sanity tests) test very simple but critical behavior
• Performance tests ensure that performance stays where it needs to be
• Regression tests test against a known set of bugs to make sure they’re not re-introduced.

Question 21

___ are to test a subset of production servers upgraded with new software and left to incubate for a period of time to discover problems. If there are no problems, release to the rest of the servers. If there are problems, roll those few servers back.

Answer 21

Canary tests

Question 22

___ discover the limits of a system. How full can it get before writes start to fail? Discover when autoscaling kicks in.

Answer 22

Stress/Load Tests

Question 23

___ are hosted, private Git repositories with integrations to GCP and other hosted repos. Can automatically sync from GitHub or Bitbucket.

Answer 23

Cloud Source Repositories

Question 24

___ can import source code from a variety of repositories or cloud storage spaces, execute a build to your specifications, and produce artifacts such as Docker containers or Java archives.

Answer 24

Cloud Build

Question 25

___ provides a single location for storing and managing your packages and Docker container images.

Answer 25

Artifact Registry

Question 26

___ is a fully managed continuous delivery service that is tightly integrated with GKE and the Google Cloud environment. It’s similar to Jenkins.

Answer 26

Cloud Deploy

Question 27

___ handles authorization, monitoring, logging, and API keys for APIs backed by GCP. Based on NGINX (v1) or Envoy (v2), the proxy instances are distributed and connect to Cloud Load Balancer. Uses JWTs for claims and integrates with Firebase.

Answer 27

Cloud Endpoints

Question 28

___ is a full-featured and enterprise-scale API management platform for whole API lifecycle management. Transform calls between different protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, binary, and authenticate via OAuth/SAML/LDAP and RBAC.

Answer 28

Apigee

Question 29

___ is a fully managed service that allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on logging data and events from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

Answer 29

Cloud Logging

Question 30

A ___ strategy is useful when you want to deploy a new version of an application and also ensure that application services remain available while the Deployment is updated.

Answer 30

blue-green deployment