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Question 1
A vacation home rental organization wants to predict the popularity of properties in their upcoming busy season. They do not have a data science team, and want to use their in-house database administration skills to create a machine learning model. What should the organization do?
A. Use custom training in Vertex AI with TensorFlow
B. Integrate pre-trained APIs into their application
C. Use BigQuery ML and create models using SQL
D. Build a model in AutoML using labeled data
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Correct Answer:
C. Use BigQuery ML and create models using SQL
Question 2
How does Google Cloud AI Hub make machine learning easy and accessible for Google Cloud customers to get started?
A. It deploys artificial intelligence models in real time
B. It automatically codes users’ machine learn ng models
C. It automatically sources and prepares users’ machine learning data
D. It includes a repository of plug-and-play artificial intelligence tools
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Correct Answer:
D. It includes a repository of plug-and-play artificial intelligence tools
Question 3
An organization is considering the use of managed services when migrating to the cloud. Which routine tasks are typically provided automatically by a managed services platform?
A. Managing user access
B. Patching and upgrades
C. Data archiving
D. Cost optimization
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Correct Answer:
B. Patching and upgrades
Question 4
Your organization needs to ensure that the Google Cloud resources of each of your departments are segregated from one another. Each department has several environments of its own: development, testing, and production. Which strategy should your organization choose?
A. Create a project per department, and create a folder per environment in each project
B. Create a folder per department, and create a project per environment in each folder
C. Create a Cloud Identity domain per department, and create a project per environment in each domain
D. Create a Cloud Identity domain per environment, and create a project per department in each domain
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Correct Answer:
B. Create a folder per department, and create a project per environment in each folder
Question 5
Your organization runs a distributed application in the Compute Engine virtual machines. Your organization needs redundancy, but it also needs extremely fast communication (less than 10 milliseconds) between the parts of the application in different virtual machines. Where should your organization locate this virtual machines?
A. In a single zone within a single region
B. In different zones within a single region
C. In multiple regions, using one zone per region
D. In multiple regions, using multiple zones per region
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Correct Answer:
B. In different zones within a single region
Question 6
Your organization wants to migrate your on-premises environment to Google Cloud. The on-premises environment consists of containers and virtual machine instances. Which Google Cloud products can help to migrate the container images and the virtual machine disks?
A. Compute Engine and Filestore
B. Artifact Registry and Cloud Storage
C. Dataflow and BigQuery
D. Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage
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Correct Answer:
B. Artifact Registry and Cloud Storage
Question 7
What is monitoring within the context of cloud operations?
A. Observing cloud expenditure in real time to ensure that budgets are not exceeded
B. Collecting predefined and custom metrics from applications and infrastructure
C. Tracking user activities to guarantee compliance with privacy regulations
D. Tracing user location to document regional access and utilization
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Correct Answer:
B. Collecting predefined and custom metrics from applications and infrastructure
Question 8
How do out-of-the-box APIs make artificial intelligence and machine learning more accessible for all Google Cloud customers?
A. They don't require technical specialists
B. They don't require data input and validation
C. They require fewer security permissions
D. They all require custom training models
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Correct Answer:
A. They don't require technical specialists
Question 9
An organization needs protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?
A. Google Cloud Armor
B. Cloud Build
C. Cloud VPN
D. Security Command Center
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Correct Answer:
A. Google Cloud Armor
Question 10
An organization has a large dataset that contains text transcripts of conversations between their customers and service representatives. They want an automated solution to identify the topics their customers care most about. Which service should the organization use?
A. Vision API
B. Speech-to-Text API
C. Cloud Translation API
D. Natural Language API
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Correct Answer:
D. Natural Language API
Question 11
An organization has petabytes of data gathered from a wide range of sources. They want to use the data for strategic analysis and to guide business decisions. What type of service should they use?
A. Object store
B. Non-relational document database
C. Data warehouse
D. Relational transactional database
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Correct Answer:
C. Data warehouse
Question 12
What is the benefit of using a unified cloud data solution?
A. Data will always cost less to store
B. Data can be automatically secured from external threats
C. Data will always be backed up and cannot be lost or deleted
D. Data can enable innovation because it's no longer siloed
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Correct Answer:
D. Data can enable innovation because it's no longer siloed
Question 13
An organization wants to ingest custom log data from GKE environments, virtual machines, and Google Cloud services. Which Google Cloud tool should the organization use?
A. Dialogflow
B. Cloud Logging
C. Cloud SDK
D. Data Catalog
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Correct Answer:
B. Cloud Logging
Question 14
An organization is concerned about the unlikely event that Google Cloud infrastructure is physically accessed by someone with malicious intent. How is data protected in Google Cloud?
A. Data is immediately deleted whenever an intrusion is detected
B. Data is stored on quantum computers with unbreakable encryption
C. Data is stored using robust encryption
D. Data is stored in random locations around the world to prevent it being found
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Correct Answer:
C. Data is stored using robust encryption
Question 15
An organization wants a centralized view of their cloud infrastructure in a fully managed system that includes uptime checks. Which Google Cloud service should they use?
A. Cloud Trace
B. Cloud Monitoring
C. Cloud Logging
D. Cloud Profiler
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Correct Answer:
B. Cloud Monitoring
Question 16
An organization is operating multiple workloads in containers and requires full control of how the workloads are configured. Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?
A. Cloud Run
B. Compute Engine
C. Kubernetes Engine
D. Cloud Functions
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Correct Answer:
C. Kubernetes Engine
Question 17
An organization wants to develop an application that can be personalized to user preferences throughout the year. Why should they build a cloud-native application instead of modernizing their existing on-premises application?
A. Developers can rely on the cloud provider for all source code
B. Developers can launch new features in an agile way
C. IT managers can migrate existing application architecture without needing updates
D. IT managers can accelerate capital expenditure planning
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Correct Answer:
B. Developers can launch new features in an agile way
Question 18
An organization wants a serverless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services. They can't predict how many resources they'll need. Which Google Cloud solution should they use?
A. Compute Engine
B. Google Kubernetes Engine
C. Cloud Functions
D. Bare Metal Solution for SAP
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Correct Answer:
C. Cloud Functions
Question 19
As your organization increases its release velocity, the VM-based application upgrades take a long time to perform rolling updates due to OS boot times. You need to make the application deployments faster. What should your organization do?
A. Migrate your VMs to the cloud, and add more resources to them
B. Convert your applications into containers
C. Increase the resources of your VMs
D. Automate your upgrade rollouts
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Correct Answer:
B. Convert your applications into containers
Question 20
What is a defining function of streaming analytics?
A. Processing data records continuously
B. Processing data records in batches
C. Processing a one-off data backfill
D. Accessing data with high latency
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Correct Answer:
A. Processing data records continuously
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