Google Cloud Digital Leader Practice Exam (2022.09.15)

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Google Cloud Certified – Google Cloud Digital Leader Practice Exam (Q 50)

Question 51

Your organization wants to optimize its use of Google Cloud’s discounts on virtual machine-based workloads.
You plan to use 200 CPUs constantly for the next 3 years, and you forecast that spikes of up to 300 CPUs will occur approximately 30% of the time. What should you choose?

• A. 1-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs.
• B. 3-year committed use discount for 300 CPUs.
• C. 3-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs.
• D. Regular pay-as-you-go pricing

Correct Answer: C

Reference:
– Keep Google Cloud networking costs in check | Google Cloud Blog
– ネットワーク コスト最適化のベスト プラクティス | Google Cloud Blog

Question 52

Your organization needs to minimize how much it pays for data traffic from the Google network to the internet.
What should your organization do?

• A. Choose the Standard network service tier.
• B. Choose the Premium network service tier.
• C. Deploy Cloud VPN.
• D. Deploy Cloud NAT.

Correct Answer: A

Reference:
– Network Service Tiers – Custom Cloud Network | Google Cloud

Question 53

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

Correct Answer: B

Question 54

Your company security team manages access control to production systems using an LDAP directory group.
How is this access control managed in the Google Cloud production project?

• A. Assign the proper role to the Service Account in the project’s IAM Policy.
• B. Grant each user the roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role on a service account that exists in the Google Group.
• C. Assign the proper role to the Google Group in the project’s IAM Policy.
• D. Create the project in a folder with the same name as the LDAP directory group.

Correct Answer: C

Reference:
– Identity and security: Identity and access governance | Google Cloud Blog
– Google Cloud で ID とアクセスのガバナンス（IAG）を実現 | Google Cloud Blog

Question 55

Your organization wants to be sure that is expenditures on cloud services are in line with the budget.
Which two Google Cloud cost management features help your organization gain greater visibility into its cloud resource costs? (Choose two.)

• A. Billing dashboards
• B. Resource labels
• C. Sustained use discounts
• D. Financial governance policies
• E. Payments profile

Correct Answer: A, B

Reference:
– Cost Management | Google Cloud

Question 56

Your organization needs to process large amounts of data from an online application that operates continuously.
You do not want to be required to provision infrastructure or create server clusters.
What should your organization choose?

• A. Compute Engine with BigQuery
• B. Dataproc
• C. Google Kubernetes Engine with Cloud Bigtable
• D. Dataflow

Correct Answer: D

Question 57

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.

Correct Answer: B

Reference:
– Quickstart: Set up Cloud Identity as a Google Cloud admin

Question 58

Your organization is defining the resource hierarchy for its new application in Google Cloud.
You need separate development and production environments. The production environment will be deployed in Compute Engine in two regions.
Which structure should your organization choose?

• A. Create a single project for all environments. Use labels to segregate resources by environment.
• B. Create a single project for all environments. Use tags to segregate resources by environment.
• C. Create one project for the development environment and one project for the production environment.
• D. Create two projects for the development environment and two projects for the production environment (one for each region).

Correct Answer: C

Reference:
– Creating and managing Folders | Resource Manager Documentation | Google Cloud

Question 59

Your organization meant to purchase a 3-year Committed Use Discount, but accidentally purchased a 1-year Committed Use Discount instead.
What should your organization do?

• A. Contact your financial institution.
• B. Contact Trust and Safety.
• C. Contact Cloud Billing Support.
• D. Contact Technical Support.

Correct Answer: C

Reference:
– Committed use discounts #Canceling a commitment | Compute Engine Documentation | Google Cloud

Question 60

Your organization needs to allow a production job to have access to a BigQuery dataset.
The production job is running on a Compute Engine instance that is part of an instance group.
What should be included in the IAM Policy on the BigQuery dataset?

• A. The Compute Engine instance group.
• B. The project that owns the Compute Engine instance.
• C. The Compute Engine service account.
• D. The Compute Engine instance.

Correct Answer: C

Question 61

Your team is publishing research results and needs to make large amounts of data available to other researchers within the professional community and the public at minimum cost.
How should you host the data?

• A. Use a Cloud Storage bucket and enable Requester Pays.
• B. Use a Cloud Storage bucket and provide Signed URLs for the data files.
• C. Use a Cloud Storage bucket and set up a Cloud Interconnect connection to allow access to the data.
• D. Host the data on-premises, and set up a Cloud Interconnect connection to allow access to the data.

Correct Answer: A

Reference:
– Requester Pays #Use and access requirements | Cloud Storage | Google Cloud

Question 62

Your company needs to segment Google Cloud resources used by each team from the others. The teams’ efforts are changing frequently, and you need to reduce operational risk and maintain cost visibility. Which approach does Google recommend?

• A. One project per team.
• B. One organization per team.
• C. One project that contains all of each team’s resources.
• D. One top-level folder per team.

Correct Answer: A

Question 63

How do Migrate for Compute Engine and Migrate for Anthos differ?

• A. Unlike Migrate for Anthos, Migrate for Compute Engine assumes that the migration source is VMware vSphere.
• B. Migrate for Compute Engine charges for ingress, but Migrate for Anthos does not.
• C. Migrate for Compute Engine is closed source, and Migrate for Anthos is open source.
• D. Migrate for Anthos migrates to containers, and Migrate for Compute Engine migrates to virtual machines.

Correct Answer: D

Reference:
– Migrate to Containers architecture | Google Cloud

Question 64

Your large and frequently changing organization’s user information is stored in an on-premises LDAP database. The database includes user passwords and group and organization membership.
How should your organization provision Google accounts and groups to access Google Cloud resources?

• A. Replicate the LDAP infrastructure on Compute Engine.
• B. Use the Firebase Authentication REST API to create users.
• C. Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to create users.
• D. Use the Identity Platform REST API to create users.

Correct Answer: C

Reference:
– Federating Google Cloud with Active Directory | Identity and access management

Question 65

Your organization recently migrated its compute workloads to Google Cloud.
You want these workloads in Google Cloud to privately and securely access your large volume of on-premises data, and you also want to minimize latency.
What should your organization do?

• A. Use Storage Transfer Service to securely make your data available to Google Cloud.
• B. Create a VPC between your on-premises data center and your Google resources.
• C. Peer your on-premises data center to Google’s Edge Network.
• D. Use Transfer Appliance to securely make your data available to Google Cloud.

Correct Answer: C

Reference:
– Understanding Google Cloud network edge points | Google Cloud Blog
– Google Edge Network
– Google Cloud ネットワークの「エッジ」について | Google Cloud Blog

Question 66

Your organization consists of many teams.
Each team has many Google Cloud projects. Your organization wants to simplify the management of identity and access policies for these projects.
How can you group these projects to meet this goal?

• A. Group each team’s projects into a separate domain.
• B. Assign labels based on the virtual machines that are part of each team’s projects.
• C. Use folders to group each team’s projects.
• D. Group each team’s projects into a separate organization node.

Correct Answer: C

Question 67

An organization needs to categorize text-based customer reviews on their website using a pre-trained machine learning model.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

• A. Cloud Natural Language API
• B. Dialogflow
• C. Recommendations AI
• D. TensorFlow

Correct Answer: A

Question 68

An organization is planning its cloud expenditure.
What should the organization do to control costs?

• A. Consider cloud resource costs as capital expenditure in annual planning.
• B. Use only cloud resources; they have no cloud infrastructure costs.
• C. Review cloud resource costs frequently because costs depend on usage.
• D. Assess cloud resources costs only when SLO is not met by their cloud provider.

Correct Answer: C

Question 69

An organization is searching for an open-source machine learning platform to build and deploy their own custom machine learning applications using TPUs.
Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

• A. TensorFlow
• B. BigQuery ML
• C. Vision API
• D. AutoML Vision

Correct Answer: A

Question 70

What is an example of unstructured data that organizations can capture from social media?

• A. Post comments
• B. Tagging
• C. Profile picture
• D. Location

Correct Answer: A

Reference:
– Structured vs Unstructured Data 101: Top Guide | Datamation

Question 71

An organization relies on online seasonal sales for the majority of their annual revenue.
Why should the organization use App Engine for their customer app?

• A. Automatically adjusts physical inventory in real time.
• B. Autoscales during peaks in demand.
• C. Runs maintenance during seasonal sales.
• D. Recommends the right products to customers.

Correct Answer: B

Question 72

An organization is using machine learning to make predictions.
One of their datasets mistakenly includes mislabeled data.
How will the prediction be impacted?

• A. Increased risk of privacy leaks.
• B. Increased risk of inaccuracy.
• C. Decreased model compatibility.
• D. Decreased model training time.

Correct Answer: B

Question 73

A global organization is developing an application to manage payments and online bank accounts in multiple regions.
Each transaction must be handled consistently in their database, and they anticipate almost unlimited growth in the amount of data stored.
Which Google Cloud product should the organization choose?

• A. Cloud SQL
• B. Cloud Spanner
• C. Cloud Storage
• D. BigQuery

Correct Answer: B

Question 74

An organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on-premises around the world.
They want to modernize their infrastructure with a multi-cloud architecture.
What benefit could the organization experience?

• A. Ability to disable regional network connectivity during cyber attacks.
• B. Ability to keep backups of their data on-premises in case of failure.
• C. Full management access to their regional infrastructure.
• D. Reduced likelihood of system failure during high demand events.

Correct Answer: D

Question 75

An organization needs to run frequent updates for their business app.
Why should the organization use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?

• A. Customer expectations can be adjusted without using marketing tools.
• B. Seamless changes can be made without causing any application downtime.
• C. GKE handles version control seamlessly and out of the box.
• D. GKE is well suited for all monolithic applications.

Correct Answer: B

Question 76

An organization wants to use Apigee to manage all their application programming interfaces (APIs).
What will Apigee enable the organization to do?

• A. Increase application privacy
• B. Measure and track API performance
• C. Analyze application development speed
• D. Market and sell APIs

Correct Answer: B

Reference:
– Apigee API Management | Google Cloud

Question 77

An e-commerce organization is reviewing their cloud data storage.
What type of raw data can they store in a relational database without any processing?

• A. Product inventory
• B. Product photographs
• C. Instructional videos
• D. Customer chat history

Correct Answer: A

Question 78

A hotel wants to modernize their legacy systems so that customers can make reservations through a mobile app.
What’s the benefit of using an application programming interface (API) to do this?

• A. They do not have to develop the end-user application.
• B. They can deprecate their legacy systems.
• C. They can transform their systems to be cloud-native.
• D. They do not have to rewrite the legacy system.

Correct Answer: D

Question 79

An organization wants to digitize and share large volumes of historical text and images.
Why is a public cloud a better option than an on-premises solution?

• A. In-house hardware management
• B. Provides physical encryption key
• C. Cost-effective at scale
• D. Optimizes capital expenditure

Correct Answer: C

Question 80

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.

Correct Answer: B

Question 81

Which technology allows organizations to run multiple computer operating systems on a single piece of physical hardware?

• A. Hypervisor
• B. Containers
• C. Serverless computing
• D. Open source

Correct Answer: A

Question 82

An organization is making a strategic change to customer support in response to feedback.
They plan to extend their helpline availability hours.
Why is the organization making this change?

• A. Users expect professional expertise.
• B. Users require personalization.
• C. Users expect always-on services.
• D. Users require regional access.

Correct Answer: C

Question 83

An organization is migrating their business applications from on-premises to the cloud.
How could this impact their operations and personnel costs?

• A. Reduced on-premises infrastructure management costs.
• B. Increased on-premises hardware maintenance costs.
• C. Reduced cloud software licensing costs.
• D. Increased cloud hardware management costs.

Correct Answer: A

Question 84

A retail company stores their product inventory in a legacy system.
Often, customers find products on the company’s website and want to purchase them in-store. However, when they arrive, they discover that the products are out of stock.
How could the company benefit from using an application programming interface (API)?

• A. To create personalized product recommendations for customers.
• B. To optimize their on-premises legacy system stability.
• C. By manually linking each inventory system to the website on a case-by-case basis.
• D. By programmatically connecting the inventory system to their website.

Correct Answer: D

Question 85

An organization is training a machine learning model to predict extreme weather events in their country.
How should they collect data to maximize prediction accuracy?

• A. Collect all weather data evenly across all cities.
• B. Collect all weather data primarily from at-risk cities.
• C. Collect extreme weather data evenly across all cities.
• D. Collect extreme weather data primarily from at-risk cities.

Correct Answer: A

Question 86

An organization needs to search an application’s source code to identify a potential issue.
The application is distributed across multiple containers.
Which Google Cloud product should the organization use?

• A. Google Cloud Console
• B. Cloud Trace
• C. Cloud Monitoring
• D. Cloud Logging

Correct Answer: B

Question 87

An organization’s web developers and operations personnel use different systems.
How will increasing communication between the teams reduce issues caused by silos?

• A. By assigning blame for failures and establishing consequences.
• B. By combining job role responsibilities to ensure that everyone has shared access.
• C. By increasing data encryption to strengthen workflows.
• D. By emphasizing shared ownership of business outcomes.

Correct Answer: D

Question 88

How does a large hotel chain benefit from storing their customer reservation data in the cloud?

• A. On-premises hardware access to transaction data.
• B. Real-time data transformation at scale within an on-premises database.
• C. Real-time business transaction accuracy at scale.
• D. Physical hardware access during peak demand.

Correct Answer: C

Question 89

An organization wants to migrate legacy applications currently hosted in their data center to the cloud.
The current architecture dictates that each application needs its own operating system (OS) instead of sharing an OS.
Which infrastructure solution should they choose?

• A. Virtual machines
• B. Open source
• C. Serverless computing
• D. Containers

Correct Answer: A

Question 90

An organization operates their entire IT infrastructure from Google Cloud.
What should they do to prepare for data breaches?

• A. Reduce reliance on multi-factor authentication.
• B. Data security is Google’s responsibility, so preparation is minimal.
• C. Create an incident plan to mitigate impacts.
• D. Strengthen their data center perimeter security.

Correct Answer: C

Question 91

An organization wants to transform multiple types of structured and unstructured data in the cloud from various sources.
The data must be readily accessible for analysis and insights.
Which cloud data storage system should the organization use?

• A. Relational database
• B. Private data center
• C. Data field
• D. Data warehouse

Correct Answer: D

Reference:
– What is a Data Warehouse? | Google Cloud

Question 92

An organization wants to use all available data to offer predictive suggestions on their website that improve over time.
Which method should the organization use?

• A. Data automation
• B. Trends analysis
• C. Machine learning
• D. Multiple regression

Correct Answer: C

Question 93

After rolling out a new update, an organization found a minor bug in its online video game.
How should the organization approach this bug while following SRE principles?

• A. Accept and learn from the bug because failure is normal.
• B. Accept and ignore the bug because it is only minor.
• C. Hold a postmortem to reprimand the employee responsible for the bug.
• D. Document bug correction to eliminate all future bugs.

Correct Answer: A

Question 94

Why do organizations often struggle to scale their on-premises application infrastructure?

• A. Scaling compute instances could breach compliance and/or regulation.
• B. Increasing compute capacity is time-consuming and costly.
• C. Their serverless compute functions struggle to meet the demand.
• D. Their multi-cloud architecture is complex and expensive.

Correct Answer: B

Question 95

An organization wants to use BigQuery data analytics to understand their website performance, but wants to move only some data into the cloud.
Which environment should the organization use?

• A. Private cloud
• B. On-premises
• C. Multi-cloud
• D. Hybrid cloud

Correct Answer: D

Question 96

What is logging within the context of cloud technology?

• A. Writing application and operating system events as text.
• B. Monitoring network and resource limitations.
• C. Tracking source code across an organization.
• D. Recording infrastructure and hardware expenditure.

Correct Answer: A

Question 97

How does Cloud SQL help organizations create business insights?

• A. Integrates with business intelligence and analytics platforms.
• B. Generates predictions using machine learning models.
• C. Generates real-time charts and intelligent analytics.
• D. Transforms business data from unstructured to structured.

Correct Answer: A

Reference:
– Use Query insights to improve query performance | Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL | Google Cloud

Question 98

An organization recently launched a virtual customer support agent, generating vast amounts of text and speech data.
Why should they use a cloud data warehouse to interpret this data?

• A. To natively visualize both types of data using a dashboard in real time.
• B. To ingest and analyze structured and unstructured data at scale, in real time.
• C. To secure data transmission between cloud and on-premises environments.
• D. To transform data from structured to unstructured.

Correct Answer: B

Question 99

An organization wants to add a new function to their application.
They want to write the code and let the public cloud provider handle the infrastructure.
Which infrastructure solution should they use?

• A. Virtual machines
• B. Bare Metal Solution
• C. Serverless computing
• D. Container Registry

Correct Answer: C

Question 100

An organization wants to leverage tooling and automation as part of its new DevOps philosophy.
Which operational challenge will this resolve?

• A. Repetitive manual tasks that hinder workflows.
• B. Time-consuming supervision of creative tasks.
• C. Distribution and supply-chain issues.
• D. Defective technical equipment that limits innovation.

Correct Answer: A