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What is Compliance Report Manager ?

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Website where you can download PDFs of Google’s certifications (such as SOC, GDPR etc)

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What is Cloud Armor?

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DDoS protection + WAF

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What is Security Command Center?

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centralized security platform

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Which service allows browsing through internal enterprise solutions?

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Service Catalogue (former Private Catalogue)

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What is the Resource Hierarchy in GCP?

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  • Organization (with domain as identifier)
  • Folders
  • Projects

Use Labels for further differentiation.

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AI Infrastructure services

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  • AI Infrasturcture (orchestrate compute across CPUs, GPUs, TPUs)
  • Cloud GPUs
  • Cloud TPUs
  • DL Containers
  • DL VMs
  • TensorFlow Enterprise
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How to make sure Data Residency & Compliance Boundries ?

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Use “Assured Workloads”

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What is Knative?

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Abstraction above K8s: Focus on code instead of setting up deployments, services etc

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What is Cloud Run?

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Fully managed environment for running containerized Apps

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What is the Shared Responsibility Model?

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Responsibility IN the cloud: If you can configure it, you are responsible

Responsibility OF the cloud: If you cant configure it, Google is responsible

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What is CAPEX and OPEX

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CAPEX = Capital Expenditure
OPEX = Operational Expenditure

WHen adopting Cloud you move from CAPEX (buying physical infrastructure) to OPEX

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What is Elasticity in the Cloud?

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Scale up or down depending on demand

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What is Failover?

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Plan to shift traffic to a redundant system if primary fails

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What are main features of App Engine?

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  • Fully managed, PaaS
  • Supports common languages like Java, Go, Python
  • Versioning of Services
  • Traffic Splitting (across versions) for A/B testing, graduate rollout etc
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Which environments exist for App Engine?

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Standard ( = serverless)

Flexible ( = fully managed containers)

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What is the Standard env in App Engine?

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  • Deploy & Startup in seconds
  • For rapid scaling
  • Can scale to 0
  • No Custom Runtime, SSH or Background processes
  • Pricing based on instance hours
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What is the Flexible env in App Engine?

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  • Deploy & Statup in minutes
  • For consistent traffic
  • Custom Runtimes (Containers)
  • SSH
  • Background processes
  • Pricing based on CPUS, memory, disk
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What are semi-structured and unstructured data?

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Semi-structured: JSON, Email

Unstructured: Text, Video

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What is a Data Lake?

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Store large amounts of raw data of any type, including unstructured.

(Data Warehouses are mostly for structured data)

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What are the core Data Products in GCP?

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  • Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Spanner
  • Bigtable
  • Firestore
  • Cloud Storage
  • BigQuery
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When use Firestore vs BigTable?

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Use Firestore when you need a flexible, scalable NoSQL database that supports real-time synchronization and offline capabilities.
Ideal for mobile and web applications.

Use Bigtable when you need a high-throughput, low-latency database for large-scale analytical and operational workloads.
Good for time-series data or IoT applications.

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What is Datastream?

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Service to stream and synch data from SQL databases into GCP databases (SQL, Spanner, BigQuery)

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What is Looker?

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BI Tool to analyse and visualize data.
Support connections to BigQUery and dozens of other SQL databases.

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Which service can be used for ingesting stream events, e.g. from gaming or IOT?

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What are 4 options to develop ML models?
- BigQuery ML - Pre-trained APIs (Vision API, Natural Language API...) - Auto ML (No code solution) - Vertex AI (for custom training)
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Which AI solutions exists on GCP?
- Conversational AI - Contact Center AI - Document AI - Discovery for Retail - Cloud Talent Solution
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Which product help with Rehosting workloads to GCP?
VMware Engine for VMware workloads Bare Metal solution for Oracle workloads
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Spot VMs vs preemptible VMs
Spot VMs are newer and have more features like running more than 24h
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Which migration services exist?
- Migrate to VMs - Migrate to Containers - Anthos / GKE Enterprise - Database Migration Service - BigQuery Transfer Service - Transfer Appliances - Cloud Storage Transfer Service
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Which ETL tools exist on GCP?
1. Dataproc Managed Apache Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Presto and more 2. Dataflow Fully Managed batch & Streaming pipelines based on Apache Beam 3. Cloud Data Fusion No-code, drag-and-drop tool for ETL pipelines
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How to configure Compute Engine if you plan to run Containers?
Container Optimized OS for Compute Engine
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How can seperate projects communicate with each other?
Use "VPC Peering" or "Shared VPC"
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SLI vs SLO vs SLA
SLI = Specific metric like uptime, error rate SLO = Goal for a system = Number + SLI like 99% Uptime SLA = Multiple SLOs plus legal terms like refunds
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Which Operations Suite services are there?
Cloud Monitoring Logging Error Reporting Cloud Trace Cloud Debugger Cloud Profiler
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What APM (Application Performance Managment) services are in the Operations Suite?
Cloud Debugger Cloud Trace Cloud Profiler
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What is the core data of a project?
Name = You choose (can be changes) ID -> You or Google choose Project Number -> Google chooses ID is unique across GCP
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Does Cloud Monitoring work for AWS as well?
Yes
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Can BigQuery host TensorFlow models?
Yes
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Which role do you need to create, modify and delete Compute Engine Instances?
Compute Engine Instance Admin
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Cloud Run vs AppEngine flexible?
Cloud Run is simpler and more cost effective. App Engine flexible is more flexible but more expensive
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How big are inter-zone and inter-region latencies?
Inter-zone: double digit Inter-region: Triple digit
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What is Cloud Composer?
Workflow orchestration service with fully managed Apache Airflow
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Which API Gateway options are there?
- Cloud Endpoints - ApiGee
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Cloud Endpoints vs ApiGee ?
Cloud Endpoints is simpler and cheaper. ApiGee is expensive but has features like: Security Analytics Monetization ApiGee Hybrid
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Cloud Storage classes and minimum storage duration
Standard - 0 days Nearline - 30 days Coldline - 90 days Archive - 365 days
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What is Private Google Access?
Allow private VMs without Internet Access to access Google Services
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What is Serverless VPC Access?
Allow to connect to VPC from serverless services like Cloud Run, Cloud Functions etc
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What is Migrate for Compute Engine?
- Continuous replication of disk data from source to GCP - Minimal downtime, source VMs can still operate during migration - "Clone and Test" of migrated VMs
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What is Storage Transfer Service?
- Move data from other CSPs or on-prem to GCP - Move data between GCS buckets (e.g. for replicating across regions) - One-time or recurring operations
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What are Transfer Appliances?
Use when >10TB or when upload would take more than a week Sizes: Rackable: 7TB, 40TB, 300TB Freestanding: 40TB, 300TB
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What is the Zero Trust Model?
Shift Access Control from Network to Identity 1. Access is NOT determined by Network 2. Access granted based on context: user, device, ... 3. All access authenticated, authorized, encrypted
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What is Beyond Corp?
Collection of Services on GCP which help to implement the Zero Trust Model
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What is Access Context Manager?
Fine-grained access control for project based on attributes like user, device, IP
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What are VPC Service Controls?
Service to create Service Perimeters (=isolated environments)
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What charging cycles can you configure?
Monthly billing vs Threshold billing
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What is LDAP?
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Used for same-sign-on, most SSO uses LDAP
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How to use Active Directory on GCP?
Managed Service for Microsoft AD
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How to synch AD/LDAP to GCP?
Google Cloud Directory Synch

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