Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

Question 1

What is a Data cloud?

Answer 1

A data cloud is a unified solution to manage
data across the entire data lifecycle. Leading companies use a data cloud to
encourage data-driven transformation, all
with AI built in.

Question 2

What is an open infrastructure cloud?

Answer 2

Freedom to securely innovate and scale from
on-premises, to edge, to cloud.

Brings services to different physical locations,
while leaving the operation, governance, and
evolution of the services to Google Cloud.

Question 3

What is a GCP region?

Answer 3

Regions represent independent geographic
areas and are composed of zones. You can run resources in different regions

Question 4

What is a GCP zone?

Answer 4

A zone is an isolated data center within a region (e.g., us-central1-a, us-central1-b, us-central1-c)

Question 5

What is IaaS?

Answer 5

On-demand availability of almost infinitely
scalable infrastructure resources over the
internet. Same technologies and capabilities as a
traditional data center without having to
physically maintain or manage it

Example: Example: Compute Engine (you control the VM, OS, and install everything).

Question 6

What is PaaS?

Answer 6

Provides a platform for developers to
develop, run, and manage their own apps
No need to build and maintain the
associated infrastructure

Example: App Engine (just deploy code, Google handles the rest).

Question 7

What is SaaS?

Answer 7

A completely ready to use app.

Example: Google Workspace (e.g., Gmail, Docs) or BigQuery UI for querying data without managing anything.