GCP General

Question 1

What is the purpose of Google Compute Engine?

Answer 1

Creating VM’s, it much like AWS EC2

Question 2

What is the purpose of Google Cloud Storage?

Answer 2

It is object storage used for storing unstructured data like files, images, videos. It is much like AWS S3.

Question 3

What is the purpose of Google Cloud SQL?

Answer 3

It is a fully-managed MySQL/PostgresSQL/SQL Server database service.

Question 4

What is the purpose of Google App Engine?

Answer 4

It is a PaaS platform for running cloud native, highly available and scalable application, it is a PAAS much like AWS Beanstalk.

Question 5

What is the purpose of Google Cloud Kubernetes engine?

Answer 5

Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed environment within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) designed for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Google infrastructure. GKE is built on the open-source Kubernetes system, which automates the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts. The main purposes and benefits of GKE include:It is a managed Kuberentes service for running container-based applications.

Question 6

What is Google Cloud Functions?

Answer 6

It is a function as a service. (Lambda)

Question 7

What is the main unit in GCP used to group resources?

Answer 7

Project

Question 8

Is a project tied to a region?

Answer 8

No, it is independent of the region.

Question 9

If you run an application for 1Hr and 5 min and shut it down, how long are you billed for?

Answer 9

GCP is a per min billed platform. AWS and Azure are per hour pricing.

Question 10

To receive discounts on pricing do you have to make an upfront commitment like you do with Azure and AWS using reserved instances?

Answer 10

No, you automatically receive a discount based on sustained usage by aggregating the instance usage over the month.

Question 11

For GCP what is the structure hierarchy?

Answer 11

Orgnizatiuons->Folders->Projects-Resources

Question 12

For GCP what is the hierarchy parent of a resource?

Answer 12

Project

Question 13

For GCP what is the hierarchy parent of a project?

Answer 13

Folder

Question 14

Can I attach a Project to two organizations?

Answer 14

No, an organization can only be attached to a single organization.

Question 15

Is the project a core organizational component of GCP?

Answer 15

Yes, the project is the core hierarchy component used for,

• Permission
• Billing
• API’s

Question 16

What are the 3 projetc attributes?

Answer 16

• Frendly name : ‘keith-project-01’
• Project ID: also known as an app ID
• Project number: Used to identify resources belong to a project

Question 17

Can you change the project frendly name?

Answer 17

n Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the friendly name of a project is referred to as the “Project name,” and it can be changed independently of the project ID, which is immutable. Here’s how you can change the project name in GCP:

Open the Google Cloud Console:

Log in to your Google Cloud account and navigate to the Google Cloud Console.

Select the project:

At the top of the page, click on the project selector (the name of the current project or ‘Select a project’ if none is selected), then choose the project for which you want to change the name.

Open the IAM & Admin section:

In the navigation menu on the left-hand side, find and click on “IAM & Admin.” From the drop-down, select “Settings.”

Change the Project Name:

Under the “Project Info” section, you will see the current project name. Click the edit icon (pencil) next to the project name.

Enter the new project name you want to use. This name is for your convenience and can be changed at any time.

Save the Changes:

After editing, click “Save” to apply the new project name.

The change should be effective immediately across the Google Cloud services. This new project name will appear in your Google Cloud console and any place where the project name is referenced.

Question 18

Can you change the project frendly name?

Answer 18

No

Question 19

Can you have duplicate projetc name on GCP?

Answer 19

No the name has to be unique.

Question 20

Where cna I quickely find my projetc ID?

Answer 20

When you open a projetc in GCP portal, the project panel is in the top righ. It contanns,

• Frendly name
• Project ID

Question 21

Can you rename a GCP projetc?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

When you shutdown a project can the shutdown be stopped with in 30days.

Answer 22

Yes, the billing owner will be notified and has the poition to stop the shutdown.

Question 23

When you shutdown a GCP project, whne will the project be deleted and gone for ever?

Answer 23

30day from shutdown.

Question 24

How can i restore a projetc form the console screen?

Answer 24

In IAM -> Managed resources -> there is a link resources pending deletion.

Question 25

What is the GCP Resource hierarchy?

Answer 25

Organizations Folders Projects Resources

Question 26

Is the GCP organization a root node?

Answer 26

Yes, it is the start of the hierarchy.

Question 27

What are the 3 types of interaction with GCP?

Answer 27

GCP web portal, CLI and API.

Question 28

What format does the API use?

Answer 28

JSON

Question 29

What authorization and authentication does the GCP API use?

Answer 29

OAUTH 2.0

Question 30

If you were polling the GCP often and started to receive errors what could it be?

Answer 30

API has a daily limit.

Question 31

What is the GCP cloud shell?

Answer 31

It is a shell available in the CCP portal, it is a Linux machine with 5GB persistent storage. The home directory is where data is preserved.

Question 32

What is the format of the GCLOUD command?

Answer 32

gcloud compute instance create | gcloud group group command args

Question 33

How can you call an AP{I to exercise?

Answer 33

Call google API explorer, this is a GCP tool enabling you to call all the GCP API from a web console.

Question 34

What is the name of the service for running VM's?

Answer 34

Google Compute Engine

Question 35

What is the name of the service for running applications?

Answer 35

Google app engine

Question 36

What is the name of the service for running containers?

Answer 36

Google Kubernetes engine Cloud Run

Question 37

What is the name of the Google service for running function?

Answer 37

Google cloud functions

Question 38

What is google compute engine used for?

Answer 38

Running instances

Question 39

What is google kubernetes engine used for?

Answer 39

Running Kubernetes type containers.

Question 40

What is google app engine used for?

Answer 40

It is a PaaS for running apps like Python, Go, PHP, Java, .NET Core, Docker Image

Question 41

What is google cloud functions used for?

Answer 41

It's functions as a service and is restricted to running node js or java. It is triggered by an event.

Question 42

What is a label and where is it used?

Answer 42

A label is a tag and is used to group and filter resources.

Question 43

What is a fast and easy way to grab an unknown CLI command?

Answer 43

Using the web portal you have a way to get what the gcloud CLI command would look like.

Question 44

What is the URL for the google login?

Answer 44

console.cloud.google.com

Question 45

Is a zone equal to a physical data center?

Answer 45

No, the are fault tolerant physical units, we can think of zones as existing in multiple data centers where each data center has multiple independent zones.

Question 46

Are zones separated by more than 160 KM

Answer 46

No, zones exist in more then one physical data center in a region, with each data center having multiple zones.

Question 47

When resources store data in a multi region, what is the expected minimum distance between regions?

Answer 47

Not less then 160 KM

Question 48

For a project can you turn off and on the GCP API's per service?;

Answer 48

Yes, you can say turn off the API for Compute Engine.