GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice

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Practice 60 original GCP Associate Cloud Engineer questions covering core services, compute, storage, networking, security, and operations, with answers and explanations.

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Question 1

What is Google Cloud Platform?

Select an answer A web browserA suite of cloud computing servicesA desktop operating systemA database

Question 2

What is a Google Cloud project?

Select an answer A container for resources and servicesA virtual machineA billing invoiceA DNS zone

Question 3

What is a region in Google Cloud?

Select an answer A virtual networkA billing accountA storage classA specific geographic location with zones

Question 4

What is a zone in Google Cloud?

Select an answer A firewall ruleA load balancerAn isolated location within a regionA project folder

Question 5

What is the Google Cloud Console?

Select an answer A mobile app onlyA database consoleA web interface for managing GCPA command-line tool

Question 6

What is gcloud?

Select an answer The Google Cloud command-line interfaceA web browserA machine learning modelA database

Question 7

What is Cloud Shell?

Select an answer A monitoring dashboardA browser-based terminal with gcloud preinstalledA virtual machine marketplaceA storage bucket

Question 8

What is a billing account?

Select an answer A VM instanceA firewall ruleA DNS recordThe payment account linked to projects

Question 9

What is a service account?

Select an answer A user passwordA billing accountA network ruleAn identity used by applications and services

Question 10

What is IAM?

Select an answer Infrastructure Automation ModuleIdentity and Access ManagementInternet Application ManagerInstance and Account Monitor

Question 11

What is Compute Engine?

Select an answer A service for creating virtual machinesAn object storage serviceA Kubernetes serviceA data warehouse

Question 12

What is a VM instance?

Select an answer A firewall ruleA DNS zoneA virtual machine with CPU, memory, and disksA storage bucket

Question 13

What is a machine type?

Select an answer A predefined CPU and memory configurationAn operating systemA disk typeA network tier

Question 14

What is a persistent disk?

Select an answer Object storageA backup snapshotA cacheDurable block storage attached to VMs

Question 15

What is an instance group?

Select an answer A VPC subnetA group of VM instances managed togetherA storage bucketA firewall rule

Question 16

What is autoscaling?

Select an answer Scheduling backupsRotating keysAutomatically adding or removing VMs based on loadManually resizing disks

Question 17

What is a managed instance group?

Select an answer A DNS zoneA group of identical VMs with autoscaling and health checksA group of storage bucketsA firewall rule set

Question 18

What is Cloud Functions?

Select an answer A serverless function serviceA virtual machine serviceA databaseA load balancer

Question 19

What is Cloud Run?

Select an answer A VM serviceA data warehouseA DNS serviceA serverless container service

Question 20

What is GKE?

Select an answer Google Knowledge EngineGlobal Key ExchangeGoogle Kubernetes EngineGeneral Key Encryption

Question 21

What is App Engine?

Select an answer An object storeA network serviceA fully managed PaaS for applicationsA virtual machine service

Question 22

What is a preemptible VM?

Select an answer A short-lived, cheaper VM that can be terminatedA VM with a guaranteed lifetimeA persistent diskA reserved instance

Question 23

What is Cloud Storage?

Select an answer A load balancerObject storage for unstructured dataA relational databaseA virtual machine

Question 24

What is a bucket in Cloud Storage?

Select an answer A virtual machineA firewall ruleA billing accountA container for stored objects

Question 25

What is a storage class?

Select an answer A VM machine typeA firewall ruleA DNS recordA tier that balances cost and access frequency

Question 26

What is Cloud SQL?

Select an answer A NoSQL databaseA managed relational database serviceAn object storeA data warehouse

Question 27

What is Cloud Spanner?

Select an answer A globally distributed relational databaseA local file systemA message queueA load balancer

Question 28

What is Firestore?

Select an answer An object storeA data warehouseA NoSQL document databaseA relational database

Question 29

What is BigQuery?

Select an answer A serverless data warehouseA virtual machineA message queueA CDN

Question 30

What is Cloud Bigtable?

Select an answer A relational databaseA document storeAn object storeA NoSQL wide-column database

Question 31

What is Cloud Filestore?

Select an answer A data warehouseA managed file storage serviceAn object storeA block disk

Question 32

What is a disk snapshot?

Select an answer A VM imageA bucketA point-in-time backup of a persistent diskA storage class

Question 33

What is Cloud CDN?

Select an answer A firewallA content delivery network that caches at edge locationsA DNS serviceA load balancer

Question 34

What is a VPC?

Select an answer A virtual private cloud networkA virtual machineA storage bucketA DNS zone

Question 35

What is a subnet?

Select an answer A VM instanceA firewall ruleA load balancerAn IP range segment within a VPC

Question 36

What is a firewall rule?

Select an answer A storage classA machine typeA rule that allows or denies trafficA billing setting

Question 37

What is Cloud Load Balancing?

Select an answer A DNS recordA firewallA distributed service that distributes trafficA virtual machine

Question 38

What is Cloud NAT?

Select an answer A managed network address translation serviceA load balancerA VPNA DNS service

Question 39

What is Cloud VPN?

Select an answer A firewall ruleAn encrypted tunnel between networksA load balancerA DNS zone

Question 40

What is Cloud Interconnect?

Select an answer A VPN tunnelA DNS serviceA CDNA dedicated connection between on-premises and Google

Question 41

What is Cloud DNS?

Select an answer A load balancerA firewallA VPNA managed DNS service

Question 42

What is a global load balancing IP?

Select an answer A firewall ruleAn anycast IP that routes to the nearest regionA static VM IPA DNS record

Question 43

What is VPC peering?

Select an answer Connecting two VPCs privatelyConnecting VPCs to the internetA firewall ruleA load balancer

Question 44

What is a role in IAM?

Select an answer A billing accountA firewall ruleA set of permissions attached to an identityA virtual machine

Question 45

What is an IAM policy?

Select an answer A set of role bindings for identitiesA network ruleA storage classA machine type

Question 46

What is a custom role?

Select an answer A predefined VM machine typeA firewall ruleA billing budgetA user-defined role with selected permissions

Question 47

What is Cloud KMS?

Select an answer A DNS serviceA key management service for encryptionA virtual machineA load balancer

Question 48

What is Cloud IAP?

Select an answer A VPNA monitoring toolIdentity-Aware Proxy for access controlA network firewall

Question 49

What is Cloud Armor?

Select an answer A key managerDDoS protection and WAF for applicationsA DNS serviceA load balancer

Question 50

What is VPC Service Controls?

Select an answer A security perimeter for Google Cloud servicesA virtual networkA firewall ruleA storage class

Question 51

What is an Organization Policy?

Select an answer A billing invoiceA DNS recordA machine typeA constraint applied across a hierarchy

Question 52

What is Cloud Monitoring?

Select an answer A DNS serviceA storage serviceA service for collecting metrics and alertsA logging service

Question 53

What is Cloud Logging?

Select an answer A firewallA load balancerA service for storing and querying logsA metrics service

Question 54

What is an alerting policy?

Select an answer A rule that notifies you when conditions are metA firewall ruleA billing budgetA DNS record

Question 55

What is Cloud Trace?

Select an answer A schedulerA latency tracing serviceA logging serviceA debugger

Question 56

What is Cloud Scheduler?

Select an answer A load balancerA message queueA databaseA managed cron service

Question 57

Which of the following are Google Cloud compute services? Select all that apply.

Select an answer Compute EngineGKECloud RunCloud Functions

Question 58

Which of the following are Google Cloud storage and database services? Select all that apply.

Select an answer Cloud StorageCloud SQLFirestoreCloud Bigtable

Question 59

Preemptible VMs are guaranteed to run for 24 hours.

Select an answer FalseTrue

Question 60

Match each Google Cloud service to its purpose.

Cloud StorageCloud SQLBigQueryCloud Functions