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What is Google Cloud Platform?
GCP is a suite of cloud services for compute, storage, networking, data, and machine learning. It is not an OS, database, or browser.
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What is a Google Cloud project?
A project groups resources, permissions, and billing settings. VMs, buckets, and networks live inside a project.
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What is a region in Google Cloud?
A region is a geographic location containing zones. Zones are isolated data centers within a region.
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What is a zone in Google Cloud?
A zone is an isolated data center within a region. Distributing resources across zones improves availability.
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What is the Google Cloud Console?
The Console is the web UI for managing GCP resources. gcloud is the CLI, and mobile apps are additional tools.
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What is gcloud?
gcloud is the CLI for creating and managing GCP resources. It complements the Console and APIs.
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What is Cloud Shell?
Cloud Shell provides a browser terminal with gcloud and other tools ready to use. It is not a marketplace, bucket, or dashboard.
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What is a billing account?
A billing account pays for resource usage and is linked to one or more projects. It is not a VM, firewall, or DNS.
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What is a service account?
A service account authenticates applications, VMs, and services to Google Cloud APIs. It is not a password, billing, or network object.
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What is IAM?
IAM controls who can access resources and what they can do. The other expansions are not official.
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What is Compute Engine?
Compute Engine provides virtual machines. Cloud Storage stores objects, GKE runs Kubernetes, and BigQuery is analytics.
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What is a VM instance?
A VM instance is a virtual machine with configurable resources. Buckets, firewalls, and DNS zones are separate objects.
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What is a machine type?
A machine type defines vCPUs and memory for a VM. OS, disk, and network are separate choices.
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What is a persistent disk?
Persistent disks are durable block storage for VMs. Object storage, snapshots, and caches are different.
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What is an instance group?
Instance groups manage collections of VMs. Managed groups support autoscaling and health checks.
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What is autoscaling?
Autoscaling adjusts instance counts based on metrics. Disk resizing, backups, and key rotation are separate operations.
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What is a managed instance group?
Managed instance groups run identical VMs with autoscaling, health checks, and auto-repair. They are not storage, firewall, or DNS groups.
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What is Cloud Functions?
Cloud Functions runs single-purpose functions in response to events. Compute Engine is VMs, and databases and load balancers are separate.
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What is Cloud Run?
Cloud Run runs containers serverlessly and scales automatically. It is not VMs, BigQuery, or DNS.
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What is GKE?
GKE is Google Kubernetes Engine for container orchestration. The other expansions are not official.
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What is App Engine?
App Engine is a PaaS that runs applications without infrastructure management. Compute Engine is IaaS, and Cloud Storage is object storage.
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What is a preemptible VM?
Preemptible VMs are cheaper but can be terminated by Google. They are suitable for fault-tolerant batch workloads.
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What is Cloud Storage?
Cloud Storage stores objects such as images, files, and backups. It is not a database, VM, or load balancer.
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What is a bucket in Cloud Storage?
A bucket is the container that holds objects and defines location and access. It is not a VM, firewall, or billing object.
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What is a storage class?
Storage classes such as Standard, Nearline, Coldline, and Archive balance cost with access frequency. They are not machine types, rules, or records.
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What is Cloud SQL?
Cloud SQL provides managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. BigQuery is a warehouse and Firestore is NoSQL.
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What is Cloud Spanner?
Cloud Spanner offers strong consistency and horizontal scaling across regions. It is not a file system, queue, or balancer.
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What is Firestore?
Firestore is a flexible, scalable NoSQL document database. Cloud SQL is relational, Cloud Storage is objects, and BigQuery is analytics.
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What is BigQuery?
BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse for analytics on large datasets. It is not compute, messaging, or content delivery.
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What is Cloud Bigtable?
Cloud Bigtable is a scalable NoSQL wide-column database for large analytical workloads. It is not relational, document, or object storage.
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What is Cloud Filestore?
Cloud Filestore provides managed NFS file storage for workloads such as GKE and Compute Engine. It is not object, block, or warehouse storage.
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What is a disk snapshot?
A snapshot is a backup of a persistent disk at a point in time. Images are VM templates, and buckets are object containers.
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What is Cloud CDN?
Cloud CDN caches content at global edge locations to reduce latency. DNS, load balancing, and firewalls are separate.
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What is a VPC?
A VPC provides isolated networking for GCP resources. It is not a VM, bucket, or DNS zone.
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What is a subnet?
A subnet is a segment of a VPC address space. VMs, firewalls, and load balancers are separate resources.
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What is a firewall rule?
Firewall rules control ingress and egress traffic by IP, port, and tags. They are not billing, storage, or machine settings.
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What is Cloud Load Balancing?
Cloud Load Balancing spreads traffic across instances and regions. It is not a VM, DNS record, or firewall.
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What is Cloud NAT?
Cloud NAT lets private instances reach the internet without public IPs. It is not load balancing, VPN, or DNS.
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What is Cloud VPN?
Cloud VPN creates encrypted tunnels between on-premises networks and VPCs. It is not load balancing, DNS, or firewall.
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What is Cloud Interconnect?
Cloud Interconnect provides dedicated, higher-bandwidth connections to Google. VPN uses the internet, and DNS and CDN are different.
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What is Cloud DNS?
Cloud DNS hosts zones and records and resolves names. Load balancing, firewalls, and VPNs are networking services but not DNS.
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What is a global load balancing IP?
Global load balancing uses anycast IPs to route users to the nearest healthy backend. It is not a VM IP, DNS, or firewall.
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What is VPC peering?
VPC peering connects two VPC networks so they can communicate privately. It is not internet access, firewall, or load balancing.
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What is a role in IAM?
A role bundles permissions that can be granted to users or service accounts. It is not a VM, billing, or firewall.
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What is an IAM policy?
An IAM policy binds roles to members at a resource level. It is not networking, storage, or machine configuration.
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What is a custom role?
Custom roles let you grant only the permissions you need. They are not machine types, firewalls, or budgets.
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What is Cloud KMS?
Cloud KMS creates and manages cryptographic keys. It is not compute, load balancing, or DNS.
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What is Cloud IAP?
Cloud IAP controls access to applications based on identity and context. It is not a firewall, VPN, or monitoring tool.
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What is Cloud Armor?
Cloud Armor protects applications from DDoS and web attacks. DNS, load balancing, and key management are separate.
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What is VPC Service Controls?
VPC Service Controls creates a security perimeter to reduce data exfiltration risk. It is not a VPC, firewall, or storage class.
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What is an Organization Policy?
Organization Policies set constraints on resources across projects. They are not billing, DNS, or machine configuration.
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What is Cloud Monitoring?
Cloud Monitoring collects metrics and sends alerts. Logging stores logs, and DNS and storage are separate.
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What is Cloud Logging?
Cloud Logging stores and queries application and platform logs. Monitoring handles metrics, and firewalls and load balancers are networking.
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What is an alerting policy?
Alerting policies monitor conditions and send notifications. They are not firewalls, budgets, or DNS.
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What is Cloud Trace?
Cloud Trace analyzes latency across requests. Logging stores logs, Debugger inspects code, and Scheduler runs cron jobs.
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What is Cloud Scheduler?
Cloud Scheduler runs jobs on a schedule. Load balancers distribute traffic, queues decouple messages, and databases store data.
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Which of the following are Google Cloud compute services? Select all that apply.
Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions are all compute services on Google Cloud.
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Which of the following are Google Cloud storage and database services? Select all that apply.
Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Firestore, and Cloud Bigtable are all storage or database services.
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Preemptible VMs are guaranteed to run for 24 hours.
Preemptible VMs can be terminated by Google at any time, usually within 24 hours, so they are not guaranteed.
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Match each Google Cloud service to its purpose.
Cloud Storage stores objects, Cloud SQL is a managed relational database, BigQuery is a warehouse, and Cloud Functions is serverless compute.