Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Module 02 Quiz Answers

Q1. What is the primary benefit to a Google Cloud customer of using resources in several zones within a region?

For expanding services to customers in new areas
For better performance
For getting discounts on other zones
For improved fault tolerance

Q2. What type of cloud computing service lets you bind your application code to libraries that give access to the infrastructure your application needs?

Software as a service
Infrastructure as a service
Platform as a service
Virtualized data centers
Hybrid cloud

Q3. Why might a Google Cloud customer use resources in several regions around the world?

To bring their applications closer to users around the world, and for improved fault tolerance
To offer localized application versions in different regions.
To improve security
To earn discounts

Introducing Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Computing Services

Q1. Does a cloud computing service let you scale your resource use up and down?

Yes
No

Q2. To get resources from a cloud computing provider, is working with a person at the provider required?

GCP Regions and Zones

Q1. Why might a GCP customer use resources in several zones within a region?

For improved fault tolerance
For better performance

Q2. Why might a GCP customer use resources in several regions around the world?

To bring their applications closer to users around the world, and for improved fault tolerance
To improve security

Introducing Google Cloud Platform

Q1. Choose fundamental characteristics of cloud computing. Mark all that are correct (4 correct responses).

Providers always dedicate physical resources to each customer
Customers are required to commit to multi-year contracts
All resources are open-source-based
Customers pay only for what they use or reserve
Computing resources available on-demand and self-service
Resources are available from anywhere over the network
Customers can scale their resource use up and down

Q2. Choose a fundamental characteristic of devices in a virtualized data center.

They are more secure.
They are available from anywhere on the Internet.
They are manageable separately from the underlying hardware.
They use less resources than devices in a physical data center.

Q3. What type of cloud computing service lets you bind your application code to libraries that give access to the infrastructure your application needs?

Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Software as a Service
Hybrid cloud
Virtualized data centers

Q4. What type of cloud computing service provides raw compute, storage, and network, organized in ways that are familiar from physical data centers?

Software as a Service
Database as a Service
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service

Q5. Which statement is true about the zones within a region?

The zones within a region are never closer to each other than 160 km.
Each zone corresponds to a single physical data center.
Customers must choose exactly one zone in each region in which to run their resources.
The zones within a region have fast network connectivity among them.

Q6. What kind of customer benefits most from billing by the second for cloud resources such as virtual machines?

Customers who create and run many virtual machines
Customers who create many virtual machines and leave them running for months
Customers who create too few virtual machines to get discounts
Customers who create virtual machines running commercially licensed operating systems