Virtual Machines in the Cloud Coursera Quiz Answers

Get All Weeks Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Quiz Answers

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network

Q1. True or false? In Google Cloud VPCs, subnets have regional scope.

True
False

Q2. True or false: If you increase the size of a subnet in a custom VPC network, the IP addresses of virtual machines already on that subnet might be affected.

True
False

Compute Engine

Q1. True or false: You can create Compute Engine virtual machines from the command line.

True
False

Q2. What is the main reason customers choose Preemptible VMs?

To reduce cost.
To improve performance.

Google Compute Engine and Networking

Q1. True or False: Google Cloud Load Balancing allows you to balance HTTP-based traffic across multiple Compute Engine regions.

True
False

Q2. Which statement is true about Google VPC networks and subnets?

Networks are regional; subnets are zonal
Networks are global; subnets are regional
Networks and subnets are global
Networks are global; subnets are zonal

Q3. An application running in a Compute Engine virtual machine needs high-performance scratch space. Which type of storage meets this need?

Standard persistent
Local SSD
Local standard
SSD persistent

Q4. Choose an application that would be suitable for running in a Preemptible VM.

An interactive website
An online relational database
A batch job that cannot be checkpointed and restarted
A batch job that can be checkpointed and restarted.

Q5. How do Compute Engine customers choose between big VMs and many VMs?

Use big VMs for fault tolerance and elasticity; use many VMs for in-memory databases and CPU-intensive analytics
Use big VMs for in-memory databases and CPU-intensive analytics; use many VMs for fault tolerance and elasticity

Q6. How do VPC routers and firewalls work?

They are managed by Google as a built-in feature.
Customers provision virtual machines and run their routers and firewalls in them.
They are managed by Google in virtual machines, which customers may tune or turn off.
They are managed by Google in virtual machines, which customers may never modify.

Q7. A GCP customer wants to load-balance traffic among the back-end VMs that form part of a multi-tier application. Which load-balancing option should this customer choose?