CDL Practice Exam: Google Cloud Digital Leader
GCP fundamentals for the business-minded: what the products do and why anyone should care.
What you'll be tested on
- Cloud Concepts
- Google Cloud Products
- Data and AI
- Modernization and Transformation
Sample CDL questions
You are migrating workloads to the cloud. The goal of the migration is to serve customers worldwide as quickly as possible According to local regulations, certain data is required to be stored in a specific geographic area, and it can be served worldwide. You need to design the architecture and deployment for your workloads. What should you do?
- Select a public cloud provider that is only active in the required geographic area
- Select a private cloud provider that globally replicates data storage for fast data access
- Select a public cloud provider that guarantees data location in the required geographic area
- Select a private cloud provider that is only active in the required geographic area
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C — Select a public cloud provider that guarantees data location in the required geographic areaThe requirement is to serve customers worldwide quickly while keeping certain data within a specific geographic area for regulatory compliance. A major public cloud provider like Google Cloud offers a global network for fast worldwide delivery and lets you pin resources and data to specific regions, guaranteeing data location. Option A fails because a provider active only in one area cannot serve a global audience well. Options B and D involve private clouds, which lack the global reach and scale of a public cloud, and private cloud global replication is not a typical offering for data residency guarantees.
Your organization needs a large amount of extra computing power within the next two weeks. After those two weeks, the need for the additional resources will end. Which is the most cost-effective approach?
- Use a committed use discount to reserve a very powerful virtual machine
- Purchase one very powerful physical computer
- Start a very powerful virtual machine without using a committed use discount
- Purchase multiple physical computers and scale workload across them
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C — Start a very powerful virtual machine without using a committed use discountFor a short, two-week burst of extra computing power, on-demand virtual machines are the most cost-effective choice: you pay only for what you use and delete the resources when the need ends. A committed use discount (option A) requires a one- or three-year commitment, which makes no sense for a two-week need. Purchasing physical computers (options B and D) involves capital expenditure, procurement delays well beyond two weeks, and leaves you with idle hardware afterward. Starting a powerful VM without a commitment gives elastic capacity at on-demand prices, perfectly matching temporary demand.
Your organization needs to plan its cloud infrastructure expenditures. Which should your organization do?
- Review cloud resource costs frequently, because costs change often based on use
- Review cloud resource costs annually as part of planning your organization's overall budget
- If your organization uses only cloud resources, infrastructure costs are no longer part of your overall budget
- Involve fewer people in cloud resource planning than your organization did for on-premises resource planning
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A — Review cloud resource costs frequently, because costs change often based on useCloud pricing is based on consumption, so costs vary month to month depending on how much you use. Reviewing cloud resource costs frequently lets the organization track actual usage against budget and adjust quickly. Reviewing only annually (option B) is too infrequent for a pay-per-use model where spending can spike. Option C is wrong because cloud costs are still real operating expenses that belong in the budget. Option D is incorrect because cloud financial planning benefits from broad involvement across teams, since many people can provision resources that generate cost.
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