Overview

Welcome to Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025! Give your career a boost with hands-on experience with different Google Cloud and partner services.

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P.S. You don't need to open the GCP Console for this, but you do need to keep this quiz open for at least 5 minutes to register your completion in the game.

Quiz

1. In Google Cloud, how can you apply a specific firewall rule to only a select group of VM instances?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • By using network tags

   • By placing them in different regions

   • By using static IP addresses

   • By using IAM roles

2. Which Google Cloud IAM role has the specific permission to create and modify firewall rules?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Compute Network Admin

   • Compute Viewer

   • Project Owner

   • Compute Security Admin

3. In Terraform, which command do you run to apply the configuration and build the resources (like a Cloud SQL instance)?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • terraform apply

   • terraform plan

   • terraform build

   • terraform init

4. What tool is used to provide a secure, authenticated, and encrypted connection to a Cloud SQL instance from a VM without needing to whitelist IP addresses?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Cloud SQL Proxy

   • Cloud VPN

   • SSH

   • A firewall rule

5. Which service allows you to run automated, scheduled jobs (cron jobs) in Google Cloud?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Cloud Scheduler

   • Pub/Sub

   • Cloud Functions

   • App Engine

6. What format does Cloud Scheduler use to define the job's frequency (e.g., "every minute")?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • A unix-cron string

   • A JSON object

   • A SQL query

   • A natural language phrase

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