# Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025 Week 2 (Solution)

## **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.

Click **Start Lab** to begin.

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
    
    * <mark>By using network tags</mark>
        
    * 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
        
    * <mark>Compute Security Admin</mark>
        
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
    
    * <mark>terraform apply</mark>
        
    * 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
    
    * <mark>Cloud SQL Proxy</mark>
        
    * 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
    
    * <mark>Cloud Scheduler</mark>
        
    * 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
    
    * <mark>A unix-cron string</mark>
        
    * A JSON object
        
    * A SQL query
        
    * A natural language phrase
        

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