Overview

Welcome to Google Skills Arcade Trivia January 2026! 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. You need to connect your corporate office to your Google Cloud VPC with a secure, encrypted connection. How will you establish this link?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Use a public HTTP website

   • Use Cloud Functions

   • Use Google Drive

   • Create a Cloud VPN Gateway and Tunnel

2. You have set up a VPN in Google Cloud and want to verify the speed using a benchmark tool. How will you generate traffic to test the bandwidth?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Run the iperf tool between two VMs across the VPN

   • Use the ping command only

   • Open a web browser and load a page

   • Use Cloud Vision API

3. You need to give a new team member permission to view files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket, but not delete them. How will you configure this?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Create a new project for them

   • Send them the files via email

   • Give them the Owner role

   • Add the user to the Storage Object Viewer role in IAM

4. You have a Python script running on a Compute Engine VM in Google Cloud that needs to access BigQuery. How will you authorize this script securely?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Assign a Service Account with BigQuery permissions to the VM

   • Run the script on your local laptop instead

   • Make the BigQuery dataset public to everyone

   • Hardcode your username and password in the script

5. You want to use Kubernetes on Google Cloud but want Google to handle all the node management and security patching. How will you do this?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Select the Autopilot mode when creating a GKE cluster

   • Use Cloud Run

   • Select Standard mode and manage it yourself

   • Install Kubernetes on a raw VM

6. You have a GKE Autopilot cluster running. How will you check the status of the nodes that Google has automatically provisioned for you?
   Select ONE answer that would be relevant

   • Run docker ps

   • Run kubectl get nodes

   • Use Cloud SQL

   • You cannot see nodes in Autopilot

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