Introduce
Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. 'Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud' explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology.
Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Modernizing Infrastructure in the Cloud
What open source platform, originally developed by Google, manages containerized workloads and services?
Angular
Kubernetes
Go
TensorFlow
What computing option automatically provisions resources, like compute power, in the background as needed?
IaaS (infrastructure as a service)
Traditional on-premises computing
Serverless computing
PaaS (platform as a service)
What phrase refers to when a workload is rehosted without changing anything in the workload's code or architecture.
Refactor and reshape
Move and improve
Reimagine and plan
Lift and shift
What portion of a machine does a container virtualize?
Software layers above the operating system level
The entire machine
Software layers above the firmware level
Hardware layers above the electrical level
A manufacturing company is considering shifting their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, but are concerned that access to their data and applications won’t be available when they need them. They want to ensure that if one data center goes down, another will be available to prevent any disruption of service. What does this refer to?
Reliability
Flexibility
Total cost of ownership
Security
A travel company is in the early stages of developing a new application and wants to test it on a variety of configurations: different operating systems, processors, and storage options. What cloud computing option should they use?
Colocation
Containers
A local development environment
Virtual machine instances
Modernizing Applications in the Cloud
In modern cloud application development, what name is given to independently deployable, scalable, and maintainable components that can be used to build a wide range of applications?
DevOps
Microservices
Monoliths
Containers
What term is commonly used to describe a rehost migration strategy for an organization that runs specialized legacy applications that aren’t compatible with cloud-native applications?
Lift and shift
Build and deploy
Move and improve
Install and fall
What’s the name of Google Cloud’s production-ready platform for running Kuberenetes applications across multiple cloud environments?
GKE Enterprise
Knative
Google Kubernetes Engine
Container Registry
What term describes a set of instructions that lets different software programs communicate with each other?
Application programming interface
Network programming interface
Programming communication link
Communication link interface
What name is given to an environment where an organization uses more than one public cloud provider as part of its architecture?
Edge cloud
Hybrid cloud
Community cloud
Multicloud
What name is given to an environment that comprises some combination of on-premises or private cloud infrastructure and public cloud services?
Hybrid cloud
Smart cloud
Multicloud
Secure cloud
Which is a fully managed cloud infrastructure solution that lets organizations run their Oracle workloads on dedicated servers in the cloud?
SQL Server on Google Cloud
App Engine
Bare metal solution
Google Cloud VMware Engine
In modern application development, which is responsible for the day-to-day management of cloud-based infrastructure, such as patching, upgrades, and monitoring?
DevOps
Cloud security
Containers
Managed services
What is the name of Google Cloud's API management service that can operate APIs with enhanced scale, security, and automation?
App Engine
AppSheet
Apigee
Cloud API Manager
What is one way that organizations can create new revenue streams through APIs?
By developing new products and services internally
By using APIs to track customer shipments
By charging developers to access their APIs
By allowing developers to access their data for free