Introduce
Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task.
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts.
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Financial Governance and Managing Cloud Costs
Which offers a reactive method to help you track and understand what you’ve already spent on Google Cloud resources and provide ways to help optimize your costs?
Resource usage
Google Cloud Pricing Calculator
Cost forecasting
Cloud billing reports
Which feature lets you set limits on the amount of resources that can be used by a project or user?
Quota policies
Committed use discounts
Billing reports
Invoicing limits
Which feature lets you set alerts for when cloud costs exceed a certain limit?
Cost forecasting
Budget threshold rules
Cost optimization recommendations
Billing reports
Which represents the lowest level in the Google Cloud resource hierarchy?
Resources
Organization node
Projects
Folders
Why is it a benefit that the Google Cloud resource hierarchy follows inheritance and propagation rules?
Faster propagation can simplify a cloud migration.
Inheritance in the hierarchy reduces the overall cost of cloud computing.
Permissions set at higher levels of the resource hierarchy are automatically inherited by lower-level resources.
Resources at lower levels can improve the performance of cloud applications.
Which Google Cloud tool lets you estimate how changes to cloud usage will affect costs?
Cloud Monitoring
Google Cloud Pricing Calculator
Cloud Trace
Cloud Billing
Which term describes a centralized hub within an organization composed of a partnership across finance, technology, and business functions?
Center of excellence
Hub center
Competency center
Center of innovation
Operational Excellence and Reliability at Scale
Which Google Cloud Customer Care support level is designed for enterprises with critical workloads and features the fastest response time?
Basic Support
Premium Support
Standard Support
Enhanced Support
Whose job is to ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of software systems and services deployed in the cloud?
Cloud architect
Cloud security engineer
Site reliability engineer
DevOps engineer
How does replication help the design of resilient and fault-tolerant infrastructure and processes in a cloud environment?
It creates multiple copies of data or services and distributes them across different servers or locations.
It scales infrastructure to handle varying workloads and accommodate increased demand.
It duplicates critical components or resources to provide backup alternatives.
It monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.
Which metric shows how well a system or service is performing?
Service level agreements
Service level contracts
Service level objectives
Service level indicators
What does the Cloud Profiler tool do?
It counts, analyzes, and aggregates the crashes in running cloud services in real-time.
It provides a comprehensive view of your cloud infrastructure and applications.
It collects and stores all application and infrastructure logs.
It identifies how much CPU power, memory, and other resources an application uses.
Google Cloud Observability provides a comprehensive set of monitoring, logging, and diagnostics tools. Which tool collects latency data from applications and provides insights into how they’re performing?
Cloud Profiler
Cloud Logging
Cloud Trace
Cloud Monitoring
Why is escalating a support ticket not always the best course of action when trying to resolve an issue?
It can increase the monthly cost of support plans.
It may reduce the number of available virtual machines.
It may disrupt the workflow of the Customer Care team and lead to delays in other cases.
It can result in increased power consumption, impacting carbon neutrality.
One of the four golden signals is latency. What does latency measure?
How many requests reach a system.
System failures or other issues.
How long it takes for a particular part of a system to return a result.
How close to capacity a system is.
Which of these measures should be automated on a regular basis and stored in geographically separate locations to allow for rapid recovery from disasters or failures?
Security patches
Log files
Backups
Inventory data
Sustainability with Google Cloud
What sustainability goal does Google aim to achieve by the year 2030?
To be the first major company to be carbon neutral.
To be the first major company to achieve 100% renewable energy.
To be the first major company to operate completely carbon free.
To be the first major company to run its own wind farm.
Kaluza is an electric vehicle smart-charging solution. How does it use BigQuery and Looker Studio?
It uses BigQuery and Looker Studio to containerize workloads.
It uses BigQuery and Looker Studio to create dashboards that provide granular operational insights.
It uses BigQuery and Looker Studio to comply with government regulations.
It uses BigQuery and Looker Studio to build and deploy machine learning models.
Google's data centers were the first to achieve ISO 14001 certification. What is this standard’s purpose?
It’s a framework for an organization to enhance its environmental performance through improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
It’s a framework for identifying, predicting, and evaluating the environmental impacts of a proposed project.
It’s a framework for carbon footprinting that calculates the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product, service, or organization.
It’s a framework for sustainable procurement, which is the process of purchasing goods and services in a way that minimizes environmental and social impacts.