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Cloud Engineer: Essential Google Infrastructure Flashcards

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  1. Which GCP service provides a fully managed, serverless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services using event-driven functions?

    Answer: Cloud Functions

    Cloud Functions is GCP's serverless, event-driven compute service that runs code in response to events without managing infrastructure.

  2. What is the default behavior of a newly created Google Cloud Storage bucket with respect to public access?

    Answer: Public access is blocked by default at the project level

    GCP enforces 'Prevent Public Access' by default at the project level, blocking public ACLs and policies unless explicitly overridden.

  3. A Cloud Engineer needs to ensure that a Compute Engine VM instance automatically restarts if the underlying host machine fails. Which setting should be enabled?

    Answer: Automatic Restart

    Automatic Restart causes GCP to restart a VM automatically if it is terminated due to a non-user-initiated reason such as hardware failure.

  4. Which Google Cloud networking feature allows you to extend your on-premises network to GCP using a private, encrypted connection over the public internet?

    Answer: Cloud VPN

    Cloud VPN establishes an encrypted IPsec tunnel between your on-premises network and GCP over the public internet.

  5. In Google Cloud IAM, what is the purpose of a 'condition' within an IAM binding?

    Answer: To grant access only when specified attributes like time or resource tags match

    IAM conditions allow attribute-based access control, granting permissions only when conditions such as resource name, date, or request origin are satisfied.

  6. Which GCP managed service should a Cloud Engineer use to run containerized workloads without managing the underlying Kubernetes cluster control plane?

    Answer: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot

    GKE Autopilot is a fully managed Kubernetes mode where Google manages the cluster infrastructure including nodes, while you deploy standard Kubernetes workloads.

  7. What happens to a Preemptible VM instance when Google needs to reclaim the resources?

    Answer: The instance receives a 30-second warning and is then terminated

    Preemptible VMs receive a preemption notice 30 seconds before GCP terminates them, giving workloads time to checkpoint or clean up.