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Google Cloud Computing Foundations

(Jul-Oct 2023)
Assignment- Week 3
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10

QUESTION 1:

CloudSQL can scale upto _____ processor core and ______ of storage capacity?

a) 64, 16TB
b) 64, 10TB
c) 32, 10TB
d) 32, 16TB

Correct Answer: (b)

Detailed Solution: CloudSQL can scale upto 64 processor core and 10TB of storage capacity

QUESTION 2:

Which of the following requirements is the best choice for coldline storage?
a) Data analytics and machine learning
b) Frequently accessed data
c) Disaster recovery
d) Data archival

Correct Answer: (c and d)

Detailed Solution: Both disaster recovery and data archival are better suited into coldline storage

QUESTION 3:

Which of the following filesystems is used by the Google Bigtable?

a) Google Storage
b) Hadoop
c) Map reduce
d) Colossus

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Correct Answer: (d)

Detailed Solution: Cloud Bigtable uses Colossus file system.

QUESTION 4:

Choose the correct mapping

I. Cloud Storage A. Relational database
II. Cloud Spanner B. Non-relational database
III. Bigquery C. Data warehouse
IV. Cloud Bigtable D. Object datastore
a) I-B, II-D, III-C, IV-A
b) I-B, II-A, III-D, IV-C
c) I-D, II-A, III-B, IV-C
d) I-D, II-A, III-C, IV-B

Correct Answer: (d)

Detailed Solution: Cloud storage is an unstructured object datastore to keep images, videos, audios,
files etc. Cloud spanner is a relational database, Bigquery is a data warehousing solution, and Bigtable
is a non-relational database

QUESTION 5:

How many minimum number of nodes are required for cloud spanner instance
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

Correct Answer: (c)

Detailed Solution: Minimum 3 nodes are required in cloud spanner instance.

QUESTION 6:

Which of the following is/are some of the best use cases of cloud bigtable?
a) MapReduce operations.
b) Real time analytics
c) Long term storage
d) Data lake

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Correct Answer: (a,b)

Detailed Solution: Google built Cloud Bigtable to handle millions of requests per second in a
performant and low latency way. MapReduce operations, Real time analytics, tracking thousands of
IoT sensor data are some of the best use cases of cloud bigtable. Cloud Bigtable isn't a good
solution for long term storage, data lake, when you need complex queries.

QUESTION 7:

Which of the following properties are applicable for Cloud Datastore?

a) Schemaless
b) Relational
c) Self-managed
d) Serverless

Correct Answer: (a and d)

Detailed Solution: Cloud Datastore is a non-relational database and therefore it is schemaless. It is
offered as a PaaS and no server is required.

QUESTION 8:

Which of the following is NOT a type of NoSQL database?

a) Key-value stores.
b) Relational databases.
c) Document databases.
d) Graph databases.

Correct Answer: (b)

Detailed Solution: The four main types of NoSQL databases are key-value stores, document
databases, wide-column stores, and graph databases.

QUESTION 9:

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Consider the following statement: “Cloud Spanner allows synchronous replication which enables the
data to be updated to all zones or regions after a negligible delay”
a) True
b) False

Correct Answer: (b)

Detailed Solution: In synchronous replication, data is updated to all zones or regions instantly.

QUESTION 10:

Cloud storage are generally used for:

a) Maintaining data for analytics and general compute
b) Content delivery
c) Service orchestration
d) Backup and archival

Correct Answer: (a, b, and d)

Detailed Solution: Although the cloud storage is used for other three purposes, service
orchestration is not related to storage device