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Exam code
GCP-CDL
Official exam / credential
Google Cloud Digital Leader
Exam format
50–60 single-answer and multiple-select questions (standard exam)
Exam duration
90 minutes
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English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French

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289 total questions

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Question 6

Question#6Topic1

Your organization runs a distributed application in the Compute Engine virtual machines. Your organization needs redundancy, but it also needs extremely fast communication (less than 10 milliseconds) between the parts of the application in different virtual machines.
Where should your organization locate this virtual machines?

  1. A. In a single zone within a single region
  2. B. In different zones within a single region
  3. C. In multiple regions, using one zone per region
  4. D. In multiple regions, using multiple zones per region
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Answer

B

Explanation

it guarantees a latency of ~10 milliseconds is maintained, well also giving the redundancy of multi-zone. If it was D, we could not guarantee 10 milliseconds between the different regions.

Question 7

Question#7Topic1

An organization decides to migrate their on-premises environment to the cloud. They need to determine which resource components still need to be assigned ownership.
Which two functions does a public cloud provider own? (Choose two.)

  1. A. Hardware maintenance
  2. B. Infrastructure architecture
  3. C. Infrastructure deployment automation
  4. D. Hardware capacity management
  5. E. Fixing application security issues
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Answer

AD

Question 8

Question#8Topic1

You are a program manager within a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that offers rendering software for animation studios. Your team needs the ability to allow scenes to be scheduled at will and to be interrupted at any time to restart later. Any individual scene rendering takes less than 12 hours to complete, and there is no service-level agreement (SLA) for the completion time for all scenes. Results will be stored in a global Cloud Storage bucket. The compute resources are not bound to any single geographical location. This software needs to run on Google Cloud in a cost-optimized way.
What should you do?

  1. A. Deploy the application on Compute Engine using preemptible instances
  2. B. Develop the application so it can run in an unmanaged instance group
  3. C. Create a reservation for the minimum number of Compute Engine instances you will use
  4. D. Start more instances with fewer virtual centralized processing units (vCPUs) instead of fewer instances with more vCPUs
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Answer

A

Question 9

Question#9Topic1

Your manager wants to restrict communication of all virtual machines with internet access; with resources in another network; or with a resource outside Compute
Engine. It is expected that different teams will create new folders and projects in the near future.
How would you restrict all virtual machines from having an external IP address?

  1. A. Define an organization policy at the root organization node to restrict virtual machine instances from having an external IP address
  2. B. Define an organization policy on all existing folders to define a constraint to restrict virtual machine instances from having an external IP address
  3. C. Define an organization policy on all existing projects to restrict virtual machine instances from having an external IP address
  4. D. Communicate with the different teams and agree that each time a virtual machine is created, it must be configured without an external IP address
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Answer

A

Explanation

Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/organization-policy/overview
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Question 10

Question#10Topic1

Your multinational organization has servers running mission-critical workloads on its premises around the world. You want to be able to manage these workloads consistently and centrally, and you want to stop managing infrastructure.
What should your organization do?

  1. A. Migrate the workloads to a public cloud
  2. B. Migrate the workloads to a central office building
  3. C. Migrate the workloads to multiple local co-location facilities
  4. D. Migrate the workloads to multiple local private clouds
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Answer

A

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