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GCP-CDL English PDF practice questions: 289 questions in source order, with options supported by the source format, answers and available explanations. Access covers this exam only. One-time payment; no automatic renewal.

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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
Official exam languages
English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French

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289 total questions

Questions follow the source order. Expand each answer to see its explanation.

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Question 11

Question#11Topic1

Your organization stores highly sensitive data on-premises that cannot be sent over the public internet. The data must be processed both on-premises and in the cloud.
What should your organization do?

  1. A. Configure Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) in your Google Cloud VPC network
  2. B. Create a Cloud VPN tunnel between Google Cloud and your data center
  3. C. Order a Partner Interconnect connection with your network provider
  4. D. Enable Private Google Access in your Google Cloud VPC network
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Answer

C

Explanation

After the service provider provisions your connection, you can start passing traffic between your networks by using the service provider's network.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/interconnect/concepts/partner-overview
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Question 12

Question#12Topic1

Your company's development team is building an application that will be deployed on Cloud Run. You are designing a CI/CD pipeline so that any new version of the application can be deployed in the fewest number of steps possible using the CI/CD pipeline you are designing. You need to select a storage location for the images of the application after the CI part of your pipeline has built them.
What should you do?

  1. A. Create a Compute Engine image containing the application
  2. B. Store the images in Container Registry
  3. C. Store the images in Cloud Storage
  4. D. Create a Compute Engine disk containing the application
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Answer

B

Explanation

Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/pushing-and-pulling
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Question 13

Question#13Topic1

Each of the three cloud service models - infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) - offers benefits between flexibility and levels of management by the cloud provider and the customer.
Why would SaaS be the right choice of service model?

  1. A. You want a balance between flexibility for the customer and the level of management by the cloud provider
  2. B. You want to minimize the level of management by the customer
  3. C. You want to maximize flexibility for the customer.
  4. D. You want to be able to shift your emphasis between flexibility and management by the cloud provider as business needs change
Show answer and explanation

Answer

B

Explanation

Benefits of SaaS -
The main benefit of SaaS is that it offloads all infrastructure and application management to the SaaS vendor.
Reference:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/iaas-paas-saas
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Question 14

Question#14Topic1

As your organization increases its release velocity, the VM-based application upgrades take a long time to perform rolling updates due to OS boot times. You need to make the application deployments faster.
What should your organization do?

  1. A. Migrate your VMs to the cloud, and add more resources to them
  2. B. Convert your applications into containers
  3. C. Increase the resources of your VMs
  4. D. Automate your upgrade rollouts
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Answer

B

Question 15

Question#15Topic1

Your organization uses Active Directory to authenticate users. Users' Google account access must be removed when their Active Directory account is terminated.
How should your organization meet this requirement?

  1. A. Configure two-factor authentication in the Google domain
  2. B. Remove the Google account from all IAM policies
  3. C. Configure BeyondCorp and Identity-Aware Proxy in the Google domain
  4. D. Configure single sign-on in the Google domain
Show answer

Answer

D

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