Google Cloud Platform: GCP Essentials
Google Cloud Platform: GCP Essentials
Up to 20 questions, shuffled on every run
Welcome to the GCP Basics Quiz! Google Cloud Platform is known for its incredible networking and industry-standard Kubernetes implementation. This quiz will test your knowledge of how Google organizes resources, its core compute and storage offerings, and the security model that keeps it all running. Good luck!
Answer key and explanations20 questions
The quiz above draws 20 questions at random from these 30, so a second attempt will not be the same run. Everything in the pool is listed here.
In GCP, what is the base level of the resource hierarchy that is required to use any service?
AnswerThe Project level for resources
What is "Compute Engine" in GCP?
AnswerA Virtual Machine service
What does "GKE" stand for?
AnswerGoogle Kubernetes Engine
Which storage service is best for storing unstructured data like images and logs?
AnswerCloud Storage objects
In GCP IAM, what is a "Service Account"?
AnswerAn identity for applications
What is the "Google Cloud SDK" (gcloud)?
AnswerA command-line toolset
What is "Cloud Run"?
AnswerA serverless container platform
What is "IAM" in Google Cloud?
AnswerIdentity and Access Management
What is a "VPC" (Virtual Private Cloud) in GCP?
AnswerA global virtual network
What is "Cloud SQL"?
AnswerA managed relational database
What is "Preemptible VMs" (or Spot VMs)?
AnswerLow-cost, ephemeral instances
What is "BigQuery"?
AnswerA serverless data warehouse
What is "Cloud Functions"?
AnswerServerless event-driven code
What is "Cloud Build"?
AnswerA CI/CD automation service
What is "Identity-Aware Proxy" (IAP)?
AnswerA zero-trust access gateway
What is "Google Cloud Operations Suite"?
AnswerA monitoring and logging suite
What is "Pub/Sub"?
AnswerAn asynchronous messaging bus
What is "App Engine"?
AnswerA serverless web app platform
What is "Cloud Spanner"?
AnswerA global relational database
What is "Deployment Manager"?
AnswerAn Infrastructure as Code tool
What is "Secret Manager"?
AnswerA vault for API keys and secrets
What is "Anthos"?
AnswerA multi-cloud management suite
What is "Cloud Armor"?
AnswerA DDoS and WAF security service
What is "Cloud Load Balancing"?
AnswerA global traffic distributor
What is "Artifact Registry"?
AnswerA container and package store
What is "Cloud Shell" in GCP?
AnswerA browser-based CLI and editor
What is "Billing Account"?
AnswerThe payment source for projects
What is "Cloud CDN"?
AnswerA global content delivery network
What is "Quotas" in GCP?
AnswerA set of resource usage limits
What is "Cloud Console"?
AnswerA web-based management GUI
