- (Topic 3)
How would a global organization benefit from managing their data with Cloud Spanner?

1. A. Cloud Spanner is optimized for cold storage
2. B. Cloud Spanner replicates data across regions in real time
3. C. Cloud Spanner is optimized to ingest unstructured data
4. D. Cloud Spanner visualizes and analyzes data in real time

Correct Answer: B
Spanner is Google's scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database.

- (Topic 1)
Your organization needs to establish private network connectivity between its on-premises network and its workloads running in Google Cloud. You need to be able to set up the connection as soon as possible.
Which Google Cloud product or feature should you use?

1. A. Cloud Interconnect
2. B. Direct Peering
3. C. Cloud VPN
4. D. Cloud CDN

Correct Answer: A
Private Google Access for on-premises hosts provides a way for on-premises systems to connect to Google APIs and services by routing traffic through a Cloud VPN tunnel. Reference: https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/configure-private-google-access-hybrid

- (Topic 2)
When creating machine learning models, a key initial step is to identify the type of model required. One of these is the classification model. Which of these statements define a classification model?

1. A. A type of machine learning model for distinguishing among two or more discrete value
2. B. E.
3. C. "book", "car".
4. D. A type of machine learning model is a meta-model maker, which classifies algo-rithms based on the quality of their output.
5. E. A type of machine learning model that outputs continuous (typically, floating-point) value
6. F. E.
7. G. the predicted price of the house is $120,000.
8. H. A type of classic model approach that is less used today and which has been re-placed by the regression model.

Correct Answer: A
A classification model classifies the incoming data into one or more discrete classes.

- (Topic 1)
Your organization wants an economical solution to store data such as files, graphical images, and videos and to access and share them securely.
Which Google Cloud product or service should your organization use?

1. A. Cloud Storage
2. B. Cloud SQL
3. C. Cloud Spanner
4. D. BigQuery

Correct Answer: A
- Google Storage is GCP's version of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) and an S3 bucket would be equivalent to a Google Storage bucket across the two clouds

- (Topic 3)
An organization is struggling to meet user demand for change and wants to modernize their legacy applications by moving the applications to the cloud
Why would this help the organization satisfy user expectations'?

1. A. Toil automation helps make automatic updates
2. B. Updates can be pushed out more quickly to repair bugs
3. C. Customer data can be used to offer tailored content
4. D. DevOps requires that industry trends be measured and tracked

Correct Answer: B
Moving legacy applications to the cloud can help organizations satisfy user expectations by enabling them to push out updates more quickly to repair bugs.