CDL sample questions with answers
The other 87 questions are in the practice tool, with answers revealed as you go.
Start 20 questionsDigital transformation with Google Cloud
- A procurement manager asks why a platform built on publicly documented specifications matters for future flexibility. Which answer is correct?
- A development team wants to ship a web application without patching operating systems or managing scaling servers. Which statement correctly contrasts PaaS and IaaS?
- A company wants to move a containerized application between its own data center and two public clouds without rewriting it. Which Google Cloud practice best reflects the freedom benefit?
Exploring data transformation
- A film studio archives raw footage, rendered clips and nightly system snapshots, mostly as large binary files that are rarely queried by row. Which service should hold this archive?
- A social app stores user profiles, each with nested collections of posts and comments, and different users have different fields. The developers do not want to define rigid table schemas. Which database type suits this workload?
- A data engineering group already writes its nightly ETL as Python DAGs for an open-source scheduler. They want Google to run and patch that scheduler so they can keep the same DAG code. Which managed service should they use?
- A bank holds customer data in several BigQuery datasets and Cloud Storage lakes owned by different teams. It wants one governance layer that catalogs these assets, tracks data quality and applies consistent security policies across them. Which service fits?
Innovating with AI
- A developer wants to write their own neural network code, train it, and then run the same code on a laptop or on TPU pods. Which Google-originated tool is designed for this?
- A bank wants its call-center software to produce a live written transcript while a customer is still speaking. Which API should the software call?
- A travel app wants user reviews written in many languages to appear in each reader's language as the page loads. Which Google Cloud service provides this?
Modernizing infrastructure and applications
Trust and security
- A security lead wants one console that aggregates misconfigurations, vulnerability findings and threat detections from every project in the organization. Which Google Cloud service provides this?
- A clinic's IT director plans to host electronic health records on Google Cloud and needs documentation proving the platform can support healthcare privacy obligations before legal approves the project. What should the director obtain?