Why This Cheat Sheet Matters for CDL
This cheat sheet covers the most important Compute Services concepts tested on the CDL (Cloud Digital Leader) certification exam. It contains 1 sections with 6 key points. Use this as a quick-reference guide during your final review sessions.
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6Key Points
Compute Spectrum
- Compute Engine: IaaS — full control over VMs, custom machine types, GPUs.
- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine): managed Kubernetes for containerized workloads.
- Cloud Run: fully managed serverless platform for containers. Pay per request.
- App Engine: PaaS — deploy code without managing infrastructure. Standard (sandboxed) or Flexible (Docker).
- Cloud Functions: FaaS — event-driven serverless functions. Pay per invocation.
- Choose: more control (left) ↔ more managed (right).
Practice Compute Services Questions
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Google Cloud Service Quick Reference
GCP organises services around Compute (GCE, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions), Storage (Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, Filestore), Databases (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, BigQuery), and Networking (VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud Interconnect). Knowing which service fits each use case is essential for passing GCP exams.