About This Flashcard Deck
This flashcard deck contains 10 cards covering key Cloud Digital Leader concepts for the CDL exam. Test your GCP Cloud Digital Leader knowledge. Use active recall by attempting to answer each question before revealing the answer.
Question
What is BigQuery?
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Answer
A serverless, petabyte-scale data warehouse that runs fast SQL analytics. No infrastructure to manage.
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All Cloud Digital Leader Flashcards
Q: What is BigQuery?
A: A serverless, petabyte-scale data warehouse that runs fast SQL analytics. No infrastructure to manage.
Q: What is the shared responsibility model?
A: Google manages security OF the cloud (infrastructure). Customer manages security IN the cloud (data, access, configurations).
Q: What is Cloud Run?
A: A fully managed serverless platform that runs stateless containers. Scales to zero. Pay per request.
Q: What is Anthos?
A: Google's hybrid/multi-cloud platform that lets you run applications on GCP, on-premises, or other clouds using Kubernetes.
Q: What are the 4 Cloud Storage classes?
A: Standard (frequent access), Nearline (30-day minimum), Coldline (90-day minimum), Archive (365-day minimum). Lower cost = less frequent access.
Q: What is Vertex AI?
A: Google Cloud's unified ML platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.
Q: What is the difference between Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner?
A: Cloud SQL: managed regional relational DB (MySQL/PostgreSQL). Cloud Spanner: globally distributed, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational DB.
Q: What is GKE?
A: Google Kubernetes Engine — managed Kubernetes service for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications.
Q: What is Pub/Sub?
A: A fully managed real-time messaging service for event-driven architectures. Publishers send messages, subscribers receive them asynchronously.
Q: What is Cloud IAM?
A: Identity and Access Management — controls who (identity) can do what (role) on which resource. Uses principle of least privilege.
GCP Flashcard Study Approach
Google Cloud exams emphasise service selection and architecture decisions. Use these flashcards to build instant recall of GCP service capabilities, then apply that knowledge to scenario-based practice questions. Pay special attention to cards about managed vs. unmanaged services and serverless options — GCP strongly favours managed and serverless architectures in their exam scenarios.