[NEW] Cloud Digital Leader

Course DescriptionDetailed Exam Domain CoverageI designed this course to strictly align with the official Google Cloud Digital Leader exam guide. You will be tested on the following four core domains:General cloud knowledge (10%) Topics include fundamental cloud terminology, Google Cloud products and solutions that support digital transformation, cloud computing models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), benefits of cloud adoption such as scalability and cost efficiency, and basic concepts of cloud security and operations.Innovating with data and Google Cloud (30%) Topics include data analytics services (BigQuery, Looker, Data Studio), data storage options (Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Firestore, Cloud Spanner), machine learning and AI services (Vertex AI, AutoML), building data pipelines and processing workflows, and leveraging data to drive business insights and innovation.Modernizing infrastructure and applications with Google Cloud (30%) Topics include compute services (Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, App Engine), application modernization strategies and migration paths, serverless and containerization approaches, DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code and automation.Understanding Google Cloud security and operations (30%) Topics include the shared responsibility model and security fundamentals, Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices, monitoring, logging, and incident response, operational excellence and reliability (SRE, DevOps), along with compliance, governance, and cost management.This practice test course provides a realistic testing environment to ensure you are fully prepared to pass your certification. I have carefully crafted these questions to reflect the difficulty and format of the real exam, ensuring you understand not just the correct answers, but the concepts behind them.Practice Questions PreviewBelow are three sample questions from the course to give you a clear idea of the detailed format and explanations provided:Question 1: A retail company wants to run serverless, highly scalable analytics on petabytes of historical sales data using standard SQL without managing any underlying infrastructure. Which Google Cloud service should I recommend?A) Cloud SQLB) Cloud SpannerC) BigQueryD) Cloud StorageE) Compute EngineF) FirestoreCorrect Answer: C) BigQueryExplanation:A is incorrect: Cloud SQL is a managed relational database service for local, regional, or traditional application workloads, not a petabyte-scale analytics data warehouse.B is incorrect: Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical, relational database built for global scale and high consistency, but it is meant for transactional (OLTP) workloads, not primarily for analytical (OLAP) processing.C is correct: BigQuery is Google Cloud’s fully managed, serverless, highly scalable data warehouse designed specifically to run analytical queries on petabytes of data using standard SQL.D is incorrect: Cloud Storage is an object storage service for unstructured data (like images and backups), not a SQL-based analytics engine.E is incorrect: Compute Engine provides raw virtual machines. It is not a serverless service, and you would have to manually build, configure, and scale your own database infrastructure.F is incorrect: Firestore is a scalable NoSQL document database for mobile and web applications, not a data warehouse for heavy SQL analytics.Question 2: An organization wants to deploy modern, containerized web applications but does not want to provision, manage, or upgrade the underlying server clusters. Which Google Cloud service provides a fully managed, serverless environment specifically for running containers?A) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)B) Cloud RunC) App EngineD) Cloud FunctionsE) Bare Metal SolutionF) Compute EngineCorrect Answer: B) Cloud RunExplanation:A is incorrect: While GKE runs containers, standard GKE requires you to manage the underlying node pools and Kubernetes clusters (though Autopilot removes some overhead, Cloud Run is the definitive serverless container option).B is correct: Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform that automatically scales your stateless containers without you having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.C is incorrect: App Engine is a PaaS for hosting web applications but is generally geared toward deploying code rather than arbitrary containerized applications (though the flexible environment uses containers, Cloud Run is the primary serverless container product).D is incorrect: Cloud Functions is a serverless execution environment for single-purpose, event-driven functions (code), rather than full containerized applications.E is incorrect: Bare Metal Solution provides dedicated physical servers to run specialized workloads (like Oracle databases) and requires heavy manual management.F is incorrect: Compute Engine provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) virtual machines, which require full management of the OS and container runtime.Question 3: According to the Google Cloud shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks is strictly Google's responsibility, regardless of whether you are using an IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS computing model?A) Configuring identity and access management (IAM) policiesB) Securing the physical hardware and data centersC) Patching the guest operating systemD) Encrypting application data using customer-managed keysE) Writing secure application codeF) Managing network firewalls and routing rulesCorrect Answer: B) Securing the physical hardware and data centersExplanation:A is incorrect: Managing IAM policies and determining who has access to your cloud resources is always the responsibility of the customer.B is correct: In every cloud model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), the cloud provider (Google) is responsible for the physical security of the data centers, hardware, and network infrastructure.C is incorrect: In an IaaS model (like Compute Engine), patching the guest OS is the customer's responsibility.D is incorrect: Managing and utilizing customer-managed encryption keys for data protection falls under the customer's responsibility.E is incorrect: Ensuring that application code is free of vulnerabilities is always the customer's responsibility.F is incorrect: Configuring VPCs, firewalls, and routing rules is a customer responsibility, especially in IaaS and PaaS deployments.Welcome to the Mock Exam Practice Tests Academy to help you prepare for your Google Cloud Digital Leader certification.You can retake the exams as many times as you want.This is a huge original question bank.You get support from me if you have questions.Each question has a detailed explanation.Mobile-compatible with the Udemy app.I hope that by now you're convinced! And there are a lot more questions inside the course.