- (Exam Topic 1)
Your organization wants to optimize its use of Google Cloud’s discounts on virtual machine-based workloads. You plan to use 200 CPUs constantly for the next 3 years, and you forecast that spikes of up to 300 CPUs will occur approximately 30% of the time. What should you choose?

1. A. 1-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs
2. B. 3-year committed use discount for 300 CPUs
3. C. 3-year committed use discount for 200 CPUs
4. D. Regular pay-as-you-go pricing

Correct Answer: C
you can get a 57% discount by agreeing to commit to a 3-year contract. Any usage over the commitment will just be billed at the standard rate. Since they only need 300 CPUs 30% of the time, will pick answer C so that we are not paying usage off 300 CPUs all of the time. This gives us a discount of 57% for 200 CPU's, huge cost savings.

- (Exam Topic 2)
A customer has an application running in virtual machines. They are migrating this application to Google Cloud. They have previously had scaling issues when on-premises as VMs had to be pre-allocated. Capacity planning was repeatedly off mark - it's either too many VMs or too less. They want to match the capacity to demand while keeping the application running always. They don't have the time or budget to re-architect the systems using containers and Kubernetes at the mo-ment. What would be your recommendation?

1. A. Run a load test on Compute Engine VM
2. B. Get an estimate of usag
3. C. Then plan for a VM capacity of 25% above the load test value.
4. D. Use the Managed Instance Group with Compute Engine
5. E. Inform them that new-age companies are using microservices, containers, and Kubernetes for this and they can plan to rewrite the app quickly.
6. F. Inform them that using a serverless option will take care of the scaling and they can move to Cloud Run or App Engine.

Correct Answer: B
Scalability. When your apps require additional compute resources, autoscaled MIGs can automatically grow the number of instances in the group to meet demand. If demand drops, autoscaled MIGs can automatically shrink to reduce your costs

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups

- (Exam Topic 1)
Your organization needs to analyze data in order to gather insights into its daily operations. You only want to pay for the data you store and the queries you perform. Which Google Cloud product should your organization choose for its data analytics warehouse?

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

Correct Answer: D
BigQuery is an enterprise data warehouse for large amounts of relational structured data Serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective multicloud data warehouse designed for business agility.

- (Exam Topic 3)
An organization recently launched a virtual customer support agent, generating vast amounts of text and speech data.
Why should they use a cloud data warehouse to interpret this data?

1. A. To natively visualize both types of data using a dashboard in real time
2. B. To ingest and analyze structured and unstructured data at scale, in real time
3. C. To secure data transmission between cloud and on-premises environments
4. D. To transform data from structured to unstructured

Correct Answer: B
Real-time data ingestion and updates. A simple and universal solution for continually ingesting your enterprise data into popular cloud-based data warehouses in real time.
https://www.qlik.com/us/cloud-data-migration/cloud-data-warehouse

- (Exam Topic 3)
An organization needs to migrate specialized workloads to the cloud while maintaining their existing complex licensing and architecture.
What Google Cloud solution should the organization use?

1. A. Compute Engine
2. B. Bare Metal Solution
3. C. Cloud Run
4. D. Cloud Functions

Correct Answer: B
“This solution provides a path to modernize your application infrastructure landscape, while maintaining your existing investments and architecture. With Bare Metal Solution, you can bring your specialized workloads to Google Cloud, allowing you access and integration with GCP services with minimal latency.”