Quite profoundly mentioned in this part, the benefits attached to using Google Cloud. Components of Google’s network infrastructure make the discussion dissimilarities between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Learning Objectives:
Recognize the advantages one can derive by using Google Cloud.
Define components of Google’s network infrastructure: Points of Presence, data centers, regions, and zones.
Distinguish between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
INTRODUCING GOOGLE CLOUD
1. Select two fundamental characteristics of cloud computing from this list.
- Providers always dedicate physical resources to each customer.
- Customers can scale their resource use up and down. (Correct)
- Resources are available from anywhere over the network. (Correct)
- All resources are open source.
- Customers are required to commit to multi-year contracts.
2. Which one of the following statements is true regarding the ability to scale cloud computing resources up and down?
- Only CPU and memory resources are elastic.
- CPU, memory, and storage resources are elastic. (Correct)
- Only storage resources are elastic.
- Cloud computing does not provide a way to scale resources.
3. What cloud computing service binds application code to libraries that give access to the infrastructure an application needs?
- Software as a service
- Virtualized data centers
- Platform as a service (Correct)
- Hybrid cloud
- Infrastructure as a service
4. What cloud computing service provides raw compute, storage, and network resources that are organized similarly to physical data centers?
- Software as a service
- Database as a service
- Infrastructure as a service (Correct)
- Platform as a service
5. Why might a Google Cloud customer use resources in several zones within a region?
- For expanding services to customers in new areas
- For better performance
- For improved fault tolerance (Correct)
- For getting discounts on other zones
6. Who benefits the most from billing by the second for cloud resources, such as virtual machines?
- Customers who create many virtual machines and leave them running for months
- Customers who create and run many virtual machines (Correct)
- Customers who create virtual machines that run commercially licensed operating systems
- Customers who create too few virtual machines to get discounts