The aim of this module is to understand Google’s five primary core products in Cloud Storage: Cloud Storage, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, and Firestore, which were discussed in this section.
The outcome of Learning:
- Define the Cloud Storage resource and use cases.
- Differentiate between storage offered by Google Clouds.
STORAGE IN THE CLOUD
1. Which statement describes the correct Cloud Storage use case?
- Cloud Storage provides the root file system of a Linux virtual machine.
- Cloud Storage provides durable and highly available object storage. (Correct)
- Cloud Storage provides data warehousing services.
- Cloud Storage provides RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) services.
2. Why would a customer consider the Coldline Storage class?
- To improve security
- To save money on storing frequently accessed data
- To use the Coldline Storage API
- To save money on storing infrequently accessed data (Correct)
3. Which database service can scale to higher database sizes?
- Cloud SQL
- Cloud Spanner (Correct)
- Bigtable
- Firestore
4. How are Firestore and Bigtable alike? (Select two answers.)
- They are both highly scalable. (Correct)
- They both have a free daily quota.
- They are both NoSQL databases. (Correct)
- They both offer SQL-like queries.
5. You manufacture devices with sensors and need to stream huge amounts of data from these devices to a storage option in the cloud. Which storage option is the best choice for your application?
- Bigtable (Correct)
- Cloud Spanner
- BigQuery
- Firestore
6. Your application needs to store data with strong transactional consistency, and you want seamless scaling up. Which storage option is the best choice for your application?
- Cloud Spanner (Correct)
- Firestore
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud SQL