Learning Objectives:
- Learning Modules will touch all aspects of deploying Google Cloud infrastructure using Terraform’s automated processes.
- Understand how to navigate the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Understand the managed services in Google Cloud for data processing.
INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION
1. What’s the benefit of writing templates for your Terraform configuration?
- Allows you to abstract part of your configuration into individual building blocks that you can reuse (CORRECT)
- Allows you to run configuration management software.
- Allows you to hardcode properties for your resources
Correct: Once the template is created, you can use it in multiple deployments, as per the need. Also, if you find that the same part of the configuration is being written repeatedly, all the common pieces may be made into a template, thus enhancing the efficiency and consistency of the writing.
2. What does Google Cloud Marketplace offer?
- A centralized billing platform for all Google Cloud services and applications
- Production-grade solutions from third-party vendors who have already created their own deployment configurations based on Terraform (CORRECT)
- A platform for trading VM instances
Correct: With the Google Cloud Marketplace, there are scalable production solutions from third-party vendors. It provides a predefined deployment configuration using Terraform that allows the users to quickly deploy the solution without manual configuration of the infrastructure in their Google Cloud environment.
MANAGED SERVICES
1. How are Managed Services useful?
- Managed Services may be an alternative to creating and managing infrastructure solutions. (CORRECT)
- If you have an existing infrastructure service, Google will manage it for you if you purchase a Managed Services contract.
- Managed Services are more customizable than infrastructure solutions.
- Managed Services are pay services offered by 3rd party vendors.
Correct: The managed services convert into another option for creating your own infrastructure with respect to data processing. It will take care of the hassle of managing the infrastructure so that you can only concentrate on your application and still benefit from scalable, reliable, and secure solutions for data processing.
2. Which of the following is a feature of Dataproc?
- It doesn’t integrate with Cloud Monitoring, but it has its own monitoring system.
- It typically takes less than 90 seconds to start a cluster. (CORRECT)
- Dataproc billing occurs in 10-hour intervals.
- Dataproc allows full control over HDFS advanced settings.
Correct: Managed services quick-start a cluster and get you set up, so you can take your time and effort out of manual infrastructure provisioning-always move forward faster and get up quicker with a fully programmable and scalable resource.