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This document contains 10 multiple choice questions from an online certification course on Google Cloud Computing Foundations offered by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur between July and October 2023. The questions cover topics like the capabilities of CloudSQL and Cloud Storage, use cases for services like Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Spanner, and properties of Cloud Datastore and NoSQL databases.

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Week 03 Assignment Solution

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions from an online certification course on Google Cloud Computing Foundations offered by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur between July and October 2023. The questions cover topics like the capabilities of CloudSQL and Cloud Storage, use cases for services like Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Spanner, and properties of Cloud Datastore and NoSQL databases.

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NPTEL Online Certification Courses

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Google Cloud Computing Foundations


(Jul-Oct 2023)
Assignment- Week 3
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10

QUESTION 1:

CloudSQL can scale upto _____ processor core and ______ of storage capacity?

a) 64, 16TB
b) 64, 10TB
c) 32, 10TB
d) 32, 16TB

Correct Answer: (b)


Detailed Solution: CloudSQL can scale upto 64 processor core and 10TB of storage capacity

QUESTION 2:

Which of the following requirements is the best choice for coldline storage?
a) Data analytics and machine learning
b) Frequently accessed data
c) Disaster recovery
d) Data archival

Correct Answer: (c and d)


Detailed Solution: Both disaster recovery and data archival are better suited into coldline storage

QUESTION 3:

Which of the following filesystems is used by the Google Bigtable?

a) Google Storage
b) Hadoop
c) Map reduce
d) Colossus

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Correct Answer: (d)


Detailed Solution: Cloud Bigtable uses Colossus file system.

QUESTION 4:

Choose the correct mapping


I. Cloud Storage A. Relational database
II. Cloud Spanner B. Non-relational database
III. Bigquery C. Data warehouse
IV. Cloud Bigtable D. Object datastore
a) I-B, II-D, III-C, IV-A
b) I-B, II-A, III-D, IV-C
c) I-D, II-A, III-B, IV-C
d) I-D, II-A, III-C, IV-B

Correct Answer: (d)


Detailed Solution: Cloud storage is an unstructured object datastore to keep images, videos, audios,
files etc. Cloud spanner is a relational database, Bigquery is a data warehousing solution, and Bigtable
is a non-relational database

QUESTION 5:

How many minimum number of nodes are required for cloud spanner instance
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

Correct Answer: (c)


Detailed Solution: Minimum 3 nodes are required in cloud spanner instance.

QUESTION 6:

Which of the following is/are some of the best use cases of cloud bigtable?
a) MapReduce operations.
b) Real time analytics
c) Long term storage
d) Data lake

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Correct Answer: (a,b)


Detailed Solution: Google built Cloud Bigtable to handle millions of requests per second in a
performant and low latency way. MapReduce operations, Real time analytics, tracking thousands of
IoT sensor data are some of the best use cases of cloud bigtable. Cloud Bigtable isn't a good
solution for long term storage, data lake, when you need complex queries.

QUESTION 7:

Which of the following properties are applicable for Cloud Datastore?


a) Schemaless
b) Relational
c) Self-managed
d) Serverless

Correct Answer: (a and d)


Detailed Solution: Cloud Datastore is a non-relational database and therefore it is schemaless. It is
offered as a PaaS and no server is required.

QUESTION 8:

Which of the following is NOT a type of NoSQL database?


a) Key-value stores.
b) Relational databases.
c) Document databases.
d) Graph databases.

Correct Answer: (b)


Detailed Solution: The four main types of NoSQL databases are key-value stores, document
databases, wide-column stores, and graph databases.

QUESTION 9:

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Consider the following statement: “Cloud Spanner allows synchronous replication which enables the
data to be updated to all zones or regions after a negligible delay”
a) True
b) False

Correct Answer: (b)


Detailed Solution: In synchronous replication, data is updated to all zones or regions instantly.

QUESTION 10:

Cloud storage are generally used for:


a) Maintaining data for analytics and general compute
b) Content delivery
c) Service orchestration
d) Backup and archival

Correct Answer: (a, b, and d)


Detailed Solution: Although the cloud storage is used for other three purposes, service
orchestration is not related to storage device

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