Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - Storage in the Cloud (Module 04 Quizes and Answers)

1. What is the correct use case for Cloud Storage?

• Cloud Storage is well suited to providing the root file system of a Linux virtual machine.
• Cloud Storage is well suited to providing RDBMS services.
• Cloud Storage is well suited to providing durable and highly available object storage.
• Cloud Storage is well suited to providing data warehousing services.

That's correct! Cloud Storage is object storage rather than file storage.

2. Which relational database service can scale to higher database sizes?

• Cloud SQL
• Bigtable
• Spanner
• Firestore

Correct! Spanner can scale to petabyte database sizes, while Cloud SQL is limited by the size of the database instances you choose. At the time this quiz was created, the maximum was 64TB.

3. Why would a customer consider the Coldline storage class?

• To save money on storing infrequently accessed data.
• To use the Coldline Storage API.
• To save money on storing frequently accessed data.
• To improve security.

That's correct! Data stored in Coldline is billed at a low monthly storage rate, although a fee is assessed on retrievals.