awesome-gcp-interview

Repercussion of my disastrous Google Cloud Platform interview for a job I really wanted.

Topics:

Core GCP Topics

• Cloud Computing
  
• APIs and Services
  
• Billing
  
• IAM and Admin
  
• App Engine
  
• Compute Engine
  
• Kubernetes Engine
  
• Cloud Functions
  
• Cloud Run
  
• Cloud Storage
  
• Cloud SQL
  
• Cloud Spanner
  
• VPC Networks and Firewalls
  
• Load Balancing
  
• Stackdriver
  
• Development Tools
  
• Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam
  
• BigQuery
  
• Pub/Sub
  
• Dataproc
  
• AI Platform
  
• Cloud AutoML and Machine Learning APIs
  
• Cloud Shell and Cloud SDK
  
• Client Libraries
  

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Cloud Computing

What is Cloud Computing?

The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.

What is virtualisation?

What are some advantages of cloud computing?

TODO

What are the cloud computing models available today?

• IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
  
• PaaS - Platform as a Service
  
• SaaS - Software as a Service
  

What is Infrastructure as a Service?

Infrastructure as a service is a form of cloud computing where bare computing resources such as compute, memory, network and storage are provisioned over the internet.

What is Platform as a Service?

TODO

What is Software as a Service?

TODO

What are public cloud providers?

What are private cloud providers?

Name some public cloud providers.

Name some private cloud providers.

Name some IaaS providers.

Name some PaaS providers.

Name some SaaS providers.

What is serverless computing?

Name some serverless platforms.

What is Container as a Service?

What is Function as a Service?

What is Backend as a Service?

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APIs and Services

How do you enable an API in Google Cloud Platform?

How can you access private GCP data via API?

How can you restrict access scopes for your API key?

What do client key and client credentials signify?

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Billing

What is a billing account associated with?

How can you setup billing alerts?

What are the billing export sinks?

How can you analyse your billing data?

True or False: A project can have more than one billing accounts.

How can I transfer a project from one billing account to another?

Billing account roles are assigned at what level of the resource hierarchy?

What billing account role would you assign to the CTO of your company?

What billing account role would you assign to the CFO of your company?

True or False. Billing data cannot be analysed in Google BigQuery.

How can you set up notifications for your billing account?

True or False. Google will stop serving API requests after budget is exceeded

True or False. No matter the size of organization, even large enterprises have to sign up using a credit card.

On what parameters can billing alerts be set?

How can you estimate billing costs for your newly setup BigTable cluster?

You've a BigQuery table in a new project that you query infrequently. The total size of the table is 8.5 GB. What will be the associated costs at the end of the month?

True or False. You can continue to use your $300 credits from trial after 12 months.

True or False. You need a credit card to evaluate Google BigQuery.

How can you incorporate GCP billing data with your company's custom pre-existing finances app?

After setting up billing exports, the bill is higher than originally estimated. What did you miss?

Extending Google Cloud:

Clouds are big. These are extended topics that will find their way in a GCP interview.

Kubernetes
Containers and Docker
Linux
DevOps Networking
Security and Authorization
Machine Learning