Hard CDL practice questions
Challenge — multi-step scenarios, trade-offs, and subtle distinctions. 3 hard questions available — no sign-up, always free.
A retail company runs dozens of microservices across multiple GKE clusters. Their operations team struggles to understand how services communicate, apply consistent traffic policies (like retries and circuit breaking), and secure service-to-service communication with mutual TLS—all without modifying application code. Which GKE Enterprise capability best addresses these needs?
A global financial services company is launching a new payment platform that must serve customers across multiple continents. The database must support ACID transactions, scale horizontally to handle millions of transactions, and maintain strong consistency across all regions without downtime. Which Google Cloud database service best meets these requirements?
A healthcare company stores sensitive patient records in BigQuery and Cloud Storage. Their security team is worried that a compromised user credential or a misconfigured IAM policy could allow an insider to copy data to a personal project outside the organization. They want to create a security perimeter around these services so that data cannot be moved outside approved boundaries, even by users with valid access. Which Google Cloud capability best addresses this concern?