Cloud Digital Leader Sample Questions & Practice Exam for GCP Prep

Get ready for the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification with these updated sample questions and full-length practice exams. This exam prep material covers foundational cloud concepts, GCP services, business use cases, and digital transformation principles. Perfect for non-technical professionals and business leaders, these questions mirror real exam formats and help you gauge your readiness. Whether you're looking for free Cloud Digital Leader practice exams or topic-wise mock tests, this collection is tailored to improve understanding, reduce exam anxiety, and ensure certification success. Boost your Google Cloud knowledge and pass the Cloud Digital Leader exam with confidence.

Cloud Digital Leader Sample Questions List :

1. A fitness band company collects time-series data such as location, heartbeat rate, temperature, and movement from millions of users worldwide. The company requires a database solution that can handle high-speed data ingestion, scale geographically, and support near-real-time data visualizations. Which Google Cloud database service would be the most suitable option?

1. Spanner

2. Firestore

3. Cloud SQL

4. Bigtable

2. Your company wants to consolidate project costs onto a single monthly invoice, moving away from individual credit card expenses. What is the recommended action?

1. Configure BigQuery billing export and grant your finance department read access to the exported data.

2. Provide the finance team with the Billing Account User role on your personal credit card's billing account.

3. Reassign your projects to your company's existing Google Cloud billing account.

4. Request Google Cloud Billing Support to redirect invoices to your company.

3. How does a large hotel chain benefit from storing their customer reservation data in the cloud?

1. On-premises hardware access to transaction data

2. Real-time business transaction accuracy at scale

3. Physical hardware access during peak demand

4. Real-time data transformation at scale within an on-premises database

4. What is logging within the context of cloud technology?

1. Tracking source code across an organization

2. Recording infrastructure and hardware expenditure

3. Writing application and operating system events as text

4. Monitoring network and resource limitations

5. Your company security team manages access control to production systems using an LDAP directory group. How is this access control managed in the Google Cloud production project?

1. Assign the proper role to the Google Group in the project's IAM Policy.

2. Assign the proper role to the Service Account in the project's IAM Policy

3. Create the project in a folder with the same name as the LDAP directory group.

4. Grant each user the roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role on a service account that exists in the Google Group.

6. Customers are reporting very high latencies when accessing an application from the United States. The application is currently running in a single region in Europe. What should the organization do?

1. Run the application in additional regions in Europe.

2. Run the application in additional zones in the European region.

3. Set up a new billing account in the United States.

4. Run a replica of the application in a region in the United States.

7. Which scenario is a good use case for machine learning?

1. Solving ethical dilemmas

2. Tasks that require human experience and intuition

3. Classifying data with no prior examples

4. Creating customer recommendations

8. An organization is upgrading its vending machines with cloud-based mobile payment systems to address discrepancies between cash collected and items sold. What is a primary benefit they can expect from this upgrade?

1. Reducing overspending on their error budget.

2. Improving perimeter security of the vending machines.

3. Gaining visibility into transaction history.

4. Relaxing data access permissions for all employees.

9. How does the resource hierarchy in Google Cloud help organizations implement security policies?

1. Policies can be applied at the folder level and are inherited by projects inside the folder.

2. Policies can only be applied at the organization level and affect all projects.

3. Policies can only be applied to individual projects.

4. Projects in the resource hierarchy are not affected by security policies.

10. What is an organization responsible for when migrating from on-premises to the cloud?

1. Optimizing cloud storage systems

2. Adapting to a pay-as-you-go cloud expenditure model

3. Covering the cost of cloud service downtime

4. Managing underlying network infrastructure

11. Which Google Cloud service or feature lets you build machine learning models using Standard SQL and data in a data warehouse?

1. Cloud Bigtable ML

2. TensorFlow

3. BigQuery ML

4. AutoML Tables

12. An organization operates their entire IT infrastructure from Google Cloud. What should they do to prepare for data breaches?

1. Create an incident plan to mitigate impacts

2. Reduce reliance on multi-factor authentication

3. Strengthen their data center perimeter security

4. Data security is Google's responsibility, so preparation is minimal

13. An organization is deploying their servers to the cloud using the infrastructure as a service model. In the shared responsibility model, what is the cloud provider responsible for?

1. Security of the software

2. Security of the operating system

3. Data access policies

4. Physical security

14. An organization has recently completed a migration from on-premises to Google Cloud. How has cost management been affected?

1. Costs will primarily shift from CapEx to OpEx.

2. Cost management will stay the same, but the total cost of ownership (TCO) will be higher.

3. Costs will primarily shift from OpEx to CapEx.

4. Cost management will stay the same, but the total cost of ownership (TCO) will be lower.

15. Which of the following represents an example of structured data commonly stored by a healthcare facility?

1. Physician-written notes

2. X-ray images

3. Surgery video recordings

4. Patient blood pressure history

16. An information security organization must ensure that its service providers have ISO 27001 certification. They must also access supporting documentation. Which Google Cloud tool should they use?

1. Compliance Reports Manager

2. Network Intelligence Center

3. Security Command Center

4. Cloud Monitoring

17. An employee receives an email from their internet service provider requesting their bank account number and password. Which cybersecurity threat does this represent?

1. Phishing

2. Distributed Denial of Service

3. Spamming

4. Ransomware

18. Which of the following are core components of Anthos?

1. Infrastructure, container, and cluster management.

2. Multicluster and configuration management.

3. Secure software supply chain.

4. All of the above are correct.

19. An organization is looking for a business intelligence solution that allows individual employees and end users to analyze business data and generate insights. Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

1. BigQuery

2. Dataflow

3. Looker

4. Cloud Spanner

20. A customer is migrating on-premises data processing applications built with Hadoop and Spark to Google Cloud. Which Google Cloud product should they use?

1. Dataflow

2. Dataproc

3. Dataprep

4. Dataplex

21. When an organization adopts cloud technology, how does their total cost of ownership (TCO) shift?

1. Away from operational expenditure toward cost management

2. Away from capital expenditure toward operational expenditure

3. Away from cost management toward capital expenditure

4. Away from operational expenditure toward capital expenditure

22. Why do organizations often struggle to scale their on-premises application infrastructure?

1. Their multi-cloud architecture is complex and expensive

2. Scaling compute instances could breach compliance and/or regulation

3. Increasing compute capacity is time-consuming and costly

4. Their serverless compute functions struggle to meet the demand

23. Which Google Cloud product should an organization use to build autoscaling web applications without managing the underlying application infrastructure?

1. App Engine

2. Anthos

3. Apigee

4. AutoML

24. An organization has an on-premises IT infrastructure. Their customer-facing application repeatedly fails during peak usage. What could be causing this issue?

1. The application contains unclean data.

2. A serverless compute function struggles to scale.

3. They don't have enough servers to meet the demand.

4. The application is only configurable on-premises.

25. How does Google Cloud enable customers to leverage the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning?

1. With affordable and scalable quantum computing

2. With machine learning models that always require custom training

3. With scalable on-premises tensor processing units

4. With APIs and tools for users at different levels of expertise

26. A customer wants to migrate their on-premises data to Google Cloud as quickly as possible, without rewriting code, and by taking the most direct route. What migration option should you suggest?

1. Rip and Replace

2. Lift and Shift

3. The customer is not ready for cloud migration due to budget constraints.

4. Improve and Move

27.. An organization is deciding on the layout of their resource hierarchy in Google Cloud. They have several projects within a folder. What will happen when user access policies are applied to the folder?

1. The policy applies to the folder only, and will not be inherited by any projects.

2. The policy will be inherited by the projects in the folder but will not affect their resources.

3. The policy will be applied to all folders within the organization.

4. The policy will be inherited by the projects and their resources within the folder.

28. If some of your organization's virtual machines have an operating system with a security vulnerability, what is the most effective way to identify all virtual machines that lack the latest security update?

1. Use Compliance Reports Manager to identify and download a recent SOC 1 audit.

2. Use Compliance Reports Manager to identify and download a recent PCI audit.

3. Use Security Command Center to identify virtual machines that were started more than two weeks ago.

4. Use Security Command Center to identify virtual machines running vulnerable disk images.

29. A customer is modernizing their customer-facing applications using a microservices architecture. The first application they are modernizing consists of five sub-parts identified as services, each with different scaling requirements (e.g., user login vs. transactions). What technical strategy would you recommend for them?

1. Keep the original application on Compute Engine and scale it using Managed Instance Groups.

2. Maintain the original application as a backup and create new application binaries for separately scaling the services.

3. Keep the original application on Compute Engine and scale it using Unmanaged Instance Groups.

4. Containerize the services and orchestrate them using Google Kubernetes Engine.

30. Which Google Cloud policy helps ensure the privacy of customer data?

1. Google tests the service availability of customer applications.

2. Google does not utilize customer data for advertising purposes.

3. Google migrates customer data to an offline server when a threat is detected.

4. Google restricts customers from modifying their encryption keys.

31. An organization is launching a new application expected to serve millions of users within a month. They require minimal disruption during the launch and rapid resolution of any issues, ideally within minutes. Which Google Cloud Support package should they select?

1. Premium Support

2. Basic Support

3. Enhanced Support

4. Standard Support

32. An organization is transforming their raw data into a format that can be used to derive business insights. Which step of the data value chain does this action represent?

1. Data storage

2. Data analysis

3. Data collection

4. Data processing

33. What is a defining feature of a non-relational database?

1. A strictly enforced schema

2. Queries that join multiple tables

3. Reporting across multiple data sources

4. A flexible data model

34. An organization needs protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Which Google Cloud service should the organization use?

1. Security Command Center

2. Cloud VPN

3. Cloud Build

4. Google Cloud Armor

35. What is monitoring within the context of cloud operations?

1. Collecting predefined and custom metrics from applications and infrastructure

2. Observing cloud expenditure in real time to ensure that budgets are not exceeded

3. Tracking user activities to guarantee compliance with privacy regulations

4. Tracing user location to document regional access and utilization

36. What is the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) term for an organization s desired level of reliability and performance?

1. Enhanced support

2. Scalable infrastructure

3. Service-level objective

4. Service-level indicator

37. Within Google’s Site Reliability Engineering framework, which concept measures how well a system is performing?

1. Service-level agreement

2. Error reporting

3. Service-level indicator

4. Service-level objective

38. A cinema company wants to build a model to predict customer visit patterns for the coming year. They have three years of customer visit data across 300 theaters; however, the data has been stored in different formats by different theaters. They must train the ML model. What should they do?

1. Group different format types and train a different model for each group.

2. Use the last year of data so there are fewer inconsistencies for the model to handle.

3. Transform the data into a consistent format.

4. Choose an ML model type that can process different formats of input data.

39. To minimize the cost of data traffic from the Google network to the internet, what action should an organization take?

1. Select the Standard network service tier.

2. Implement Cloud VPN.

3. Select the Premium network service tier.

4. Implement Cloud NAT.

40. How can a streaming service meet global compliance requirements using the cloud?

1. By adhering only to data polices of the country in which the head office is registered

2. By allowing users to disable two-factor authentication

3. By automatically encrypting personally identifiable information

4. By obtaining a business license to operate in a new market

41. Your organization runs many workloads in different Google Cloud projects, each linked to the same billing account. Each project's workload costs can vary from month to month, but the overall combined cost of all projects is relatively stable. Your organization needs to optimize its cost. What should your organization do?

1. Purchase a commitment per project for each project's usual minimum

2. Move all workloads from all different projects into one single consolidated project

3. Turn on committed use discount sharing, and create a commitment for the combined usage

4. Create a billing account per project, and link each project to a different billing account

42. An organization wants to better understand the behavior of their code in production and analyze its state to identify hard-to-find programming errors. Which Google Cloud tool should the organization use?

1. Profiler

2. Cloud Monitoring

3. Trace

4. Debugger

43. As a project lead for an IT services company, your customer needs to analyze a large dataset of unlabeled raw images using a small technology team. Due to resource constraints, manual labeling is not feasible. What is the most appropriate approach to building a machine learning model for this image analysis task?

1. Inform the customer that the responsibility for data labeling lies with them and that your team lacks the resources to perform this task.

2. Search for publicly available, labeled image datasets that are similar to the customer's data for use in model training.

3. Recruit and train temporary staff to label the customer's image dataset.

4. Engage Google Cloud's professional services or a third-party partner for image labeling.

44. An organization is looking for a solution that will allow them to build new applications, modernize old ones, and run applications across different cloud providers. What solution should the organization use?

1. Apigee Hybrid

2. Compute Engine

3. Cloud Run

4. Anthos

45. An organization needs to categorize text-based customer reviews on their website using a pre-trained machine learning model. Which Google Cloud product or service should the organization use?

1. TensorFlow

2. Cloud Natural Language API

3. Dialogflow

4. Recommendations AI

46. An organization wants to build autoscaling web applications without having to manage application infrastructure Which Google Cloud product should they use?

1. AutoML

2. App Engine

3. Apigee

4. Anthos

47. An organization is using new technologies to change its business processes and culture to develop new customer experiences and adapt to market dynamics. What is the name of this approach?

1. User personalization

2. Data center migration

3. Operations optimization

4. Digital transformation

48. An organization wants to build custom machine learning models. They require a managed platform that provides services to gather data, build models, and then deploy and monitor those models. Which service should they use?

1. Kubernetes Engine

2. Natural Language API

3. Document AI

4. Vertex AI

49. An organization wants to ensure that their developers can easily use application programming interfaces (APIs) in future projects. Which Google product or solution should they use?

1. AppSheet

2. Apigee

3. The App Engine flexible environment

4. Application migration

50. What is a primary benefit for an organization when using Looker?

1. Optimal identity and access management implementation.

2. Leveraging leading serverless data warehousing technology.

3. Ensuring robust data roll-back accuracy.

4. Gaining advanced business intelligence and analytics capabilities.

51. Your organization runs a distributed application on Compute Engine virtual machines. To ensure redundancy and extremely fast communication (less than 10 milliseconds) between application components on different VMs, where should these virtual machines be located?

1. In different zones within a single region.

2. In a single zone within a single region.

3. In multiple regions, with multiple zones per region.

4. In multiple regions, with one zone per region.

52. How does Google Cloud ensure that customer data remains secure and private when at rest?

1. By auditing platform privacy practices against industry standards

2. By providing privacy reviews for critical customer applications

3. By automatically locking files containing suspicious code

4. By aggregating training data for customers within each industry

53. What is the most effective method for migrating approximately 50TB of data from an AWS S3 bucket to Google Cloud Storage, considering ongoing data generation prior to cutover?

1. Utilize the `gsutil` command-line tool for data transfer.

2. Use a Google Cloud Transfer Appliance for the physical movement of data.

3. Manually drag and drop files using the Google Cloud console.

4. Employ the Storage Transfer Service for scheduled and ongoing data transfers.

54. Your organization is moving an application to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to migrate the application's working database from another cloud provider to Cloud SQL. The database runs on the MySQL engine. The migration must cause minimal disruption to users. Data must be secured while in transit. Which should your organization use?

1. MySQL batch insert

2. Cloud Composer

3. Database Migration Service

4. BigQuery Data Transfer Service

55. An organization wants to leverage all available data to provide predictive suggestions on its website that continuously improve over time. Which method should the organization employ?

1. Data automation

2. Machine learning

3. Multiple regression

4. Trend analysis

56. What is a benefit of the OpEx model for cloud security?

1. The cloud provider guarantees security.

2. Organizations do not need to configure any security settings for cloud resources.

3. Organizations do not need to make upfront capital investments in cloud security.

4. Organizations can deploy custom security hardware.

57. A customer is migrating an application from on-premises virtual machines to Google Cloud. They experienced scaling issues on-premises due to pre-allocated VMs and inaccurate capacity planning, leading to either over- or under-provisioning. The customer wants to dynamically match capacity to demand while ensuring continuous application availability, but they currently lack the time and budget to re-architect the application using containers and Kubernetes. What is the recommended solution?

1. Obtain an estimate of the application's typical usage patterns.

2. Advise the customer to quickly rewrite the application using microservices, containers, and Kubernetes, as modern companies do.

3. Plan for VM capacity that is 25% higher than the results from the load test.

4. Utilize Google Compute Engine's Managed Instance Groups (MIGs).

5. Conduct a load test on a Compute Engine virtual machine to determine optimal performance.

6. Suggest migrating to a serverless option like Cloud Run or App Engine, which will handle scaling automatically.

58. A video game organization is using cloud technology to analyze user behavior and provide personalized game recommendations. What likely motivated this business decision?

1. Employees seek more stable and predictable IT budget allocations.

2. Customers expect faster delivery of new game titles.

3. Customers desire a customized and relevant gaming experience.

4. Employees require quicker deployment of code updates.

59. A food delivery service needs access to real-time menu information from all partner restaurants. They also need to share customer order information with the restaurants in real time. What should the organization use?

1. Site reliability engineering (SRE)

2. A customized machine learning model

3. An application programming interface (API)

4. A multi-regional database

60. If a public cloud provider fails to meet its Service Level Agreement (SLA) for 99.99% availability, what is a potential impact on the organization?

1. The organization risks losing customers due to unexpected downtime.

2. The organization risks depleting its error budget.

3. All data stored in the organization's database could be unexpectedly lost.

4. The organization might need to renegotiate the SLA to reduce the focus on uptime.

FAQs

1. What is the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification exam?

The Google Cloud Digital Leader exam validates foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and how Google Cloud technologies can support business goals and digital transformation.

2. How do I become a Google Cloud Digital Leader certified professional?

You need to pass the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam, which tests your understanding of cloud fundamentals, use cases, and Google Cloud solutions.

3. What are the prerequisites for the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam?

There are no formal prerequisites, but having a basic understanding of cloud computing and business processes is helpful.

4. How much does the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification cost?

The exam costs $99 USD, though pricing may vary depending on your location.

5. How many questions are in the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam?

The exam includes 50 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions to be completed in 90 minutes.

6. What topics are covered in the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam?

It covers cloud concepts, Google Cloud products, data and security basics, digital transformation, and cost management.

7. How difficult is the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification exam?

It’s considered entry-level and ideal for beginners in cloud or business leadership roles.

8. How long does it take to prepare for the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam?

Most candidates prepare in 3–5 weeks, depending on prior cloud knowledge.

9. What jobs can I get after earning the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification?

You can work as a Cloud Business Analyst, Cloud Consultant, or Project Manager focusing on Google Cloud adoption.

10. How much salary can I earn with a Google Cloud Digital Leader certification?

Professionals typically earn between $80,000–$110,000 per year, depending on their role and experience.