A large enterprise is creating a service catalog for its internal cloud platform. The catalog will be used by development teams to request and provision resources. The catalog must include information about the available services, their features, and the steps required to provision them. Which approach best ensures the catalog is accurate and up-to-date?

Integrate the service catalog with the provisioning automation so that the catalog is generated from the actual deployment templates and scripts.

Use a third-party service catalog tool without customization.

Have each development team maintain their own list of services they use.

Create a static document that lists all services and their features, and update it annually.

What is the main advantage of using infrastructure as code (IaC) templates for provisioning cloud resources?

It eliminates the need for version control

It allows for manual, step-by-step creation of resources

It enables consistent, repeatable, and automated provisioning

A company runs a stateful application on Compute Engine VMs with local SSDs. The application writes data to the local SSDs and also to a Cloud SQL database. The company's disaster recovery plan requires an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. They are evaluating their backup and recovery strategy. Which strategy best meets the RPO and RTO?

Take snapshots of the local SSDs every 5 minutes and restore them in the secondary region.

Use a scheduled backup of the VMs and Cloud SQL every hour.

Use a multi-region Cloud SQL instance and rely on Google's automatic failover.

Stream the application data to Cloud Storage in near real-time and use Cloud SQL cross-region replication.

What is the primary purpose of the build stage in a CI/CD pipeline?

To compile source code and produce deployable artifacts

To monitor application performance in real time

To run automated tests against the deployed application

To deploy the application to production

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A large enterprise is creating a service catalog for its internal cloud platform. The catalog will be used by development teams to request and provision resources. The catalog must include information about the available services, their features, and the steps required to provision them. Which approach best ensures the catalog is accurate and up-to-date?
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A company runs a stateful application on Compute Engine VMs with local SSDs. The application writes data to the local SSDs and also to a Cloud SQL database. The company's disaster recovery plan requires an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. They are evaluating their backup and recovery strategy. Which strategy best meets the RPO and RTO?
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