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Google Cloud Digital Leader practice exam
Short answer
The Google Cloud Digital Leader practice exam has 50 questions in 90 minutes, with a 70% passing mark, as configured here. The fastest way to know whether you are ready is to sit a full exam on the clock and read your score by domain, not only the total.
Domains covered
- Google Cloud Security and Operations
- Innovating with Data and Google Cloud
- Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
- Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud
Sample questions, with explanations
Three questions from the bank, open to read.
A financial services company is evaluating Google Cloud and needs assurance that the platform meets recognized industry standards such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 before it will store regulated workloads there. A board member asks whether each customer must independently certify Google's data centers. How does Google Cloud support customers' compliance needs in this situation?
- Each customer must send its own auditors into Google's data centers to issue ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications before using the platform.
- Compliance certifications are irrelevant in the cloud because regulators do not recognize third-party data centers.
- Google obtains and maintains third-party compliance certifications and audit reports for its infrastructure, which customers can reference, while customers remain responsible for the compliance of how they configure and use the services. ✓ (correct)
- Once a workload runs on Google Cloud, it is automatically compliant with every regulation worldwide, requiring no further action from the customer.
Why this is correct
Google undergoes independent third-party audits and maintains a broad portfolio of certifications and attestations (such as ISO 27001 and SOC reports) for its infrastructure, and makes the relevant documentation available so customers can rely on it during their own compliance reviews. However, compliance is shared: the customer is still responsible for how it configures access, handles data, and uses the services. The option requiring each customer to send auditors into Google's data centers is impractical and incorrect—Google centralizes this through independent audits rather than per-customer inspections. The option claiming workloads become automatically compliant with every regulation is a dangerous misconception; inheriting certified infrastructure does not absolve the customer of its own compliance obligations. The option dismissing certifications as irrelevant is false—regulators and customers actively rely on these third-party attestations.
An operations team needs to investigate why a service returned errors at a specific time. They want to search and view the application's text-based event records, including individual request and error entries emitted by the application. Which Google Cloud observability product is purpose-built for this need?
- Cloud Logging, for collecting, storing, searching, and viewing log entries from applications and infrastructure ✓ (correct)
- The pricing calculator, to estimate the cost of the failed requests
- Cloud Monitoring, because logs are stored and queried exclusively as time-series metrics
- Cloud CDN, which caches and replays application log entries for analysis
Why this is correct
Cloud Logging is correct because it is the service dedicated to ingesting, storing, searching, and viewing log entries such as individual requests, error messages, and other text-based events. The Cloud Monitoring option is wrong because Monitoring focuses on numeric time-series metrics, dashboards, and alerts rather than discrete text log entries; treating logs as metrics confuses two distinct observability pillars. The pricing calculator option is wrong because it estimates costs and has nothing to do with viewing log data. The Cloud CDN option is wrong because CDN caches content at the network edge to speed delivery and does not store or replay application logs.
A logistics firm receives raw shipment-scan events from Pub/Sub and needs to clean, enrich, and aggregate them — both as a continuous stream for a live tracking view and as nightly batch jobs — before loading the results into BigQuery, all without managing a cluster. Which Google Cloud product is designed to run these unified streaming and batch data-processing pipelines?
- Dataflow ✓ (correct)
- Cloud SQL
- Looker
- Firestore
Why this is correct
Dataflow is a fully managed service for building unified streaming and batch data-processing pipelines that transform, enrich, and aggregate data before loading it into destinations like BigQuery, with autoscaling and no cluster to manage — matching the firm's need to process shipment events both live and in nightly batches. Cloud SQL is a relational database for storing data, not a pipeline engine for transforming and aggregating event streams. Firestore is a document database for serving application data and does not run data-processing pipelines. Looker is a BI and visualization layer that presents results but does not perform the upstream stream-and-batch transformation work.
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Frequently asked questions
How many questions does the Google Cloud Digital Leader practice exam have?
It has 50 questions and a 90-minute limit. The passing mark of the practice exam is 70%.
Is this the official Google Cloud Digital Leader exam?
No. It is an independent practice exam built to match the structure of the real one. It does not replace the official exam.
Do I need an account to take it?
You can read the structure and sample questions without an account. Taking the full timed exam, scoring by domain and the AI tutor need one.