Cloud Digital Leader Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retail company wants to migrate a customer-facing web application to Google Cloud. The executive team’s priority is to reduce time-to-market for new features while improving reliability during seasonal traffic spikes. Which approach best supports these goals?

A financial services firm wants to enable cross-functional teams to build new digital products quickly while maintaining consistent governance (policies, billing, and access control) across departments. Which Google Cloud approach best balances speed and governance?

A media company wants to modernize its analytics. They need to combine clickstream events (high volume), CRM data, and ad campaign data, then run SQL analytics and dashboards for business users with minimal operational overhead. Which solution best fits?

An IoT manufacturer needs to ingest telemetry from devices globally, process it in near real time to detect anomalies, and store data for later analysis. The system should decouple ingestion from processing to handle bursts. Which design is most appropriate?

A healthcare organization wants to train a model to classify support tickets and route them to the correct team. They have limited ML expertise and want a managed approach while ensuring they can explain basic model performance to stakeholders. Which Google Cloud option best meets these needs?

A startup wants to run a containerized API with unpredictable traffic. They want to minimize operational management and only pay for resources used during requests, while still supporting gradual rollouts of new versions. Which service is the best fit?

A company has a legacy monolithic application that is difficult to update. They want to modernize incrementally, reducing risk by moving parts of functionality over time while keeping the existing system running. Which approach best supports this transition?

An enterprise wants a hybrid architecture: some workloads remain on-prem due to latency requirements, while new services run in Google Cloud. They need consistent network connectivity and private access to Google Cloud services. Which combination best meets the need?

A company must ensure that only authorized employees can access sensitive customer data in a Google Cloud project. They also need to follow least privilege and be able to audit who accessed what. What is the best approach?

A platform team runs a production service on Google Cloud and wants to improve operational readiness. They need proactive detection of incidents, clear service-level targets, and a way to troubleshoot using centralized logs and metrics. Which solution best addresses these needs?