Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Test

About the test:

The GCP (Google Cloud Platform) test uses scenario-based MCQs to evaluate candidates on their knowledge of GCP services, including compute, storage, networking, security, and IAM (Identity and Access Management). The test aims to evaluate a candidate's ability to design, implement and manage secure, scalable, and highly available GCP solutions.

Covered skills:

Cloud
Layers
Libraries
Service Accounts
Load Balancing
Object Versioning
Serverless Computing
Security Aspects
Virtualization Platform
Scalability
BigQuery
Google Cloud API
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Cloud Services
Cloud Architecture
Cloud Storage
Google App Engine
Google Cloud Storage Bucket
Google Cloud Messaging
Development Models
On-Demand Functionality
Elasticity
Open-Source Cloud Computing Platforms
VPC
Google Cloud SDK

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9 reasons why

Adaface Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Test is the most accurate way to shortlist Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineers

Reason #1

Tests for on-the-job skills

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Test helps recruiters and hiring managers identify qualified candidates from a pool of resumes, and helps in taking objective hiring decisions. It reduces the administrative overhead of interviewing too many candidates and saves time by filtering out unqualified candidates.

The Adaface Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Online Test screens candidates for the typical skills recruiters look for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer roles:

Engineering background in GCP, across a wide range of GCP services
Understanding of GCP infrastructure services including GCE, GSC, KSM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, GKE, Stackdriver, IAM, DNS and firewalls
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies: Terraform, Ansible
Understanding of Cloud Security

The insights generated from this assessment can be used by recruiters and hiring managers to identify the best candidates for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer roles. Anti-cheating features enable you to be comfortable with conducting assessments online. The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Online Test is ideal for helping recruiters identify which candidates have the skills to do well on the job.

Reason #2

No trick questions

Traditional assessment tools use trick questions and puzzles for the screening, which creates a lot of frustration among candidates about having to go through irrelevant screening assessments.

The main reason we started Adaface is that traditional pre-employment assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. At Adaface, our mission is to help companies find great candidates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role.

Why we started Adaface ->

Reason #3

Non-googleable questions

We have a very high focus on the quality of questions that test for on-the-job skills. Every question is non-googleable and we have a very high bar for the level of subject matter experts we onboard to create these questions. We have crawlers to check if any of the questions are leaked online. If/ when a question gets leaked, we get an alert. We change the question for you & let you know.

These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this GCP Test will be non-googleable.

🧐 Question
Medium Healthy Replica Google Kubernetes Engine is-adaface-team	Solve
Sam Sankman works as Cloud Associate at FTXX Inc. FTXX’s core application is deployed in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. When a new version of the application is released, CI/CD tool updates the spec.template.spec.containers[0].image value to reference the Docker image of the new application version. When the Deployment object applies the change, Sam wants to deploy at least 1 replica of the new version and maintain the previous replicas until the new replica is healthy. Which change should Sam make to the Kubernetes Engine Deployment object shown below? A: Set the Deployment Strategy to Rolling Update B: Set the Deployment Strategy to Recreate C: Set maxSurge to 0 D: Set maxSurge to 1 E: Set maxUnavailable to 0 F: Set maxUnavailable to 1
Medium Network Rules Virtual Private Cloud SSH	Solve
Depp works as Google Cloud Architect at Amber Inc. Deep created an instance with following firewall rules: NAME: ssh-allow NETWORK: testnet DIRECTION: INGRESS PRIORITY: 100 ALLOW: tcp:22 NAME: deny-everything NETWORK: testnet DIRECTION: INGRESS PRIORITY: 400 DENY: tcp:0-65535,udp:0-6553 What would happen if Depp tries SSH to the instance now? A: SSH would be denied as the deny rule overrides the allow B: SSH would be allowed as the allow rule overrides the deny C: SSH would be denied and would need instance reboot for the to allow rule to take effect D: SSH would be denied and would need gcloud firewall refresh command for the allow rule to take effect
Easy Storage Costs Cloud Storage is-adaface-team	Solve
Kloo is a social media platform similar to Twitter in the EU market and uses Google Cloud for their infrastructure requirements. Kloo generates multiple files per day. Owing to data regulations, Kloo has to store these files in the EU regional bucket. Kloo’s data team needs only the files of last 14 days for their algorithms and APIs but need to store every single file for safe keeping and regulatory purposes even though the past data is rarely accessed. Given these constraints, how can Kloo’s data team lower the storage costs?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill
	Medium Healthy Replica Google Kubernetes Engine is-adaface-team	2 mins Google Cloud Platform	Solve
Sam Sankman works as Cloud Associate at FTXX Inc. FTXX’s core application is deployed in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. When a new version of the application is released, CI/CD tool updates the spec.template.spec.containers[0].image value to reference the Docker image of the new application version. When the Deployment object applies the change, Sam wants to deploy at least 1 replica of the new version and maintain the previous replicas until the new replica is healthy. Which change should Sam make to the Kubernetes Engine Deployment object shown below? A: Set the Deployment Strategy to Rolling Update B: Set the Deployment Strategy to Recreate C: Set maxSurge to 0 D: Set maxSurge to 1 E: Set maxUnavailable to 0 F: Set maxUnavailable to 1
	Medium Network Rules Virtual Private Cloud SSH	3 mins Google Cloud Platform	Solve
Depp works as Google Cloud Architect at Amber Inc. Deep created an instance with following firewall rules: NAME: ssh-allow NETWORK: testnet DIRECTION: INGRESS PRIORITY: 100 ALLOW: tcp:22 NAME: deny-everything NETWORK: testnet DIRECTION: INGRESS PRIORITY: 400 DENY: tcp:0-65535,udp:0-6553 What would happen if Depp tries SSH to the instance now? A: SSH would be denied as the deny rule overrides the allow B: SSH would be allowed as the allow rule overrides the deny C: SSH would be denied and would need instance reboot for the to allow rule to take effect D: SSH would be denied and would need gcloud firewall refresh command for the allow rule to take effect
	Easy Storage Costs Cloud Storage is-adaface-team	2 mins Google Cloud Platform	Solve
Kloo is a social media platform similar to Twitter in the EU market and uses Google Cloud for their infrastructure requirements. Kloo generates multiple files per day. Owing to data regulations, Kloo has to store these files in the EU regional bucket. Kloo’s data team needs only the files of last 14 days for their algorithms and APIs but need to store every single file for safe keeping and regulatory purposes even though the past data is rarely accessed. Given these constraints, how can Kloo’s data team lower the storage costs?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill	💪 Difficulty	⌛ Time
	Healthy Replica Google Kubernetes Engine is-adaface-team	Google Cloud Platform	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Sam Sankman works as Cloud Associate at FTXX Inc. FTXX’s core application is deployed in a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. When a new version of the application is released, CI/CD tool updates the spec.template.spec.containers[0].image value to reference the Docker image of the new application version. When the Deployment object applies the change, Sam wants to deploy at least 1 replica of the new version and maintain the previous replicas until the new replica is healthy. Which change should Sam make to the Kubernetes Engine Deployment object shown below? A: Set the Deployment Strategy to Rolling Update B: Set the Deployment Strategy to Recreate C: Set maxSurge to 0 D: Set maxSurge to 1 E: Set maxUnavailable to 0 F: Set maxUnavailable to 1
	Network Rules Virtual Private Cloud SSH	Google Cloud Platform	Medium	3 mins	Solve
Depp works as Google Cloud Architect at Amber Inc. Deep created an instance with following firewall rules: NAME: ssh-allow NETWORK: testnet DIRECTION: INGRESS PRIORITY: 100 ALLOW: tcp:22 NAME: deny-everything NETWORK: testnet DIRECTION: INGRESS PRIORITY: 400 DENY: tcp:0-65535,udp:0-6553 What would happen if Depp tries SSH to the instance now? A: SSH would be denied as the deny rule overrides the allow B: SSH would be allowed as the allow rule overrides the deny C: SSH would be denied and would need instance reboot for the to allow rule to take effect D: SSH would be denied and would need gcloud firewall refresh command for the allow rule to take effect
	Storage Costs Cloud Storage is-adaface-team	Google Cloud Platform	Easy	2 mins	Solve
Kloo is a social media platform similar to Twitter in the EU market and uses Google Cloud for their infrastructure requirements. Kloo generates multiple files per day. Owing to data regulations, Kloo has to store these files in the EU regional bucket. Kloo’s data team needs only the files of last 14 days for their algorithms and APIs but need to store every single file for safe keeping and regulatory purposes even though the past data is rarely accessed. Given these constraints, how can Kloo’s data team lower the storage costs?

Reason #4

1200+ customers in 75 countries

With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!

Brandon Lee, Head of People, Love, Bonito

Reason #5

Designed for elimination, not selection

The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment GCP Test in your hiring process is that it is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. In other words: you want to use the test to eliminate the candidates who do poorly on the test, not to select the candidates who come out at the top. While they are super valuable, pre-employment tests do not paint the entire picture of a candidate’s abilities, knowledge, and motivations. Multiple easy questions are more predictive of a candidate's ability than fewer hard questions. Harder questions are often "trick" based questions, which do not provide any meaningful signal about the candidate's skillset.

Reason #6

1 click candidate invites

Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the GCP Test from your dashboard by entering their email address.

Public link: You can create a public link for each test that you can share with candidates.

API or integrations: You can invite candidates directly from your ATS by using our pre-built integrations with popular ATS systems or building a custom integration with your in-house ATS.

Reason #7

Detailed scorecards & comparative results

Reason #8

High completion rate

Adaface tests are conversational, low-stress, and take just 25-40 mins to complete.

This is why Adaface has the highest test-completion rate (86%), which is more than 2x better than traditional assessments.

Reason #9

Advanced Proctoring

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About Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer Roles

Google Cloud Platform is a collection of Google's public cloud computing services. The platform provides a number of hosted services for computation, storage, and application development, all of which are operated on Google infrastructure.

A Cloud Engineer is responsible for the deployment of applications, the monitoring of operations, and the management of corporate solutions. They utilise Google Cloud Console and the command-line interface to conduct typical platform-based operations in order to maintain one or more deployed solutions on Google Cloud that use Google-managed or self-managed services.

Typical Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer responsibilities include:

Assessing and recommending the best of breed GCP technology solutions to address client needs
Designing and deploying enterprise-wide dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, secure and reliable solutions on Google Cloud Platform
Designing & delivering cloud or hybrid-cloud platforms and services, automated API-driven systems with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and agile delivery models

What roles can I use the GCP Test for?

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer

What topics are covered in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Test?

Cloud

Cloud Services

Layers

Cloud Architecture

Libraries

JSON and XML APIs

Cloud Storage

Service Accounts

Google App Engine

Load Balancing

Google Cloud Storage Bucket

Object Versioning

Google Cloud Messaging

Serverless Computing

Development Models

Security Aspects

On-Demand Functionality

Virtualization Platform

Elasticity

Scalability

Open-Source Cloud Computing Platforms

BigQuery

Virtual Private Cloud

VPC

Google Cloud API

Google Cloud SDK

Elastic Utility Computing Architecture For Linking Your Program To Useful Systems

EUCALYPTUS

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The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.

85%

reduction in screening time

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FAQs

Can I combine multiple skills into one custom assessment?

Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify.

Do you have any anti-cheating or proctoring features in place?

We have the following anti-cheating features in place:

Non-googleable questions
IP proctoring
Web proctoring
Webcam proctoring
Plagiarism detection
Secure browser

Read more about the proctoring features.

How do I interpret test scores?

The primary thing to keep in mind is that an assessment is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. A skills assessment is optimized to help you eliminate candidates who are not technically qualified for the role, it is not optimized to help you find the best candidate for the role. So the ideal way to use an assessment is to decide a threshold score (typically 55%, we help you benchmark) and invite all candidates who score above the threshold for the next rounds of interview.

What experience level can I use this test for?

Each Adaface assessment is customized to your job description/ ideal candidate persona (our subject matter experts will pick the right questions for your assessment from our library of 10000+ questions). This assessment can be customized for any experience level.

Does every candidate get the same questions?

Yes, it makes it much easier for you to compare candidates. Options for MCQ questions and the order of questions are randomized. We have anti-cheating/ proctoring features in place. In our enterprise plan, we also have the option to create multiple versions of the same assessment with questions of similar difficulty levels.