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Quiz: Infrastructure Automation :Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation (Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Architect Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

Question 1

What’s the benefit of writing templates for your Terraform configuration?

🟩 Allows you to abstract part of your configuration into individual building blocks that you can reuse
❌ Allows you to run configuration management software
❌ Allows you to hardcode properties for your resources

Explanation:

Terraform templates let you reuse code, reduce duplication, and maintain cleaner configurations. They do not hardcode values—rather, they allow parameterization.


Question 2

What does Google Cloud Marketplace offer?

🟩 Production-grade solutions from third-party vendors who have already created their own deployment configurations based on Terraform
❌ A platform for trading VM instances
❌ A centralized billing platform for all Google Cloud services and applications

Explanation:

Google Cloud Marketplace contains ready-to-deploy solutions (VMs, containers, SaaS apps, Terraform configs) built by trusted vendors.


🧾 Summary Table

Q# Correct Answer Key Concept
1 Reusable building blocks Templates make Terraform modular & maintainable
2 Third-party production solutions Marketplace provides deployable, pre-configured apps