Google Cloud Digital Leader (CDL)

1. A retail company currently runs all of its applications on physical servers in its own data center. The operations team spends significant time managing hardware procurement, patching, and capacity planning. A business leader wants to understand what fundamentally distinguishes cloud technology from this traditional on-premises model. What is the most accurate definition of cloud technology in this context?

2. A retail company wants to understand which products are most popular during holiday seasons by analyzing years of sales transactions. Which data management concept best describes the system they need to store and analyze this historical data for business insights?

3. A technology company has analysts in three business units who each maintain separate, inconsistent versions of the same customer dataset. This creates conflicting reports that undermine executive decision-making. What data governance principle would most directly resolve this problem?

4. A company stores 500 TB of video surveillance footage that is accessed frequently in the first 30 days after capture for security investigations. After 30 days, the footage is accessed approximately once every three months for compliance audits. After one year, the footage is virtually never accessed but must be retained for five years for legal reasons. The company wants to minimize total storage costs while maintaining appropriate retrieval speed at each stage. Which lifecycle strategy across Cloud Storage classes should the company implement?

5. A retail company wants to understand the difference between traditional data analytics and machine learning before investing in AI. Which statement best describes how machine learning differs from traditional business intelligence?