Google Maps Platform technical fundamentals credential Answers

Google Maps Platform technical fundamentals credential Answers

Customer Engineering training for partners participating in the Partner Program. This course replaces the course formerly referred to as ‘Google Maps Developer’

Google Maps Technical Fundamentals Assessment

Questions:

How could your customer, a ride-sharing service, make use of the Directions API?

• Optimize the provided route by automatically rearranging the waypoints in a more efficient order, influence routes with stopover and pass through points, and choose faster routes or reallocate deliveries to workers based on real-time traffic.

• Find out how fast they are traveling, add street view panoramas to their application, add an image to a map, and encode a sequence of latitude/longitude coordinates (LatLngs) into an encoded path string, and decode an encoded path string into a sequence of LatLngs.
• Optimize the street view by automatically rearranging the way the camera is looking, influence routes with speed limit and police known points, and choose faster routes or reallocate deliveries to workers based on traffic data from obtained over the last year.
• Find out how fast they are traveling, add street view panoramas to their application, customize images to a map, and find the latitude/longitude coordinates for a given address (geocoding), or convert the latitude/longitude coordinates of a geographic location to an address (reverse geocoding).

You are in a meeting with a customer discussing the implementation of a Google Maps Platform integration. During the course of this conversation the subject of data storage is raised by the customer and you identify this as an ideal time to discuss the possibility of using Google Cloud Platform with their Google Maps solution.
What benefits do you tell the customer they can expect with a Google Maps solution that leverages Google Cloud?

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• Lower cost - Because there’s synergy and scalability and the output will be cheaper.
• Security - whatever is built, created, coded, or stored, Google protects it.
• Better data - the data visualization is better than the competition because of Google’s vast Cloud platform.
• High latency - the combination of the two platforms creates a high latency.
• Scalability - the GCP infrastructure serves billions of Google Maps users and is a platform that will scale and flex as businesses do.

Your customer is a financial firm and has data that would be considered “flat” data, with heavy read/write events and analytical type data. They need the data in a NoSQL wide column format allowing simple queries on single row transactions with a data capacity in the petabyte range. The unit sizes would be 10mb or less per cell and 100mb or less per row. What would be the best option for this customer?

• Cloud Storage
• Cloud Datastore
• Cloud SQL
• Cloud Bigtable

Within the GCP Console, what alert can users set up to notify them when monthly spend reaches a certain threshold?

• Capping alert
• Budget alert
• Quota alert
• API alert

A fleet and asset management corporation needs a solution to identify if drivers are observing national speed limits, if drivers go off-route, and how much time the assets are spending in transit. They face the challenge that the GPS trails they record seem inaccurate when overlayed with a Map. What API can provide the solution this customer needs?

• Geolocation API
• Distance Matrix API
• Places API
• Roads API

Your customer wants to implement the same actions on iOS as Android provides with ‘intents’. What is the name of the feature or piece of code used in Objective C that will provide the same actions that intents does for Android?

• Intent C
• urlScheme
• urlIntent
• objScheme

Your customer needs iOS autocomplete. Which class provides an interface that displays a table of autocomplete predictions that updates as the user enters text?

• GMSAutocompleteViewController
• GMSOpeningHours
• GMSPlacePhotoMetadataList
• GMSPlacePhotoMetadataList GMSPlacesClient

You work with a customer that owns a ride-sharing company. They express frustration with the sometimes inaccurate spatial data provided by GPS. You state that the Geolocation API actually uses multiple ways of identifying where a device is. What additional sources of spatial data does the Geolocation API use to identify a device’s location?

• Radio
• Wifi and Cell Towers
• GPS
• Wireless sensor

You are in a discussion with a customer regarding the implementation of a Google Maps solution and they want to add some additional functionality into their maps with minimal labour investment. Which of the following will allow the customer to embed a map image on their web page without requiring any JavaScript?

• Embed API
• Place Autocomplete
• Static Maps API
• Geocoding API

During the Technical Discovery with a Real Estate customer, your prospect tells you that they want to present their user with a large number of location markers within a relatively small geographic area. What two considerations might you contemplate?

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• Who has access to the data?
• Would they consider a heat map instead of markers?
• Do they have the budget available?
• What would be the impact on presentation to the user?
• Does Google have a way to draw and query the data?

A customer is concerned about exceeding certain usage limits and wants an effective method of knowing if and when these limits are reached. Which of the following solutions should you recommend?

• Use Google Stackdriver to set up an alerting policy which will enable your customer to set up alerts to trigger if their defined conditions are met.
• Use Google Stackdriver as it’s Metrics Explorer will give your customer greater insight into their API usage.
• Use the GCP Console dashboard. The basic view of usage, including pre-built charts will make it easy for your customer to keep track of their usage.
• Use Google Stackdriver, which provides access to over 900 monitoring metrics and will allow your customer to organize cloud resources using groups to give them a clear understanding of their usage.

A customer has asked about placing an interactive map, or Street View panorama, on their site with a simple HTTP request. Which API allows them do this?

• Street View Static API
• Maps Embed API
• Maps Static API
• Maps JavaScript API

Your client needs you to integrate some map solutions into their internal system. Why would it be important during Technical Discovery to examine the user workflow?

• Because user demographics impact the number of queries that will be consumed. Younger users will access maps several times to get an understanding of what is shown.
• Because describing the workflow of the interface is important to understanding how many queries the app might need.
• Because you need to look to utilizing practices that generate the highest queries per usage. It is important to ensure that if a user accesses the system, then it needs to load the JavaScript library and incur a PageView.
• Because if a user has problems with the map technology they may be resistant to change.

Your customer is a ridesharing company and they are going to need a data storage and analysis solution that will handle complex queries and very large datasets. They have no present need for transactional queries. What would be the best option for this customer?

• Cloud SQL
• BigQuery
• Cloud Datastore
• Cloud Storage

In Stackdriver monitoring, what prefix is applied to Google Maps API metric types?

• cloudspanner.googleapis.com
• runservicetime.googleapis.com
• cloudrouter.googleapis.com
• serviceruntime.googleapis.com

You are in discussions with a customer from the taxi industry. Which of the following are green flag opportunity indicators on the use of the Google Maps Platform?

• Customer pickup for ride services
• Posting false information on a map
• Using Street View to identify taxi ranks in major cities
• Storing competitor location data

In June 2018, Google announced product and billing changes to the Maps Platform. What were the guiding principles behind these changes?

• Google streamlined the Google Map Platform suite of services into three core products: Streets, Navigation, and Roads, and simplified terms to create a single, easy-to-understand pricing model.
• Google Map Platform streamlined the suite of services into Google Cloud Platform, and now this is all offered as one service with one price.
• Google streamlined the Google Map Platform suite of services into three core products: Maps, Routes, and Places, and simplified terms to create a single, easy-to-understand pricing model.
• Google Map Platform now has 18 core APIs to choose from and the pricing is now free for customers for the first $500.00 worth of usage, which is all on the same platform as Google Cloud.

You’ve been asked to enable a Google Maps API, however you don’t have the correct permissions to access the organisation’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects . What is the best option to obtain an API key?

• Ask a member of the Google Customer Service Team to grant you permission to the project so that you can create an API key in the same project that the API is associated with.
• Ask a member of the project to grant you access to the project so that you can create an API key in the same project that the API is associated with.
• GCP Permissions are not required for the Maps API. Create an API key within the project without permission.
• Create a project of your own and then create an API key so that you can transfer it to the project you are working on.

A customer that runs an online store wants to show a map on their website to provide visual confirmation of the delivery location to the user. After address entry, it shows a map to give the user visual confirmation of the delivery location. This can provide the customer with some additional assurance that the delivery address is correct, and reduce delivery failures. How can this solution be implemented?

• This can be accomplished on a web page with the Google Maps Javascript API, and in a confirmation email with the Google Static Maps API.
• This can be accomplished on a web page with the Google Maps Embed API, and in a confirmation email with the Roads API.
• This can be accomplished only on Android with the Google Maps Embed API, and in a confirmation email with the Roads API.
• This can be accomplished on a web page with the Google Maps Embed API, and in a confirmation email with the Geolocation API.

Which Google Maps product uses a PlaceId to retrieve additional information about a place of interest and then serve it to the user?

• Geocoding API
• Distance Matrix API and Maps JavaScript API
• Geolocation API
• Places Library and Maps JavaScript API

A customer wants to see a quote showing monthly costs for the Google Maps solution they’ve discussed with you. What resource can you use to determine costs?

• Google Maps Platform Pricing Calculator
• GCP Console API Dashboard
• Google Maps Frequently Asked Questions
• BigQuery Geo Viz

You are discussing a Google Maps solution with a customer and they express an interest in providing their users with estimated walking travel times to different locations identified within the app. This is an opportunity trigger to discuss the Distance Matrix. Which of the following features does the Distance Matrix provide?

• Modify the walking time estimate based weather conditions, such as icy footpaths
• Provide a walking time estimate to any number of locations around them
• Modify the walking time estimate based on crowd density
• Provide a walking time estimate tailored to the average walking speed of each user individually

Your customer, a small business retailer, is enquiring about an inexpensive map solution. You give them the good news that each customer starts each month with a certain amount of free credit for their Google Maps APIs. How much free credit do they get?

• $250.00
• $300.00
• $200.00
• $245.00

If a customer wanted to add a depth to their map, 3D buildings, the ability to zoom in, tilt, and enhance the experience with rich and varied visualizations, what solution should they use?

• The Maps JavaScript API allows you to change the viewpoints and obtain 3D buildings using JavaScript to modify the map’s camera.
• The Maps SDKs for Android and iOS allows you to change the user's viewpoint of the map by modifying the map's camera.
• The Maps Static API and JavaScript will allow you to change the pictures on the map to show 3D buildings.
• The Street View API allows you to change the maps Mercator projector using JSON.

A customer is looking to launch the user into the Google Maps app from their Android application. The developer knows that they can use the Intent object to start a limited range of actions. What are two of these four actions?

Select All Correct Responses

• Present information about roads, such as speed limits
• Provide travel distance and time for a matrix of origins and destinations
• Request directions from one location to another
• Display a map at a specified location and zoom level

You are advising a developer, new to interacting with Google Cloud services, on how to enable a Google Maps API. Which of the following recommendations is most appropriate?

• Cloud SDK
• Service Usage API
• Google Cloud Platform Console
• Cloud Endpoints

You are in a discussion with a customer around the implementation of Google Maps APIs into their solution and, while asking some technical discovery questions, you find that a client wants to build an application from the ground up and will not be retrofitting an existing system. Why is this important to know for a Google Maps Platform implementation?

• Building an application from the ground up has more predefined constraints.
• Developing a new application from the ground up has significant time and financial impacts. Therefore, it is almost always a great deal cheaper, in time and money, to retrofit their existing solution with Google Maps Platform features.
• Usually, retrofitting has very little constraints, which will save the customer money if implemented. Therefore, there is less resistance to change.
• Typically, retrofitting brings with it a set of predefined constraints, which have time and financial impacts if changed. This means that designing an entirely new solution is actually cheaper in time and money than retrofitting their existing one.

A startup technology company is focusing on a site/app that will help customers get to and from the airport and find services nearby. For the email receipt, they want to convert the latitude and longitude of the location where the journey was ended to a street address. Which product will they require?

• Geocoding API
• Distance Matrix API
• Places Details service
• Places Autocomplete service

A customer that runs a bike rental app wants to know what features/solutions the Maps SDK for Android and iOS provides. You tell them that users can add maps based on Google Maps data to their application. The API automatically handles access to Google Maps servers, data downloading, map display, and responses to map gestures. What are the additional SDK classes that can be used to change the view of the map area?

• Markers, lines, polygons, overlays, basic map
• Heat maps, speed limits, travel time, customized map
• Heat maps, elevation above sea level, travel time, customized map
• Travel distance, travel time, speed limits, customized map

With Places, users can explore the world around them. What data can Places provide to users?

• Location speed limits, address time zone, and daylight savings time information.
• Display of an interactive street view panorama, display of speed limits in the area, routes on a map and the time zone.
• Location names, addresses, contact information, ratings, reviews, and atmosphere.
• Display of a static street view panorama, display of an interactive street view panorama, routes on a map, and the time zone.

Your customer wishes to provide users of their app with directions between two points. What type of response can the Directions API service provide? (Select two)

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• SDK
• PHP
• SQL
• JavaScript
• JSON

Where are you able to set up data analytics, cloud storage, cloud computing, and your location data?

• Currently, Google Maps data, reports and billing will be handled by an outside agency and will be separate from the Google Cloud Console.
• You will be able to set up all of this, plus reporting, billing, and more through the same Google Cloud Console.
• You will have to go to a separate platform for data analytics, cloud storage, and map information, then another separate platform for reports and billing.
• You go to the Google Maps Console for any Google Maps related data, and Google Maps billing or reports, and Google Cloud Console for any Cloud related information.

A wide range of place requests are available with the Places API. Which request will returns more detailed information about a specific place, including user reviews?

• Place Details
• Place Photos
• Place Autocomplete
• Place Search

One of your customers is an online clothing retailer. Which of the following would be a benefit of them incorporating the Google Places Autocomplete API into their online shopping cart?

• Significantly increase the total time required for a customer to place an order
• Decrease the number of steps in the checkout process
• Guarantee no errors in address input
• Increase cart abandonment by 5%

A customer has a lot of location tagged records in BigQuery. They are open to new ideas and ways of representing this data in order to gain insights from it. They want a demonstration of what maps can do for them in regards to visualizing this data. What should you recommend?

• Google Data Studio is a web tool that provides visualization options for spatial data in BigQuery using Google Data Studio BigQuery connector. You can run a SQL query and display the results. Flexible styling features allow you to analyze and explore your data.
• Jupyter Notebook is a web tool for visualization of geospatial data in BigQuery using Google Maps APIs. You can run a SQL query and display the results on an interactive map. Flexible styling features allow you to analyze and explore your data.
• BigQuery Geo Viz is a web tool for visualization of geospatial data in BigQuery that has Google Maps built in. You can run a SQL query and display the results on an interactive map. Flexible styling features allow you to analyze and explore your data.
• Earth Engine is a web tool for visualization of geospatial data in BigQuery using Google Maps APIs. You can run a SQL query and display the results on an interactive map. Flexible styling features allow you to analyze and explore your data

Google Maps offers four key benefits to the customer that are a competitive strength. What are they?

• Global coverage, faster uploads, better customer service, constant updating of maps, and easy to customize.
• Global coverage, speed and scale, rich, real-time data, and maps that users love.
• Global coverage, tons of data, digital maps, and higher resolution.
• Speed and scale, higher resolution, real-time traffic data, and easy to customize.

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