You are running a transactional application on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL in Google Cloud. The database is running in a high availability configuration within one region. You have encountered issues with data and want to restore to the last known pristine version of the database. What should you do?
Answer : C
Your organization has a security policy to ensure that all Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL databases are secure. You want to protect sensitive data by using a key that meets specific locality or residency requirements. Your organization needs to control the key's lifecycle activities. You need to ensure that data is encrypted at rest and in transit. What should you do?
Answer : D
Your organization has an existing app that just went viral. The app uses a Cloud SQL for MySQL backend database that is experiencing slow disk performance while using hard disk drives (HDDs). You need to improve performance and reduce disk I/O wait times. What should you do?
Answer : C
You are configuring a new application that has access to an existing Cloud Spanner database. The new application reads from this database to gather statistics for a dashboard. You want to follow Google-recommended practices when granting Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions. What should you do?
Answer : B
Your retail organization is preparing for the holiday season. Use of catalog services is increasing, and your DevOps team is supporting the Cloud SQL databases that power a microservices-based application. The DevOps team has added instrumentation through Sqlcommenter. You need to identify the root cause of why certain microservice calls are failing. What should you do?
Answer : A
You are designing a database architecture for a global application that stores information about public parks worldwide. The application uses the database for read-only purposes, and a centralized batch job updates the database nightly. You want to select an open source, SQL-compliant database. What should you do?
Answer : C
Your company is migrating their MySQL database to Cloud SQL and cannot afford any planned downtime during the month of December. The company is also concerned with cost, so you need the most cost-effective solution. What should you do?
Answer : B
Your online delivery business that primarily serves retail customers uses Cloud SQL for MySQL for its inventory and scheduling application. The required recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) must be in minutes rather than hours as a part of your high availability and disaster recovery design. You need a high availability configuration that can recover without data loss during a zonal or a regional failure. What should you do?
Answer : C
Your hotel booking company is expanding into Country A, where personally identifiable information (PII) must comply with regional data residency requirements and audits. You need to isolate customer data in Country A from the rest of the customer data. You want to design a multi-tenancy strategy to efficiently manage costs and operations. What should you do?
Answer : B
You work for a financial services company that wants to use fully managed database services. Traffic volume for your consumer services products has increased annually at a constant rate with occasional spikes around holidays. You frequently need to upgrade the capacity of your database. You want to use Cloud Spanner and include an automated method to increase your hardware capacity to support a higher level of concurrency. What should you do?
Answer : C
Your organization has a busy transactional Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. Your analytics team needs access to the data so they can build monthly sales reports. You need to provide data access to the analytics team without adversely affecting performance. What should you do?
Answer : D
Your organization stores marketing data such as customer preferences and purchase history on Bigtable. The consumers of this database are predominantly data analysts and operations users. You receive a service ticket from the database operations department citing poor database performance between 9 AM-10 AM every day. The application team has confirmed no latency from their logs. A new cohort of pilot users that is testing a dataset loaded from a third-party data provider is experiencing poor database performance. Other users are not affected. You need to troubleshoot the issue. What should you do?
Answer : B
Your company is developing a new global transactional application that must be ACID-compliant and have 99.999% availability. You are responsible for selecting the appropriate Google Cloud database to serve as a datastore for this new application. What should you do?
Answer : C
You want to migrate your PostgreSQL database from another cloud provider to Cloud SQL. You plan on using Database Migration Service and need to assess the impact of any known limitations. What should you do? (Choose two.)
Answer : CE
Your organization is running a Firestore-backed Firebase app that serves the same top ten news stories on a daily basis to a large global audience. You want to optimize content delivery while decreasing cost and latency. What should you do?
Answer : C