You are managing a set of Cloud SQL databases in Google Cloud. Regulations require that database backups reside in the region where the database is created. You want to minimize operational costs and administrative effort. What should you do?
Your application follows a microservices architecture and uses a single large Cloud SQL instance, which is starting to have performance issues as your application grows. in the Cloud Monitoring dashboard, the CPU utilization looks normal You want to follow Google-recommended practices to resolve and prevent these performance issues while avoiding any major refactoring. What should you do?
You finished migrating an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL. You want to ensure that the daily export of a table, which was previously a cron job running on the database server, continues. You want the solution to minimize cost and operations overhead. What should you do?
You are migrating a telehealth care company's on-premises data center to Google Cloud. The migration plan specifies:
PostgreSQL databases must be migrated to a multi-region backup configuration with cross-region replicas to allow restore and failover in multiple scenarios.
MySQL databases handle personally identifiable information (PII) and require data residency compliance at the regional level.
You want to set up the environment with minimal administrative effort. What should you do?
You are configuring the networking of a Cloud SQL instance. The only application that connects to this database resides on a Compute Engine VM in the same project as the Cloud SQL instance. The VM and the Cloud SQL instance both use the same VPC network, and both have an external (public) IP address and an internal (private) IP address. You want to improve network security. What should you do?
Your ecommerce website captures user clickstream data to analyze customer traffic patterns in real time and support personalization features on your website. You plan to analyze this data using big data tools. You need a low-latency solution that can store 8 TB of data and can scale to millions of read and write requests per second. What should you do?
You are configuring a brand new PostgreSQL database instance in Cloud SQL. Your application team wants to have an optimal and highly available environment with automatic failover to avoid any unplanned outage. What should you do?
Your DevOps team is using Terraform to deploy applications and Cloud SQL databases. After every new application change is rolled out, the environment is torn down and recreated, and the persistent database layer is lost. You need to prevent the database from being dropped. What should you do?
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?
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?
Your customer has a global chat application that uses a multi-regional Cloud Spanner instance. The application has recently experienced degraded performance after a new version of the application was launched. Your customer asked you for assistance. During initial troubleshooting, you observed high read latency. What should you do?
You support a consumer inventory application that runs on a multi-region instance of Cloud Spanner. A customer opened a support ticket to complain about slow response times. You notice a Cloud Monitoring alert about high CPU utilization. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to address the CPU performance issue. What should you do first?
You need to migrate a 1 TB PostgreSQL database from a Compute Engine VM to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. You want to ensure that there is minimal downtime during the migration. What should you do?
You are designing a database strategy for a new web application in one region. You need to minimize write latency. What should you do?
Your company is migrating all legacy applications to Google Cloud. All on-premises applications are using legacy Oracle 12c databases with Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) for high availability (HA) and Oracle Data Guard for disaster recovery. You need a solution that requires minimal code changes, provides the same high availability you have today on-premises, and supports a low latency network for migrated legacy applications. What should you do?
You are designing a physician portal app in Node.js. This application will be used in hospitals and clinics that might have intermittent internet connectivity. If a connectivity failure occurs, the app should be able to query the cached data. You need to ensure that the application has scalability, strong consistency, and multi-region replication. What should you do?
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?
You are running a large, highly transactional application on Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) that is multi-tenant and uses shared storage. You need a solution that ensures high-performance throughput and a low-latency connection between applications and databases. The solution must also support existing Oracle features and provide ease of migration to Google Cloud. What should you do?
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?
You are building an application that allows users to customize their website and mobile experiences. The application will capture user information and preferences. User profiles have a dynamic schema, and users can add or delete information from their profile. You need to ensure that user changes automatically trigger updates to your downstream BigQuery data warehouse. What should you do?
Your company uses Cloud Spanner for a mission-critical inventory management system that is globally available. You recently loaded stock keeping unit (SKU) and product catalog data from a company acquisition and observed hot-spots in the Cloud Spanner database. You want to follow Google-recommended schema design practices to avoid performance degradation. What should you do? (Choose two.)
You are configuring a brand new Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database instance in Google Cloud. Your application team wants you to deploy one primary instance, one standby instance, and one read replica instance. You need to ensure that you are following Google-recommended practices for high availability. What should you do?
You are migrating an on-premises application to Google Cloud. The application requires a high availability (HA) PostgreSQL database to support business-critical functions. Your company's disaster recovery strategy requires a recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) within 30 minutes of failure. You plan to use a Google Cloud managed service. What should you do to maximize uptime for your application?
You are migrating an on-premises application to Compute Engine and Cloud SQL. The application VMs will live in their own project, separate from the Cloud SQL instances which have their own project. What should you do to configure the networks?
You are designing a highly available (HA) Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance that will be used by 100 databases. Each database contains 80 tables that were migrated from your on-premises environment to Google Cloud. The applications that use these databases are located in multiple regions in the US, and you need to ensure that read and write operations have low latency. What should you do?
Your organization is migrating 50 TB Oracle databases to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle. Database backups must be available for quick restore. You also need to have backups available for 5 years. You need to design a cost-effective architecture that meets a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours and recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. What should you do?
You want to migrate an on-premises 100 TB Microsoft SQL Server database to Google Cloud over a 1 Gbps network link. You have 48 hours allowed downtime to migrate this database. What should you do? (Choose two.)
Your organization has a ticketing system that needs an online marketing analytics and reporting application. You need to select a relational database that can manage hundreds of terabytes of data to support this new application. Which database should you use?
Your company is shutting down their on-premises data center and migrating their Oracle databases using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to Google Cloud. You want minimal to no changes to the applications during the database migration. What should you do?
You are writing an application that will run on Cloud Run and require a database running in the Cloud SQL managed service. You want to secure this instance so that it only receives connections from applications running in your VPC environment in Google Cloud. What should you do?
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?
You released a popular mobile game and are using a 50 TB Cloud Spanner instance to store game data in a PITR-enabled production environment. When you analyzed the game statistics, you realized that some players are exploiting a loophole to gather more points to get on the leaderboard. Another DBA accidentally ran an emergency bugfix script that corrupted some of the data in the production environment. You need to determine the extent of the data corruption and restore the production environment. What should you do? (Choose two.)
Your organization operates in a highly regulated industry. Separation of concerns (SoC) and security principle of least privilege (PoLP) are critical. The operations team consists of:
Person A is a database administrator.
Person B is an analyst who generates metric reports.
Application C is responsible for automatic backups.
You need to assign roles to team members for Cloud Spanner. Which roles should you assign?
Your organization is currently updating an existing corporate application that is running in another public cloud to access managed database services in Google Cloud. The application will remain in the other public cloud while the database is migrated to Google Cloud. You want to follow Google-recommended practices for authentication. You need to minimize user disruption during the migration. What should you do?