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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?
You are evaluating Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL as a possible destination for your on-premises PostgreSQL instances. Geography is becoming increasingly relevant to customer privacy worldwide. Your solution must support data residency requirements and include a strategy to:
configure where data is stored
control where the encryption keys are stored
govern the access to data
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.)
Your team is building an application that stores and analyzes streaming time series financial data. You need a database solution that can perform time series-based scans with sub-second latency. The solution must scale into the hundreds of terabytes and be able to write up to 10k records per second and read up to 200 MB per second. What should you do?
You host an application in Google Cloud. The application is located in a single region and uses Cloud SQL for transactional data. Most of your users are located in the same time zone and expect the application to be available 7 days a week, from 6 AM to 10PM. You want to ensure regular maintenance updates to your Cloud SQL instance without creating downtime for your users. What should you do?
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. Theapplication 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?
You are choosing a new database backend for an existing application. The current database is running PostgreSQL on an on-premises VM and is managed by a database administrator and operations team. The application data is relational and has light traffic. You want to minimize costs and the migration effort for this application. What should you do?
Your team is running a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance with a 5 TB database that must be available 24/7. You need to save database backups on object storage with minimal operational overhead or risk to your production workloads. What should you do?
You are responsible for designing a new database for an airline ticketing application in Google Cloud. This application must be able to:
Work with transactions and offer strong consistency.
Work with structured and semi-structured (JSON) data.
Scale transparently to multiple regions globally as the operation grows.
You need a Google Cloud database that meets all the requirements of the application. What should you do?
You are migrating your data center to Google Cloud. You plan to migrate your applications to Compute Engine and your Oracle databases to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle. You must ensure that the applications in different projects can communicate securely and efficiently with the Oracle databases. What should you do?
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?
You are migrating critical production database from Amazon RDS for MySQL to Cloud SQL for MYSQL by using Google Cloud’s Migration Service.
You want to keep disruption to your production database to minimum and, at the same time, optimize migration performance. What should you do?
You are choosing a database backend for a new application. The application will ingest data points from IoT sensors. You need to ensure that the application can scale up to millions of requests per second with sub-10ms latency and store up to 100 TB of history. What should you do?
You are managing a mission-critical Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. Your application team is running important transactions on the database when another DBA starts an on-demand backup. You want to verify the status of the backup. What should you do?
Your company wants to migrate its MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server on-premises databases to Google Cloud. You need a solution that provides near-zero downtime, requires no application changes, and supports change data capture (CDC). What should you do?
You are starting a large CSV import into a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance that has many open connections. You checked memory and CPU usage, and sufficient resources are available. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to ensure that the import will not time out. 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?
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?
You manage a production MySQL database running on Cloud SQL at a retail company. You perform routine maintenance on Sunday at midnight when traffic is slow, but you want to skip routine maintenance during the year-end holiday shopping season. You need to ensure that your production system is available 24/7 during the holidays. 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?
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?
You need to redesign the architecture of an application that currently uses Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. The users of the application complain about slow query response times. You want to enhance your application architecture to offer sub-millisecond query latency. What should you do?
You work for a large retail and ecommerce company that is starting to extend their business globally. Your company plans to migrate to Google Cloud. You want to use platforms that will scale easily, handle transactions with the least amount of latency, and provide a reliable customer experience. You need a storage layer for sales transactions and current inventory levels. You want to retain the same relational schema that your existing platform uses. What should you do?
You are managing a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance in Google Cloud. You need to test the high availability of your Cloud SQL instance by performing a failover. You want to use the cloud command.
What should you do?
You are managing a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance in Google Cloud. You have a primary instance in region 1 and a read replica in region 2. After a failure of region 1, you need to make the Cloud SQL instance available again. You want to minimize data loss and follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
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 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?
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 have a large Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. The database instance is not mission-critical, and you want to minimize operational costs. What should you do to lower the cost of backups in this environment?
You are designing an augmented reality game for iOS and Android devices. You plan to use Cloud Spanner as the primary backend database for game state storage and player authentication. You want to track in-game rewards that players unlock at every stage of the game. During the testing phase, you discovered that costs are much higher than anticipated, but the query response times are within the SLA. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. You need the database to be performant and highly available while you keep costs low. What should you do?
You currently have a MySQL database running on Cloud SQL with a read replica in a different zone for non-mission critical analytics workloads. You want to enable high availability (HA) for the analytic workloads while keeping costs low. What should you do?
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?
You need to provision several hundred Cloud SQL for MySQL instances for multiple project teams over a one-week period. You must ensure that all instances adhere to company standards such as instance naming conventions, database flags, and tags. What should you do?
Your organization deployed a new version of a critical application that uses Cloud SQL for MySQL with high availability (HA) and binary logging enabled to store transactional information. The latest release of the application had an error that caused massive data corruption in your Cloud SQL for MySQL database. You need to minimize data loss. What should you do?
You are running a mission-critical application on a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database with a multi-zonal setup. The primary and read replica instances are in the same regionbut in different zones. You need to ensure that you split the application load between both instances. What should you do?
You are a DBA of Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. You want the applications to have password-less authentication for read and write access to the database. Which authentication mechanism should you use?
You are managing a Cloud SQL for MySQL environment in Google Cloud. You have deployed a primary instance in Zone A and a read replica instance in Zone B, both in the same region. You are notified that the replica instance in Zone B was unavailable for 10 minutes. You need to ensure that the read replica instance is still working. What should you do?
Your company's mission-critical, globally available application is supported by a Cloud Spanner database. Experienced users of the application have read and write access to the database, but new users are assigned read-only access to the database. You need to assign the appropriate Cloud Spanner Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to new users being onboarded soon. What roles should you set up?