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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?
You are designing a payments processing application on Google Cloud. The application must continue to serve requests and avoid any user disruption if a regional failure occurs. You need to use AES-256 to encrypt data in the database, and you want to control where you store the encryption key. 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?
Your company wants to move to Google Cloud. Your current data center is closing in six months. You are running a large, highly transactional Oracle application footprint on VMWare. You need to design a solution with minimal disruption to the current architecture and provide ease of migration to Google Cloud. What should you do?
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 company is using Cloud SQL for MySQL with an internal (private) IP address and wants to replicate some tables into BigQuery in near-real time for analytics and machine learning. You need to ensure that replication is fast and reliable and uses Google-managed services. What should you do?
You are developing a new application on a VM that is on your corporate network. The application will use Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to connect to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. Your Cloud SQL instance is configured with IP address 192.168.3.48, and SSL is disabled. You want to ensure that your application can access your database instance without requiring configuration changes to your database. What should you do?
You are building an Android game that needs to store data on a Google Cloud serverless database. The database will log user activity, store user preferences, and receive in-game updates. The target audience resides in developing countries that have intermittent internet connectivity. You need to ensure that the game can synchronize game data to the backend database whenever an internet network is available. 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?
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?
You are using Compute Engine on Google Cloud and your data center to manage a set of MySQL databases in a hybrid configuration. You need to create replicas to scale reads and to offload part of the management operation. What should you do?
Your team is building a new inventory management application that will require read and write database instances in multiple Google Cloud regions around the globe. Your database solution requires 99.99% availability and global transactional consistency. You need a fully managed backend relational database to store inventory changes. What should you do?
Your company is developing a global ecommerce website on Google Cloud. Your development team is working on a shopping cart service that is durable and elastically scalable with live traffic. Business disruptions from unplanned downtime are expected to be less than 5 minutes per month. In addition, the application needs to have very low latency writes. You need a data storage solution that has high write throughput and provides 99.99% uptime. 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 a DBA on a Cloud Spanner instance with multiple databases. You need to assign these privileges to all members of the application development team on a specific database:
Can read tables, views, and DDL
Can write rows to the tables
Can add columns and indexes
Cannot drop the database
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?
Your company uses Bigtable for a user-facing application that displays a low-latency real-time dashboard. You need to recommend the optimal storage type for this read-intensive database. 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?
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?
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 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?
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 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 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?
An analytics team needs to read data out of Cloud SQL for SQL Server and update a table in Cloud Spanner. You need to create a service account and grant least privilege access using predefined roles. What roles should you assign to the service account?
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 project is using Bigtable to store data that should not be accessed from the public internet under any circumstances, even if the requestor has a valid service account key. You need to secure access to this data. What should you do?
Your customer is running a MySQL database on-premises with read replicas. The nightly incremental backups are expensive and add maintenance overhead. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to migrate the database to Google Cloud, and you need to ensure minimal downtime. What should you do?
Your organization has strict policies on tracking rollouts to production and periodically shares this information with external auditors to meet compliance requirements. You need to enable auditing on several Cloud Spanner databases. What should you do?
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?
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 10 PM. You want to ensure regular maintenance updates to your Cloud SQL instance without creating downtime for your users. 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?
Your organization is running a low-latency reporting application on Microsoft SQL Server. In addition to the database engine, you are using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in your on-premises environment. You want to migrate your Microsoft SQL Server database instances to Google Cloud. You need to ensure minimal disruption to the existing architecture during migration. What should you do?
You want to migrate your on-premises PostgreSQL database to Compute Engine. You need to migrate this database with the minimum downtime possible. 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 building a data warehouse on BigQuery. Sources of data include several MySQL databases located on-premises.
You need to transfer data from these databases into BigQuery for analytics. You want to use a managed solution that has low latency and is easy to set up. What should you do?
You plan to use Database Migration Service to migrate data from a PostgreSQL on-premises instance to Cloud SQL. You need to identify the prerequisites for creating and automating the task. What should you do? (Choose two.)
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?