Professional Cloud Database Engineer exam

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?A...

You manage a meeting booking application that uses Cloud SQL. During an important launch, the Cloud SQL instance went through a maintenance event that resulted in a downtime of more than 5 minutes and adversely affected your production application. You need to immediately address the maintenance issue to prevent any...

Your organization has a critical business app that is running with a Cloud SQL for MySQL backend database. Your company wants to build the most fault-tolerant and highly available solution possible. You need to ensure that the application database can survive a zonal and regional failure with a primary region...

Your team uses thousands of connected IoT devices to collect device maintenance data for your oil and gas customers in real time. You want to design inspection routines, device repair, and replacement schedules based on insights gathered from the data produced by these devices. You need a managed solution that...

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 region but in different zones. You need to ensure that you split the application load between both instances. What should you do?A ....

You need to perform a one-time migration of data from a running Cloud SQL for MySQL instance in the us-central1 region to a new Cloud SQL for MySQL instance in the us-east1 region. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to minimize performance impact on the currently running instance. What should...

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?A ....

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?A . Configure Firestore, and modify your application...

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...

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...