View all detail and faqs for the Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer exam
You are working on a new centralized inventory management system to track items available in 200 stores, which each have 500 GB of data. You are planning a gradual rollout of the system to a few stores each week. You need to design an SQL database architecture that minimizes costs and user disruption during each regional rollout and can scale up or down on nights and holidays. What should you do?
Your company wants you to migrate their Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL relational databases to Google Cloud. You need a fully managed, flexible database solution when possible. What should you do?
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?
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 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 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 are designing a new gaming application that uses a highly transactional relational database to store player authentication and inventory data in Google Cloud. You want to launch the game in multiple regions. What should you do?
You want to migrate an existing on-premises application to Google Cloud. Your application supports semi-structured data ingested from 100,000 sensors, and each sensor sends 10 readings per second from manufacturing plants. You need to make this data available for real-time monitoring and analysis. What should you do?
Your company is evaluating Google Cloud database options for a mission-critical global payments gateway application. The application must be available 24/7 to users worldwide, horizontally scalable, and support open source databases. You need to select an automatically shardable, fully managed database with 99.999% availability and strong transactional consistency. What should you do?
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?
