Your company is shutting down their data center and migrating several MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to Google Cloud. Your database operations team is severely constrained by ongoing production releases and the lack of capacity for additional on-premises backups. You want to ensure that the scheduled migrations happen with minimal downtime and that the Google Cloud databases stay in sync with the on-premises data changes until the applications can cut over.

What should you do? (Choose two.)

Your retail organization is preparing for the holiday season. Use of catalog services is increasing, and your DevOps team is supporting the Cloud SQL databases that power a microservices-based application. The DevOps team has added instrumentation through Sqlcommenter. You need to identify the root cause of why certain microservice calls are failing. What should you do?

You are the primary DBA of a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database that supports 6 enterprise applications in production. You used Cloud SQL Insights to identify inefficient queries and now need to identify the application that is originating the inefficient queries. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

You have an application that sends banking events to Bigtable cluster-a in us-east. You decide to add cluster-b in us-central1. Cluster-a replicates data to cluster-b. You need to ensure that Bigtable continues to accept read and write requests if one of the clusters becomes unavailable and that requests are routed automatically to the other cluster. What deployment strategy should you use?

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 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 the database administrator of a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance that has pgaudit disabled. Users are complaining that their queries are taking longer to execute and performance has degraded over the past few months. You need to collect and analyze query performance data to help identity slow-running queries. 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?

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?

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 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 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?

Your hotel booking company is expanding into Country A, where personally identifiable information (PII) must comply with regional data residency requirements and audits. You need to isolate customer data in Country A from the rest of the customer data. You want to design a multi-tenancy strategy to efficiently manage costs and operations. 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 hundreds of Cloud SQL for MySQL instances. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to optimize platform costs. 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?

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?

You recently launched a new product to the US market. You currently have two Bigtable clusters in one US region to serve all the traffic. Your marketing team is planning an immediate expansion to APAC. You need to roll out the regional expansion while implementing high availability according to Google-recommended practices. 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?

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?

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 work for a financial services company that wants to use fully managed database services. Traffic volume for your consumer services products has increased annually at a constant rate with occasional spikes around holidays. You frequently need to upgrade the capacity of your database. You want to use Cloud Spanner and include an automated method to increase your hardware capacity to support a higher level of concurrency. What should you do?

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 of us-central1 and the backup region of us-east1. 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?

Your organization works with sensitive data that requires you to manage your own encryption keys. You are working on a project that stores that data in a Cloud SQL database. You need to ensure that stored data is encrypted with your keys. 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 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?

You are managing multiple applications connecting to a database on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. You need to be able to monitor database performance to easily identify applications with long-running and resource-intensive queries. 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 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?

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 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 wants to migrate an Oracle-based application to Google Cloud. The application team currently uses Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to back up the database to tape for long-term retention (LTR). You need a cost-effective backup and restore solution that meets a 2-hour recovery time objective (RTO) and a 15-minute recovery point objective (RPO). What should you do?

Your ecommerce application connecting to your Cloud SQL for SQL Server is expected to have additional traffic due to the holiday weekend. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to set up alerts for CPU and memory metrics so you can be notified by text message at the first sign of potential issues. What should you do?

You work in the logistics department. Your data analysis team needs daily extracts from Cloud SQL for MySQL to train a machine learning model. The model will be used to optimize next-day routes. You need to export the data in CSV format. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. 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 want to migrate your PostgreSQL database from another cloud provider to Cloud SQL. You plan on using Database Migration Service and need to assess the impact of any known limitations. What should you do? (Choose two.)

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?