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Your organization operates in a highly regulated industry. Separation of concerns (SoC) and security principle of least privilege (PoLP) are critical. The operations team consists of:
Person A is a database administrator.
Person B is an analyst who generates metric reports.
Application C is responsible for automatic backups.
You need to assign roles to team members for Cloud Spanner. Which roles should you assign?
You are the DBA of an online tutoring application that runs on a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database. You are testing the implementation of the cross-regional failover configuration. The database in region R1 fails over successfully to region R2, and the database becomes available for the application to process data. During testing, certain scenarios of the application work as expected in region R2, but a few scenarios fail with database errors. The application-related database queries, when executed in isolation from Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL in region R2, work as expected. The application performs completely as expected when the database fails back to region R1. You need to identify the cause of the database errors in region R2. 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 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 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 running an instance of Cloud Spanner as the backend of your ecommerce website. You learn that the quality assurance (QA) team has doubled the number of their test cases. You need to create a copy of your Cloud Spanner database in a new test environment to accommodate the additional test cases. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. 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 designing a database strategy for a new web application. You plan to start with a small pilot in one country and eventually expand to millions of users in a global audience. You need to ensure that the application can run 24/7 with minimal downtime for maintenance. What should you do?
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 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 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?
You are managing a set of Cloud SQL databases in Google Cloud. Regulations require that database backups reside in the region where the database is created. You want to minimize operational costs and administrative effort. What should you do?
Your organization is migrating 50 TB Oracle databases to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle. Database backups must be available for quick restore. You also need to have backups available for 5 years. You need to design a cost-effective architecture that meets a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours and recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. 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 use Python scripts to generate weekly SQL reports to assess the state of your databases and determine whether you need to reorganize tables or run statistics. You want to automate this report but need to minimize operational costs and overhead. What should you do?