Correct Answer: Cloud SQL
Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that supports high availability and automated backups out of the box....
Correct Answer
Cloud SQL
Why This Answer Is Correct
Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that supports high availability and automated backups out of the box.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Cloud SQL — a core concept tested in Professional Cloud Architect. Understanding Cloud SQL is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your company is deploying a global application that requires a relational database. The application must support multi-region writes with strong consistency and five-nines (99.999%) availability. Which database service should you recommend?
You need to migrate a 50 TB PostgreSQL database from on-premises to Cloud SQL. The business requires the cutover to have less than 1 hour of downtime. Which migration strategy is most effective?
A video game company needs to handle a massive influx of users during a tournament. They need a database that can handle millions of lightning-fast reads and writes with sub-10ms latency for player status updates. Which NoSQL service should they use?
What is the primary benefit of 'Regional Cloud SQL' (High Availability) over 'Standalone Cloud SQL'?
An organization is using Google Cloud Spanner for their transactional database. They want to optimize performance for a table that has a high volume of writes. What is a key design best practice in Spanner to avoid 'hotspots'?