Correct Answer: Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner is the only GCP service that offers global scale, multi-region writes, strong consistency, and 99.999% availability for relational data....
Correct Answer
Cloud Spanner
Why This Answer Is Correct
Cloud Spanner is the only GCP service that offers global scale, multi-region writes, strong consistency, and 99.999% availability for relational data.
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.
A financial application requires a relational database that supports high availability and automated backups. The database must be fully managed to reduce operational overhead. Which service fits these requirements?
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'?