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Total 143 Questions | Updated On: Sep 22, 2026

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Question 1

Your organization has a busy transactional Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. Your analytics team needs access to the data so they can build monthly sales reports. You need to provide data access to the analytics team without adversely affecting performance. What should you do?

A : Create a read replica of the database, provide the database IP address, username, and password to the analytics team, and grant read access to required tables to the team.

B : Create a read replica of the database, enable the cloudsql.iam_authentication flag on the replica, and grant read access to required tables to the analytics team.

C : Enable the cloudsql.iam_authentication flag on the primary database instance, and grant read access to required tables to the analytics team.

D : Provide the database IP address, username, and password of the primary database instance to the analytics, team, and grant read access to required tables to the team

Answer: B

Question 2

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?

A : Select Bare Metal Solution for Oracle.

B : Select Cloud SQL.

C : Select Bigtable.

D : Select Cloud Spanner.

Answer: D

Question 3

You want to migrate an on-premises mission-critical PostgreSQL database to Cloud SQL. The database must be able to withstand a zonal failure with less than five minutes of downtime and still not lose any transactions. You want to follow Google-recommended practices for the migration. What should you do?

A : Take nightly snapshots of the primary database instance, and restore them in a secondary zone.

B : Build a change data capture (CDC) pipeline to read transactions from the primary instance, and replicate them to a secondary instance.

C : Create a read replica in another region, and promote the read replica if a failure occurs.

D : Enable high availability (HA) for the database to make it regional.

Answer: D

Question 4

Your organization has a production Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. Your instance is configured with 16 vCPUs and 104 GB of RAM that is running between 90% and 100% CPU utilization for most of the day. You need to scale up the database and add vCPUs with minimal interruption and effort. What should you do?

A : Issue a gcloud sql instances patch command to increase the number of vCPUs.

B : Update a MySQL database flag to increase the number of vCPUs.

C : Issue a gcloud compute instances update command to increase the number of vCPUs.

D : Back up the database, create an instance with additional vCPUs, and restore the database.

Answer: A

Question 5

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?

A : Use replication to roll out changes to higher environments.

B : Use backup and restore to roll out changes to higher environments.

C : Use Liquibase to roll out changes to higher environments.

D : Manually capture detailed DBA audit logs when changes are rolled out to higher environments.

Answer: C

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Total 143 Questions | Updated On: Sep 22, 2026

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