Question 1

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?

Options :

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

Question 2

Your digital-native business runs its database workloads on Cloud SQL. Your website must be globally accessible 24/7. You need to prepare your Cloud SQL instance for high availability (HA). You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Options :

A : Set up manual backups.

B : Create a PostgreSQL database on-premises as the HA option.

C : Configure single zone availability for automated backups.

D : Enable point-in-time recovery.

E : Schedule automated backups.

Answer: D,E

Question 3

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?

Options :

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 4

You are designing an augmented reality game for iOS and Android devices. You plan to use Cloud Spanner as the primary backend database for game state storage and player authentication. You want to track in-game rewards that players unlock at every stage of the game. During the testing phase, you discovered that costs are much higher than anticipated, but the query response times are within the SLA. You want to follow Googlerecommended practices. You need the database to be performant and highly available while you keep costs low. What should you do?

Options :

A : Manually scale down the number of nodes after the peak period has passed.

B : Use interleaving to co-locate parent and child rows.

C : Use the Cloud Spanner query optimizer to determine the most efficient way to execute the SQL query.

D : Use granular instance sizing in Cloud Spanner and Autoscaler.

Answer: D

Question 5

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?

Options :

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

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