QUESTION 40
Your organization has an existing app that just went viral. The app uses a Cloud SQL for MySQL backend database that is experiencing slow disk performance while using hard disk drives (HDDs). You need to improve performance and reduce disk I/O wait times. What should you do?

QUESTION 41
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.)

QUESTION 42
An analytics team needs to read data out of Cloud SQL for SQL Server and update a table in Cloud Spanner. You need to create a service account and grant least privilege access using predefined roles. What roles should you assign to the service account?

QUESTION 43
You are designing a payments processing application on Google Cloud. The application must continue to serve requests and avoid any user disruption if a regional failure occurs. You need to use AES-256 to encrypt data in the database, and you want to control where you store the encryption key. What should you do?

QUESTION 44
Your organization works with sensitive data that requires you to manage your own encryption keys. You are working on a project that stores that data in a Cloud SQL database. You need to ensure that stored data is encrypted with your keys. What should you do?

QUESTION 45
You are managing a mission-critical Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. Your application team is running important transactions on the database when another DBA starts an on-demand backup. You want to verify the status of the backup. What should you do?

QUESTION 46
Your company is migrating the existing infrastructure for a highly transactional application to Google Cloud. You have several databases in a MySQL database instance and need to decide how to transfer the data to Cloud SQL. You need to minimize the downtime for the migration of your 500 GB instance. What should you do?

QUESTION 47
You want to migrate your on-premises PostgreSQL database to Compute Engine. You need to migrate this database with the minimum downtime possible. What should you do?

QUESTION 48
You are designing a physician portal app in Node.js. This application will be used in hospitals and clinics that might have intermittent internet connectivity. If a connectivity failure occurs, the app should be able to query the cached dat a. You need to ensure that the application has scalability, strong consistency, and multi-region replication. What should you do?

QUESTION 49
You plan to use Database Migration Service to migrate data from a PostgreSQL on-premises instance to Cloud SQL. You need to identify the prerequisites for creating and automating the task. What should you do? (Choose two.)

QUESTION 50
During an internal audit, you realized that one of your Cloud SQL for MySQL instances does not have high availability (HA) enabled. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to enable HA on your existing instance. What should you do?

QUESTION 51
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?

QUESTION 52
Your organization is running a Firestore-backed Firebase app that serves the same top ten news stories on a daily basis to a large global audience. You want to optimize content delivery while decreasing cost and latency. What should you do?

QUESTION 53
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?

QUESTION 54
Your company has PostgreSQL databases on-premises and on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You are planning multiple database migrations to Cloud SQL in an effort to reduce costs and downtime. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and use Google native data migration tools. You also want to closely monitor the migrations as part of the cutover strategy. What should you do?

QUESTION 55
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 dat a. 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?

QUESTION 56
Your organization stores marketing data such as customer preferences and purchase history on Bigtable. The consumers of this database are predominantly data analysts and operations users. You receive a service ticket from the database operations department citing poor database performance between 9 AM-10 AM every day. The application team has confirmed no latency from their logs. A new cohort of pilot users that is testing a dataset loaded from a third-party data provider is experiencing poor database performance. Other users are not affected. You need to troubleshoot the issue. What should you do?