You are running a large, highly transactional application on Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) that is multi-tenant and uses shared storage. You need a solution that ensures high-performance throughput and a low-latency connection between applications and databases. The solution must also support existing Oracle features and provide ease of migration to Google Cloud. What should you do?
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. Theapplication 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?
You are setting up a new AlloyDB instance and want users to be able to use their existing identity and Access Managemen (IAM) identities to connect to AlloyDB. You have performed the following steps:
Manually enabled IAM authentication on the AlloyDB instance
Granted the allowdb-databaseUser and serviceusage.serviceusageConsumer IAM roles to the users
Created new AllowDB database users based on corresponding IAM identities
Users are able to connect but are reporting that they are not able to SELECT from application tables. What should you do?
Your team is building a new inventory management application that will require read and write database instances in multiple Google Cloud regions around the globe. Your database solution requires 99.99% availability and global transactional consistency. You need a fully managed backend relational database to store inventory changes. What should you do?
Your organization has a security policy to ensure that all Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL databases are secure. You want to protect sensitive data by using a key that meets specific locality or residency requirements. Your organization needs to control the key's lifecycle activities. You need to ensure that data is encrypted at rest and in transit. What should you do?
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 anduse Google native data migration tools. You also want to closely monitor the migrations as part of the cutover strategy. What should you do?
You are migrating an on-premises application to Compute Engine and Cloud SQL. The application VMs will live in their own project, separate from the Cloud SQL instances which have their own project. What should you do to configure the networks?
Your company uses Bigtable for a user-facing application that displays a low-latency real-time dashboard. You need to recommend the optimal storage type for this read-intensive database. What should you do?
You are running a mission-critical application on a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database with a multi-zonal setup. The primary and read replica instances are in the same regionbut in different zones. You need to ensure that you split the application load between both instances. What should you do?
Your retail organization is preparing for the holiday season. Use of catalog services is increasing, and your DevOps team is supporting the Cloud SQL databases that power a microservices-based application. The DevOps team has added instrumentation through Sqlcommenter. You need to identify the root cause of why certain microservice calls are failing. What should you do?
TESTED 16 Jun 2025
