Google Professional Cloud Database Engineer Exam - Topic 14 Question 21 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Professional Cloud Database Engineer exam

Question #: 21
Topic #: 14

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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?

ASelect Bare Metal Solution for Oracle.

BSelect Cloud SQL.

CSelect Bigtable.

DSelect Cloud Spanner.

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Suggested Answer: D

The application must be available 24/7 to users worldwide, horizontally scalable, and support open source databases.

by Josephine at Oct 19, 2023, 10:21 PM

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Billi

8 months ago

Wait, can Cloud Spanner really handle global payments like that? Sounds too good to be true.

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Desiree

8 months ago

Totally agree, Cloud Spanner is fully managed and shardable!

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Grover

8 months ago

I think Cloud SQL could work too, but not sure about the scalability.

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Teddy

9 months ago

Bigtable is great, but not for strong transactional consistency.

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Christene

9 months ago

Cloud Spanner is the way to go for 99.999% availability!

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Krissy

9 months ago

I’m pretty confident that Cloud Spanner is the best fit here, especially with its strong consistency and fully managed features, but I wish I had reviewed the differences more thoroughly.

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Jean

9 months ago

I’m leaning towards Cloud Spanner too, but I have a nagging feeling that Bigtable might be a contender for certain use cases.

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Thea

9 months ago

I remember practicing a similar question where Cloud SQL was mentioned, but I don’t think it meets the 99.999% availability requirement for such a critical application.

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Jaime

9 months ago

I think Cloud Spanner could be the right choice since it’s designed for high availability and scalability, but I’m not entirely sure about the sharding aspect.

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Xochitl

9 months ago

This seems straightforward. Cloud Spanner looks like the obvious choice given the need for high availability and strong consistency.

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Aliza

10 months ago

Okay, I think I've got a good handle on this. The key is finding a fully managed, automatically shardable database that meets all the criteria.

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Elmira

10 months ago

Hmm, I'm a bit unsure about this one. I'll need to review the database options and their capabilities to make the best choice.

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Sarah

10 months ago

This looks like a tricky one. I'll need to carefully consider the requirements around availability, scalability, and transactional consistency.

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Lina

10 months ago

I'm a bit confused by the options here. I'll need to research each of these database solutions in more detail to determine the best fit.

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Moon

10 months ago

This question seems straightforward. I'll focus on the key stages of money laundering that online banking could be vulnerable to.

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Chi

10 months ago

Record Search sounds like it could be the right answer, but I'm not totally confident. I'll review the material again just to be sure.

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Jean

2 years ago

Haha, good one! But yeah, no doubt about it, Cloud Spanner is the right pick here. It's like the database version of a Swiss Army Knife - it can do it all and do it well.

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Verda

2 years ago

Yeah, I'm with you guys. Cloud Spanner is the way to go. Although, I gotta say, 'Bare Metal Solution for Oracle' sounds like something straight out of a bad sci-fi movie. 'In a world where databases are sentient, only the Bare Metal Solution can save us!'

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Cruz

2 years ago

I agree, Cloud Spanner does seem like the obvious choice here. The other options like Bare Metal Solution for Oracle or Cloud SQL don't seem to meet all the requirements, especially the need for open-source support.

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Aileen

2 years ago

Hmm, this seems like a pretty straightforward question. From the requirements, it sounds like we need a fully managed, highly available, and scalable database solution that supports open-source databases. Cloud Spanner seems to fit the bill perfectly with its 99.999% availability and strong transactional consistency.

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