Google Exam Professional Cloud Database Engineer Topic 3 Question 34 Discussion

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

Question #: 34
Topic #: 3

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You need to migrate existing databases from Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition on a single Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition to a single Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance. During the discovery phase of your project, you notice that your on-premises server peaks at around 25,000 read IOPS. You need to ensure that your Cloud SQL instance is sized appropriately to maximize read performance. What should you do?

ACreate a SQL Server 2019 Standard on Standard machine type with 4 vCPUs, 15 GB of RAM, and 800 GB of solid-state drive (SSD).

BCreate a SQL Server 2019 Standard on High Memory machine type with at least 16 vCPUs, 104 GB of RAM, and 200 GB of SSD.

CCreate a SQL Server 2019 Standard on High Memory machine type with 16 vCPUs, 104 GB of RAM, and 4 TB of SSD.

DCreate a SQL Server 2019 Enterprise on High Memory machine type with 16 vCPUs, 104 GB of RAM, and 500 GB of SSD.

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Suggested Answer: C

by Sherman at Jun 03, 2024, 08:08 AM

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Mozell

14 days ago

That's a valid point, but option C also has a lot of RAM and SSD storage which could help with read performance.

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Johana

16 days ago

I disagree, I believe option B is better because it has more vCPUs and RAM which can handle the high read IOPS.

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Mozell

17 days ago

I think option A is the best choice because it has a good balance of resources for read performance.

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