You need to issue a new server certificate because your old one is expiring. You need to avoid a restart of your Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. What should you do in your Cloud SQL instance?
You are choosing a new database backend for an existing application. The current database is running PostgreSQL on an on-premises VM and is managed by a database administrator and operations team. The application data is relational and has light traffic. You want to minimize costs and the migration effort for this application. What should you do?
Your application follows a microservices architecture and uses a single large Cloud SQL instance, which is starting to have performance issues as your application grows. in the Cloud Monitoring dashboard, the CPU utilization looks normal You want to follow Google-recommended practices to resolve and prevent these performance issues while avoiding any major refactoring. What should you do?
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?
Your organization needs to migrate a critical, on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL for MySQL. The on-premises database is on a version of MySQL that is supported by Cloud SQL and uses the InnoDB storage engine. You need to migrate the database while preserving transactions and minimizing downtime. What should you do?
Your customer is running a MySQL database on-premises with read replicas. The nightly incremental backups are expensive and add maintenance overhead. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to migrate the database to Google Cloud, and you need to ensure minimal downtime. What should you do?
You have an application that sends banking events to Bigtable cluster-a in us-east. You decide to add cluster-b in us-central1. Cluster-a replicates data to cluster-b. You need to ensure that Bigtable continues to accept read and write requests if one of the clusters becomes unavailable and that requests are routed automatically to the other cluster. What deployment strategy should you use?
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?
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?
You use Python scripts to generate weekly SQL reports to assess the state of your databases and determine whether you need to reorganize tables or run statistics. You want to automate this report but need to minimize operational costs and overhead. What should you do?
TESTED 20 Feb 2025
