Google Exam Professional Cloud Database Engineer Topic 3 Question 54 Discussion

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

Question #: 54
Topic #: 3

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You manage a meeting booking application that uses Cloud SQL. During an important launch, the Cloud SQL instance went through a maintenance event that resulted in a downtime of more than 5 minutes and adversely affected your production application. You need to immediately address the maintenance issue to prevent any unplanned events in the future. What should you do?

ASet your production instance's maintenance window to non-business hours.

BMigrate the Cloud SQL instance to Cloud Spanner to avoid any future disruptions due to maintenance.

CContact Support to understand why your Cloud SQL instance had a downtime of more than 5 minutes.

DUse Cloud Scheduler to schedule a maintenance window of no longer than 5 minutes.

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Suggested Answer: C

Cloud Scheduler triggers actions at regular fixed intervals, whereas Cloud Tasks triggers actions based on how the individual task object is configured. Reference: https://cloud.google.com/tasks/docs/comp-tasks-sched

by Marvel at Mar 20, 2025, 07:32 PM

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I think we should set the maintenance window to non-business hours to avoid disruptions.

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