Google Exam Professional Cloud Database Engineer Topic 3 Question 56 Discussion

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

Question #: 56
Topic #: 3

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You work for a large retail and ecommerce company that is starting to extend their business globally. Your company plans to migrate to Google Cloud. You want to use platforms that will scale easily, handle transactions with the least amount of latency, and provide a reliable customer experience. You need a storage layer for sales transactions and current inventory levels. You want to retain the same relational schema that your existing platform uses. What should you do?

AStore your data in Firestore in a multi-region location, and place your compute resources in one of the constituent regions.

BDeploy Cloud Spanner using a multi-region instance, and place your compute resources close to the default leader region.

CBuild an in-memory cache in Memorystore, and deploy to the specific geographic regions where your application resides.

DDeploy a Bigtable instance with a cluster in one region and a replica cluster in another geographic region.

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by Kenny at Apr 30, 2025, 06:31 PM

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Erin

I prefer option A, Firestore seems like a reliable choice for our storage needs.

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Steffanie

23 hours ago

I'm not sure, I think option D could also work well for us.

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Wenona

2 days ago

I agree with Aretha, Cloud Spanner seems like the best choice for our needs.

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Aretha

3 days ago

I think we should go with option B.

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Georgiann

1 months ago

Bigtable might work, but it's more for big data use cases. We need a relational database that can handle transactions, not a NoSQL solution.

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Henriette

1 months ago

Haha, Memorystore for a retail company's sales transactions? That's like trying to store the entire inventory in your brain!

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Elinore

1 months ago

I agree, Cloud Spanner sounds like the best choice. It's designed for global-scale relational databases, and the multi-region setup will ensure high availability.

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Vallie

3 days ago

B) Deploy Cloud Spanner using a multi-region instance, and place your compute resources close to the default leader region.

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Kirby

12 days ago

A) Store your data in Firestore in a multi-region location, and place your compute resources in one of the constituent regions.

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Tien

1 months ago

Option B seems like the way to go. Cloud Spanner's multi-region instances and low-latency transactions are perfect for this use case.

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Refugia

13 days ago

Definitely, using Cloud Spanner with a multi-region instance will help ensure scalability and reliability for our global expansion.

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Georgene

14 days ago

I agree, Cloud Spanner would be a great choice for maintaining the relational schema and handling transactions with low latency.

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Macy

15 days ago

Option B seems like the way to go. Cloud Spanner's multi-region instances and low-latency transactions are perfect for this use case.

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