Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Database Engineer Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your Google Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
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Your team recently released a new version of a highly consumed application to accommodate additional user traffic. Shortly after the release, you received an alert from your production monitoring team that there is consistently high replication lag between your primary instance and the read replicas of your Cloud SQL for MySQL instances. You need to resolve the replication lag. 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 are migrating your data center to Google Cloud. You plan to migrate your applications to Compute Engine and your Oracle databases to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle. You must ensure that the applications in different projects can communicate securely and efficiently with the Oracle databases. What should you do?
Your company is launching a new globally distributed application with strict requirements for low latency, strong consistency, zero downtime, and high availability (HA). You need to configure a scalable database solution to support anticipated rapid growth and optimal application performance. What should you do?
You plan to use Database Migration Service to migrate data from a PostgreSQL on-premises instance to Cloud SQL. You need to identify the prerequisites for creating and automating the task. What should you do? (Choose two.)
You are running a transactional application on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL in Google Cloud. The database is running in a high availability configuration within one region. You have encountered issues with data and want to restore to the last known pristine version of the database. What should you do?
Your company wants you to migrate their Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL relational databases to Google Cloud. You need a fully managed, flexible database solution when possible. What should you do?
An analytics team needs to read data out of Cloud SQL for SQL Server and update a table in Cloud Spanner. You need to create a service account and grant least privilege access using predefined roles. What roles should you assign to the service account?
You are designing a highly available (HA) Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance that will be used by 100 databases. Each database contains 80 tables that were migrated from your on-premises environment to Google Cloud. The applications that use these databases are located in multiple regions in the US, and you need to ensure that read and write operations have low latency. What should you do?
You are configuring a brand new Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database instance in Google Cloud. Your application team wants you to deploy one primary instance, one standby instance, and one read replica instance. You need to ensure that you are following Google-recommended practices for high availability. What should you do?
Your company wants to migrate an Oracle-based application to Google Cloud. The application team currently uses Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to back up the database to tape for long-term retention (LTR). You need a cost-effective backup and restore solution that meets a 2-hour recovery time objective (RTO) and a 15-minute recovery point objective (RPO). What should you do?
You are designing a physician portal app in Node.js. This application will be used in hospitals and clinics that might have intermittent internet connectivity. If a connectivity failure occurs, the app should be able to query the cached data. You need to ensure that the application has scalability, strong consistency, and multi-region replication. 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 followGoogle-recommended practices to resolve and prevent these performance issues while avoiding any major refactoring. What should you do?
You need to perform a one-time migration of data from a running Cloud SQL for MySQL instance in the us-central1 region to a new Cloud SQL for MySQL instance in the us-east1 region. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to minimize performance impact on the currently running instance. What should you do?
Your online delivery business that primarily serves retail customers uses Cloud SQL for MySQL for its inventory and scheduling application. The required recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) must be in minutes rather than hours as a part of your high availability and disaster recovery design. You need a high availability configuration that can recover without data loss during a zonal or a regional failure. What should you do?
Your hotel booking company is expanding into Country A, where personally identifiable information (PII) must comply with regional data residency requirements and audits. You need to isolate customer data in Country A from the rest of the customer data. Youwant to design a multi-tenancy strategy to efficiently manage costs and operations. What should you do?
Your company wants to migrate its MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server on-premises databases to Google Cloud. You need a solution that provides near-zero downtime, requires no application changes, and supports change data capture (CDC). What should you do?
You are running a mission-critical application on a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database with a multi-zonal setup. The primary and read replica instances are in the same regionbut in different zones. You need to ensure that you split the application load between both instances. What should you do?
You are the DBA of an online tutoring application that runs on a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database. You are testing the implementation of the cross-regional failover configuration. The database in region R1 fails over successfully to region R2, and the database becomes available for the application to process data. During testing, certain scenarios of the application work as expected in region R2, but a few scenarios fail with database errors. The application-related database queries, when executed in isolation from Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL in region R2, work as expected. The applicationperforms completely as expected when the database fails back to region R1. You need to identify the cause of the database errors in region R2. What should you do?
You finished migrating an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL. You want to ensure that the daily export of a table, which was previously a cron job running on the database server, continues. You want the solution to minimize cost and operations overhead. What should you do?
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