You are designing a payments processing application on Google Cloud. The application must continue to serve requests and avoid any user disruption if a regional failure occurs. You need to use AES-256 to encrypt data in the database, and you want to control where you store the encryption key. 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 manage a production MySQL database running on Cloud SQL at a retail company. You perform routine maintenance on Sunday at midnight when traffic is slow, but you want to skip routine maintenance during the year-end holiday shopping season. You need to ensure that your production system is available 24/7 during the holidays. What should you do?
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?
Your team is building a new inventory management application that will require read and write database instances in multiple Google Cloud regions around the globe. Your database solution requires 99.99% availability and global transactional consistency. You need a fully managed backend relational database to store inventory changes. What should you do?
You are managing two different applications: Order Management and Sales Reporting. Both applications interact with the same Cloud SQL for MySQL database. The Order Management application reads and writes to the database 24/7, but the Sales Reporting application is read-only. Both applications need the latest data. You need to ensure that the Performance of the Order Management application is not affected by the Sales Reporting application. What should you do?
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?
You are deploying a new Cloud SQL instance on Google Cloud using the Cloud SQL Auth proxy. You have identified snippets of application code that need to access the new Cloud SQL instance. The snippets reside and execute on an application server running on a Compute Engine machine. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) as quickly and securely as possible. What should you do?