Google Cloud Certified High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Question 1

What is the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in the context of disaster recovery planning?

Accepted Answer

The maximum acceptable time to restore service after a disaster

Answer

The maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time

Answer

The minimum number of replicas required for redundancy

Answer

The time interval between backups

Question 2

Which Cloud SQL feature provides automatic failover to a standby replica in case of a primary instance failure?

Accepted Answer

High Availability (HA) with failover replica

Answer

Cross-region Read Replica

Answer

Cloud SQL Backups

Answer

Point-in-time recovery

Question 3

An application requires a 99.99% availability SLA and must serve users across multiple GCP regions. Which load balancing configuration achieves this?

Accepted Answer

Global External HTTP(S) Load Balancer with multi-region backends

Answer

Regional Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancer

Answer

Regional External HTTP(S) Load Balancer

Answer

Classic external TCP Load Balancer

Question 4

What is a key characteristic of a Warm Standby disaster recovery strategy?

Accepted Answer

A scaled-down version of the environment runs continuously and can scale up quickly

Answer

The standby environment is identical to production and always running at full capacity

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The environment is created only after a disaster is declared

Answer

Backups are replicated but no compute runs in the DR region

Question 5

Which GCP feature allows you to create scheduled, automated snapshots of Persistent Disks for backup?

Accepted Answer

Snapshot Schedules

Answer

Managed Instance Group autohealing

Answer

Cloud Backup and DR service

Answer

Disk cloning

Question 6

Which Cloud Spanner configuration provides the highest level of availability and global disaster recovery?

Accepted Answer

Multi-region instance

Answer

Regional instance

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Single-zone instance

Answer

Replicated instance