Storage and Database Solutions Flashcards
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Which Google Cloud database service is best suited for a globally distributed, strongly consistent, relational workload?
Answer: Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner provides horizontal scaling with strong consistency and a relational data model, ideal for globally distributed OLTP workloads.
A startup needs a fully managed, serverless NoSQL document database for a mobile app with real-time sync. Which service fits best?
Answer: Firestore
Firestore is a serverless, NoSQL document database with real-time synchronization, ideal for mobile and web applications.
What Cloud Storage class is most cost-effective for data accessed less than once per year?
Answer: Archive
Archive storage has the lowest storage cost but highest retrieval cost, making it ideal for data accessed less than once a year.
Which GCP service is optimized for petabyte-scale, low-latency reads/writes for time-series or wide-column workloads like IoT data?
Answer: Cloud Bigtable
Cloud Bigtable is a managed wide-column NoSQL database designed for petabyte-scale time-series and analytical workloads with low latency.
A team needs to migrate an existing MySQL database to GCP with minimal changes. Which managed service should they use?
Answer: Cloud SQL for MySQL
Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully managed relational database that supports MySQL, enabling lift-and-shift migrations with minimal modification.
Which Cloud Storage feature helps protect against accidental deletion by retaining deleted objects for a configurable period?
Answer: Object Versioning
Object Versioning in Cloud Storage keeps a history of object versions, allowing recovery of accidentally deleted or overwritten objects.
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