2026 Updated Verified Pass Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer Exam – Real Questions & Answers [Q33-Q55]

NEW QUESTION 33
You are running an instance of Cloud Spanner as the backend of your ecommerce website. You learn that the quality assurance (QA) team has doubled the number of their test cases. You need to create a copy of your Cloud Spanner database in a new test environment to accommodate the additional test cases. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 34
Your application stores session documents in Firestore and queries them by steps, sessionDuration, and energyBurned. After a 30 day test period, latency is acceptable but costs are high. Which Firestore change would reduce cost while preserving performance and availability?

NEW QUESTION 35
You recently launched a new product to the US market. You currently have two Bigtable clusters in one US region to serve all the traffic. Your marketing team is planning an immediate expansion to APAC. You need to roll out the regional expansion while implementing high availability according to Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 36
You are setting up a new AlloyDB instance and want users to be able to use their existing Identity and Access Management (IAM) identities to connect to AlloyDB. You have performed the following steps:
– Manually enabled IAM authentication on the AlloyDB instance
– Granted the alloydb.databaseUserand serviceusage.serviceUsageconsumerIAM roles to the users
– Created new AlloyDB database users based on corresponding IAM identities Users are able to connect but are reporting that they are not able to SELECTfrom application tables. What should you do-

NEW QUESTION 37
You are planning to migrate a 10 TB relational database from an on-premises environment to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. The database contains sensitive customer information. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to keep data secure during the migration. What should you do- (Choose two.)

NEW QUESTION 38
You are designing a solution to implement a cache to track all the products which are browsed by users on an ecommerce website, using a key-value database. Your solution needs to have the ability to connect to the database from multiple VPC networks, while having a managed service, high throughput, low latency, strong security, and private communication. What should you do-

NEW QUESTION 39
You have a Cloud SQL instance (DB-1) with two cross-region read replicas (DB-2 and DB-3). During a business continuity test, the primary instance (DB-1) was taken offline and a replica (DB-2) was promoted. The test has concluded and you want to return to the pre-test configuration. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 40
Your team is running a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance with a 5 TB database that must be available 24/7. You need to save database backups on object storage with minimal operational overhead or risk to your production workloads. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 41
Your organization deployed a new version of a critical application that uses Cloud SQL for MySQL with high availability (HA) and binary logging enabled to store transactional information. The latest release of the application had an error that caused massive data corruption in your Cloud SQL for MySQL database. You need to minimize data loss. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 42
You are migrating critical production database from Amazon RDS for MySQL to Cloud SQL for MYSQL by using Google Cloud’s Migration Service.
You want to keep disruption to your production database to minimum and, at the same time, optimize migration performance. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 43
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?

NEW QUESTION 44
You are configuring a new application that has access to an existing Cloud Spanner database.
The new application reads from this database to gather statistics for a dashboard. You want to follow Google-recommended practices when granting Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 45
Your organization has a security policy to ensure that all Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL databases are secure.
You want to protect sensitive data by using a key that meets specific locality or residency requirements. Your organization needs to control the key’s lifecycle activities. You need to ensure that data is encrypted at rest and in transit. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 46
Your e-learning platform runs on a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance (16 VCPUs, 60 GB memory and 1TB SSD) serving users in North America. Your analytics team runs complex reporting queries that often consume 80% of CPU resources, causing slow response times for student transactions during peak hours. Current workload includes 8,000 transactions per second with 60% reads and 40% writes. The reporting queries involve JOIN operations across multiple large tables with millions of rows requiring highly efficient analytical processing. The platform also experiences sudden spikes in analytical reporting demand, requiring an elastic scaling of read capacity. You need to improve the query performance for your analytics team to run their reports efficiently without impacting transactional users. You also need to plan for future traffic growth.
What should you do-

NEW QUESTION 47
You are managing a Cloud SQL for MySQL environment in Google Cloud. You have deployed a primary instance in Zone A and a read replica instance in Zone B, both in the same region. You are notified that the replica instance in Zone B was unavailable for 10 minutes. You need to ensure that the read replica instance is still working. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 48
Larkspur Systems is building a browser based workspace where teams coauthor very large documents in real time. Each document can reach 25 MB and the system must handle about
60,000 edits per minute from users spread across three regions and it must keep a complete version timeline for every file with strong consistency. Which managed database on Google Cloud best satisfies these requirements?

NEW QUESTION 49
Your project is using Bigtable to store data that should not be accessed from the public internet under any circumstances, even if the requestor has a valid service account key. You need to secure access to this dat a. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 50
You are building an application that allows users to customize their website and mobile experiences. The application will capture user information and preferences. User profiles have a dynamic schema, and users can add or delete information from their profile. You need to ensure that user changes automatically trigger updates to your downstream BigQuery data warehouse. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 51
Your company has PostgreSQL databases on-premises and on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You are planning multiple database migrations to Cloud SQL in an effort to reduce costs and downtime. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and use Google native data migration tools. You also want to closely monitor the migrations as part of the cutover strategy. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 52
You are designing a database strategy for a new web application in one region. You need to minimize write latency. What should you do?

NEW QUESTION 53
Your organization operates in a highly regulated industry. Separation of concerns (SoC) and security principle of least privilege (PoLP) are critical. The operations team consists of:
Person A is a database administrator.
Person B is an analyst who generates metric reports.
Application C is responsible for automatic backups.
You need to assign roles to team members for Cloud Spanner. Which roles should you assign?

NEW QUESTION 54
Your company uses the Cloud SQL out-of-disk recommender to analyze the storage utilization trends of production databases over the last 30 days. Your database operations team uses these recommendations to proactively monitor storage utilization and implement corrective actions. You receive a recommendation that the instance is likely to run out of disk space. What should you do to address this storage alert?

NEW QUESTION 55
Your organization stores marketing data such as customer preferences and purchase history on Bigtable. The consumers of this database are predominantly data analysts and operations users. You receive a service ticket from the database operations department citing poor database performance between 9 AM-10 AM every day.
Theapplication team has confirmed no latency from their logs. A new cohort of pilot users that is testing a dataset loaded from a third-party data provider is experiencing poor database performance. Other users are not affected. You need to troubleshoot the issue. What should you do?