20+ practice questions focused on Manage Database Solutions — one of the most tested topics on the Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Manage Database Solutions PracticeYour team manages a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance used by a critical application. You need to ensure the instance is recoverable to any point within the last 4 days, with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of under 5 minutes. What configuration steps are required?
Explanation: Point-in-time recovery (PITR) in Cloud SQL for MySQL requires binary logging to be enabled, which automatically turns on automated backups. The retention period for binary logs is set via the transactionLogRetentionDays setting, which can be 1-7 days. Enabling automated backups alone does not provide PITR; binary logging is necessary. The retention period of 4 days satisfies the 4-day recovery window. Automated backups are already required for PITR, so option B is the complete answer.
You are responsible for a Cloud Spanner instance that serves a global user base. A new feature requires adding an index on a column of an existing table that contains millions of rows. The table is actively used by production traffic. What is the recommended approach to add the index with minimal impact?
Explanation: Cloud Spanner supports online, non-blocking index creation. The CREATE INDEX statement processes the index in the background and does not block reads or writes on the table. This is the most efficient and least impactful method. Using a backup/restore or export/import is unnecessarily complex and disruptive.
Your Cloud Bigtable instance is experiencing high latency for certain row key ranges. You suspect a hotspot is developing. Which Google Cloud tool should you use to visualize and diagnose the hotspot?
Explanation: Key Visualiser is a tool specifically designed for Bigtable to identify hotspots and access patterns by visualizing row key distribution and traffic. It helps pinpoint uneven load distribution.
You manage a Memorystore for Redis instance that is regularly hitting its maximum memory limit. The application can tolerate some data loss and prefers to keep the most recently used data. Which eviction policy should you configure?
Explanation: volatile-lru evicts keys with an expiry set (volatile keys) using an LRU (least recently used) algorithm. This fits the requirement: the application can tolerate loss of expired data, and it prefers to keep recently used data. allkeys-lru would evict any key, which might include important unexpired keys.
Your Firestore database in Native mode is used by a mobile app. You need to query a collection where documents are filtered by two fields: 'status' (string) and 'createdAt' (timestamp). The query is not performing as expected. What action is required?
Explanation: Firestore in Native mode requires a composite index to efficiently query documents filtered by multiple fields, such as 'status' and 'createdAt'. Without this index, the query may fail or perform poorly, as Firestore cannot combine separate single-field indexes for equality and range filters. Option C is correct because creating a composite index on both fields enables the query to run as expected.
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