Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions →easyMultiple ChoiceObjective-mapped
PCDE Practice Question: Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions
An organization needs a fully managed, globally distributed relational database with strong consistency and horizontal scaling for a multi-region application. Which service meets these requirements?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner provides global distribution, strong consistency, horizontal scaling, and relational features.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Bigtable
Why it's wrong here
Bigtable is NoSQL, not relational.
- ✗
Firestore
Why it's wrong here
Firestore is document-oriented, not relational.
- ✗
Cloud SQL
Why it's wrong here
Cloud SQL is regional, not global.
- ✓
Cloud Spanner
Why this is correct
Spanner is globally distributed with strong consistency.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
One of 1,446 original PCDE practice questions on Courseiva, each with a full explanation and wrong-answer analysis — not exam dumps or protected exam content. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This PCDE practice question is part of Courseiva's free Google Cloud certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the PCDE exam.