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Actual exam question from Google's Professional Cloud Database Engineer

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Your organization deploys a high-volume, low-latency sensor data ingestion system. Resilience is crucial, and the workload is expected to grow significantly over time. You need to design a database tier on Google Cloud to ensure faster performance and high availability, while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A. Deploy multiple Bigtable clusters, shard data manually across them, and set up the application logic for fault tolerance.
B. Deploy a single-zone Bigtable cluster and optimize the application code for maximum write throughput.
C. Deploy a single-region Bigtable instance and increase the nodes to maximize data durability.
D. Provision a multi-zone Bigtable cluster, configure replication, perform an application stress-test, and set up performance monitoring.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by Sai_Vignesh at Aug. 7, 2025, 3:18 a.m.

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Sai_Vignesh

1 week, 1 day ago

Selected Answer: B

Ruled out the other options because they don't meet the primary requirement. That leaves B.

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