Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer ACE — Topic 1 Question 124

Question

You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a backend database. The application has a very predictable traffic pattern. You want to automatically scale up or down the number of Spanner nodes depending on traffic. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: D. The correct answer is D. Option D: Create a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy to send an alert to webhook when Cloud Spanner CPU is over or under your threshold. Create a Cloud Function that listens to HTTP and resizes Spanner resources accordingly. Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database with global reach. Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, dashboards, and alerts to observe system health.

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer ACE — Question 124