Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer ACE — Topic 1 Question 260

Question

You are building a backend service for an ecommerce platform that will persist transaction data from mobile and web clients. After the platform is launched, you expect a large volume of global transactions. Your business team wants to run SQL queries to analyze the data. You need to build a highly available and scalable data store for the platform. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A. The correct answer is A. Option A: Create a multi-region Cloud Spanner instance with an optimized schema. Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database with global reach. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer ACE — Question 260