Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer PCD — Topic 1 Question 205

Question

You recently joined a new team that has a Cloud Spanner database instance running in production. Your manager has asked you to optimize the Spanner instance to reduce cost while maintaining high reliability and availability of the database. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: Use Cloud Monitoring to monitor the CPU utilization, and reduce Spanner processing units by small increments until you find the minimum capacity required. Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database with global reach. Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, dashboards, and alerts to observe system health. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer PCD — Question 205