Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer PCD — Topic 1 Question 305

Question

Your ecommerce application has a rapidly growing user base, and it is experiencing performance issues due to excessive requests to your backend API. Your team develops and manages this API. The Cloud SQL backend database is struggling to handle the high demand, leading to latency and timeouts. You need to implement a solution that optimizes API performance and improves user experience. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A. The correct answer is A. Option A: Use Apigee to expose your API. Use Memorystore for Redis to cache frequently accessed data. Implement exponential backoff in the application to retry failed requests. Memorystore provides managed in-memory Redis/Memcached caching to reduce latency and offload databases.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer PCD — Question 305