Free Google Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer Exam Questions

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Total 143 Questions | Updated On: Mar 11, 2026

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Question 1

Your organization has a production Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. Your instance is configured with 16 vCPUs and 104 GB of RAM that is running between 90% and 100% CPU utilization for most of the day. You need to scale up the database and add vCPUs with minimal interruption and effort. What should you do?

A : Issue a gcloud sql instances patch command to increase the number of vCPUs.

B : Update a MySQL database flag to increase the number of vCPUs.

C : Issue a gcloud compute instances update command to increase the number of vCPUs.

D : Back up the database, create an instance with additional vCPUs, and restore the database.

Answer: A

Question 2

Your company is developing a new global transactional application that must be ACID-compliant and have 99.999% availability. You are responsible for selecting the appropriate Google Cloud database to serve as a datastore for this new application. What should you do?

A : Use Firestore.

B : Use Cloud Spanner.

C : Use Cloud SQL.

D : Use Bigtable.

Answer: B

Question 3

You are configuring a new application that has access to an existing Cloud Spanner database. The new application reads from this database to gather statistics for a dashboard. You want to follow Googlerecommended practices when granting Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions. What should you do?

A : Reuse the existing service account that populates this database.

B : Create a new service account, and grant it the Cloud Spanner Database Admin role.

C : Create a new service account, and grant it the Cloud Spanner Database Reader role.

D : Create a new service account, and grant it the spanner.databases.select permission.

Answer: C

Question 4

Your organization has a busy transactional Cloud SQL for MySQL instance. Your analytics team needs access to the data so they can build monthly sales reports. You need to provide data access to the analytics team without adversely affecting performance. What should you do?

A : Create a read replica of the database, provide the database IP address, username, and password to the analytics team, and grant read access to required tables to the team.

B : Create a read replica of the database, enable the cloudsql.iam_authentication flag on the replica, and grant read access to required tables to the analytics team.

C : Enable the cloudsql.iam_authentication flag on the primary database instance, and grant read access to required tables to the analytics team.

D : Provide the database IP address, username, and password of the primary database instance to the analytics, team, and grant read access to required tables to the team

Answer: B

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Answer: C

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Total 143 Questions | Updated On: Mar 11, 2026

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