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    PracticeGCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 2Question 15
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage optionsCloud SpannerDatabasesGlobal Scaling

    GCP ACE · Question 15 · Domain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage options

    Your company is building a global inventory management system. The database must be fully relational (SQL), support strong consistency, and scale horizontally to handle thousands of transactions per second across multiple continents.

    Which GCP database service should you choose?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Cloud SQL

    B.

    Cloud Spanner

    C.

    Cloud Bigtable

    D.

    Firestore

    How to approach this question

    Match the requirements: 'relational (SQL)', 'global', 'horizontal scaling', 'strong consistency'.

    Full Answer

    B.Cloud Spanner✓ Correct
    Cloud Spanner is specifically designed for this use case. It combines the benefits of relational database structure (SQL, ACID transactions, strong consistency) with non-relational horizontal scale and global distribution.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing Cloud SQL, which is limited to vertical scaling for writes and is constrained to a single region.
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