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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2Question 22
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution ArchitectureDatabaseCloud Spanner

    GCP PCA · Question 22 · Domain 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture

    A global financial application requires a relational database with strong consistency, horizontal scalability across multiple continents, and 99.999% availability. Which database service should you choose?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

    B.

    Cloud Spanner

    C.

    Cloud Bigtable

    D.

    Firestore

    How to approach this question

    Identify the globally scalable relational database.

    Full Answer

    B.Cloud Spanner✓ Correct
    Cloud Spanner is Google's fully managed, horizontally scalable relational database that offers strong global consistency and up to 99.999% availability.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing Cloud SQL which is limited to regional scaling.
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