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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?
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
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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