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Question 1
You are a DBA at a retail company. The production databases are running in Cloud SQL for MySQL Enterprise Plus edition, version 8.0.34, in the us-central1 region. You need to set up and test disaster recovery (DR) with zero data loss in the us-west1 region. What should you do?
Question 2
You have a single global application that uses clickstream data stored in a Bigtable instance. The application's users are spread across North America, Asia, and Europe. You want to reduce user latency, while keeping costs to a minimum. What should you do?
Question 3
You are designing a new ecommerce application on Google Cloud. You expect high and bursty write volumes during peak sales periods. You need to configure Spanner to ensure consistent database performance during this sales period. What should you do?
Question 4
You work at a retail company using Cloud SQL for MySQL to store transactional data. You need to combine the transactional data with customer behavior information from BigQuery to make real-time sales predictions using machine learning. You want to accomplish this without incurring the overhead costs of moving the data out of their respective data stores. What should you do?
Question 5
Your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database supporting a financial application has been experiencing "deadlock detected" errors during end-of-month processing. You notice that CPU utilization spikes to 90% during these periods, and several long-running queries are consuming significant resources. You need to identify the specific queries causing the deadlocks and implement monitoring to solve similar issues before they cause application failures. What should you do?
Question 6
You are migrating your company's critical ecommerce platform from an on-premises PostgreSQL database (utilizing PostgreSQL stored procedures) to a highly available solution on Google Cloud. The platform requires an extremely low downtime (Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - 5 minutes) and minimal data loss (Recovery Point Objective - 30 seconds). The platform serves a global customer base with peak traffic distributed across multiple continents, though the primary transactional data resides in a single geographic region for regulatory compliance. You need to design a cloud database solution that meets the RTO/RPO requirements while optimizing for global read access and local transactional integrity. What should you do?

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Cloud Database Engineer PCDE Exam Topics and Study Plan

Skills Covered by the Exam

Use these topics from the linked official guide to plan your preparation for Cloud Database Engineer PCDE. Check the current guide before booking, because objectives can change.

  • Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions32%
  • Manage a solution that can span multiple database technologies25%
  • Migrate data solutions23%
  • Deploy scalable and highly available databases in Google Cloud20%

Official exam weights describe the vendor’s blueprint. They do not measure coverage in this question bank.

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