Question 1

You are designing the database backend for a global inventory management system. The system requires relational database semantics (ACID transactions, SQL queries) but must scale horizontally to handle tens of thousands of reads and writes per second globally, with strong consistency across multiple continents.

Which GCP database service should you choose?

Accepted Answer

Identify the service that combines relational features (SQL, ACID) with global horizontal scalability.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP ACE question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Cloud SQL for global write scalability, or Bigtable when SQL/ACID is required.

How to approach this question

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Common mistakes

Practice the full GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 4

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