Question 1

You are designing the database backend for a new global multiplayer game. The database must support strong relational consistency (ACID transactions), handle millions of reads and writes per second, and scale horizontally across multiple regions worldwide without sharding the database manually.

Which Google Cloud database service should you choose?

Accepted Answer

Identify the keywords: 'relational consistency (ACID)', 'scale horizontally', and 'multiple regions worldwide'.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP ACE question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Cloud SQL because it's relational, forgetting that it cannot scale writes horizontally across regions. Or choosing Bigtable for scale, forgetting it lacks relational ACID transactions.

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