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Google Professional Data Engineer Actual Exam Questions

307 Questions120 Minutes70% Passing Score▣ Updated: Sep 2026

Question 215 of 307

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You are deploying a MySQL database workload onto Cloud SQL. The database must be able to scale up to support several readers from various geographic regions. The database must be highly available and meet low RTO and RPO requirements, even in the event of a regional outage. You need to ensure that interruptions to the readers are minimal during a database failover. What should you do?
ACreate a highly available Cloud SQL instance in region Create a highly available read replica in region B. Scale up read workloads by creating cascading read replicas in multiple regions. Backup the Cloud SQL instances to a multi-regional Cloud Storage bucket. Restore the Cloud SQL backup to a new instance in another region when Region A is down.
BCreate a highly available Cloud SQL instance in region A. Scale up read workloads by creating read replicas in multiple regions. Promote one of the read replicas when region A is down.
CCreate a highly available Cloud SQL instance in region A. Create a highly available read replica in region B. Scale up read workloads by creating cascading read replicas in multiple regions. Promote the read replica in region B when region A is down.
DCreate a highly available Cloud SQL instance in region A. Scale up read workloads by creating read replicas in the same region. Failover to the standby Cloud SQL instance when the primary instance fails.
Correct Answer: C

Create a highly available Cloud SQL instance in region A. Create a highly available read replica in region B. Scale up read workloads by creating cascading read replicas in multiple regions. Promote the read replica in region B when region A is down.

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