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An international logistics enterprise is migrating its dispatch system to Google Cloud. The network design connects an on-premises data center to a central hub Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using Dedicated Interconnect. The central hub VPC is peered via VPC Network Peering to three separate spoke VPCs housing isolated microservices. On-premises systems can successfully reach resources in the hub VPC, but cannot establish communication with any instances in the spoke VPCs. Which network architecture modification should you recommend to enable connectivity between on-premises systems and the spoke VPC workloads while adhering to Google Cloud routing constraints?
A enterprise solution architect is selecting Google Cloud storage and database services for four distinct business workloads. Match each workload requirement on the left with the most appropriate managed Google Cloud service on the right.
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A healthcare organization operating in a single Google Cloud region needs to deploy a relational database layer for its patient billing application. The system requires full ACID transactional support, standard ANSI SQL capability, automatic regional high availability failover, and data encryption using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) integrated with Cloud KMS. The database dataset size is expected to remain around 400 GB with moderate query volume. The architectural team wants to optimize operational efficiency and minimize cost. Which storage and database design best satisfies these business and technical requirements?
A enterprise solution architect is designing the storage and database architecture for a multi-service cloud platform on Google Cloud. Match each technical application workload requirement on the left with the optimal Google Cloud database or storage service on the right that best satisfies the access pattern, consistency, and operational criteria.
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An IoT telematics provider is designing a storage layer in a single Google Cloud region to ingest and store real-time sensor metrics from 100,000 connected vehicles. The system requires high-throughput write performance exceeding 80,000 operations per second with sub-10 millisecond write latencies, dynamic key-value access patterns, and seamless analytical querying capabilities in BigQuery without custom ETL pipelines. Which Google Cloud storage solution should the cloud architect select to satisfy these operational and analytical requirements at scale?
A global fintech enterprise is designing its cloud architecture on Google Cloud for a mission-critical order execution platform. The solution requires a relational database capable of handling high-frequency transactional writes with multi-region strong consistency and 99.999% availability SLA. Additionally, the architecture must connect the on-premises trading engine to Google Cloud via a low-latency, dedicated private connection requiring 20 Gbps of bandwidth with high availability. Which TWO architectural decisions should the cloud architect make to satisfy these technical requirements? (Select TWO.)
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An energy utility company is designing a high-availability architecture on Google Cloud for a stateless REST API that ingests real-time smart grid telemetry. The solution requires multi-zone high availability within a primary region, an RTO of under 1 minute, and an RPO of 0 for standard relational transactional data. The peak bandwidth requirement for hybrid connectivity from their on-premises data center to Google Cloud is 1.5 Gbps. Which architecture satisfies these technical and availability requirements while minimizing operational overhead and cost?
An international logistics enterprise is architecting a data tier on Google Cloud to manage two distinct operational workloads:
1. A transactional core order management database requiring multi-region relational ACID compliance, horizontal scaling for write operations, and strong consistency across multiple continents.
2. A telemetry ingestion engine recording millions of real-time GPS and temperature sensor data points per second, requiring high-throughput, low-latency time-series key-value storage.
Which TWO storage and database services should the cloud architect select to satisfy these architecture requirements? (Select TWO answers.)
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A global pharmaceutical enterprise is migrating its core clinical trial telemetry platform to Google Cloud. The architecture must establish private hybrid connectivity between on-premises data centers and GCP with sustained bandwidth exceeding under a high-availability SLA. Additionally, the core transactional data store requires multi-region deployment with synchronous replication to ensure zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and high availability during regional outages. Which TWO architectural decisions should the Cloud Architect implement to satisfy these technical and availability requirements?
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An enterprise organization is migrating its internal human resources and payroll web application to Google Cloud. The workload operates entirely within a single GCP region, requires standard relational database capabilities with full ACID compliance, and has an estimated dataset size of 1.2 TB. The team needs automated backups, zero-downtime maintenance windows, and regional high availability across two zones. Which database resource should the cloud architect select to meet these technical requirements while minimizing operational complexity and cost?
A multinational enterprise is designing a high-availability infrastructure on Google Cloud for its internal employee directory and time-tracking portal. The application consists of stateless HTTP microservices and requires direct 10 Gbps high-bandwidth, low-latency connection between on-premises data centers and Google Cloud. The design must minimize operational management overhead while supporting multi-region fault tolerance. Which TWO architectural decisions should you recommend to meet these technical requirements?
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A smart building automation enterprise is migrating its central IoT telemetry processing API to Google Cloud. The API consists of lightweight, stateless RESTful HTTP microservices with standard relational database storage requirements confined to a single geographic region. The solution must achieve high availability across multiple availability zones, automatically scale during traffic bursts, guarantee seamless failover during zonal outages, and minimize both operational management overhead and baseline infrastructure costs. Which architectural design best satisfies these technical requirements?
An enterprise energy provider is designing a high-availability architecture on Google Cloud for a mission-critical smart grid monitoring application. The ingestion service handles continuous stateless HTTP telemetry payloads from millions of smart meters, while the transactional database records power grid state changes requiring a Recovery Point Objective of zero () and a Recovery Time Objective of less than one minute () in the event of an entire GCP region outage. The architect aims to minimize management overhead for stateless compute resources.
Which TWO architectural decisions should be combined to satisfy these high availability, RTO, and RPO requirements? (Select TWO.)
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An autonomous maritime cargo logistics company is deploying its fleet monitoring platform on Google Cloud. The architecture requires a private hybrid connection between their central port data center and Google Cloud capable of handling a continuous throughput of 8 Gbps with enterprise SLAs. Additionally, the transactional telemetry engine requires a database deployment in a single region that guarantees automatic multi-zone failover with zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Which TWO architectural decisions should the cloud architect implement to meet these high availability and technical requirements?
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An enterprise SaaS provider is designing the database architecture for a multi-tenant accounting application deployed within a single Google Cloud region. The workload requires full ACID compliance, support for complex SQL relational queries, automatic regional high availability across zones, and data encryption governed via keys managed in Google Cloud KMS to comply with corporate security standards. The dataset is projected to grow to 2 TB over three years and does not require global multi-region read/write capabilities. Which storage solution should you recommend to satisfy these requirements with minimal operational complexity and cost?
An online multiplayer gaming enterprise is designing its core backend infrastructure on Google Cloud. The architecture must host stateless microservices with minimal operational overhead, while maintaining high availability across availability zones. The database tier requires continuous multi-region availability with zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for global player inventory transactions. Additionally, the team needs to connect their on-premises game engine telemetry servers to GCP using a dedicated hybrid connection capable of sustaining sustained throughput of 10 Gbps.
Which TWO architectural components should the cloud architect select to meet these technical and high-availability requirements? (Select TWO)
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A global fleet management platform collects real-time vehicle telemetry data across North America and Europe. The architecture requires two distinct data storage services to support its core capabilities:
1. Low-latency, high-throughput ingestion of real-time telemetry time-series data streams (exceeding 100,000 writes per second per region).
2. Globally distributed, strongly consistent ACID transactions for managing vehicle registration, driver profiles, and billing subscription data across multiple regions.
Which TWO Google Cloud database and storage services should the cloud architect select to meet these technical requirements? (Select TWO.)
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An IoT smart-agriculture enterprise is migrating its fleet telemetry ingestion pipeline to Google Cloud. The architecture must process high-volume stateless HTTPS telemetry requests and store transactional metadata in a relational database within a single region. Technical constraints require high availability across multiple zones, zero data loss (RPO = 0), an RTO under 1 minute for database failover, and minimal operational management overhead. Which TWO architectural recommendations should you implement? (Select TWO.)
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A healthcare provider is designing a new electronic health records (EHR) management system on Google Cloud. The system requires a relational database that supports full ACID transactions, standard SQL queries, and automated regional high availability across zones within a single GCP region. The application's performance requirement is modest, capped at 3,000 IOPS, and does not demand global multi-region write scalability. Which database architecture should the Cloud Architect recommend to meet these technical requirements while minimizing overall cost and operational complexity?
An enterprise e-commerce organization runs a batch inventory reconciliation process every night at midnight. The job runs a single containerized application for approximately 45 minutes to reconcile stock levels across multiple warehouses and stores the transactional results in a database requiring standard relational capabilities within a single GCP region. The system currently utilizes a dedicated multi-node Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and a Cloud Spanner instance. The engineering team needs to optimize infrastructure costs while maintaining high availability and operational reliability for this regional batch workload. Which TWO architectural modifications should a Cloud Architect recommend to minimize costs?
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