Database Reliability — Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Practice Questions

Database reliability covers the practices and configurations that ensure a database remains available, consistent, durable, and performant under both normal and failure conditions. On the Professional Cloud Architect exam, this concept spans backup and restore procedures, point-in-time recovery, replication configurations, and monitoring with Cloud Monitoring and Database Insights. Architects must be able to assess reliability risks in a given database design and recommend appropriate mitigations such as enabling automated backups, configuring read replicas, or migrating to a more resilient service. Understanding how managed services like Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner handle durability and replication under the hood helps justify design recommendations.

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