Failover — Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Practice Questions

Failover is the process by which a system automatically switches to a redundant resource when a primary component becomes unavailable, and Google Cloud implements failover differently across its managed services. For Cloud SQL, enabling the high availability option provisions a standby instance in a separate zone that takes over automatically during a primary zone outage. The Professional Cloud Architect exam tests your understanding of failover behavior, recovery time objectives, and the trade-offs between automatic and manual failover strategies. Architects must also consider data replication lag and consistency guarantees when designing failover architectures for databases and applications.

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