You are designing a payments processing application on Google Cloud.

Vendor: Google
Product: Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer
Update on: Aug 13, 2025
Questions: 141

Google Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer Question Answer

You are designing a payments processing application on Google Cloud. The application must continue to serve requests and avoid any user disruption if a regional failure occurs. You need to use AES-256 to encrypt data in the database, and you want to control where you store the encryption key. What should you do?

Use Cloud Spanner with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK).

Use Cloud Spanner with default encryption.

Use Cloud SQL with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK).

Use Bigtable with default encryption.