Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect PCA — Topic 1 Question 217

Question

Your product team is building a critical, customer-facing application on Google Cloud. The development team wants to use Spanner for their database to take advantage of its horizontal scalability and low operational overhead However, the FinOps team is concerned about the direct monthly cost of Spanner and proposed using a self-managed PostgreSQL database on Compute Engine VMs instead. You need to resolve this conflict and ensure the project moves forward with an architecturally sound database choice that balances technical requirements with financial constraints. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: Develop a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis that includes operational overhead, and present it in a workshop to facilitate a decision.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect PCA — Question 217