Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer PCDBE — Topic 1 Question 47

Question

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?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A. The correct answer is A. Option A: Use Cloud Spanner with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK). Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database with global reach.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer PCDBE — Question 47