Google Associate Cloud Engineer Question 69
Single answerGoogle Cloud PlatformYour company is building a new application that requires storing large quantities of unstructured data such as images and videos. The data needs to be highly available and accessible globally, but there are no strict latency requirements. Which Google Cloud product should you choose for this scenario?
- A
Cloud SQL
- B
Cloud Storage
- C
Cloud Spanner
- D
BigQuery
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
Cloud Storage is the correct choice for storing unstructured data such as images and videos because it is designed to handle large amounts of object data with high availability and global access. It is ideal for scenarios where the data needs to be accessible worldwide without specific latency requirements.
- A. Incorrect.
Cloud SQL is a fully-managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. It is not ideal for storing unstructured data like images and videos.
- B. Correct.
Cloud Storage is designed for storing and accessing large quantities of unstructured data, making it suitable for use cases involving images, videos, and other binary or object data. It offers high availability and global access.
- C. Incorrect.
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, scalable, and highly available relational database service. While it supports global distribution, it is not optimized for unstructured data storage.
- D. Incorrect.
BigQuery is a fully-managed data warehouse for analytics. It is designed for analytic queries and massive datasets, but not for storing and serving unstructured data like images and videos.