Objective 4.3

ADP

Identify high availability and disaster recovery strategies for data in Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL

Objective 4.3 sits in Data Management, which carries 25% of the Associate Data Practitioner exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.

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A Cloud SQL database must keep serving if a single zone fails. Which configuration provides automatic failover to another zone?

A read replica in the same zoneA same-zone read replica does not survive that zone failing.
A Cloud Storage bucketA Cloud Storage bucket is object storage, not a database HA setup.
A single-zone instanceA single-zone instance has no standby and cannot fail over on zone loss.
A regional HA instanceCorrect · your answerCorrect.

Correct.

Concept

High availability places a standby in a second zone and fails over automatically on zone loss. This reduces downtime compared with a single-zone instance.

Why D

A Cloud SQL HA configuration is a regional instance with primary and standby zones and automatic failover.

Source

A Cloud SQL instance configured for HA is also called a regional instance and has a primary and secondary zone within the configured region.

Google Cloud, About high availability (Cloud SQL for MySQL), checked August 2026
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Sample question 1 of 3

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When a Cloud SQL HA primary instance becomes unresponsive, what happens to keep serving data?

Sample question 2 of 3

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You must justify configuring Cloud SQL high availability. Which purpose is correct?

Sample question 3 of 3

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An application needs its objects to survive the loss of an entire region. Which Cloud Storage choice provides cross-region redundancy?

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