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The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database server running on Google Compute Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their…

The correct answer is C. Dynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB. A is not correct because increasing the memory size will not improve persistent disk throughput. B is not correct because the DB administration team is requesting help with their MySQL instance Migration to a different product should not be the solution when other optimization…

Submitted by amina.ke· Mar 30, 2026Optimizing technical and business processes

Question

The database administration team has asked you to help them improve the performance of their new database server running on Google Compute Engine. The database is for importing and normalizing their performance statistics and is built with MySQL running on Debian Linux. They have an n1-standard-8 virtual machine with 80 GB of SSD persistent disk. What should they change to get better performance from this system?

Options

  • AIncrease the virtual machine's memory to 64 GB.
  • BCreate a new virtual machine running PostgreSQL.
  • CDynamically resize the SSD persistent disk to 500 GB.
  • DMigrate their performance metrics warehouse to BigQuery.
  • EModify all of their batch jobs to use bulk inserts into the database.

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    83% (19)
  • D
    9% (2)
  • E
    4% (1)

Explanation

A is not correct because increasing the memory size will not improve persistent disk throughput. B is not correct because the DB administration team is requesting help with their MySQL instance Migration to a different product should not be the solution when other optimization techniques can still be applied first. C is correct because persistent disk performance is based on the total persistent disk capacity attached to an instance and the number of vCPUs that the Instance has Incrementing the persistent disk capacity will increment ns throughput and IOPS, which In turn improve the performance of MySQL. D is not correct because the DB administration team is requesting help with their MySQL instance Migration to a different product should not be the solution when other optimization techniques can still be applied first.

Topics

#persistent disk#SSD storage#database performance#Compute Engine

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