PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DATABASE-ENGINEER · Question #117
Your organization has strict policies on tracking rollouts to production and periodically shares this information with external auditors to meet compliance requirements. You need to enable auditing…
The correct answer is C. Use Liquibase to roll out changes to higher environments. The correct answer is C. Liquibase is a database schema change management and version control tool that maintains a detailed, ordered changelog of every database change (DDL and DML). This changelog provides a complete, auditable history of all schema modifications, making it…
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Your organization has strict policies on tracking rollouts to production and periodically shares this information with external auditors to meet compliance requirements. You need to enable auditing on several Cloud Spanner databases. What should you do?
Options
- AUse replication to roll out changes to higher environments.
- BUse backup and restore to roll out changes to higher environments.
- CUse Liquibase to roll out changes to higher environments.
- DManually capture detailed DBA audit logs when changes are rolled out to higher environments.
How the community answered
(44 responses)- A7% (3)
- B11% (5)
- C80% (35)
- D2% (1)
Explanation
The correct answer is C. Liquibase is a database schema change management and version control tool that maintains a detailed, ordered changelog of every database change (DDL and DML). This changelog provides a complete, auditable history of all schema modifications, making it ideal for compliance auditing and rollout tracking to production. Auditors can review exactly what changed, when, and in what order. Options A and B (replication and backup/restore) are data movement strategies and do not produce an audit trail of schema changes. Option D (manual DBA audit logs) is unreliable, error-prone, and not a scalable or Google-recommended practice for compliance tracking across multiple environments.
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