1.2 Evaluate Database High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options Given the Requirements PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DATABASE-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 4)

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   A gaming company runs a global leaderboard on Cloud Spanner. They currently have a multi-region configuration with replicas in us-central1 and europe-west1. They are seeing high write latency for users in Asia and want to improve it. They also have a budget constraint and cannot significantly increase costs. What is the best approach?

   • AAccept the current latency and optimize the application to use asynchronous writes
   • BChange the leader configuration to prefer asia-northeast1 for writes
   • CAdd a new region in asia-northeast1 to the existing multi-region configuration
   • DUse a single-region Spanner instance in asia-northeast1 and replicate data to the existing multi-region instance
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