Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Practice Test

When dealing with an HTTP 429 status code in requests to Cloud Storage, the best approach is to retry the request with an exponential backoff strategy. This code indicates that the client is sending too many requests in a short period, triggering the rate limiting on the server side.

Exponential backoff is a strategy where each subsequent retry waits for an increasing amount of time before attempting the request again, which helps to reduce load on the system and increases the likelihood of successful responses. This method is widely recommended for handling rate-limited requests since it balances retries over time, allowing the server to recover while still attempting to fulfill the client’s requests.

The other suggestions, while they might have their own benefits, do not address the immediate issue of rate limiting. Adding a cache-control header could help with caching behavior but wouldn’t directly resolve the rate limiting issue. Requesting a quota increase could be a long-term solution, but it does not solve the immediate problem at hand. Changing the storage class of the bucket is irrelevant in this context as it pertains more to cost and performance characteristics of data storage rather than managing request limits.