An application reads documents rarely but needs strong read-after-write guarantees. Multi-region writes are not required. Which consistency level should you choose?

1. A Eventual
2. B Session
3. ✓ C Strong (correct answer)
4. D Bounded staleness

Shortcut: Strong consistency guarantees linearizability. If the workload doesn't require multi-master writes and can accept slightly higher read latency, Strong provides the simplest programming model with no stale reads.