Google Cloud Data Engineer Practice Questions Second Edition Part 2

You want to use Pub/Sub to distribute jobs to a group of Compute Engine VMs, and each VM should take the next job from the queue. How should you configure Pub/Sub?

Pub/Sub is designed for what the main purpose?

After a period of maintenance for your application, you want to start it again, but there is a large backlog of messages waiting in its subscription to a Pub/Sub topic that you do not want to process. How can you do this?

What is the minimum retention duration for a message in Pub/Sub?

What is the maximum total size permitted for a Publish request, including metadata and payload?

Which transformation can be used to process collections of key/value pairs similar to the shuffle phase of a map/shuffle/reduce-style algorithm?

Which operation can be used to invoke a user-specified function of each element of an input PCollection?

What is a sensible way to test a Cloud Dataflow pipeline before deploying it to production?

What is the compute model of Cloud Dataflow?

What would be the most secure way to grant access from Dataflow in Project A to a Cloud Storage bucket in Project B?

What is a pipeline in the context of Cloud Dataflow?

What method could you use to help compute averages when dealing with unbounded/streaming data?

What is the name given to a dataset that can be acted upon within a Cloud Dataflow pipeline?

Which big data programming model is implemented with Cloud Dataflow?

What is the purpose of a trigger in Cloud Dataflow?

Which features are not compatible with Dataproc auto-scaling?
Choose 3

Which GCP product implements the Apache Beam SDK and is sometimes recommended as an alternative to Dataproc, particularly for streaming data?

A customer wants to run Spark jobs on a low-cost ephemeral Dataproc cluster, utilizing preemptible workers wherever possible but needs to persistently store the results of Dataproc jobs. What would you recommend?

Preemptible workers in a Dataproc cluster cannot store HDFS data.

Which Dataproc supports native output connectors?
Choose 3

Your customer would like to use Dataproc, but the standard image does not contain additional Spark components required to run their jobs on the ephemeral clusters. What would you recommend?

Which primary Apache services does Dataproc run?
Choose 2 options.

Which of these identifiers would make a bad component of a row key?
Choose 2 options.

Which of these identifiers would make a good component of a row key?
Choose 2

How does Bigtable manage rows, tables, and tablets?

If you have 2 replicating clusters in your Bigtable instance, how can you ensure that your application will be guaranteed strong consistency for its transactions?

What kind of database is Bigtable?

What action should you take if you observe that Bigtable performance is poor on a subset of queries?

How does Bigtable manage the storage of tablets?

For which types of data workload would Bigtable not be a good fit?
Choose 2

In a region with 4 zones, what is the maximum number of Bigtable clusters available?

Bigtable is compatible with which open source project’s client library for Java?

You are required to load a large volume of data into BigQuery that does contain some duplication. What should you do to ensure the best query performance once the data is loaded?

Which option shown below is true regarding BigQuery jobs?

When you run a query in BigQuery, what happens to the results?

_______ recipes can be created without programming or SQL knowledge and exported as Cloud Dataflow jobs.

You train the AutoML translate model using sets of __________ pairs.

An Enterprise version offers __________ team-based sharing of workflows, models, and more.

Once your model is in operation, ______ engines can be used to evaluate its effectiveness.

In the ________ phase, you identify the problem you want to solve and begin to build a pipeline in KubeFlow.

______ should typically belong to a department or team within an organization.

______ are typically grouped around specific applications in specific environments.

Service accounts have ________.

Keys can be downloaded in ______ format when a service account is created.

If a JSON Key is leaked, someone will access billable resources in your ______.