Free Google Professional-Data-Engineer Exam Questions

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Question 1

When using Cloud Data Fusion you receive an error that a Dataproc operation failed and the user is not authorized to act as a service account. What would you do to correct this problem?

A : Create a Cloud Dataproc cluster before starting Cloud Data Fusion.

B : Grant the Service Account User role to Cloud Data Fusion.

C : Grant the Service Account User role to Cloud Dataproc.

D : Ensure both Cloud Data Fusion and Cloud Dataproc are running in the same zone.

Answer: B

Question 2

You work for a large ecommerce company. You are using Pub/Sub to ingest the clickstream data to Google Cloud for analytics. You observe that when a new subscriber connects to an existing topic to analyze data, they are unable to subscribe to older data for an upcoming yearly sale event in two months, you need a solution that, once implemented, will enable any new subscriber to read the last 30 days of data. What should you do?

A : Create a new topic, and publish the last 30 days of data each time a new subscriber connects to an existing topic.

B : Set the topic retention policy to 30 days.

C : Set the subscriber retention policy to 30 days.

D : Ask the source system to re-push the data to Pub/Sub, and subscribe to it.

Answer: B

Question 3

You work for a manufacturing plant that batches application log files together into a single log file once a day at 2:00 AM. You have written a Google Cloud Dataflow job to process that log file. You need to make sure the log file in processed once per day as inexpensively as possible. What should you do?

A : ange the processing job to use Google Cloud Dataproc instead

B : nually start the Cloud Dataflow job each morning when you get into the office.

C : eate a cron job with Google App Engine Cron Service to run the Cloud Dataflow job.

D : nfigure the Cloud Dataflow job as a streaming job so that it processes the log data immediately.

Answer: C

Question 4

You operate a database that stores stock trades and an application that retrieves average stock price for a given company over an adjustable window of time. The data is stored in Cloud Bigtable where the datetime of the stock trade is the beginning of the row key. Your application has thousands of concurrent users, and you notice that performance is starting to degrade as more stocks are added. What should you do to improve the performance of your application?

A : ange the row key syntax in your Cloud Bigtable table to begin with the stock symbol.

B : ange the row key syntax in your Cloud Bigtable table to begin with a random number per second.

C : ange the data pipeline to use BigQuery for storing stock trades, and update your application.

D : Cloud Dataflow to write summary of each day’s stock trades to an Avro file on Cloud Storage. Update your application to read from Cloud Storage and Cloud Bigtable to compute the responses.

Answer: A

Question 5

When you store data in Cloud Bigtable, what is the recommended minimum amount of stored data?

A : 500 TB

B : 1 GB

C : 1 TB

D : 500 GB

Answer: C

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