Your company receives both batch- and stream-based event data. You want to process the data using Google Cloud Dataflow over a predictable time period. However, you realize that in some instances data can arrive late or out of order. How should you design your Cloud Dataflow pipeline to handle data that is late or out of order?

You decided to use Cloud Datastore to ingest vehicle telemetry data in real time. You want to build a storage system that will account for the long-term data growth, while keeping the costs low. You also want to create snapshots of the data periodically, so that you can make a point-in-time (PIT) recovery, or clone a copy of the data for Cloud Datastore in a different environment. You want to archive these snapshots for a long time. Which two methods can accomplish this? Choose 2 answers.

An external customer provides you with a daily dump of data from their database. The data flows into Google Cloud Storage GCS as comma-separated values (CSV) files. You want to analyze this data in Google BigQuery, but the data could have rows that are formatted incorrectly or corrupted. How should you build this pipeline?

When a Cloud Bigtable node fails, ____ is lost.

You have spent a few days loading data from comma-separated values (CSV) files into the Google BigQuery table CLICK_STREAM. The column DT stores the epoch time of click events. For convenience, you chose a simple schema where every field is treated as the STRING type. Now, you want to compute web session durations of users who visit your site, and you want to change its data type to the TIMESTAMP. You want to minimize the migration effort without making future queries computationally expensive. What should you do?

You work for a car manufacturer and have set up a data pipeline using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to capture anomalous sensor events. You are using a push subscription in Cloud Pub/Sub that calls a custom HTTPS endpoint that you have created to take action of these anomalous events as they occur. Your custom HTTPS endpoint keeps getting an inordinate amount of duplicate messages. What is the most likely cause of these duplicate messages?

You are designing a basket abandonment system for an ecommerce company. The system will send a message to a user based on these rules:

No interaction by the user on the site for 1 hour

Has added more than $30 worth of products to the basket

Has not completed a transaction

You use Google Cloud Dataflow to process the data and decide if a message should be sent. How should you design the pipeline?

Google Cloud Bigtable indexes a single value in each row. This value is called the _______.

You designed a database for patient records as a pilot project to cover a few hundred patients in three clinics. Your design used a single database table to represent all patients and their visits, and you used self-joins to generate reports. The server resource utilization was at 50%. Since then, the scope of the project has expanded. The database must now store 100 times more patientrecords. You can no longer run the reports, because they either take too long or they encounter errors with insufficient compute resources. How should you adjust the database design?

Your company is using WHILECARD tables to query data across multiple tables with similar names. The SQL statement is currently failing with the following error:

# Syntax error : Expected end of statement but got “-“ at [4:11]

SELECT age

FROM

bigquery-public-data.noaa_gsod.gsod

WHERE

age != 99

AND_TABLE_SUFFIX = ‘1929’

ORDER BY

age DESC

Which table name will make the SQL statement work correctly?

Your company handles data processing for a number of different clients. Each client prefers to use their own suite of analytics tools, with some allowing direct query access via Google BigQuery. You need to secure the data so that clients cannot see each other’s data. You want to ensure appropriate access to the data. Which three steps should you take? (Choose three.)

You are deploying 10,000 new Internet of Things devices to collect temperature data in your warehouses globally. You need to process, store and analyze these very large datasets in real time. What should you do?

Your company is running their first dynamic campaign, serving different offers by analyzing real-time data during the holiday season. The data scientists are collecting terabytes of data that rapidly grows every hour during their 30-day campaign. They are using Google Cloud Dataflow to preprocess the data and collect the feature (signals) data that is needed for the machine learning model in Google Cloud Bigtable. The team is observing suboptimal performance with reads and writes of their initial load of 10 TB of data. They want to improve this performance while minimizing cost. What should they do?

Which of these is not a supported method of putting data into a partitioned table?

Which of these operations can you perform from the BigQuery Web UI?

You want to use a database of information about tissue samples to classify future tissue samples as either normal or mutated. You are evaluating an unsupervised anomaly detection method for classifying the tissue samples. Which two characteristic support this method? (Choose two.)

Your company is performing data preprocessing for a learning algorithm in Google Cloud Dataflow. Numerous data logs are being are being generated during this step, and the team wants to analyze them. Due to the dynamic nature of the campaign, the data is growing exponentially every hour.

The data scientists have written the following code to read the data for a new key features in the logs.

BigQueryIO.Read

.named(“ReadLogData”)

.from(“clouddataflow-readonly:samples.log_data”)

You want to improve the performance of this data read. What should you do?

Your company uses a proprietary system to send inventory data every 6 hours to a data ingestion service in the cloud. Transmitted data includes a payload of several fields and the timestamp of the transmission. If there are any concerns about a transmission, the system re-transmits the data. How should you deduplicate the data most efficiency?

Your startup has never implemented a formal security policy. Currently, everyone in the company has access to the datasets stored in Google BigQuery. Teams have freedom to use the service as they see fit, and they have not documented their use cases. You have been asked to secure the data warehouse. You need to discover what everyone is doing. What should you do first?

When creating a new Cloud Dataproc cluster with the projects.regions.clusters.create operation, these four values are required: project, region, name, and ____.

You are configuring networking for a Dataflow job. The data pipeline uses custom container images with the libraries that are required for the transformation logic preinstalled. The data pipeline reads the data from Cloud Storage and writes the data to BigQuery. You need to ensure cost-effective and secure communication between the pipeline and Google APIs and services. What should you do?

Your organization uses a multi-cloud data storage strategy, storing data in Cloud Storage, and data in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) S3 storage buckets. All data resides in US regions. You want to query up-to-date data by using BigQuery. regardless of which cloud the data is stored in. You need to allow users to query the tables from BigQuery without giving direct access to the data in the storage buckets What should you do?

You create an important report for your large team in Google Data Studio 360. The report uses Google BigQuery as its data source. You notice that visualizations are not showing data that is less than 1 hour old. What should you do?

The data analyst team at your company uses BigQuery for ad-hoc queries and scheduled SQL pipelines in a Google Cloud project with a slot reservation of 2000 slots. However, with the recent introduction of hundreds of new non time-sensitive SQL pipelines, the team is encountering frequent quota errors. You examine the logs and notice that approximately 1500 queries are being triggered concurrently during peak time. You need to resolve the concurrency issue. What should you do?

You are developing an Apache Beam pipeline to extract data from a Cloud SQL instance by using JdbclO. You have two projects running in Google Cloud. The pipeline will be deployed and executed on Dataflow in Project A. The Cloud SQL instance is running jn Project B and does not have a public IP address. After deploying the pipeline, you noticed that the pipeline failed to extract data from the Cloud SQL instance due to connection failure. You verified that VPC Service Controls and shared VPC are not in use in these projects. You want to resolve this error while ensuring that the data does not go through the public internet. What should you do?

You are developing a model to identify the factors that lead to sales conversions for your customers. You have completed processing your data. You want to continue through the model development lifecycle. What should you do next?

You need to set access to BigQuery for different departments within your company. Your solution should comply with the following requirements:

Each department should have access only to their data.

Each department will have one or more leads who need to be able to create and update tables and provide them to their team.

Each department has data analysts who need to be able to query but not modify data.

How should you set access to the data in BigQuery?

Your team is building a data lake platform on Google Cloud. As a part of the data foundation design, you are planning to store all the raw data in Cloud Storage You are expecting to ingest approximately 25 GB of data a day and your billing department is worried about the increasing cost of storing old data. The current business requirements are:

• The old data can be deleted anytime

• You plan to use the visualization layer for current and historical reporting

• The old data should be available instantly when accessed

• There should not be any charges for data retrieval.

What should you do to optimize for cost?

Which of the following are examples of hyperparameters? (Select 2 answers.)

Cloud Bigtable is Google's ______ Big Data database service.

Your company is streaming real-time sensor data from their factory floor into Bigtable and they have noticed extremely poor performance. How should the row key be redesigned to improve Bigtable performance on queries that populate real-time dashboards?

When running a pipeline that has a BigQuery source, on your local machine, you continue to get permission denied errors. What could be the reason for that?

Cloud Bigtable is a recommended option for storing very large amounts of ____________________________?

You are designing the database schema for a machine learning-based food ordering service that will predict what users want to eat. Here is some of the information you need to store:

The user profile: What the user likes and doesn’t like to eat

The user account information: Name, address, preferred meal times

The order information: When orders are made, from where, to whom

The database will be used to store all the transactional data of the product. You want to optimize the data schema. Which Google Cloud Platform product should you use?

Business owners at your company have given you a database of bank transactions. Each row contains the user ID, transaction type, transaction location, and transaction amount. They ask you to investigate what type of machine learning can be applied to the data. Which three machine learning applications can you use? (Choose three.)

You are building a model to make clothing recommendations. You know a user’s fashion preference is likely to change over time, so you build a data pipeline to stream new data back to the model as it becomes available. How should you use this data to train the model?

Your company is migrating their 30-node Apache Hadoop cluster to the cloud. They want to re-use Hadoop jobs they have already created and minimize the management of the cluster as much as possible. They also want to be able to persist data beyond the life of the cluster. What should you do?

You want to process payment transactions in a point-of-sale application that will run on Google Cloud Platform. Your user base could grow exponentially, but you do not want to manage infrastructure scaling.

Which Google database service should you use?

You are updating the code for a subscriber to a Put/Sub feed. You are concerned that upon deployment the subscriber may erroneously acknowledge messages, leading to message loss. You subscriber is not set up to retain acknowledged messages. What should you do to ensure that you can recover from errors after deployment?

You are implementing a chatbot to help an online retailer streamline their customer service. The chatbot must be able to respond to both text and voice inquiries. You are looking for a low-code or no-code option, and you want to be able to easily train the chatbot to provide answers to keywords. What should you do?

You have 100 GB of data stored in a BigQuery table. This data is outdated and will only be accessed one or two times a year for analytics with SQL. For backup purposes, you want to store this data to be immutable for 3 years. You want to minimize storage costs. What should you do?

You are building an ELT solution in BigQuery by using Dataform. You need to perform uniqueness and null value checks on your final tables. What should you do to efficiently integrate these checks into your pipeline?

You are migrating your data warehouse to Google Cloud and decommissioning your on-premises data center Because this is a priority for your company, you know that bandwidth will be made available for the initial data load to the cloud. The files being transferred are not large in number, but each file is 90 GB Additionally, you want your transactional systems to continually update the warehouse on Google Cloud in real time What tools should you use to migrate the data and ensure that it continues to write to your warehouse?

Your team runs a complex analytical query daily that processes terabytes of data. Recently, after running for 20 minutes, the query fails with a "Resources exceeded" error. You need to resolve this issue. What should you do?

You need to orchestrate a pipeline with several Google Cloud services: a batch Dataflow job, then a BigQuery query job followed by a Vertex AI batch prediction. The logic is sequential. You want a lightweight, serverless orchestration solution with minimal operational overhead. What service should you use?

You are designing a real-time system for a ride hailing app that identifies areas with high demand for rides to effectively reroute available drivers to meet the demand. The system ingests data from multiple sources to Pub/Sub. processes the data, and stores the results for visualization and analysis in real-time dashboards. The data sources include driver location updates every 5 seconds and app-based booking events from riders. The data processing involves real-time aggregation of supply and demand data for the last 30 seconds, every 2 seconds, and storing the results in a low-latency system for visualization. What should you do?

You are planning to load some of your existing on-premises data into BigQuery on Google Cloud. You want to either stream or batch-load data, depending on your use case. Additionally, you want to mask some sensitive data before loading into BigQuery. You need to do this in a programmatic way while keeping costs to a minimum. What should you do?

You are deploying a new storage system for your mobile application, which is a media streaming service. You decide the best fit is Google Cloud Datastore. You have entities with multiple properties, some of which can take on multiple values. For example, in the entity ‘Movie’ the property ‘actors’ and the property ‘tags’ have multiple values but the property ‘date released’ does not. A typical query would ask for all movies with actor= ordered by date_released or all movies with tag=Comedy ordered by date_released. How should you avoid a combinatorial explosion in the number of indexes?

You are architecting a data transformation solution for BigQuery. Your developers are proficient with SOL and want to use the ELT development technique. In addition, your developers need an intuitive coding environment and the ability to manage SQL as code. You need to identify a solution for your developers to build these pipelines. What should you do?

You work for an economic consulting firm that helps companies identify economic trends as they happen. As part of your analysis, you use Google BigQuery to correlate customer data with the average prices of the 100 most common goods sold, including bread, gasoline, milk, and others. The average prices of these goods are updated every 30 minutes. You want to make sure this data stays up to date so you can combine it with other data in BigQuery as cheaply as possible. What should you do?

Your company produces 20,000 files every hour. Each data file is formatted as a comma separated values (CSV) file that is less than 4 KB. All files must be ingested on Google Cloud Platform before they can be processed. Your company site has a 200 ms latency to Google Cloud, and your Internet connection bandwidth is limited as 50 Mbps. You currently deploy a secure FTP (SFTP) server on a virtual machine in Google Compute Engine as the data ingestion point. A local SFTP client runs on a dedicated machine to transmit the CSV files as is. The goal is to make reports with data from the previous day available to the executives by 10:00 a.m. each day. This design is barely able to keep up with the current volume, even though the bandwidth utilization is rather low.

You are told that due to seasonality, your company expects the number of files to double for the next three months. Which two actions should you take? (choose two.)

You work for a large fast food restaurant chain with over 400,000 employees. You store employee information in Google BigQuery in a Users table consisting of a FirstName field and a LastName field. A member of IT is building an application and asks you to modify the schema and data in BigQuery so the application can query a FullName field consisting of the value of the FirstName field concatenated with a space, followed by the value of the LastName field for each employee. How can you make that data available while minimizing cost?

Your company has recently grown rapidly and now ingesting data at a significantly higher rate than it was previously. You manage the daily batch MapReduce analytics jobs in Apache Hadoop. However, the recent increase in data has meant the batch jobs are falling behind. You were asked to recommend ways the development team could increase the responsiveness of the analytics without increasing costs. What should you recommend they do?

Your company is loading comma-separated values (CSV) files into Google BigQuery. The data is fully imported successfully; however, the imported data is not matching byte-to-byte to the source file. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

You are choosing a NoSQL database to handle telemetry data submitted from millions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The volume of data is growing at 100 TB per year, and each data entry has about 100 attributes. The data processing pipeline does not require atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID). However, high availability and low latency are required.

You need to analyze the data by querying against individual fields. Which three databases meet your requirements? (Choose three.)

MJTelco needs you to create a schema in Google Bigtable that will allow for the historical analysis of the last 2 years of records. Each record that comes in is sent every 15 minutes, and contains a unique identifier of the device and a data record. The most common query is for all the data for a given device for a given day. Which schema should you use?

You create a new report for your large team in Google Data Studio 360. The report uses Google BigQuery as its data source. It is company policy to ensure employees can view only the data associated with their region, so you create and populate a table for each region. You need to enforce the regional access policy to the data.

Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)

MJTelco is building a custom interface to share data. They have these requirements:

They need to do aggregations over their petabyte-scale datasets.

They need to scan specific time range rows with a very fast response time (milliseconds).

Which combination of Google Cloud Platform products should you recommend?

You need to compose visualization for operations teams with the following requirements:

Telemetry must include data from all 50,000 installations for the most recent 6 weeks (sampling once every minute)

The report must not be more than 3 hours delayed from live data.

The actionable report should only show suboptimal links.

Most suboptimal links should be sorted to the top.

Suboptimal links can be grouped and filtered by regional geography.

User response time to load the report must be <5 seconds.

You create a data source to store the last 6 weeks of data, and create visualizations that allow viewers to see multiple date ranges, distinct geographic regions, and unique installation types. You always show the latest data without any changes to your visualizations. You want to avoid creating and updating new visualizations each month. What should you do?

Given the record streams MJTelco is interested in ingesting per day, they are concerned about the cost of Google BigQuery increasing. MJTelco asks you to provide a design solution. They require a single large data table called tracking_table. Additionally, they want to minimize the cost of daily queries while performing fine-grained analysis of each day’s events. They also want to use streaming ingestion. What should you do?

MJTelco’s Google Cloud Dataflow pipeline is now ready to start receiving data from the 50,000 installations. You want to allow Cloud Dataflow to scale its compute power up as required. Which Cloud Dataflow pipeline configuration setting should you update?

You need to compose visualizations for operations teams with the following requirements:

Which approach meets the requirements?

Flowlogistic’s CEO wants to gain rapid insight into their customer base so his sales team can be better informed in the field. This team is not very technical, so they’ve purchased a visualization tool to simplify the creation of BigQuery reports. However, they’ve been overwhelmed by all thedata in the table, and are spending a lot of money on queries trying to find the data they need. You want to solve their problem in the most cost-effective way. What should you do?

Flowlogistic is rolling out their real-time inventory tracking system. The tracking devices will all send package-tracking messages, which will now go to a single Google Cloud Pub/Sub topic instead of the Apache Kafka cluster. A subscriber application will then process the messages for real-time reporting and store them in Google BigQuery for historical analysis. You want to ensure the package data can be analyzed over time.

Which approach should you take?

Flowlogistic’s management has determined that the current Apache Kafka servers cannot handle the data volume for their real-time inventory tracking system. You need to build a new system on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that will feed the proprietary tracking software. The system must be able to ingest data from a variety of global sources, process and query in real-time, and store the data reliably. Which combination of GCP products should you choose?

Flowlogistic wants to use Google BigQuery as their primary analysis system, but they still have Apache Hadoop and Spark workloads that they cannot move to BigQuery. Flowlogistic does not know how to store the data that is common to both workloads. What should they do?

You are building new real-time data warehouse for your company and will use Google BigQuery streaming inserts. There is no guarantee that data will only be sent in once but you do have a unique ID for each row of data and an event timestamp. You want to ensure that duplicates are not included while interactively querying data. Which query type should you use?

Different teams in your organization store customer and performance data in BigOuery. Each team needs to keep full control of their collected data, be able to query data within their projects, and be able to exchange their data with other teams. You need to implement an organization-wide solution, while minimizing operational tasks and costs. What should you do?

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?

To run a TensorFlow training job on your own computer using Cloud Machine Learning Engine, what would your command start with?

Scaling a Cloud Dataproc cluster typically involves ____.

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

What Dataflow concept determines when a Window's contents should be output based on certain criteria being met?

Which Google Cloud Platform service is an alternative to Hadoop with Hive?

Which is the preferred method to use to avoid hotspotting in time series data in Bigtable?

Which of the following statements about Legacy SQL and Standard SQL is not true?

The CUSTOM tier for Cloud Machine Learning Engine allows you to specify the number of which types of cluster nodes?

Which SQL keyword can be used to reduce the number of columns processed by BigQuery?

If you want to create a machine learning model that predicts the price of a particular stock based on its recent price history, what type of estimator should you use?

By default, which of the following windowing behavior does Dataflow apply to unbounded data sets?