Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer PDE — Topic 1 Question 45

Question

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?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: Create a cron job with Google App Engine Cron Service to run the Cloud Dataflow job. App Engine is a fully managed platform that runs and autoscales web apps with little operational effort. Dataflow runs serverless Apache Beam pipelines for stream and batch data processing with autoscaling.

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer PDE — Question 45