PDE — questions

You are using a Dataflow streaming job to read messages from a message bus that does not support exactly-once delivery. Your job then applies some transformations, and loads the result into BigQuery. You want to ensure that your data is being streamed into BigQuery with exactly-once delivery semantics. You expect your ingestion throughput into BigQuery to be about 1.5 GB per second. What should you do?

You have created an external table for Apache Hive partitioned data that resides in a Cloud Storage bucket, which contains a large number of files. You notice that queries against this table are slow. You want to improve the performance of these queries. What should you do?

You have a network of 1000 sensors. The sensors generate time series data: one metric per sensor per second, along with a timestamp. You already have 1 TB of data, and expect the data to grow by 1 GB every day. You need to access this data in two ways. The first access pattern requires retrieving the metric from one specific sensor stored at a specific timestamp, with a median single-digit millisecond latency. The second access pattern requires running complex analytic queries on the data, including joins, once a day. How should you store this data?

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 This data is outdated and will only be accessed one or two times a year for analytics with SQL.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 have thousands of Apache Spark jobs running in your on-premises Apache Hadoop cluster. You want to migrate the jobs to Google Cloud. You want to use managed services to run your jobs instead of maintaining a long-lived Hadoop cluster yourself. You have a tight timeline and want to keep code changes to a minimum. What should you do?

You are administering shared BigQuery datasets that contain views used by multiple teams in your organization. The marketing team is concerned about the variability of their monthly BigQuery analytics spend using the on-demand billing model. You need to help the marketing team establish a consistent BigQuery analytics spend each month. What should you do?

You are part of a healthcare organization where data is organized and managed by respective data owners in various storage services. As a result of this decentralized ecosystem, discovering and managing data has become difficult. You need to quickly identify and implement a cost-optimized solution to assist your organization with the following: • Data management and discovery • Data lineage tracking • Data quality validation How should you build the solution?

You have data located in BigQuery that is used to generate reports for your company. You have noticed some weekly executive report fields do not correspond to format according to company standards. For example, report errors include different telephone formats and different country code identifiers. This is a frequent issue, so you need to create a recurring job to normalize the data. You want a quick solution that requires no coding. What should you do?

You are designing a messaging system by using Pub/Sub to process clickstream data with an event-driven consumer app that relies on a push subscription. You need to configure the messaging system that is reliable enough to handle temporary downtime of the consumer app. You also need the messaging system to store the input messages that cannot be consumed by the subscriber. The system needs to retry failed messages gradually, avoiding overloading the consumer app, and store the failed messages after a maximum of 10 retries in a topic. How should you configure the Pub/Sub subscription?

You designed a data warehouse in BigQuery to analyze sales data. You want a self-serving, low-maintenance, and cost- effective solution to share the sales dataset to other business units in your organization. What should you do?

You have terabytes of customer behavioral data streaming from Google Analytics into BigQuery daily. Your customers’ information, such as their preferences, is hosted on a Cloud SQL for MySQL database. Your CRM database is hosted on a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. The marketing team wants to use your customers’ information from the two databases and the customer behavioral data to create marketing campaigns for yearly active customers. You need to ensure that the marketing team can run the campaigns over 100 times a day on typical days and up to 300 during sales. At the same time, you want to keep the load on the Cloud SQL databases to a minimum. What should you do?

Your organization is modernizing their IT services and migrating to Google Cloud. You need to organize the data that will be stored in Cloud Storage and BigQuery. You need to enable a data mesh approach to share the data between sales, product design, and marketing departments. What should you do?

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?

You are designing the architecture to process your data from Cloud Storage to BigQuery by using Dataflow. The network team provided you with the Shared VPC network and subnetwork to be used by your pipelines. You need to enable the deployment of the pipeline on the Shared VPC network. What should you do?

Your infrastructure team has set up an interconnect link between Google Cloud and the on-premises network. You are designing a high-throughput streaming pipeline to ingest data in streaming from an Apache Kafka cluster hosted on- premises. You want to store the data in BigQuery, with as minimal latency as possible. What should you do?

You migrated your on-premises Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) data lake to Cloud Storage. The data scientist team needs to process the data by using Apache Spark and SQL. Security policies need to be enforced at the column level. You need a cost-effective solution that can scale into a data mesh. What should you do?

One of your encryption keys stored in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) was exposed. You need to re- encrypt all of your CMEK-protected Cloud Storage data that used that key, and then delete the compromised key. You also want to reduce the risk of objects getting written without customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) protection in the future. What should you do?

You have an upstream process that writes data to Cloud Storage. This data is then read by an Apache Spark job that runs on Dataproc. These jobs are run in the us-central1 region, but the data could be stored anywhere in the United States. You need to have a recovery process in place in case of a catastrophic single region failure. You need an approach with a maximum of 15 minutes of data loss (RPO=15 mins). You want to ensure that there is minimal latency when reading the data. What should you do?

You currently have transactional data stored on-premises in a PostgreSQL database. To modernize your data environment, you want to run transactional workloads and support analytics needs with a single database. You need to move to Google Cloud without changing database management systems, and minimize cost and complexity. What should you do?

You are architecting a data transformation solution for BigQuery. Your developers are proficient with SQL 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?