Your company’s customer support audio files are stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. You plan to analyze the audio files’ metadata and file content within BigQuery to create inference by using BigQuery ML. You need to create a corresponding table in BigQuery that represents the bucket containing the audio files. What should you do?
Your organization has several datasets in their data warehouse in BigQuery. Several analyst teams in different departments use the datasets to run queries. Your organization is concerned about the variability of their monthly BigQuery costs. You need to identify a solution that creates a fixed budget for costs associated with the queries run by each department. What should you do?
You are constructing a data pipeline to process sensitive customer data stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. You need to ensure that this data remains accessible, even in the event of a single-zone outage. What should you do?
Your organization needs to implement near real-time analytics for thousands of events arriving each second in Pub/Sub. The incoming messages require transformations. You need to configure a pipeline that processes, transforms, and loads the data into BigQuery while minimizing development time. What should you do?
You are migrating data from a legacy on-premises MySQL database to Google Cloud. The database contains various tables with different data types and sizes, including large tables with millions of rowsand transactional data. You need to migrate this data while maintaining data integrity, and minimizing downtime and cost. What should you do?
Your company uses Looker as its primary business intelligence platform. You want to use LookML to visualize the profit margin for each of your company’s products in your Looker Explores and dashboards. You need to implement a solution quickly and efficiently. What should you do?
You work for a healthcare company that has a large on-premises data system containing patient records with personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, addresses, and medical diagnoses. You need a standardized managed solution that de-identifies PII across all your data feeds prior to ingestion to Google Cloud. What should you do?
You need to design a data pipeline to process large volumes of raw server log data stored in Cloud Storage. The data needs to be cleaned, transformed, and aggregated before being loaded into BigQuery for analysis. The transformation involves complex data manipulation using Spark scripts that your team developed. You need to implement a solution that leverages your team’s existing skillset, processes data at scale, and minimizes cost. What should you do?
You are working on a data pipeline that will validate and clean incoming data before loading it into BigQuery for real-time analysis. You want to ensure that the data validation and cleaning is performed efficiently and can handle high volumes of data. What should you do?
Your organization has several datasets in BigQuery. The datasets need to be shared with your external partners so that they can run SQL queries without needing to copy the data to their own projects. You have organized each partner’s data in its own BigQuery dataset. Each partner should be able to access only their data. You want to share the data while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You are responsible for managing Cloud Storage buckets for a research company. Your company has well-defined data tiering and retention rules. You need to optimize storage costs while achieving your data retention needs. What should you do?
Your organization plans to move their on-premises environment to Google Cloud. Your organization’s network bandwidth is less than 1 Gbps. You need to move over 500 ТВ of data to Cloud Storage securely, and only have a few days to move the data. What should you do?
You are developing a data ingestion pipeline to load small CSV files into BigQuery from Cloud Storage. You want to load these files upon arrival to minimize data latency. You want to accomplish this with minimal cost and maintenance. What should you do?
You manage a large amount of data in Cloud Storage, including raw data, processed data, and backups. Your organization is subject to strict compliance regulations that mandate data immutability for specific data types. You want to use an efficient process to reduce storage costs while ensuring that your storage strategy meets retention requirements. What should you do?
You have a BigQuery dataset containing sales data. This data is actively queried for the first 6 months. After that, the data is not queried but needs to be retained for 3 years for compliance reasons. You need to implement a data management strategy that meets access and compliance requirements, while keeping cost and administrative overhead to a minimum. What should you do?
Your company has developed a website that allows users to upload and share video files. These files are most frequently accessed and shared when they are initially uploaded. Over time, the files are accessed and shared less frequently, although some old video files may remain very popular. You need to design a storage system that is simple and cost-effective. What should you do?
Your organization is building a new application on Google Cloud. Several data files will need to be stored in Cloud Storage. Your organization has approved only two specific cloud regions where these data files can reside. You need to determine a Cloud Storage bucket strategy that includes automated high availability. What should you do?
Your organization has a BigQuery dataset that contains sensitive employee information such as salaries and performance reviews. The payroll specialist in the HR department needs to have continuous access to aggregated performance data, but they do not need continuous access to other sensitive data. You need to grant the payroll specialist access to the performance data without granting them access to the entire dataset using the simplest and most secure approach. What should you do?
Your company is adopting BigQuery as their data warehouse platform. Your team has experienced Python developers. You need to recommend a fully-managed tool to build batch ETL processes that extract data from various source systems, transform the data using a variety of Google Cloud services, and load the transformed data into BigQuery. You want this tool to leverage your team’s Python skills. What should you do?
Your organization needs to store historical customer order data. The data will only be accessed once a month for analysis and must be readily available within a few seconds when it is accessed. You need to choose a storage class that minimizes storage costs while ensuring that the data can be retrieved quickly. What should you do?
You are predicting customer churn for a subscription-based service. You have a 50 PB historical customer dataset in BigQuery that includes demographics, subscription information, and engagement metrics. You want to build a churn prediction model with minimal overhead. You want to follow the Google-recommended approach. What should you do?
Your organization uses scheduled queries to perform transformations on data stored in BigQuery. You discover that one of your scheduled queries has failed. You need to troubleshoot the issue as quickly as possible. What should you do?
You want to build a model to predict the likelihood of a customer clicking on an online advertisement. You have historical data in BigQuery that includes features such as user demographics, ad placement,and previous click behavior. After training the model, you want to generate predictions on new data. Which model type should you use in BigQuery ML?
Your organization has decided to move their on-premises Apache Spark-based workload to Google Cloud. You want to be able to manage the code without needing to provision and manage your own cluster. What should you do?
Your organization has decided to migrate their existing enterprise data warehouse to BigQuery. The existing data pipeline tools already support connectors to BigQuery. You need to identify a data migration approach that optimizes migration speed. What should you do?
You are a data analyst working with sensitive customer data in BigQuery. You need to ensure that only authorized personnel within your organization can query this data, while following the principle of least privilege. What should you do?