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Google Cloud Certified – Professional Data Engineer
PR000258
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Become a certified Professional Data Engineer with exam code PR000258 to validate your data engineering skills in Google Cloud.
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Questions 321–330 of 486
You are configuring a Dataflow job. What happens when you set a lower parallelism level than optimal?
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A
Performance may degrade.
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B
Costs will increase.
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C
Output data will be incorrect.
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D
Job will fail to run.
Explanation
Lower parallelism can slow down processing, but won't affect costs, output correctness, or job execution.
Which service is best for real-time analytics on streaming data?
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A
Cloud Pub/Sub
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B
Cloud Storage
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C
Cloud Functions
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D
BigQuery
Explanation
Cloud Pub/Sub is designed for real-time data streaming, while others are not focused on streaming analytics.
A company needs a highly available database with automatic backups; which service should they choose?
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A
Cloud Spanner
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B
Cloud SQL
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C
Datastore
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D
BigQuery
Explanation
Cloud Spanner offers high availability and automatic backups, while Cloud SQL and others may not scale as well.
What happens when data exceeds the capacity of a Cloud Storage bucket?
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A
Data is deleted
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B
Upload fails
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C
Data overwrites previous data
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D
Additional capacity is automatically allocated
Explanation
When a bucket reaches its capacity, further uploads will fail; it does not automatically increase storage limits.
Which service allows real-time data processing in GCP?
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A
Cloud Dataflow
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B
Cloud Storage
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C
Cloud Pub/Sub
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D
Cloud Spanner
Explanation
Cloud Dataflow is a managed service for stream and batch processing; the others serve different purposes.
A company needs to store large amounts of unstructured data. Which option is best?
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A
Bigtable
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B
Cloud SQL
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C
Cloud Storage
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D
Datastore
Explanation
Cloud Storage is designed for unstructured data; the others have limitations on data type or structure.
What happens when you exceed your BigQuery quotas?
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A
Queries fail without any notification
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B
Quota is automatically reset
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C
Charges apply for excessive usage
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D
Queries are throttled until next cycle
Explanation
Exceeding quotas typically throttles queries until quotas reset; the other options incorrectly describe quota behavior.
Which service allows for serverless execution of code?
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A
Cloud Functions
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B
Compute Engine
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C
Cloud Run
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D
App Engine
Explanation
Cloud Functions enables event-driven serverless computing; others require server management.
A company needs to ensure data in BigQuery is protected against accidental deletion. What should they use?
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A
Partitioning
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B
Data retention policies
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C
Labels
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D
Views
Explanation
Data retention policies can prevent accidental deletion; others do not offer this feature.
You are configuring IAM policies for a project. What happens when a user is assigned multiple roles?
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A
All roles merge permissions
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B
Only the highest role applies
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C
User loses previous permissions
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D
Roles must be denied first
Explanation
Multiple roles combine permissions, enhancing access—unlike the other options.