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Start Ensuring solution quality PracticeA data pipeline ingests streaming data from Pub/Sub into BigQuery via Dataflow. Recently, the pipeline has been failing with 'deadline exceeded' errors. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: Option D is correct because 'deadline exceeded' errors in a Dataflow pipeline reading from Pub/Sub indicate that the subscriber is taking longer to process messages than the acknowledgement deadline allows. When the deadline expires, Pub/Sub redelivers the message, causing duplicate processing and eventual pipeline failure. This is a common issue when processing time exceeds the default 10-second acknowledgement deadline.
A team is designing a data lake on Google Cloud using Cloud Storage and BigQuery. They need to ensure that sensitive data (e.g., PII) is encrypted at rest and have the ability to audit access. Which approach meets these requirements?
Explanation: Option B is correct because Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) allow the team to control and manage the encryption keys used to protect data at rest in Cloud Storage and BigQuery, while enabling Cloud Audit Logs provides the necessary audit trail for access to both the data and the keys. This combination directly satisfies the requirements for encryption at rest and auditability.
A company runs a batch processing job on Dataproc that uses Apache Spark to process 500 GB of data daily. The job completes successfully but takes 4 hours. The team wants to reduce the runtime to under 2 hours without increasing cost. What should they do?
Explanation: Preemptible VMs cost significantly less than standard VMs (about 60-80% discount). By using preemptible VMs for worker nodes, you can increase the number of workers (and thus parallelism) without increasing cost. This directly reduces runtime by distributing the 500 GB workload across more executors, while the cost savings from preemptible VMs offset the additional nodes.
Which TWO actions are recommended to improve the reliability of a Cloud Dataflow streaming pipeline that processes event data from Pub/Sub?
Explanation: Option B is correct because enabling Dataflow Streaming Engine moves state and computation from worker VMs to the backend service, reducing the impact of worker scaling and preemption. This improves reliability by providing consistent performance and fault tolerance for streaming pipelines, especially those with high throughput or stateful processing.
A data analyst runs a complex SQL query in BigQuery that joins multiple large tables and receives the above error. Which action is most likely to resolve the issue?
Explanation: The error indicates that the query exceeded the available slot resources in the BigQuery project. Increasing the number of slots allocated to the project (option D) directly addresses this by providing more compute capacity for parallel query execution, which is the correct action to resolve resource exhaustion in BigQuery's serverless architecture.
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