Google PCA Practice Question: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
A team wants to collect and analyze logs from multiple projects into a centralized BigQuery dataset for long-term retention and SQL querying. They want to exclude health check logs to reduce costs. Which approach should they use?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Create a log sink to BigQuery and add a log exclusion filter for health check logs
Log sinks can route logs to BigQuery, and exclusion filters can be applied to filter out specific logs before they are ingested.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Use Cloud Monitoring to exclude health check logs
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Monitoring is for metrics, not log exclusion.
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Create a log metric for health check logs and filter in BigQuery
Why it's wrong here
Log metrics are for monitoring, not for excluding logs from export.
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Create a log sink to BigQuery and add a log exclusion filter for health check logs
Why this is correct
Log sinks export logs to a destination; exclusion filters prevent matching logs from being ingested or exported.
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Set up a Cloud Function to delete health check logs from BigQuery
Why it's wrong here
This is inefficient and not the recommended approach.
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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
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BigQuery
BigQuery is a fully managed, serverless data warehouse on Google Cloud that lets you run fast SQL queries on massive datasets without managing any infrastructure.
Key term
Route
A route is a path that data takes through a network from one device or network to another, determined by routing protocols and configured rules.
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