PCNE Practice Question: Managing, Monitoring, and Optimising Network Operations
A company wants to analyze VPC Flow Logs to understand which external IPs are generating the most outbound traffic. What is the most scalable way to store and query these logs?
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BigQuery
VPC Flow Logs can be exported to BigQuery, which provides scalable SQL analysis for large datasets. This is the recommended approach for complex queries.
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BigQuery
Why this is correct
BigQuery offers scalable, SQL-based analysis of Flow Logs.
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Cloud Storage and analyze with gsutil
Why it's wrong here
Not efficient for querying; would require downloading and processing.
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Cloud Logging with Logs Explorer
Why it's wrong here
Logs Explorer is suitable for ad-hoc queries but not for large-scale, repeated analysis.
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Cloud Monitoring Metrics
Why it's wrong here
Monitoring provides aggregated metrics, not per-flow details.
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