PDE Ingesting and Processing the Data Practice Question
A company uses dbt on BigQuery to transform data. They want to run dbt models on a schedule and manage environments (dev, prod). Which GCP service should they use to run dbt jobs?
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Why each option matters
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Cloud Composer
Cloud Composer is an Apache Airflow managed service that can schedule dbt runs.
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Dataflow
Why it's wrong here
For Beam pipelines; dbt is SQL-based transformation.
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Cloud Composer
Why this is correct
Managed Airflow with DAGs, scheduling, and environment separation.
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Cloud Scheduler
Why it's wrong here
Can trigger a job but lacks environment management and DAG capabilities.
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Cloud Build
Why it's wrong here
For CI/CD; not designed for scheduled dbt runs with environment management.
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