PDE Ingesting and Processing the Data Practice Question
A team wants to transfer data from an on-premises Hadoop cluster to Cloud Storage for processing. The cluster is located in a remote area with limited bandwidth. They need to transfer 500 TB of data. Which service should they use?
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Transfer Appliance
Transfer Appliance is designed for petabyte-scale offline transfers when bandwidth is limited.
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Transfer Appliance
Why this is correct
Offline physical appliance for large data transfers; ideal for remote areas with low bandwidth.
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service
Why it's wrong here
For SaaS sources only; not for on-premises Hadoop.
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Storage Transfer Service
Why it's wrong here
Requires network connectivity; limited bandwidth would make it very slow.
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Dataproc with gsutil
Why it's wrong here
Would still rely on network; not practical for 500 TB over limited bandwidth.
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