PDE Ingesting and Processing the Data Practice Question
Which BigQuery feature allows you to query data directly from Cloud Storage without loading it into BigQuery storage?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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External tables
BigQuery Omni is for multi-cloud, not external tables. External tables allow querying data in GCS.
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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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BigQuery Omni
Why it's wrong here
For querying data in AWS or Azure.
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BigQuery ML
Why it's wrong here
For machine learning.
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Federated queries
Why it's wrong here
Federated queries use BigQuery Connection to query Cloud SQL or Spanner.
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External tables
Why this is correct
External tables in BigQuery reference data in GCS and can be queried directly.
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