PDE Maintaining and Automating Data Workloads Practice Question
Which Dataflow feature allows you to package a pipeline into a reusable template that can be deployed with different parameters at runtime?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Flex Templates
Dataflow Flex Templates allow you to containerize a pipeline and provide runtime parameters, enabling reusability across different environments or jobs.
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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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Cloud Dataproc
Why it's wrong here
Dataproc is for managed Spark/Hadoop, not for Dataflow templates.
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Classic Templates
Why it's wrong here
Classic Templates are also reusable, but they require the pipeline code to be serialized at build time and have limited flexibility.
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Dataflow SQL
Why it's wrong here
Dataflow SQL is for running SQL queries on streaming data, not for reusable templates.
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Flex Templates
Why this is correct
Flex Templates use Docker containers and support complex runtime parameters.
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