PDE Maintaining and Automating Data Workloads Practice Question
You need to inspect a BigQuery table for sensitive data such as credit card numbers and apply masking. Which GCP service should you use to identify and de-identify the data?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Cloud DLP can automatically inspect BigQuery tables for sensitive data types (credit card numbers, etc.) and apply de-identification transforms like masking, tokenization, etc.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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IAM Recommender
Why it's wrong here
IAM Recommender suggests IAM policy changes, not data inspection.
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Cloud KMS
Why it's wrong here
Cloud KMS manages encryption keys, not inspection or de-identification.
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Dataplex
Why it's wrong here
Dataplex provides data quality rules and metadata management, not DLP.
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Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Why this is correct
Cloud DLP is designed for inspection and de-identification of sensitive data.
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