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Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam - Topic 5 Question 27 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Associate Cloud Engineer exam
Question #: 27
Topic #: 5
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You have an application that uses Cloud Spanner as a database backend to keep current state information about users. Cloud Bigtable logs all events triggered by users. You export Cloud Spanner data to Cloud Storage during daily backups. One of your analysts asks you to join data from Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable for specific users. You want to complete this ad hoc request as efficiently as possible. What should you do?

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Suggested Answer: D

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Ocie
4 months ago
Not sure if B is efficient enough for large datasets.
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Franklyn
4 months ago
I'm surprised there's no mention of using BigQuery directly!
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Dalene
4 months ago
Wait, why not just use D? Seems easier to manage.
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Melda
4 months ago
Definitely agree with that! B makes the most sense.
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Delsie
5 months ago
I think option B is the best choice here.
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Francene
5 months ago
I vaguely recall that using external tables in BigQuery could simplify the joining process, but I'm not entirely confident about the performance implications.
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Serina
5 months ago
I feel like option B makes sense since we need to join data from both Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Spanner directly, but I'm a bit confused about the best approach.
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Franklyn
5 months ago
I remember practicing a similar question where we had to join data from different sources, and I think using BigQuery might be the way to go.
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Salome
5 months ago
I think we might need to use Dataflow to join the data, but I'm not sure if we should pull from Cloud Spanner or Cloud Storage.
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Filiberto
5 months ago
I'm a bit confused by the wording of the question. Can FEC be allocated based on the criteria listed, or does FEC not depend on those criteria? I'll need to think this through carefully.
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Sarah
5 months ago
Based on my understanding, the Syslog Collector is designed specifically for ingesting log data, so that's likely the functionality I would use for this scenario.
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Herminia
5 months ago
I think the issue might be that the TraversalZone is missing a link to the DefaultZone, but I'm not completely sure. We discussed similar scenarios in class.
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Jaime
5 months ago
This looks like a definition question. I'll eliminate options that seem too narrow or specific.
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