Exam 18: Professional Data Engineer on Google Cloud Platform

You are building new real-time data warehouse for your company and will use Google BigQuery streaming inserts. There is no guarantee that data will only be sent in once but you do have a unique ID for each row of data and an event timestamp. You want to ensure that duplicates are not included while interactively querying data. Which query type should you use?

MJTelco Case Study Company Overview MJTelco is a startup that plans to build networks in rapidly growing, underserved markets around the world. The company has patents for innovative optical communications hardware. Based on these patents, they can create many reliable, high-speed backbone links with inexpensive hardware. Company Background Founded by experienced telecom executives, MJTelco uses technologies originally developed to overcome communications challenges in space. Fundamental to their operation, they need to create a distributed data infrastructure that drives real-time analysis and incorporates machine learning to continuously optimize their topologies. Because their hardware is inexpensive, they plan to overdeploy the network allowing them to account for the impact of dynamic regional politics on location availability and cost. Their management and operations teams are situated all around the globe creating many-to-many relationship between data consumers and provides in their system. After careful consideration, they decided public cloud is the perfect environment to support their needs. Solution Concept MJTelco is running a successful proof-of-concept (PoC) project in its labs. They have two primary needs: Scale and harden their PoC to support significantly more data flows generated when they ramp to more than 50,000 installations. Refine their machine-learning cycles to verify and improve the dynamic models they use to control topology definition. MJTelco will also use three separate operating environments - development/test, staging, and production - to meet the needs of running experiments, deploying new features, and serving production customers. Business Requirements Scale up their production environment with minimal cost, instantiating resources when and where needed in an unpredictable, distributed telecom user community. Ensure security of their proprietary data to protect their leading-edge machine learning and analysis. Provide reliable and timely access to data for analysis from distributed research workers Maintain isolated environments that support rapid iteration of their machine-learning models without affecting their customers. Technical Requirements Ensure secure and efficient transport and storage of telemetry data Rapidly scale instances to support between 10,000 and 100,000 data providers with multiple flows each. Allow analysis and presentation against data tables tracking up to 2 years of data storing approximately 100m records/day Support rapid iteration of monitoring infrastructure focused on awareness of data pipeline problems both in telemetry flows and in production learning cycles. CEO Statement Our business model relies on our patents, analytics and dynamic machine learning. Our inexpensive hardware is organized to be highly reliable, which gives us cost advantages. We need to quickly stabilize our large distributed data pipelines to meet our reliability and capacity commitments. CTO Statement Our public cloud services must operate as advertised. We need resources that scale and keep our data secure. We also need environments in which our data scientists can carefully study and quickly adapt our models. Because we rely on automation to process our data, we also need our development and test environments to work as we iterate. CFO Statement The project is too large for us to maintain the hardware and software required for the data and analysis. Also, we cannot afford to staff an operations team to monitor so many data feeds, so we will rely on automation and infrastructure. Google Cloud's machine learning will allow our quantitative researchers to work on our high-value problems instead of problems with our data pipelines. You need to compose visualization for operations teams with the following requirements: Telemetry must include data from all 50,000 installations for the most recent 6 weeks (sampling once every minute) The report must not be more than 3 hours delayed from live data. The actionable report should only show suboptimal links. Most suboptimal links should be sorted to the top. Suboptimal links can be grouped and filtered by regional geography. User response time to load the report must be <5 seconds. You create a data source to store the last 6 weeks of data, and create visualizations that allow viewers to see multiple date ranges, distinct geographic regions, and unique installation types. You always show the latest data without any changes to your visualizations. You want to avoid creating and updating new visualizations each month. What should you do?

Scaling a Cloud Dataproc cluster typically involves ____.

Your startup has never implemented a formal security policy. Currently, everyone in the company has access to the datasets stored in Google BigQuery. Teams have freedom to use the service as they see fit, and they have not documented their use cases. You have been asked to secure the data warehouse. You need to discover what everyone is doing. What should you do first?

Your weather app queries a database every 15 minutes to get the current temperature. The frontend is powered by Google App Engine and server millions of users. How should you design the frontend to respond to a database failure?

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding Bigtable access roles?

You have a data pipeline that writes data to Cloud Bigtable using well-designed row keys. You want to monitor your pipeline to determine when to increase the size of you Cloud Bigtable cluster. Which two actions can you take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Your company is loading comma-separated values (CSV) files into Google BigQuery. The data is fully imported successfully; however, the imported data is not matching byte-to-byte to the source file. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

You are building a data pipeline on Google Cloud. You need to prepare data using a casual method for a machine-learning process. You want to support a logistic regression model. You also need to monitor and adjust for null values, which must remain real-valued and cannot be removed. What should you do?

You receive data files in CSV format monthly from a third party. You need to cleanse this data, but every third month the schema of the files changes. Your requirements for implementing these transformations include: Executing the transformations on a schedule Enabling non-developer analysts to modify transformations Providing a graphical tool for designing transformations What should you do?

You are designing a cloud-native historical data processing system to meet the following conditions: The data being analyzed is in CSV, Avro, and PDF formats and will be accessed by multiple analysis tools including Cloud Dataproc, BigQuery, and Compute Engine. A streaming data pipeline stores new data daily. Peformance is not a factor in the solution. The solution design should maximize availability. How should you design data storage for this solution?

What are all of the BigQuery operations that Google charges for?

You have an Apache Kafka cluster on-prem with topics containing web application logs. You need to replicate the data to Google Cloud for analysis in BigQuery and Cloud Storage. The preferred replication method is mirroring to avoid deployment of Kafka Connect plugins. What should you do?

You work for a shipping company that uses handheld scanners to read shipping labels. Your company has strict data privacy standards that require scanners to only transmit recipients' personally identifiable information (PII) to analytics systems, which violates user privacy rules. You want to quickly build a scalable solution using cloud-native managed services to prevent exposure of PII to the analytics systems. What should you do?

Which of the following statements about the Wide & Deep Learning model are true? (Select 2 answers.)

Your company is selecting a system to centralize data ingestion and delivery. You are considering messaging and data integration systems to address the requirements. The key requirements are: The ability to seek to a particular offset in a topic, possibly back to the start of all data ever captured Support for publish/subscribe semantics on hundreds of topics Retain per-key ordering Which system should you choose?

Your company has a hybrid cloud initiative. You have a complex data pipeline that moves data between cloud provider services and leverages services from each of the cloud providers. Which cloud-native service should you use to orchestrate the entire pipeline?

You have data pipelines running on BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, and Cloud Dataproc. You need to perform health checks and monitor their behavior, and then notify the team managing the pipelines if they fail. You also need to be able to work across multiple projects. Your preference is to use managed products of features of the platform. What should you do?

Which of the following are examples of hyperparameters? (Select 2 answers.)

Which TensorFlow function can you use to configure a categorical column if you don't know all of the possible values for that column?