A data engineer notices that a Dataflow pipeline is running slower than expected. They want to identify which step is causing the bottleneck. What should they do first?

Check Cloud Logging for any error messages in the pipeline logs.

Open the Dataflow job UI and examine the execution graph and per-step metrics.

Restart the pipeline with more workers to see if performance improves.

Look at Cloud Monitoring dashboards for overall CPU usage of the project.

What is the primary purpose of Dataform in the context of data processing?

Managing SQL-based data transformations

Orchestrating containerized services

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3.2 Schedule, Automate, and Monitor Basic Data Processing Tasks ASSOCIATE-DATA-PRACTITIONER Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Data Pipeline Orchestration domain, which accounts for ~18% of the ASSOCIATE-DATA-PRACTITIONER exam.

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Questions 6–10

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A data engineer notices that a Dataflow pipeline is running slower than expected. They want to identify which step is causing the bottleneck. What should they do first?
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7foundation · easy
A data practitioner needs to ingest a continuous stream of clickstream data from a website and load it into BigQuery for near-real-time analytics. Which Google Cloud service is designed for ingesting streaming data?
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8foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of Dataform in the context of data processing?
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9foundation · easy
A data practitioner needs to run a lightweight data processing task, such as resizing an image, whenever a new image is uploaded to Cloud Storage. Which service is best suited for this event-driven task?
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10foundation · easy
A data practitioner needs to orchestrate a sequence of API calls to multiple Google Cloud services without managing any servers. Which service should they use?
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Questions 6–10

A data engineer notices that a Dataflow pipeline is running slower than expected. They want to identify which step is causing the bottleneck. What should they do first?

A data practitioner needs to ingest a continuous stream of clickstream data from a website and load it into BigQuery for near-real-time analytics. Which Google Cloud service is designed for ingesting streaming data?

What is the primary purpose of Dataform in the context of data processing?

A data practitioner needs to run a lightweight data processing task, such as resizing an image, whenever a new image is uploaded to Cloud Storage. Which service is best suited for this event-driven task?

A data practitioner needs to orchestrate a sequence of API calls to multiple Google Cloud services without managing any servers. Which service should they use?

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