Which element is part of defining the desired state for a data migration to Google Cloud?

Specifying the operational model for data processing and access patterns

Measuring network latency between on-premises systems

Identifying stakeholders who will approve the migration

Listing all current data sources and their schemas

During the early phase of a data migration project, a data engineer interviews business users and application owners. What is the primary purpose of these interviews?

To identify stakeholder needs, current processes, and constraints that shape migration goals

To validate that data is correctly transformed after the migration is complete

To measure the network bandwidth available for transferring data to Google Cloud

To determine which Google Cloud services will be used in the target architecture

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1.4 Designing Data Migrations PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the Designing data processing systems domain, which accounts for ~22% of the PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER exam. Google Cloud does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~11–18 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 38 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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A data engineer needs to migrate an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL with minimal downtime. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this task?
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Which element is part of defining the desired state for a data migration to Google Cloud?
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A data engineer decides to move a workload to Google Cloud with minimal changes, keeping the same architecture and simply running it on cloud infrastructure. Which migration strategy is being used?
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24foundation · easy
A data engineer is redesigning a monolithic application into microservices using Google Cloud managed services. Which migration strategy does this represent?
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25foundation · easy
During the early phase of a data migration project, a data engineer interviews business users and application owners. What is the primary purpose of these interviews?
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Questions 21–25

A data engineer needs to migrate an on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL with minimal downtime. Which Google Cloud service is designed for this task?

Which element is part of defining the desired state for a data migration to Google Cloud?

A data engineer decides to move a workload to Google Cloud with minimal changes, keeping the same architecture and simply running it on cloud infrastructure. Which migration strategy is being used?

A data engineer is redesigning a monolithic application into microservices using Google Cloud managed services. Which migration strategy does this represent?

During the early phase of a data migration project, a data engineer interviews business users and application owners. What is the primary purpose of these interviews?

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