Question 96

Which Google Cloud Platform service is an alternative to Hadoop with Hive?
  • Question 97

    Your company is streaming real-time sensor data from their factory floor into Bigtable and they have noticed extremely poor performance. How should the row key be redesigned to improve Bigtable performance on queries that populate real-time dashboards?
  • Question 98

    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?
  • Question 99

    Case Study: 2 - MJTelco
    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.
    Given the record streams MJTelco is interested in ingesting per day, they are concerned about the cost of Google BigQuery increasing. MJTelco asks you to provide a design solution. They require a single large data table called tracking_table. Additionally, they want to minimize the cost of daily queries while performing fine-grained analysis of each day's events. They also want to use streaming ingestion. What should you do?
  • Question 100

    You are managing a Cloud Dataproc cluster. You need to make a job run faster while minimizing costs, without losing work in progress on your clusters. What should you do?