Question 106

You have a query that filters a BigQuery table using a WHERE clause on timestamp and ID columns. By using bq query - -dry_run you learn that the query triggers a full scan of the table, even though the filter on timestamp and ID select a tiny fraction of the overall data. You want to reduce the amount of data scanned by BigQuery with minimal changes to existing SQL queries. What should you do?
  • Question 107

    You operate a database that stores stock trades and an application that retrieves average stock price for a given company over an adjustable window of time. The data is stored in Cloud Bigtable where the datetime of the stock trade is the beginning of the row key. Your application has thousands of concurrent users, and you notice that performance is starting to degrade as more stocks are added. What should you do to improve the performance of your application?
  • Question 108

    How can you get a neural network to learn about relationships between categories in a categorical feature?
  • Question 109

    You are working on a sensitive project involving private user data. You have set up a project on Google
    Cloud Platform to house your work internally. An external consultant is going to assist with coding a
    complex transformation in a Google Cloud Dataflow pipeline for your project. How should you maintain
    users' privacy?
  • Question 110

    The CUSTOM tier for Cloud Machine Learning Engine allows you to specify the number of which types of cluster nodes?