Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer — Question 111

Your company has a large quantity of unstructured data in different file formats. You want to perform ETL transformations on the data. You need to make the data accessible on Google Cloud so it can be processed by a Dataflow job. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Upload the data to BigQuery using the bq command line tool.
• B. Upload the data to Cloud Storage using the gsutil command line tool.
• C. Upload the data into Cloud SQL using the import function in the console.
• D. Upload the data into Cloud Spanner using the import function in the console.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because uploading the data to Cloud Storage allows for easy access and processing by Dataflow. Options A, C, and D are incorrect as they involve uploading the data directly to services that are not suitable for handling unstructured data in various formats before ETL transformations.