Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer — Question 226

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 gcloud storage command.
• C. Upload the data into Cloud SQL using the import function in the Google Cloud console.
• D. Upload the data into Cloud Spanner using the import function in the Google Cloud console.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because uploading the data to Cloud Storage allows it to be easily accessed and processed by Dataflow jobs. Options A, C, and D are incorrect as they involve services that are not suitable for unstructured data storage and processing in the context of ETL transformations for Dataflow.