Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer — Question 251

Your team has created several BigQuery curated datasets containing anonymized industry benchmark data. You want to make these datasets easily discoverable and accessible for querying by external partner companies within their own Google Cloud projects. You need a secure and scalable solution. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Publish the datasets as listings within BigQuery sharing (Analytics Hub).
• B. Export the datasets to partner-specific Cloud Storage buckets.
• C. Create authorized views for each dataset and grant access to each partner.
• D. Grant the roles/bigquery.dataViewer IAM role to the partner group email addresses on the datasets.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because using Analytics Hub allows for secure sharing and discovery of datasets across projects, making it ideal for external partners. Options B and C do not provide the same level of discoverability or scalability, and option D, while giving access, does not facilitate easy dataset discovery as effectively as Analytics Hub does.