You Are Running a Pipeline in Cloud Dataflow That Receives

question 45

Multiple Choice

You are running a pipeline in Cloud Dataflow that receives messages from a Cloud Pub/Sub topic and writes the results to a BigQuery dataset in the EU. Currently, your pipeline is located in europe-west4 and has a maximum of 3 workers, instance type n1-standard-1. You notice that during peak periods, your pipeline is struggling to process records in a timely fashion, when all 3 workers are at maximum CPU utilization. Which two actions can you take to increase performance of your pipeline? (Choose two.)

• A) Increase the number of max workers
• B) Use a larger instance type for your Cloud Dataflow workers
• C) Change the zone of your Cloud Dataflow pipeline to run in us-central1
• D) Create a temporary table in Cloud Bigtable that will act as a buffer for new data. Create a new step in your pipeline to write to this table first, and then create a new pipeline to write from Cloud Bigtable to BigQuery
• E) Create a temporary table in Cloud Spanner that will act as a buffer for new data. Create a new step in your pipeline to write to this table first, and then create a new pipeline to write from Cloud Spanner to BigQuery

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