Professional Data Engineer Professional Data Engineer on Google Cloud Platform Free Practice Test — 30 Questions

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A multinational e-commerce company, \"NovaCart,\" initially designed its daily sales anomaly detection system using a Dataproc cluster to process large volumes of transaction data. This batch-oriented approach, running nightly, proved effective for identifying significant deviations in sales patterns. However, a recent business mandate requires the system to identify anomalies in near real-time, with a target latency of under one minute, to enable immediate customer service interventions. The data ingestion point is Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and the processed anomaly data needs to be stored in BigQuery tables. The engineering team must adapt their strategy to meet these new stringent requirements while maintaining operational efficiency and considering the existing GCP infrastructure.

Which strategic adjustment to the data processing architecture would best address NovaCart\'s evolving needs?

Transition the anomaly detection pipeline to Cloud Dataflow, utilizing its unified stream and batch processing capabilities to ingest data from Pub/Sub, process it with a low-latency streaming pattern, and write results to BigQuery.
Reconfigure the existing Dataproc cluster to run Spark Streaming jobs with micro-batch intervals of 30 seconds, directly reading from Pub/Sub and writing to BigQuery, while optimizing cluster resource allocation.
Implement a new ingestion layer using Cloud Data Fusion to orchestrate scheduled batch jobs that query Pub/Sub logs and then process data into BigQuery, focusing on minimizing data staleness.
Migrate the anomaly detection logic to BigQuery's streaming insert API, processing data directly as it arrives in BigQuery and leveraging scheduled queries for aggregation and anomaly flagging.

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