Google Exam Associate Data Practitioner Topic 2 Question 11 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Associate Data Practitioner exam

Question #: 11
Topic #: 2

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You have an existing weekly Storage Transfer Service transfer job from Amazon S3 to a Nearline Cloud Storage bucket in Google Cloud. Each week, the job moves a large number of relatively small files. As the number of files to be transferred each week has grown over time, you are at risk of no longer completing the transfer in the allocated time frame. You need to decrease the total transfer time by replacing the process. Your solution should minimize costs where possible. What should you do?

ACreate a transfer job using the Google Cloud CLI, and specify the Standard storage class with the ---custom-storage-class flag.

BCreate parallel transfer jobs using include and exclude prefixes.

CCreate a batch Dataflow job that is scheduled weekly to migrate the data from Amazon S3 to Cloud Storage.

DCreate an agent-based transfer job that utilizes multiple transfer agents on Compute Engine instances.

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Suggested Answer: B

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Why B is correct:Creating parallel transfer jobs by using include and exclude prefixes allows you to split the data into smaller chunks and transfer them in parallel.

This can significantly increase throughput and reduce the overall transfer time.

Why other options are incorrect:A: Changing the storage class to Standard will not improve transfer speed.

C: Dataflow is a complex solution for a simple file transfer task.

D: Agent-based transfer is suitable for large files or network limitations, but not for a large number of small files.

by Ezekiel at May 03, 2025, 06:55 PM

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1 months ago

Option D seems intriguing, but I'm not sure if the added cost of Compute Engine instances is worth it. Might be overkill for this use case.

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Gerald

11 days ago

C) Create a batch Dataflow job that is scheduled weekly to migrate the data from Amazon S3 to Cloud Storage.

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Tess

16 days ago

B) Create parallel transfer jobs using include and exclude prefixes.

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Merilyn

17 days ago

A) Create a transfer job using the Google Cloud CLI, and specify the Standard storage class with the ---custom-storage-class flag.

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Melodie

1 months ago

I disagree, I believe option D with multiple transfer agents would be more efficient.

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2 months ago

I think option B sounds like a good idea to speed up the transfer.

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