Exam Associate-Data-Practitioner Topic 2 Question 58 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Associate-Data-Practitioner exam
Question #: 58
Topic #: 2
You manage data at an ecommerce company. You have a Dataflow pipeline that processes order data from Pub/Sub, enriches the data with product information from Bigtable, and writes the processed data to BigQuery for analysis. The pipeline runs continuously and processes thousands of orders every minute. You need to monitor the pipeline's performance and be alerted if errors occur. What should you do?

Suggested Answer: A Vote an answer

Comprehensive and Detailed in Depth Explanation:
Why A is correct:Cloud Monitoring is the recommended service for monitoring Google Cloud services, including Dataflow.
It allows you to track key metrics like system lag, element throughput, and error rates.
Alerting policies in Cloud Monitoring can trigger notifications based on metric thresholds.
Why other options are incorrect:B: The Dataflow job monitoring interface is useful for visualization, but Cloud Monitoring provides more comprehensive alerting.
C: BigQuery is for analyzing the processed data, not monitoring the pipeline itself. Also Cloud Storage is not where the data resides during processing.
D: Cloud Logging is useful for viewing logs, but Cloud Monitoring is better for metric-based alerting.

by Jerry at Dec 24, 2025, 12:52 AM

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