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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #129

Google Cloud Bigtable indexes a single value in each row. This value is called the _______.

The correct answer is B. The HBase shell is a command-line tool that performs administrative tasks, such as creating and deleting tables. Explanation/Reference: Cloud Bigtable is a sparsely populated table that can scale to billions of rows and thousands of columns, allowing you to store terabytes or even petabytes of data. A single value in each row is indexed; this value is known as the row key…

Submitted by thandi_sa· Mar 30, 2026Building and operationalizing data processing systems

Question

Google Cloud Bigtable indexes a single value in each row. This value is called the _______.

Options

  • Aprimary key
  • BThe HBase shell is a command-line tool that performs administrative tasks, such as creating and deleting tables.
  • CThe HBase shell is a hypervisor based shell that performs administrative tasks, such as creating and deleting new virtualized instances.
  • DThe HBase shell is a command-line tool that performs only user account management functions to grant access to Cloud Bigtable instances.

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  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    89% (39)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Cloud Bigtable is a sparsely populated table that can scale to billions of rows and thousands of columns, allowing you to store terabytes or even petabytes of data. A single value in each row is indexed; this value is known as the row key. Explanation/Reference: The HBase shell is a command-line tool that performs administrative tasks, such as creating and deleting tables. The Cloud Bigtable HBase client for Java makes it possible to use the HBase shell to connect to Cloud Bigtable.

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#Cloud Bigtable#row key#indexing#HBase

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