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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #207

You are designing a cloud-native historical data processing system to meet the following conditions: The data being analyzed is in CSV, Avro, and PDF formats and will be accessed by multiple…

The correct answer is C. Store the full dataset in BigQuery, and store a compressed copy of the data in a Cloud Storage bucket. Explanation/Reference: Keep this ratio as 80% warm and 20% active. Explanation/Reference:

Submitted by dimitri_ru· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems

Question

You are designing a cloud-native historical data processing system to meet the following conditions: The data being analyzed is in CSV, Avro, and PDF formats and will be accessed by multiple analysis tools including Cloud Dataproc, BigQuery, and Compute Engine. A streaming data pipeline stores new data daily. Peformance is not a factor in the solution. The solution design should maximize availability. How should you design data storage for this solution?

Options

  • AStore and process the entire dataset in BigQuery.
  • BStore and process the entire dataset in Cloud Bigtable.
  • CStore the full dataset in BigQuery, and store a compressed copy of the data in a Cloud Storage bucket.
  • DStore the warm data as files in Cloud Storage, and store the active data in BigQuery.

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    15% (7)
  • C
    70% (33)
  • D
    11% (5)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Keep this ratio as 80% warm and 20% active. Explanation/Reference:

Topics

#Cloud Storage#BigQuery#multi-format data#high availability design

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