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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #221
You have several Spark jobs that run on a Cloud Dataproc cluster on a schedule. Some of the jobs run in sequence, and some of the jobs run concurrently. You need to automate this process. What should
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Submitted by ngozi_ng· Mar 30, 2026Building and operationalizing data processing systems
Question
You have several Spark jobs that run on a Cloud Dataproc cluster on a schedule. Some of the jobs run in sequence, and some of the jobs run concurrently. You need to automate this process. What should you do?
Options
- ACreate an API using App Engine to receive and send messages to the applications
- BUse a Cloud Pub/Sub topic to publish jobs, and use subscriptions to execute them
- CCreate a table on Cloud SQL, and insert and delete rows with the job information
- DCreate a table on Cloud Spanner, and insert and delete rows with the job information
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#Cloud Pub/Sub#Cloud Dataproc#job orchestration#workflow automation