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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #281

You are loading CSV files from Cloud Storage to BigQuery. The files have known data quality issues, including mismatched data types, such as STRINGs and INT64s in the same column, and inconsistent for

The correct answer is A. Use Data Fusion to transform the data before loading it into BigQuery.. Explanation/Reference: https://cloud.google.com/data-fusion/docs/concepts/transformation-pushdown#supported_transformations

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

Question

You are loading CSV files from Cloud Storage to BigQuery. The files have known data quality issues, including mismatched data types, such as STRINGs and INT64s in the same column, and inconsistent formatting of values such as phone numbers or addresses. You need to create the data pipeline to maintain data quality and perform the required cleansing and transformation. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse Data Fusion to transform the data before loading it into BigQuery.
  • BUse Data Fusion to convert the CSV files to a self-describing data format, such as AVRO, before loading the data to BigQuery.
  • CLoad the CSV files into a staging table with the desired schema, perform the transformations with SQL, and then write the results to the final destination table.
  • DCreate a table with the desired schema, load the CSV files into the table, and perform the transformations in place using SQL.

How the community answered

(66 responses)
  • A
    83% (55)
  • B
    9% (6)
  • C
    5% (3)
  • D
    3% (2)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: https://cloud.google.com/data-fusion/docs/concepts/transformation-pushdown#supported_transformations

Topics

#Data Fusion#ETL#data quality#BigQuery ingestion

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