Correct Answer: External Tables (Federated Queries)
External tables allow you to query data directly from its source, avoiding the cost and time of ingestion....
Correct Answer
External Tables (Federated Queries)
Why This Answer Is Correct
External tables allow you to query data directly from its source, avoiding the cost and time of ingestion.
This question evaluates your knowledge of BigQuery — a core concept tested in Associate Cloud Engineer. Understanding BigQuery is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
You are analyzing petabytes of data for business intelligence reports. You need a fully managed, serverless enterprise data warehouse that supports SQL queries. Which service is best suited for this task?
Which Google Cloud service is a serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective multi-cloud data warehouse designed for business agility?
What does it mean that BigQuery has a 'Separated Storage and Compute' architecture?
Which BigQuery feature helps reduce query costs and improve performance by only scanning relevant data blocks based on a column like 'timestamp'?
What is 'BigQuery ML' used for?