Why D is the answer

Managed Service for Apache Airflow

Managed Service for Apache Airflow, formerly Cloud Composer, runs Apache Airflow DAGs. Workflows is a lighter alternative.

In detail

• Managed Service for Apache Airflow schedules DAGs.
• Workflows is a lighter option.

See it in different ways

flowchart LR
  A["Extract"] --> B["Transform"]
  A --> C["Validate"]
  B --> D["Load"]
  C --> D

sequenceDiagram
  participant C as Managed Service for Apache Airflow
  participant J as Dataproc job
  participant L as Cloud Logging
  participant O as Operator
  C->>J: Start the step
  J--xC: Fails
  C->>J: Retry
  J->>L: Logs
  C-->>O: Alert if retries run out

flowchart LR
  S0["Define DAG"] --> S1["Schedule"] --> S2["Run tasks"] --> S3["Monitor"]

Why the other options are wrong

A. Cloud DLP

Cloud DLP protects data.

B. BigLake

BigLake is for analytics.

C. Memorystore

Memorystore is a cache.

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Learn more

• Our lesson: Ingest and process
• Dataflow streaming pipelines
• Managed Service for Apache Airflow overview