Which service helps manage discovery and governance across a data lake?
Why B is the answer
Dataplex
Dataplex manages discovery and governance across a data lake. Google now documents it as Knowledge Catalog.
In detail
- Dataplex manages discovery and governance across a lake.
- Google now documents it as Knowledge Catalog.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A company manages discovery and governance across its data lake with Dataplex.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Cloud Storage"] --> C["Dataplex"] B["BigQuery"] --> C C --> D["Discovery and quality"] C --> E["Federated governance"]
mindmap
root((Governance))
Location
Regional storage
Organization policies
Protection
Cloud DLP
Data masking
Separation
Project per environment
Ownership
Federated governancemindmap
root(("Dataplex"))
n1["Discovery"]
n2["Find data"]
n3["Governance"]
n4["Manage rules"]Key point: Dataplex covers discovery and governance.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. BigQuery ML
- BigQuery ML trains models.
- C. Cloud DLP alone
- Cloud DLP protects sensitive data, and does not manage a lake.
- D. Datastream
- Datastream replicates data.