PDE Reliability, policies, and processes

Two designs were proposed. Design A would monitor pipeline SLAs. Design B would govern data lakes. The team must pick the approach aligned with vendor best practices. Which choice is correct?

Multiple choice — select one answer

Answer choices

  1. a. Annual check (not recommended for production workloads)
  2. b. Cloud Monitoring dashboards and alerts
  3. c. No metrics (not recommended for production workloads)
  4. d. Dataplex

Architectural breakdown & explanation

Monitoring validates pipeline health. Compare with Dataplex: Dataplex manages metadata and quality.

Correct answer(s): b. Cloud Monitoring dashboards and alerts

Exam domain: Reliability, policies, and processes (20% weight on the official guide).

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