Following are the most important topics in bigquery. This is also important topics in a perspective of GCP Profession Data Engineer exam.

  • BigQuery basic concepts
    • wildcard tables
    • _table_suffix
    • External Table vs Internal Table
    • partition and clustering:-https://youtu.be/wapi0aR4BZE?si=iwkrC9fUY2ConUgB
    • shad tables
  • Bigquery optimization
  • Anonymous Dataset – what is the Anonymous dataset in big query
  • Time travel
  • federated queries
  • View vs Materialized view vs Authorized view
  • Bigquery Slots
  • BigQuery Omni.
  • BIgQuery Data Transfer Service
  • Dry run
  • Bigquery file format support
    • CSV (if the data is in a json or scv format, bigquery can auto detect schema, but manual verification is recommended)
    • JSON
    • AVRO (If your data is in avro format, which is self describing, bigQuery can determine the schema directly)
    • DATASTORE_BACKUP
    • PARAQUET
    • ORC
  • BigQuery Iam Roles and permission(100 perecent 1 question form this)


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