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Which Dataproc feature should a Data Engineer use to run a Spark job ONLY when work exists — paying nothing when idle (PDE §5.1 persistent vs job-based clusters)?

ALong-lived 'always on' cluster with no autoscaling
BCloud DNS
CCloud Memorystore
DDataproc Serverless (or ephemeral / job-scoped clusters created per job)
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Dataproc Serverless (or ephemeral / job-scoped clusters created per job)
Dataproc Serverless + ephemeral clusters are the job-based pattern (per PDE §5.1). The others run idle capacity.
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