ARC129

Overview

In a challenge lab you’re given a scenario and a set of tasks. Instead of following step-by-step instructions, you will use the skills learned from the labs in the course to figure out how to complete the tasks on your own! An automated scoring system (shown on this page) will provide feedback on whether you have completed your tasks correctly.

When you take a challenge lab, you will not be taught new Google Cloud concepts. You are expected to extend your learned skills, like changing default values and reading and researching error messages to fix your own mistakes.

To score 100% you must successfully complete all tasks within the time period!

Setup

Before you click the Start Lab button

Read these instructions. Labs are timed and you cannot pause them. The timer, which starts when you click Start Lab, shows how long Google Cloud resources are made available to you.

This hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.

To complete this lab, you need:

• Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).

• Time to complete the lab—remember, once you start, you cannot pause a lab.

Challenge scenario

Your team has been asked to create a new BigLake table. Content comes from Cloud Storage and contains sensitive information so it’s important to limit access.

Your challenge

As a junior engineer, you’re asked to help with the initial work on the project by completing the following tasks:

• Create a BigLake table from an existing file on Cloud Storage.
• Create, apply, and verify aspects to restrict access to columns containing sensitive data.
• Remove direct IAM permissions to Cloud Storage for other users (after aspects have been applied to protect the data).

Each task is described in detail below, good luck!

Task 1. Create a BigLake table using a Cloud Resource connection

1. Create a BigQuery dataset named online_shop that is multi-region in the United States.

2. Create a Cloud Resource connection named user_data_connection (multi-region in the United States) and use it to create a BigLake table named user_online_sessions in the online_shop dataset.

• Be sure to apply the appropriate service account permissions to read Cloud Storage files in your project.
• When creating the table, load data from the following Cloud Storage file using schema auto-detection:
  • gs://-bucket/user-online-sessions.csv

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Create a BigLake table using a Cloud Resource connection

Task 2. Create, apply, and verify an aspect on columns containing sensitive data

1. Create a multi-region aspect in the United States, named Sensitive Data Aspect with following field:
   • Boolean field named Has Sensitive Data.
2. Apply the aspect to the following columns in the user_online_sessions table:
   • zip
   • latitude
   • ip_address
   • longitude

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Apply and verify the aspect to columns containing sensitive data

Task 3. Remove IAM permissions to Cloud Storage for other users

• Follow Google best practices after migrating data to BigLake by removing IAM permissions for user 2 () to Cloud Storage.
  • Leave the IAM role for project viewer.
  • Remove only the IAM role for Cloud Storage.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Remove IAM permissions to Cloud Storage for other users

Congratulations!

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Manual Last Updated February 17, 2026

Lab Last Tested November 06, 2025

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