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You are building a data lake on Google Cloud for your Internet of Things (IoT) application. The IoT application has millions of sensors that are constantly streaming structured and unstructured data t

The correct answer is A. Stream data to Pub/Sub, and use Dataflow to send data to Cloud Storage.. https://cloud.google.com/architecture/optimized-large-scale-analytics-ingestion

Submitted by tom_us· Mar 30, 2026Planning and configuring a cloud solution

Question

You are building a data lake on Google Cloud for your Internet of Things (IoT) application. The IoT application has millions of sensors that are constantly streaming structured and unstructured data to your backend in the cloud. You want to build a highly available and resilient architecture based on Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options

  • AStream data to Pub/Sub, and use Dataflow to send data to Cloud Storage.
  • BStream data to Pub/Sub, and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.
  • CStream data to Dataflow, and use Dataprep by Trifacta to send data to Bigtable.
  • DStream data to Dataflow, and use Storage Transfer Service to send data to BigQuery.

How the community answered

(65 responses)
  • A
    58% (38)
  • B
    12% (8)
  • C
    5% (3)
  • D
    25% (16)

Explanation

https://cloud.google.com/architecture/optimized-large-scale-analytics-ingestion

Topics

#Pub/Sub#Dataflow#Cloud Storage#IoT data lake

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