nerdexam
Google

ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER · Question #44

You are building an architecture for one of your client with a requirement of streaming millions of requests with high availability and durability along with HIPPA compliance. Which managed service wi

The correct answer is C. Cloud Pub/Sub. Cloud Pub/Sub is the preferred managed service for streaming millions of requests with high availability, durability, and HIPAA compliance, as it offers a robust, globally distributed messaging system.

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

Question

You are building an architecture for one of your client with a requirement of streaming millions of requests with high availability and durability along with HIPPA compliance. Which managed service will you prefer?

Options

  • ACloud Function
  • BCloud DataProc
  • CCloud Pub/Sub
  • DRabbitMQ

How the community answered

(28 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • C
    89% (25)
  • D
    7% (2)

Why each option

Cloud Pub/Sub is the preferred managed service for streaming millions of requests with high availability, durability, and HIPAA compliance, as it offers a robust, globally distributed messaging system.

ACloud Function

Cloud Functions is a serverless compute platform for executing event-driven code, not a messaging or streaming service, and while it can process Pub/Sub messages, it doesn't provide the core messaging infrastructure itself.

BCloud DataProc

Cloud DataProc is a managed service for running Apache Spark, Hadoop, and other open-source data processing tools, which is for batch or stream *processing* of data, not for the ingestion and buffering of streaming messages.

CCloud Pub/SubCorrect

Cloud Pub/Sub is a highly scalable, globally distributed, asynchronous messaging service designed for streaming millions of events reliably. It offers strong durability guarantees, built-in high availability, and supports HIPAA compliance, making it suitable for processing sensitive, high-volume data streams like those in a healthcare context.

DRabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker that would require self-management and scaling, which goes against the preference for a *managed* service and would complicate meeting high availability, durability, and compliance requirements without significant operational overhead.

Concept tested: GCP streaming data ingestion (HIPAA)

Source: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/overview

Topics

#Cloud Pub/Sub#streaming#HIPAA compliance#managed messaging

Community Discussion

No community discussion yet for this question.

Full ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Practice