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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #172

In order to speed up the transmission, TerramEarth deployed 5g devices in their vehicles with the goal of achieving an unplanned vehicle downtime to a minimum. But a set of older vehicles will be…

The correct answer is A. Cloud Composer. Cloud Composer (managed Apache Airflow) is the simplest GCP tool for orchestrating hybrid workflows that combine legacy maintenance-port data downloads with new 5G streaming pipelines.

Submitted by kavita_s· Mar 30, 2026Managing implementation

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In order to speed up the transmission, TerramEarth deployed 5g devices in their vehicles with the goal of achieving an unplanned vehicle downtime to a minimum. But a set of older vehicles will be still using the old technology for a while. So, on these vehicles, data is stored locally and can be accessed for analysis only when a vehicle is serviced. In this case, data is downloaded via a maintenance port. You need to integrate this old procedure with the new one, building a workflow, in the simplest way. Which of the following tools would you choose?

Options

  • ACloud Composer
  • BCloud Interconnect
  • CAppengine
  • DCloud Build

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    87% (40)
  • B
    7% (3)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    4% (2)

Why each option

Cloud Composer (managed Apache Airflow) is the simplest GCP tool for orchestrating hybrid workflows that combine legacy maintenance-port data downloads with new 5G streaming pipelines.

ACloud ComposerCorrect

Cloud Composer is GCP's managed Apache Airflow service, purpose-built for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring complex data workflows; it can orchestrate the download of locally-stored vehicle data via the maintenance port as one DAG task and seamlessly integrate it with the real-time 5G data pipeline in a single unified workflow with minimal custom infrastructure.

BCloud Interconnect

Cloud Interconnect provides dedicated network connectivity between on-premises and GCP, but does not orchestrate or manage data workflow logic.

CAppengine

App Engine is a platform for hosting web applications and APIs, not a workflow orchestration tool for integrating heterogeneous data pipelines.

DCloud Build

Cloud Build is a CI/CD pipeline service for building and deploying software, not a data workflow orchestration tool.

Concept tested: Cloud Composer workflow orchestration for hybrid data pipelines

Source: https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/concepts/overview

Topics

#Cloud Composer#workflow orchestration#legacy integration#data pipeline

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