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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #353

Your company is a global financial services provider that processes and analyzes a high volume of credit card transactions in real time for fraud detection. Your analytics team must run complex batch

The correct answer is B. Use Dataflow to process the streaming data. D. Use BigQuery for the batch analytics reports.. Dataflow provides a fully managed way to process high-volume transaction streams in real time with minimal infrastructure management. BigQuery is a serverless analytics warehouse that is optimized for complex batch queries and daily reporting, eliminating the need to manage datab

Submitted by certguy· Mar 30, 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

Question

Your company is a global financial services provider that processes and analyzes a high volume of credit card transactions in real time for fraud detection. Your analytics team must run complex batch queries on the same transaction data for daily reporting. You need to design a data processing solution that can handle both real-time and batch processing of the transaction data while minimizing operational overhead and infrastructure management. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse Dataprep to ingest the transactions.
  • BUse Dataflow to process the streaming data.
  • CUse a Dataproc cluster for both the streaming and batch workloads.
  • DUse BigQuery for the batch analytics reports.
  • EUse Firestore to store and analyze the transaction data.

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    7% (2)
  • B
    73% (22)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • E
    17% (5)

Explanation

Dataflow provides a fully managed way to process high-volume transaction streams in real time with minimal infrastructure management. BigQuery is a serverless analytics warehouse that is optimized for complex batch queries and daily reporting, eliminating the need to manage database or cluster infrastructure.

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#Dataflow#BigQuery#stream processing#batch analytics

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