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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #195

You operate a logistics company, and you want to improve event delivery reliability for vehicle-based sensors. You operate small data centers around the world to capture these events, but leased lines

The correct answer is B. Have the data acquisition devices publish data to Cloud Pub/Sub.. Explanation/Reference: Pubsub is global service with high message delivery capacity.

Submitted by miguelv· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems

Question

You operate a logistics company, and you want to improve event delivery reliability for vehicle-based sensors. You operate small data centers around the world to capture these events, but leased lines that provide connectivity from your event collection infrastructure to your event processing infrastructure are unreliable, with unpredictable latency. You want to address this issue in the most cost-effective way. What should you do?

Options

  • ADeploy small Kafka clusters in your data centers to buffer events.
  • BHave the data acquisition devices publish data to Cloud Pub/Sub.
  • CEstablish a Cloud Interconnect between all remote data centers and Google.
  • DWrite a Cloud Dataflow pipeline that aggregates all data in session windows.

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  • A
    10% (4)
  • B
    80% (33)
  • C
    7% (3)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Pubsub is global service with high message delivery capacity.

Topics

#Cloud Pub/Sub#event ingestion#reliability#cost optimization

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