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Your organization's call center has asked you to develop a model that analyzes customer sentiments in each call. The call center receives over one million calls daily, and data is stored in Cloud Stor

The correct answer is A. 1 = Dataflow, 2 = BigQuery. This pipeline has three hard requirements: regional data residency, PII removal before storage/analysis, and a SQL ANSI-2011 interface for the visualization tool. For component 1 (data processing), Dataflow is the correct choice because it supports both streaming and batch at mas

Submitted by tom_us· Apr 18, 2026Data processing and feature engineering

Question

Your organization's call center has asked you to develop a model that analyzes customer sentiments in each call. The call center receives over one million calls daily, and data is stored in Cloud Storage. The data collected must not leave the region in which the call originated, and no Personally Identifiable Information (PII) can be stored or analyzed. The data science team has a third-party tool for visualization and access which requires a SQL ANSI-2011 compliant interface. You need to select components for data processing and for analytics. How should the data pipeline be designed?

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Options

  • A1 = Dataflow, 2 = BigQuery
  • B1 = Pub/Sub, 2 = Datastore
  • C1 = Dataflow, 2 = Cloud SQL
  • D1 = Cloud Function, 2 = Cloud SQL

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    67% (16)
  • B
    8% (2)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    21% (5)

Explanation

This pipeline has three hard requirements: regional data residency, PII removal before storage/analysis, and a SQL ANSI-2011 interface for the visualization tool. For component 1 (data processing), Dataflow is the correct choice because it supports both streaming and batch at massive scale (1M+ calls/day), can be configured to stay within a region, and integrates natively with Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to redact or remove PII before data reaches storage. For component 2 (analytics), BigQuery is correct because it is ANSI SQL–compliant, supports dataset-level regional pinning (ensuring data does not leave the originating region), and scales to the query volumes required. Pub/Sub is a messaging layer, not a processor. Datastore is NoSQL and not SQL ANSI-2011 compliant. Cloud SQL supports SQL but does not scale cost-effectively to this volume or support the native DLP and ML integrations needed.

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#Data pipeline design#Big Data processing#Data warehousing#Data privacy

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