PCD Integrating Google Cloud services Practice Question
A company is building a data processing pipeline that needs to ingest events from multiple sources, process them in order, and handle failures with retry. They also need to schedule periodic tasks. Which THREE services should they use? (Choose 3)
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Why each option matters
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Cloud Scheduler
Cloud Pub/Sub for ingesting events with ordering, Cloud Tasks for retry handling, and Cloud Scheduler for scheduling periodic tasks. Cloud Workflows is for orchestration, Cloud Logging is for logs.
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Cloud Scheduler
Why this is correct
Cloud Scheduler can trigger periodic tasks.
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Cloud Tasks
Why this is correct
Cloud Tasks provides retries and can handle failures.
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Cloud Workflows
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Workflows orchestrates but does not handle retries or scheduling natively.
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Cloud Pub/Sub
Why this is correct
Cloud Pub/Sub can ingest events with ordering guarantees.
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Cloud Logging
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Logging is for logs, not for pipeline processing.
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