Objective 2.3

CDL

Discuss how smart analytics, business intelligence tools, and streaming analytics can add value in different business use cases.

Objective 2.3 sits in Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud, which carries 18% of the Cloud Digital Leader exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.

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A worked example

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A team wants the producers of events to stop waiting on the services that process them. What does Pub/Sub provide?

Asynchronous messaging that decouples the twoCorrect · your answerCorrect. Publishers broadcast without waiting for anyone.
A shared relational store for event recordsA shared database recouples both sides to a schema.
A scheduled batch export between servicesBatch export loses the real-time property entirely.
A synchronous remote procedure call frameworkAn RPC makes the caller wait for the callee.

Correct.

Concept

Coupling in time is a separate problem from coupling in interface. Removing the wait lets each side fail, scale and deploy without the other noticing.

Why A

Pub/Sub is an asynchronous and scalable messaging service that separates services producing messages from services processing them, with latency typically near 100 milliseconds.

Source

Pub/Sub is an asynchronous and scalable messaging service that decouples services producing messages from services processing those messages. Pub/Sub allows services to communicate asynchronously, with latencies typically on the order of 100 milliseconds.

Google Cloud: What is Pub/Sub?, checked August 2026
#gcp#pubsub#asynchronous#decoupling

Now you: objective 2.3 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

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A team comparing Pub/Sub with a partition-based messaging system asks how the two differ on concurrency. What does Pub/Sub do?

Sample question 2 of 3

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A company wants to send messages between a mobile app and a backend service. What does Google Cloud point to in place of Pub/Sub?

Sample question 3 of 3

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A team runs instances of a service in several zones, all subscribing to one common topic. What happens when the service fails in one of those zones?

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