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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 6Question 20
    Easy1 markMultiple Choice
    Subtask 5.1: Advise development and operation teamsMachine LearningVertex AIEdge Computing
    This question is part of a case study — click to read the full scenario(Case 16)

    CASE STUDY: ManuIoT

    Overview:
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Size: 100 factories globally

    Environment:

    • 100,000 sensors
    • Local SCADA
    • Fragmented SQL Server DBs
    • No central analytics

    Requirements:

    • Predictive maintenance
    • Real-time global dashboards
    • Edge computing

    Exec Statements:

    • CEO: Monetize telemetry.
    • CFO: Costs must scale linearly.
    • VP Ops: Factory lines need local control if internet drops.

    Tech Reqs:

    • Ingest 1M msgs/sec
    • Stream processing
    • Offline factory capabilities
    • Train ML centrally, deploy to edge

    Constraints:

    • Low bandwidth/high latency at factories
    • Legacy MQTT protocol
    • Zero IT staff at factories

    QUESTION: How should you architect the ingestion layer to handle 1 million MQTT messages per second from the legacy sensors?

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    GCP PCA · Question 20 · Advise development and operation teams

    CASE STUDY: ManuIoT

    Overview:
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Size: 100 factories globally

    Environment:

    • 100,000 sensors
    • Local SCADA
    • Fragmented SQL Server DBs
    • No central analytics

    Requirements:

    • Predictive maintenance
    • Real-time global dashboards
    • Edge computing

    Exec Statements:

    • CEO: Monetize telemetry.
    • CFO: Costs must scale linearly.
    • VP Ops: Factory lines need local control if internet drops.

    Tech Reqs:

    • Ingest 1M msgs/sec
    • Stream processing
    • Offline factory capabilities
    • Train ML centrally, deploy to edge

    Constraints:

    • Low bandwidth/high latency at factories
    • Legacy MQTT protocol
    • Zero IT staff at factories

    QUESTION: To meet the requirement of training ML models centrally and deploying them to the edge, which GCP AI service should you utilize?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Vertex AI

    B.

    Cloud Vision API

    C.

    Dialogflow

    D.

    AutoML Tables

    How to approach this question

    Identify GCP's unified machine learning platform.

    Full Answer

    A.Vertex AI✓ Correct
    Vertex AI
    Vertex AI is Google Cloud's unified machine learning platform. It allows data scientists to train custom predictive maintenance models using cloud compute, and then export those models (e.g., as TensorFlow Lite or Docker containers) to be deployed on edge devices or Anthos clusters in the factories.

    Common mistakes

    Selecting pre-trained APIs (B, C) instead of a custom model training platform.
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