Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer — Question 78

You need to design an architecture that serves asynchronous predictions to determine whether a particular mission-critical machine part will fail. Your system collects data from multiple sensors from the machine. You want to build a model that will predict a failure in the next N minutes, given the average of each sensor’s data from the past 12 hours. How should you design the architecture?

Answer options

• A. 1. HTTP requests are sent by the sensors to your ML model, which is deployed as a microservice and exposes a REST API for prediction 2. Your application queries a Vertex AI endpoint where you deployed your model. 3. Responses are received by the caller application as soon as the model produces the prediction.
• B. 1. Events are sent by the sensors to Pub/Sub, consumed in real time, and processed by a Dataflow stream processing pipeline. 2. The pipeline invokes the model for prediction and sends the predictions to another Pub/Sub topic. 3. Pub/Sub messages containing predictions are then consumed by a downstream system for monitoring.
• C. 1. Export your data to Cloud Storage using Dataflow. 2. Submit a Vertex AI batch prediction job that uses your trained model in Cloud Storage to perform scoring on the preprocessed data. 3. Export the batch prediction job outputs from Cloud Storage and import them into Cloud SQL.
• D. 1. Export the data to Cloud Storage using the BigQuery command-line tool 2. Submit a Vertex AI batch prediction job that uses your trained model in Cloud Storage to perform scoring on the preprocessed data. 3. Export the batch prediction job outputs from Cloud Storage and import them into BigQuery.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is correct because it allows for real-time processing of sensor events, enabling timely predictions and subsequent actions. The other options involve batch processing, which is not suitable for immediate predictions required for monitoring machine failures, as they introduce delays in receiving results.