Question

A retail company collects sales transactions from all its stores throughout the day. Every night at 2 AM, a job runs to consolidate the entire day's transactions, calculate daily totals, and load the results into a data warehouse for reporting. Which characteristic best identifies this as a batch processing workload?

Accepted Answer

A large collection of data is gathered over time and processed together on a schedule

Answer

Data is processed continuously as each individual transaction arrives

Answer

Results must be available within milliseconds of each event occurring

Answer

Each event triggers an immediate downstream action with no delay