Q: **CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming** **Company Overview:** TechStream Gaming is a global gaming company with 500 employees and $50M annual revenue. **Current Environment:** On-premises data centers in US and EU. 200 servers. MySQL databases (5 TB). Peak users: 2M. Cost: $100K/mo. **Business Requirements:** Reduce costs by 40%. Support 5x user growth. Launch in APAC, SA, Africa. Improve deployment to daily. **Executive Statements:** CEO: 'Scale rapidly.' CFO: 'Max $100K/mo, ROI 18mo.' CTO: 'Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.' **Technical Requirements:** <100ms latency globally. Real-time analytics. 5x traffic spikes. EU data residency. DDoS protection. CI/CD. **Constraints:** 12-month migration. Max 4-hour downtime. 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud). Budget $2M. **QUESTION:** Which migration strategy and compute architecture should you recommend for the game servers to meet the business and technical requirements while addressing the CTO's constraints?

Analyze the constraints: limited cloud ops experience, need for rapid scaling, daily deployments, and 12-month timeline. Replatforming to managed containers balances modernization with timeline.

Q: What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

Choosing lift-and-shift because of the timeline constraint, ignoring the scaling and deployment requirements.

Question 1

**CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming**

**Company Overview:** TechStream Gaming is a global gaming company with 500 employees and $50M annual revenue.
**Current Environment:** On-premises data centers in US and EU. 200 servers. MySQL databases (5 TB). Peak users: 2M. Cost: $100K/mo.
**Business Requirements:** Reduce costs by 40%. Support 5x user growth. Launch in APAC, SA, Africa. Improve deployment to daily.
**Executive Statements:** CEO: 'Scale rapidly.' CFO: 'Max $100K/mo, ROI 18mo.' CTO: 'Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.'
**Technical Requirements:** <100ms latency globally. Real-time analytics. 5x traffic spikes. EU data residency. DDoS protection. CI/CD.
**Constraints:** 12-month migration. Max 4-hour downtime. 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud). Budget $2M.

**QUESTION:**
Which migration strategy and compute architecture should you recommend for the game servers to meet the business and technical requirements while addressing the CTO's constraints?

Accepted Answer

Analyze the constraints: limited cloud ops experience, need for rapid scaling, daily deployments, and 12-month timeline. Replatforming to managed containers balances modernization with timeline.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing lift-and-shift because of the timeline constraint, ignoring the scaling and deployment requirements.

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