Question 1

**CASE STUDY: Dress4Win**

**Company Overview:** Dress4Win is a web-based retail company that helps users organize their wardrobes.
**Current Environment:** Colocated data center. Tomcat app servers, Nginx web servers, MySQL databases, Redis caching. 100TB of image data on SAN.
**Business Requirements:** Migrate to cloud to handle seasonal spikes (Black Friday). Reduce CapEx. Enable rapid prototyping.
**Executive Statements:** CEO: 'Innovate faster, stop worrying about servers.' CFO: 'Move to OpEx. Ensure PCI-DSS compliance.' CTO: 'Modernize stack but migrate quickly first.'
**Technical Requirements:** Secure hybrid connectivity during migration. PCI-DSS compliance. Automated scaling. CI/CD for microservices.
**Constraints:** Migration must be completed before Q4 holiday season (6 months). Limited budget for refactoring during initial migration.

**QUESTION:**
Given the CTO's statement and the 6-month constraint, which migration strategy should you recommend for the initial phase?

Accepted Answer

Match the migration strategy (7 R's) to the constraints: strict timeline (6 months) and limited refactoring budget.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Refactor because it's the 'best' cloud-native approach, ignoring the strict business constraints.

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