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Subtask 4.1: Technical ProcessesCI/CDCloud BuildArtifact Registry
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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?

GCP PCA · Question 09 · Technical Processes

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:
For the post-migration modernization phase, the CTO wants to implement CI/CD for new microservices. Which GCP services should you recommend?

Answer options:

A.

Cloud Deployment Manager, Compute Engine, and Cloud Storage.

B.

Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Build, and Artifact Registry.

C.

Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.

D.

Cloud Functions, Cloud Scheduler, and Cloud Monitoring.

How to approach this question

Identify the native GCP services used for source control, building, and artifact storage.

Full Answer

B.Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Build, and Artifact Registry.✓ Correct
Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Build, and Artifact Registry.
Cloud Build is GCP's serverless CI/CD platform that executes builds. Artifact Registry is the evolution of Container Registry, used to securely store and manage container images and language packages. Cloud Source Repositories hosts the Git code.

Common mistakes

Confusing Infrastructure as Code tools (Deployment Manager/Terraform) with application CI/CD tools.

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