Q: CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming Overview: Gaming company, 500 employees, $100M revenue. 200 on-prem servers (US/EU), MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $150K/mo cost. Business Req: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deployments. Execs: CEO wants scale; CFO caps budget at $100K/mo; CTO needs 99.95% uptime, notes team has limited cloud skills. Tech Req: <100ms global latency, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection. Constraints: 12-month migration, max 4-hour downtime. QUESTION: Which migration strategy should you recommend for the legacy gaming application to meet the 12-month timeline and team skill constraints?

Analyze the constraints: 12 months and limited cloud skills. Choose the strategy with the lowest barrier to entry.

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

Choosing Refactor (A) because it's the 'best' cloud-native approach, ignoring the business constraints of time and skills.

Question 1

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview: Gaming company, 500 employees, $100M revenue. 200 on-prem servers (US/EU), MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $150K/mo cost.
Business Req: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deployments.
Execs: CEO wants scale; CFO caps budget at $100K/mo; CTO needs 99.95% uptime, notes team has limited cloud skills.
Tech Req: <100ms global latency, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection.
Constraints: 12-month migration, max 4-hour downtime.

QUESTION:
Which migration strategy should you recommend for the legacy gaming application to meet the 12-month timeline and team skill constraints?

Accepted Answer

Analyze the constraints: 12 months and limited cloud skills. Choose the strategy with the lowest barrier to entry.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Refactor (A) because it's the 'best' cloud-native approach, ignoring the business constraints of time and skills.

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