Evaluate the 7 R's of migration against the specific constraints: 12-month timeline, limited cloud experience, and need for rapid scaling.

Choosing Refactor (A) because it represents the 'ideal' cloud-native state, ignoring the business constraints of team skills and timeline.

Question 1

CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming

Overview:
Industry: Gaming
Size: 500 employees, $100M revenue

Environment:
- On-prem US/EU
- 200 servers
- MySQL (5 TB)
- 2M peak users
- $100K/mo cost

Requirements:
- Reduce costs 40%
- 5x growth
- Launch APAC/SA/Africa
- Daily deployments

Exec Statements:
- CEO: Scale rapidly.
- CFO: Max $100K/mo, 18mo ROI.
- CTO: Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.

Tech Reqs:
- <100ms latency globally
- Real-time analytics
- 5x seasonal spikes
- EU data residency
- DDoS protection
- CI/CD

Constraints:
- 12mo migration
- <4hr downtime
- 20 Java/MySQL devs, 5 ops
- $2M budget

QUESTION: Based on the constraints and requirements, which migration strategy should you recommend for the core gaming application?

Accepted Answer

Evaluate the 7 R's of migration against the specific constraints: 12-month timeline, limited cloud experience, and need for rapid scaling.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Refactor (A) because it represents the 'ideal' cloud-native state, ignoring the business constraints of team skills and timeline.

How to approach this question

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