Identify the GCP networking services that map to 'global latency', 'DDoS protection', and 'scaling'.

Selecting DNS routing (C), which is a valid AWS pattern (Route53) but less optimal in GCP compared to the Global Load Balancer's anycast IP.

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: How should you design the global network architecture to meet the latency, scaling, and security requirements?

Accepted Answer

Identify the GCP networking services that map to 'global latency', 'DDoS protection', and 'scaling'.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

Accepted Answer

Selecting DNS routing (C), which is a valid AWS pattern (Route53) but less optimal in GCP compared to the Global Load Balancer's anycast IP.

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