CASE STUDY: RetailMart
Overview:
Industry: Retail/E-commerce
Size: 2000 employees, $500M revenue
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QUESTION: The CTO requires the Oracle database to remain on-premises while the application moves to GCP. Which hybrid connectivity solution should you implement to ensure high throughput and low latency?
GCP PCA · Question 09 · Compute Systems
CASE STUDY: RetailMart
Overview:
Industry: Retail/E-commerce
Size: 2000 employees, $500M revenue
Environment:
Requirements:
Exec Statements:
Tech Reqs:
Constraints:
QUESTION: How should you design the asynchronous order processing system to ensure no orders are lost during Black Friday spikes?
Answer options:
Write orders directly to the on-premises Oracle database using synchronous REST APIs.
Publish orders to a Pub/Sub topic and use push subscriptions to trigger Cloud Run services.
Store orders in an in-memory Memorystore (Redis) cache and run a cron job to process them hourly.
Use Cloud Tasks to execute synchronous HTTP calls to the inventory service.
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