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 10 · Reliability
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:
To handle the Black Friday seasonal spikes for the initially migrated Compute Engine workloads, which TWO actions should you take? (Select TWO)
Answer options:
Place the Compute Engine instances in Managed Instance Groups (MIGs).
Place the Compute Engine instances in Unmanaged Instance Groups.
Configure autoscaling based on CPU utilization and HTTP load balancing capacity.
Manually provision 100 extra VMs the day before Black Friday and delete them a week later.
Use Preemptible VMs for the web tier to ensure maximum availability during the spike.
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