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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2Question 04
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business ProcessesAnalyticsBigQueryDataflow
    This question is part of a case study — click to read the full scenario(Case 01)

    CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cost. Req: Cut cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deploys. CEO: Scale fast. CFO: <$100K/mo, 18mo ROI. CTO: Low cloud skills, 99.95% uptime. Tech: <100ms latency, real-time analytics, 5x spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD. Constraints: 12mo migration, 4hr downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (no cloud), $2M budget.

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

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    GCP PCA · Question 04 · Domain 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes

    CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming. 500 emp, $100M rev. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $100K/mo cost. Req: Cut cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deploys. CEO: Scale fast. CFO: <$100K/mo, 18mo ROI. CTO: Low cloud skills, 99.95% uptime. Tech: <100ms latency, real-time analytics, 5x spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD. Constraints: 12mo migration, 4hr downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (no cloud), $2M budget.

    Design the real-time analytics pipeline for player behavior.

    Answer options:

    A.

    Cloud Storage -> Dataproc -> Cloud SQL

    B.

    Pub/Sub -> Dataflow -> BigQuery

    C.

    Cloud IoT Core -> Data Fusion -> Bigtable

    D.

    Cloud Logging -> Log Router -> Cloud Storage

    How to approach this question

    Identify the standard GCP streaming analytics architecture.

    Full Answer

    B.Pub/Sub -> Dataflow -> BigQuery✓ Correct
    Pub/Sub ingests streaming data, Dataflow processes it in real-time, and BigQuery stores it for analytics.

    Common mistakes

    Selecting batch processing tools for real-time requirements.
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