GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 6

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?

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?

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: Which database architecture should you recommend to replace the 5TB MySQL database while meeting the <4-hour downtime constraint?

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 real-time analytics pipeline for player behavior?

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: To meet the CFO's requirement of reducing costs by 40%, which pricing strategy should you apply to the baseline, predictable compute workloads?