Cloud Modernization and Migration CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16application · medium

   A manufacturing company runs its production planning system on a legacy mainframe. The system is critical but the mainframe is expensive to maintain and difficult to scale. The company wants to move to Google Cloud to reduce costs and gain flexibility. Which infrastructure modernization benefit is most directly achieved by migrating this workload?

   • AGuaranteeing zero downtime during the migration
   • BReducing capital expenditure on hardware and enabling elastic scaling
   • CAutomatically rewriting the application to a modern architecture
   • DEliminating the need for any ongoing operational management
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2. 17foundation · easy

   What is a benefit of application modernization using Google Cloud?

   • AIt requires rewriting all applications in a new programming language.
   • BIt allows applications to take advantage of fully managed services, reducing the need to manage underlying infrastructure.
   • CIt guarantees that applications will have zero downtime during the modernization process.
   • DIt forces all applications to be moved to a serverless architecture.
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4. 18application · easy

   A government agency has an on-premises legacy system that is no longer used by any department. The agency wants to reduce its data center footprint and eliminate maintenance costs. Which cloud migration term best describes the action they should take?

   • AReplatform
   • BRefactor
   • CRehost
   • DRetire
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5. 19application · medium

   A company has a legacy application that is running on an old version of a database. The application is stable, but the company wants to move to Google Cloud and take advantage of a managed database service without rewriting the application. Which migration term best describes this approach?

   • ARefactor
   • BReimagine
   • CReplatform
   • DRehost
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6. 20expert · hard

   A large enterprise has a monolithic customer-facing application that is critical to business operations. The application is currently running on a single on-premises server with a monolithic database. The enterprise wants to improve resilience and scalability, but the application cannot tolerate any downtime during the migration. Which approach should they take?

   • ARetire the application and replace it with a SaaS product immediately
   • BRefactor the application into microservices and migrate it to Google Kubernetes Engine in one release
   • CRehost the application to Compute Engine first, then gradually refactor it into microservices
   • DReplatform the application to Cloud Run without any code changes
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