Objective 1.4
PCACreating a migration plan
Objective 1.4 sits in Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture, which carries 25% of the Cloud Architect exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A team has to clear an expiring data center lease in the shortest elapsed time and accepts that the workloads will not use cloud features at first. Which migration type matches that plan?
Correct.
Concept
Migration types trade elapsed time against how much of the destination you get to use, and a deadline set by something outside the project usually decides which end of that trade you take.
Why B
Rehost migrations keep refactoring to a minimum and tend to be the quickest, but the migrated workloads are not optimized for the cloud and miss features such as horizontal scalability and fine-grained pricing.
Source
Migrate to Google Cloud: Get started, checked August 2026Because you migrate existing workloads with minimal refactoring, rehost migrations tend to be the quickest, compared to refactor or rebuild migrations. However, after a rehost migration, the workloads that are running in the target environment aren't optimized for the cloud. These workloads don't take full advantage of cloud platform features, such as horizontal scalability, fine-grained pricing, and highly managed services.
Now you: objective 1.4 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
An engineer finds a workload whose build process cannot produce new artifacts after a source change, and the business will not decommission it. What does that combination force?
Sample question 2 of 3
An organization wants elastic computing and redundancy out of its move and accepts several rounds of testing against a changed underlying platform, such as containers on GKE. Which migration type is that?
Sample question 3 of 3
A team plans to take one large monolithic workload and turn it into several independent microservices deployed on Google Cloud. Which migration type does that describe?
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