GCP-CLOUD-ARCHITECT practice question 8 of 10

You are planning to migrate your on-premises compute and SAP workloads to Google Cloud. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to quickly create a cost estimate for running these workloads in Google Cloud. What should you do?

Domain Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

Answer options

A: Leverage Cloud Asset Inventory to gather data and generate a cost estimate.

B: Engage with a Google Cloud partner to perform a comprehensive assessment and provide a customized cost estimate.

C: Use the Google Cloud pricing calculator, and input the estimated resource to generate a cost estimate

D: Gather data about your current environment, and leverage Google Cloud Migration Center to generate a cost estimate Correct answer

Correct Answer:

D. Gather data about your current environment, and leverage Google Cloud Migration Center to generate a cost estimate

Explanation

Google Cloud Migration Center is the purpose-built, recommended tool for this scenario. It is designed to accelerate the migration planning phase by discovering on-premises assets (including compute and SAP workloads), assessing their configuration and utilization, and generating a detailed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) report. This report provides a comprehensive cost estimate for running those specific workloads on Google Cloud, incorporating right-sizing recommendations. This aligns perfectly with the need to quickly create a cost estimate based on the current environment using a Google-recommended practice.

Why Incorrect

A. Cloud Asset Inventory is used to discover and analyze resources that are already running in Google Cloud, not on-premises.
B. Engaging a partner is a valid but typically more time-consuming and in-depth process than what is needed for a quick initial estimate.
C. The pricing calculator requires manual data entry of estimated resources; it does not gather data from the current environment to inform the estimate.

References

1. Google Cloud Migration Center Documentation, "Migration Center overview." The documentation states, "Migration Center is a unified migration platform that helps you accelerate your end-to-end cloud journey... It allows you to discover your on-premises infrastructure, perform automated assessments... and calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO)."

2. Google Cloud Blog, "Accelerate your cloud migration with the new Google Cloud Migration Center," (2022). This article introduces Migration Center as the primary starting point for planning a migration and understanding costs.

3. Google Cloud Solutions, "SAP on Google Cloud," Section: "Plan and assess." This section recommends using assessment tools like Migration Center to plan the migration of SAP workloads and estimate costs.

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