PCCP - Professional Cloud Certified Professional case studies
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The Professional Cloud Certified Professional (PCCP) is a vendor-style professional credential for cloud architects and senior engineers who design, provision, secure, and operate workloads on Google Cloud. It targets practitioners with hands-on delivery experience rather than candidates who have only studied theory: you are expected to reason about trade-offs between cost, availability, security, and operational effort, and to choose an architecture that satisfies stated business constraints. The PCCP case studies are 5 cases and about 4,601 words.
1Retail Order System: Lift-and-Shift Versus Container Platform
Northwind Outfitters runs a Java/Spring order-management monolith on 12 Compute Engine VMs and an 8 TB Oracle 11g database. The system serves 450 stores and peaks at 12,000 orders per hour; Black Friday is expected to be five times normal.
970 words, about 5 min2Provisioning at Scale: Terraform Operating Model for 40 Projects
Helios Logistics has 40 Google Cloud projects in 3 folders, 1,200 Compute Engine VMs, 300 Cloud Run services, and 6 product teams. Only two teams use Terraform; the rest provision through the console and scripts.
909 words, about 5 min3HIPAA Analytics: Least Privilege and PHI Exfiltration Controls
CarePath Health runs a HIPAA-regulated analytics platform for 200 analysts across 14 Google Cloud projects. PHI resides in BigQuery and Cloud Storage in us-central1.
954 words, about 5 min4Dataproc and BigQuery Cost Reduction Under a Hard SLA
TerraMetrics runs a nightly geospatial ETL pipeline from 22:00 to 04:00. It uses a fixed Dataproc cluster of 4,000 vCPUs and processes 2 PB of imagery in Cloud Storage; monthly Dataproc spend is about 180,000 and BigQuery on-demand queries add 60,000.
886 words, about 4 min5Streaming API Reliability: Active-Active Ambition Versus Practical SLOs
Streamline Media operates a video streaming API on a regional GKE cluster in us-central1. It serves 8 million monthly users and peaks at 40,000 requests per second across three services.
882 words, about 4 min