QUESTION NO: 2
Company Overview
JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of
goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company’s core values is excellent
customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their
carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.
Company Background
JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world’s leading
brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from
only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently,
JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth.
Solution Concept
JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a
technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for
migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and
is no longer supported.
Existing Technical Environment
JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe;
most applications are dual-homed.
JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises
architecture.
Application: Customer loyalty portal
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S.
data centers.
Database
Oracle Database stores user profiles
PostgreSQL database stores user credentials
Single-homed in US West
No redundancy
Backed up every 12 hours
100% uptime service level agreement (SLA)
Authenticates all users
Compute
30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has:
20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has:
Single, dual-core CPU
24 GB of RAM
Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1)
Storage
Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location
Tape backup every week
Business Requirements
Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods
Guarantee service availability and support
Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact
Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase
Expand services into Asia
Technical Requirements
Assess key application for cloud suitability
Modify applications for the cloud
Move applications to a new infrastructure
Leverage managed services wherever feasible
Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers
Decrease latency in Asia
CEO Statement
JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people
access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection
between online and in-store experiences. As a large, global company, we also have a
responsibility to the environment through “green” initiatives and policies.
CTO Statement
The challenges of operating data centers prevent focus on key technologies critical to our longterm success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on
big data and machine learning to improve our service to customers.
CFO Statement
Since its founding, JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However,
because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our longterm success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak
periods and reduce costs.
A few days after JencoMart migrates the user credentials database to Google Cloud Platform and
shuts down the old server, the new database server stops responding to SSH connections. It is
still serving database requests to the application servers correctly.
What three steps should you take to diagnose the problem? (Choose three.)
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