GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

The migration plan should start with a discovery and assessment phase. Migration Center provides automated inventory collection and dependency mapping that can be embedded in architecture diagrams and wave definitions. For phase 1, Migrate to Virtual Machines (formerly Migrate for Compute Engine) live-streams disk changes from the on-premises VMware environment to Compute Engine, allowing a fast cutover with only a short pause to update DNS. For phase 2, Database Migration Service supports continuous, low-latency replication from an on-premises MySQL 5.7 source to Cloud SQL, enabling a final cut-over well within a 15-minute outage window. The alternative approaches either introduce lengthy offline transfers, rely on manual image handling, or change the target architecture entirely, all of which violate the downtime or scope requirements.