GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

Your company has adopted a formal change-management program for its upcoming enterprise migration to Google Cloud. As the lead cloud architect, you must define a process that ensures new networking configurations, IAM policy updates, and application version releases can move safely from sandbox projects to production without disruptive incidents. According to Google Cloud's change-management methodology, which sequence best aligns your activities with the recommended phases and their primary goals?

Initiate proposal → Build minimum viable product → Scale globally → Decommission on-premises
Assess current state and risks → Plan future state and communication → Deploy changes through staged environments → Optimize based on post-implementation feedback
Discover assets → Design solution → Migrate workloads → Operate and monitor
Plan architecture and timelines → Assess production impact → Deploy directly to all projects → Govern and retire legacy systems

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Answer Description

Google Cloud frames change management as an iterative loop of four phases:

Assess - gather baseline data, evaluate existing environment, and identify gaps and risks. Plan - design the future-state architecture, create rollout schedules, communication plans, and success metrics. Deploy - execute the rollout through staged environments, monitor, and remediate issues. Optimize - review outcomes, capture lessons learned, and refine processes before the next iteration.

The correct choice lists these phases in the proper order with the correct intent. The other options either place the phases in an incorrect order, omit a required phase, or substitute activities (such as govern or retire) that belong to other Google frameworks but are not part of this specific methodology.

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