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Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and…

The correct answer is A. Use Cloud CDN with internet network endpoint group C. Use Apigee D. Use Cloud Storage Transfer Service. This question tests knowledge of selecting GCP services for globally distributing race content to viewers while efficiently moving video assets from existing infrastructure to GCP.

Submitted by yuki_2020· Mar 30, 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

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Case Study: 9 - Helicopter Racing League Company overview Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race. Solution concept HRL wants to migrate their existing service to a new platform to expand their use of managed AI and ML services to facilitate race predictions. Additionally, as new fans engage with the sport, particularly in emerging regions, they want to move the serving of their content, both real-time and recorded, closer to their users. Existing technical environment HRL is a public cloud-first company; the core of their mission-critical applications runs on their current public cloud provider. Video recording and editing is performed at the race tracks, and the content is encoded and transcoded, where needed, in the cloud. Enterprise-grade connectivity and local compute is provided by truck-mounted mobile data centers. Their race prediction services are hosted exclusively on their existing public cloud provider. Their existing technical environment is as follows: Existing content is stored in an object storage service on their existing public cloud provider. Video encoding and transcoding is performed on VMs created for each job. Race predictions are performed using TensorFlow running on VMs in the current public cloud provider. Business requirements HRL's owners want to expand their predictive capabilities and reduce latency for their viewers in emerging markets. Their requirements are: Support ability to expose the predictive models to partners. Increase predictive capabilities during and before races: ○ Race results ○ Mechanical failures ○ Crowd sentiment Increase telemetry and create additional insights. Measure fan engagement with new predictions. Enhance global availability and quality of the broadcasts. Increase the number of concurrent viewers. Minimize operational complexity. Ensure compliance with regulations. Create a merchandising revenue stream. Technical requirements Maintain or increase prediction throughput and accuracy. Reduce viewer latency. Increase transcoding performance. Create real-time analytics of viewer consumption patterns and engagement. Create a data mart to enable processing of large volumes of race data. Executive statement Our CEO, S. Hawke, wants to bring high-adrenaline racing to fans all around the world. We listen to our fans, and they want enhanced video streams that include predictions of events within the race (e.g., overtaking). Our current platform allows us to predict race outcomes but lacks the facility to support real-time predictions during races and the capacity to process season-long results. For this question, refer to the Helicopter Racing League (HRL) case study. Helicopter Racing League (HRL) wants to migrate their existing cloud service to a new platform with solutions that allow them to use and analyze video of the races both in real-time and recorded for broadcasting, on-demand archive, forecasts, and deeper insights. There is the need to migrate the recorded videos from another provider without service interruption. The idea is to switch immediately the video service to GCP while migrating selected contents. Users cannot directly access the contents wherever they are stored, but only through the correct and secure procedure specially setup. Which of the following strategies do you think could be feasible for serving the contents and migrating the videos with minimal effort (pick 3)?

Options

  • AUse Cloud CDN with internet network endpoint group
  • BUse a Cloud Function that can fetch the video from the correct source
  • CUse Apigee
  • DUse Cloud Storage Transfer Service
  • EUse Cloud Storage streaming service
  • FUse Google Transfer appliance

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    84% (37)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • E
    2% (1)
  • F
    9% (4)

Why each option

This question tests knowledge of selecting GCP services for globally distributing race content to viewers while efficiently moving video assets from existing infrastructure to GCP.

AUse Cloud CDN with internet network endpoint groupCorrect

Cloud CDN with internet NEGs caches and delivers race content from Google's global edge network, reducing latency for viewers in emerging regions by serving from the nearest edge node.

BUse a Cloud Function that can fetch the video from the correct source

A Cloud Function fetching video per request introduces cold start latency, does not cache content at the edge, and cannot scale cost-effectively to simultaneous global streaming for millions of concurrent viewers.

CUse ApigeeCorrect

Apigee provides enterprise-grade API management with global endpoints, rate limiting, and analytics to manage the API layer through which live telemetry and predictions are served to paying subscribers.

DUse Cloud Storage Transfer ServiceCorrect

Cloud Storage Transfer Service migrates existing video archives from HRL's current on-premises or cloud storage to Google Cloud Storage over the network, enabling centralized storage management on GCP.

EUse Cloud Storage streaming service

Cloud Storage streaming service is not an actual distinct GCP product; streaming from Cloud Storage is handled via signed URLs or CDN, not a named streaming service.

FUse Google Transfer appliance

Google Transfer Appliance is for physically shipping large offline datasets to Google data centers and is inappropriate for the ongoing, network-based video archive migration described in HRL's scenario.

Concept tested: Cloud CDN global content delivery and Storage Transfer Service migration

Source: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/overview

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#Cloud CDN#Apigee#Cloud Storage Transfer Service#content delivery

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