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GCP PCA · Question 16 · Business Requirements

CASE STUDY: HealthCare360

Company Overview: HealthCare360 provides EHR systems to hospitals in NA and EU.
Current Environment: Isolated on-prem deployments. Fragmented data.
Business Requirements: Centralize EHR in cloud. Enable cross-hospital research. Ensure compliance.
Executive Statements: CEO: 'Transforming to SaaS.' CFO: 'Need cost attribution per tenant.' CSO: 'Zero compromise on HIPAA/GDPR.'
Technical Requirements: Multi-region active-active deployment. Microservices on GKE. End-to-end encryption (CMEK). Strict network perimeters.
Constraints: Zero data loss (RPO=0). RTO < 15 minutes. HIPAA (US) and GDPR (EU) compliance.

QUESTION:
To meet the requirement for a multi-region active-active deployment with an RPO of 0, which TWO database architectures could you use? (Select TWO)

Answer options:

A.

Cloud Spanner with a multi-region instance configuration.

B.

Cloud SQL with Cross-Region Read Replicas.

C.

Firestore in Native mode with a multi-region location.

D.

Cloud Bigtable with a multi-cluster routing profile.

E.

Compute Engine VMs running PostgreSQL with asynchronous log shipping.

How to approach this question

Identify the GCP databases that support synchronous replication across multiple regions.

Full Answer

An RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 0 means no data loss is acceptable during a regional failure. This requires synchronous replication. Cloud Spanner and Firestore (in multi-region configurations) both use synchronous replication and Paxos consensus to guarantee data is written to multiple regions before acknowledging the commit, achieving RPO=0. Cloud SQL and Bigtable use asynchronous replication across regions.

Common mistakes

Selecting Cloud SQL or Bigtable, assuming their multi-region capabilities are synchronous.

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