ExpertGCP PCA · Question 16 · Domain 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
CASE STUDY: HealthSecure. 50M patient records. Legacy mainframe, on-prem SAN (100TB), .NET portal. Req: Modernize portal, secure hospital sharing, fast audits. CEO: Modern UX. CFO: Automate audits. CISO: Zero breaches. Tech: HIPAA, CMEK, audit logging, API gateway, DR (1h RPO/4h RTO). Constraints: No public DB IPs, Dev/Ops separation, US data only, mainframe stays on-prem via VPN.
To meet the 1-hour RPO and 4-hour RTO for the modernized portal database, which architecture should you implement?
CASE STUDY: HealthSecure. 50M patient records. Legacy mainframe, on-prem SAN (100TB), .NET portal. Req: Modernize portal, secure hospital sharing, fast audits. CEO: Modern UX. CFO: Automate audits. CISO: Zero breaches. Tech: HIPAA, CMEK, audit logging, API gateway, DR (1h RPO/4h RTO). Constraints: No public DB IPs, Dev/Ops separation, US data only, mainframe stays on-prem via VPN.
To meet the 1-hour RPO and 4-hour RTO for the modernized portal database, which architecture should you implement?
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Daily automated backups to Cloud Storage.
Cloud SQL High Availability (HA) within a region, with cross-region read replicas for DR.
Multi-region Cloud Spanner.
Compute Engine VMs with persistent disk snapshots every 12 hours.
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