Q: **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)

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

Q: What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

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

Question 1

**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)

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP PCA question?

Accepted Answer

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

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