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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)
GCP PCA · Question 20 · Cost Optimization
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:
How should you design the resource hierarchy and billing to meet the CFO's requirement for cost attribution per hospital tenant?
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:
How should you design the resource hierarchy and billing to meet the CFO's requirement for cost attribution per hospital tenant?
Answer options:
Create a separate Cloud Billing Account for every hospital.
Apply GCP labels (e.g., tenant_id) to all resources and export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery for analysis.
Use Cloud Monitoring to track CPU usage per hospital and calculate costs manually.
Create a separate GCP Organization for each hospital.
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