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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2Question 20
    Hard1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations ReliabilityNetworkingCloud SQLSecurity
    This question is part of a case study — click to read the full scenario(Case 16)

    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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    GCP PCA · Question 20 · Domain 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability

    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.

    How should you configure the database network to meet the constraint of 'No public DB IPs' while allowing the modernized portal to access it?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Deploy Cloud SQL with a public IP and restrict access via Authorized Networks.

    B.

    Deploy Cloud SQL with a private IP only, using Private Services Access.

    C.

    Use Cloud SQL Proxy over the public internet.

    D.

    Place the database in a public subnet and use Cloud NAT.

    How to approach this question

    Identify how to deploy managed services privately in GCP.

    Full Answer

    B.Deploy Cloud SQL with a private IP only, using Private Services Access.✓ Correct
    Deploy Cloud SQL with a private IP only, using Private Services Access.
    Private Services Access creates a VPC peering connection between your VPC and Google's managed VPC, allowing Cloud SQL to operate with only a private IP.

    Common mistakes

    Using Authorized Networks, which still requires a public IP.
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