Spring Cloud Regulatory Frameworks & Compliance 4

Question 1

Which Spring Cloud feature helps meet GDPR's data residency requirements by routing traffic based on user geography?

Accepted Answer

Spring Cloud LoadBalancer with zone-aware routing

Answer

Spring Cloud LoadBalancer with zone-aware routing can direct EU user requests to EU-region service instances, satisfying GDPR data residency requirements.

Question 2

PCI-DSS Requirement 10 mandates tracking and monitoring all access to network resources. In Spring Cloud, which combination best satisfies this?

Accepted Answer

Spring Cloud Sleuth distributed tracing + centralized log aggregation (ELK)

Answer

Spring Cloud Sleuth adds trace/span IDs to all service calls, and centralized log aggregation enables complete access monitoring required by PCI-DSS Requirement 10.

Question 3

A Spring Cloud application must comply with NIST's requirement for configuration integrity verification. Which feature provides this?

Accepted Answer

Spring Cloud Config with Git commit hash verification and signed commits

Answer

Git signed commits with hash verification ensure configuration files haven't been tampered with, satisfying NIST's integrity requirements for configuration management.

Question 4

Under SOX compliance, a Spring Cloud application must demonstrate separation of duties for deployment. How is this enforced architecturally?

Accepted Answer

Implement CI/CD pipelines with separate approval gates where developers cannot deploy to production

Answer

SOX separation of duties requires developers to be unable to self-approve production deployments, enforced through CI/CD pipeline approval gates requiring separate approvers.

Question 5

Which Spring Cloud feature would you use to implement CCPA's requirement that users can opt out of data sharing between microservices?

Accepted Answer

Spring Cloud Stream with conditional message routing based on user consent flags

Answer

Spring Cloud Stream can route or suppress messages based on user consent flags stored in headers, preventing opted-out user data from flowing to downstream services.

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