Question 1

A company allows every employee to use Google Cloud Platform. Each department has a Google Group, with all department members as group members. If a department member creates a new project, all members of that department should automatically have read-only access to all new project resources. Members of any other department should not have access to the project. You need to configure this behavior. What should you do to meet these requirements?
A) Create a Folder per department under the Organization. For each department's Folder, assign the Project Viewer role to the Google Group related to that department.
B) Create a Folder per department under the Organization. For each department's Folder, assign the Project Browser role to the Google Group related to that department.
C) Create a Project per department under the Organization. For each department's Project, assign the Project Viewer role to the Google Group related to that department.
D) Create a Project per department under the Organization. For each department's Project, assign the Project Browser role to the Google Group related to that department.

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Question 2

In order to meet PCI DSS requirements, a customer wants to ensure that all outbound traffic is authorized. Which two cloud offerings meet this requirement without additional compensating controls? (Choose two.)
A) App Engine
B) Cloud Functions
C) Compute Engine
D) Google Kubernetes Engine
E) Cloud Storage

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Question 3

A customer's internal security team must manage its own encryption keys for encrypting data on Cloud Storage and decides to use customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK). How should the team complete this task?
A) Upload the encryption key to a Cloud Storage bucket, and then upload the object to the same bucket.
B) Use the gsutil command line tool to upload the object to Cloud Storage, and specify the location of the encryption key.
C) Generate an encryption key in the Google Cloud Platform Console, and upload an object to Cloud Storage using the specified key.
D) Encrypt the object, then use the gsutil command line tool or the Google Cloud Platform Console to upload the object to Cloud Storage.

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Question 4

An organization's security and risk management teams are concerned about where their responsibility lies for certain production workloads they are running in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and where Google's responsibility lies. They are mostly running workloads using Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings, including App Engine primarily. Which one of these areas in the technology stack would they need to focus on as their primary responsibility when using App Engine?
A) Configuring and monitoring VPC Flow Logs
B) Defending against XSS and SQLi attacks
C) Manage the latest updates and security patches for the Guest OS
D) Encrypting all stored data

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Question 5

A company has redundant mail servers in different Google Cloud Platform regions and wants to route customers to the nearest mail server based on location. How should the company accomplish this?
A) Configure TCP Proxy Load Balancing as a global load balancing service listening on port 995.
B) Create a Network Load Balancer to listen on TCP port 995 with a forwarding rule to forward traffic based on location.
C) Use Cross-Region Load Balancing with an HTTP(S) load balancer to route traffic to the nearest region.
D) Use Cloud CDN to route the mail traffic to the closest origin mail server based on client IP address.

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Question 6

A customer implements Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy for their ERP system hosted on Compute Engine. Their security team wants to add a security layer so that the ERP systems only accept traffic from Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy. What should the customer do to meet these requirements?
A) Make sure that the ERP system can validate the JWT assertion in the HTTP requests.
B) Make sure that the ERP system can validate the identity headers in the HTTP requests.
C) Make sure that the ERP system can validate the x-forwarded-for headers in the HTTP requests.
D) Make sure that the ERP system can validate the user's unique identifier headers in the HTTP requests.

Accepted Answer

The ERP system should validate the JWT assertion in the HTTP requests to ensure that the traffic is coming from Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy.

Question 7

You will create a new Service Account that should be able to list the Compute Engine instances in the project. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A) Create an Instance Template, and allow the Service Account Read Only access for the Compute Engine Access Scope.
B) Create a custom role with the permission compute.instances.list and grant the Service Account this role. Create a custom role with the permission compute.instances.list and grant the Service Account this role.
C) Give the Service Account the role of Compute Viewer, and use the new Service Account for all instances.
D) Give the Service Account the role of Project Viewer, and use the new Service Account for all instances.

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Question 8

An engineering team is launching a web application that will be public on the internet. The web application is hosted in multiple GCP regions and will be directed to the respective backend based on the URL request. Your team wants to avoid exposing the application directly on the internet and wants to deny traffic from a specific list of malicious IP addresses Which solution should your team implement to meet these requirements?
A) Cloud Armor
B) Network Load Balancing
C) SSL Proxy Load Balancing
D) NAT Gateway

Accepted Answer

Cloud Armor provides security policies to protect applications from DDoS attacks and can be used to block traffic from specific IP addresses.

Question 9

Your team wants to make sure Compute Engine instances running in your production project do not have public IP addresses. The frontend application Compute Engine instances will require public IPs. The product engineers have the Editor role to modify resources. Your team wants to enforce this requirement. How should your team meet these requirements?
A) Enable Private Access on the VPC network in the production project.
B) Remove the Editor role and grant the Compute Admin IAM role to the engineers.
C) Set up an organization policy to only permit public IPs for the front-end Compute Engine instances.
D) Set up a VPC network with two subnets: one with public IPs and one without public IPs.

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Setting up an organization policy to only permit public IPs for the front-end Compute Engine instances ensures that only the necessary instances have public IPs, while others do not, aligning with the requirement.

Question 10

A customer wants to deploy a large number of 3-tier web applications on Compute Engine. How should the customer ensure authenticated network separation between the different tiers of the application?
A) Run each tier in its own Project, and segregate using Project labels.
B) Run each tier with a different Service Account (SA), and use SA-based firewall rules.
C) Run each tier in its own subnet, and use subnet-based firewall rules.
D) Run each tier with its own VM tags, and use tag-based firewall rules.

Accepted Answer

Running each tier in its own subnet and using subnet-based firewall rules allows for network separation and control over the communication between the tiers, ensuring authenticated access and security.

Question 11

As adoption of the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API grows within the company, you need to optimize usage to reduce cost. DLP target data is stored in Cloud Storage and BigQuery. The location and region are identified as a suffix in the resource name. Which cost reduction options should you recommend?
A) Set appropriate rowsLimit value on BigQuery data hosted outside the US and set appropriate bytesLimitPerFile value on multiregional Cloud Storage buckets.
B) Set appropriate rowsLimit value on BigQuery data hosted outside the US, and minimize transformation units on multiregional Cloud Storage buckets.
C) Use rowsLimit and bytesLimitPerFile to sample data and use CloudStorageRegexFileSet to limit scans.
D) Use FindingLimits and TimespanContfig to sample data and minimize transformation units.

Accepted Answer

Using rowsLimit and bytesLimitPerFile helps in sampling data, which reduces the amount of data processed and thus lowers costs. CloudStorageRegexFileSet can limit scans to specific files, further optimizing usage and reducing costs.

Question 12

A customer deployed an application on Compute Engine that takes advantage of the elastic nature of cloud computing. How can you work with Infrastructure Operations Engineers to best ensure that Windows Compute Engine VMs are up to date with all the latest OS patches?
A) Build new base images when patches are available, and use a CI/CD pipeline to rebuild VMs, deploying incrementally.
B) Federate a Domain Controller into Compute Engine, and roll out weekly patches via Group Policy Object.
C) Use Deployment Manager to provision updated VMs into new serving Instance Groups (IGs).
D) Reboot all VMs during the weekly maintenance window and allow the StartUp Script to download the latest patches from the internet.

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Question 13

In an effort for your company messaging app to comply with FIPS 140-2, a decision was made to use GCP compute and network services. The messaging app architecture includes a Managed Instance Group (MIG) that controls a cluster of Compute Engine instances. The instances use Local SSDs for data caching and UDP for instance-to-instance communications. The app development team is willing to make any changes necessary to comply with the standard Which options should you recommend to meet the requirements?
A) Encrypt all cache storage and VM-to-VM communication using the BoringCrypto module.
B) Set Disk Encryption on the Instance Template used by the MIG to customer-managed key and use BoringSSL for all data transit between instances. Set Disk Encryption on the Instance Template used by the MIG to customer-managed key and use BoringSSL for all data transit between instances.
C) Change the app instance-to-instance communications from UDP to TCP and enable BoringSSL on clients' TLS connections.
D) Set Disk Encryption on the Instance Template used by the MIG to Google-managed Key and use BoringSSL library on all instance-to-instance communications. Google-managed Key and use BoringSSL library on all instance-to-instance communications.

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Question 14

Your team needs to make sure that their backend database can only be accessed by the frontend application and no other instances on the network. How should your team design this network?
A) Create an ingress firewall rule to allow access only from the application to the database using firewall tags.
B) Create a different subnet for the frontend application and database to ensure network isolation.
C) Create two VPC networks, and connect the two networks using Cloud VPN gateways to ensure network isolation.
D) Create two VPC networks, and connect the two networks using VPC peering to ensure network isolation.

Accepted Answer

Using an ingress firewall rule with firewall tags allows you to specify that only the frontend application can access the backend database, ensuring that no other instances on the network can connect to the database.

Question 15

You want data on Compute Engine disks to be encrypted at rest with keys managed by Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to these keys must be managed in a grouped way because the permissions should be the same for all keys. What should you do?
A) Create a single KeyRing for all persistent disks and all Keys in this KeyRing. Manage the IAM permissions at the Key level.
B) Create a single KeyRing for all persistent disks and all Keys in this KeyRing. Manage the IAM permissions at the KeyRing level.
C) Create a KeyRing per persistent disk, with each Keying containing a single Key. Manage the IAM permissions at the Key level.
D) Create a KeyRing per persistent disk, with each KeyRing containing a single Key. Manage the IAM permissions at the KeyRing level.

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Question 16

Your team wants to limit users with administrative privileges at the organization level Which two roles should your team restrict? (Choose two.)
A) Organization Administrator
B) Super Admin
C) GKE Cluster Admin
D) Compute Admin
E) Organization Role Viewer

Accepted Answer

Organization Administrator and Super Admin are the two roles that should be restricted to limit users with administrative privileges at the organization level.

Question 17

An organization is evaluating the use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for certain IT workloads. A well-established directory service is used to manage user identities and lifecycle management. This directory service must continue for the organization to use as the "source of truth" directory for identities. Which solution meets the organization's requirements?
A) Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS)
B) Cloud Identity
C) Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
D) Pub/Sub

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Question 18

You are the security admin of your company. You have 3,000 objects in your Cloud Storage bucket. You do not want to manage access to each object individually. You also do not want the uploader of an object to always have full control of the object. However, you want to use Cloud Audit Logs to manage access to your bucket. What should you do?
A) Set up an ACL with OWNER permission to a scope of allUsers.
B) Set up an ACL with READER permission to a scope of allUsers.
C) Set up a default bucket ACL and manage access for users using IAM.
D) Set up Uniform bucket-level access on the Cloud Storage bucket and manage access for users using IAM.

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Question 19

You need to provide a corporate user account in Google Cloud for each of your developers and operational staff who need direct access to GCP resources. Corporate policy requires you to maintain the user identity in a third-party identity management provider and leverage single sign-on. You learn that a significant number of users are using their corporate domain email addresses for personal Google accounts, and you need to follow Google recommended practices to convert existing unmanaged users to managed accounts. Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)
A) Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize your local identity management system to Cloud Identity.
B) Use the Google Admin console to view which managed users are using a personal account for their recovery email.
C) Add users to your managed Google account and force users to change the email addresses associated with their personal accounts.
D) Use the Transfer Tool for Unmanaged Users (TTUU) to find users with conflicting accounts and ask them to transfer their personal Google accounts.
E) Send an email to all of your employees and ask those users with corporate email addresses for personal Google accounts to delete the personal accounts immediately.

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Question 20

A company is running their webshop on Google Kubernetes Engine and wants to analyze customer transactions in BigQuery. You need to ensure that no credit card numbers are stored in BigQuery What should you do?
A) Create a BigQuery view with regular expressions matching credit card numbers to query and delete affected rows.
B) Use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API to redact related infoTypes before data is ingested into BigQuery.
C) Leverage Security Command Center to scan for the assets of type Credit Card Number in BigQuery. Leverage Security Command Center to scan for the assets of type Credit Card Number in BigQuery.
D) Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy to filter out credit card numbers before storing the logs in BigQuery.

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Exam 16: Professional Cloud Security Engineer

In order to meet PCI DSS requirements, a customer wants to ensure that all outbound traffic is authorized. Which two cloud offerings meet this requirement without additional compensating controls? (Choose two.)

A customer's internal security team must manage its own encryption keys for encrypting data on Cloud Storage and decides to use customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK) . How should the team complete this task?

A company has redundant mail servers in different Google Cloud Platform regions and wants to route customers to the nearest mail server based on location. How should the company accomplish this?

A customer implements Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy for their ERP system hosted on Compute Engine. Their security team wants to add a security layer so that the ERP systems only accept traffic from Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy. What should the customer do to meet these requirements?

You will create a new Service Account that should be able to list the Compute Engine instances in the project. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

A customer wants to deploy a large number of 3-tier web applications on Compute Engine. How should the customer ensure authenticated network separation between the different tiers of the application?

A customer deployed an application on Compute Engine that takes advantage of the elastic nature of cloud computing. How can you work with Infrastructure Operations Engineers to best ensure that Windows Compute Engine VMs are up to date with all the latest OS patches?

Your team needs to make sure that their backend database can only be accessed by the frontend application and no other instances on the network. How should your team design this network?

You want data on Compute Engine disks to be encrypted at rest with keys managed by Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) . Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to these keys must be managed in a grouped way because the permissions should be the same for all keys. What should you do?

Your team wants to limit users with administrative privileges at the organization level Which two roles should your team restrict? (Choose two.)

A company is running their webshop on Google Kubernetes Engine and wants to analyze customer transactions in BigQuery. You need to ensure that no credit card numbers are stored in BigQuery What should you do?