You configured a single IPSec Cloud VPN tunnel for your organization to a third-party customer. You confirmed that the VPN tunnel is established; however, the BGP session status states that BGP is not configured. The customer has provided you with their BGP settings:
Local BGP address: 169.254.11.1/30
Local ASN: 64515
Peer BGP address: 169.254.11.2
Peer ASN: 64517
Base MED: 1000
MD5 Authentication: Disabled
You need to configure the local BGP session for this tunnel based on the settings provided by the customer. You already associated the Cloud Router with the Cloud VPN Tunnel. What settings should you use for the BGP session?
Your company’s on-premises network is connected to a VPC using a Cloud VPN tunnel. You have a static route of 0.0.0.0/0 with the VPN tunnel as its next hop defined in the VPC. All internet bound traffic currently passes through the on-premises network. You configured Cloud NAT to translate the primary IP addresses of Compute Engine instances in one region. Traffic from those instances will now reach the internet directly from their VPC and not from the on-premises network. Traffic from the virtual machines (VMs) is not translating addresses as expected. What should you do?
Your company offers a popular gaming service. Your instances are deployed with private IP addresses, and external access is granted through a global load balancer. You have recently engaged a traffic-scrubbing service and want to restrict your origin to allow connections only from the traffic-scrubbing service.
What should you do?
You are designing a hub-and-spoke network architecture for your company’s cloud-based environment. You need to make sure that all spokes are peered with the hub. The spokes must use the hub's virtual appliance for internet access.
The virtual appliance is configured in high-availability mode with two instances using an internal load balancer with IP address 10.0.0.5. What should you do?
Your organization has resources in two different VPCs, each in different Google Cloud projects, and requires connectivity between the resources in the two VPCs. You have already determined that there is no IP address overlap; however, one VPC uses privately used public IP (PUPI) ranges. You would like to enable connectivity between these resources by using a lower cost and higher performance method. What should you do?
You are designing a new global application using Compute Engine instances that will be exposed by a global HTTP(S) load balancer. You need to secure your application from distributed denial-of-service and application layer (layer 7) attacks. What should you do?
Your organization has Compute Engine instances in us-east1, us-west2, and us-central1. Your organization also has an existing Cloud Interconnect physical connection in the East Coast of the United States with a single VLAN attachment and Cloud Router in us-east1. You need to provide a design with high availability and ensure that if a region goes down, you still have access to all your other Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets. You need to accomplish this in the most cost-effective manner possible. What should you do?
You are the Organization Admin for your company. One of your engineers is responsible for setting up multiple host projects across multiple folders and sharing subnets with service projects. You need to enable the engineer's Identity and Access Management (IAM) configuration to complete their task in the fewest number of steps. What should you do?
One instance in your VPC is configured to run with a private IP address only. You want to ensure that even if this instance is deleted, its current private IP address will not be automatically assigned to a different instance.
In the GCP Console, what should you do?
Question:
Your company's current network architecture has three VPC Service Controls perimeters:
One perimeter (PERIMETER_PROD) to protect production storage buckets
One perimeter (PERIMETER_NONPROD) to protect non-production storage buckets
One perimeter (PERIMETER_VPC) that contains a single VPC (VPC_ONE)
In this single VPC (VPC_ONE), the IP_RANGE_PROD is dedicated to the subnets of the production workloads, and the IP_RANGE_NONPROD is dedicated to subnets of non-production workloads. Workloads cannot be created outside those two ranges. You need to ensure that production workloads can access only production storage buckets and non-production workloads can access only non-production storage buckets with minimal setup effort. What should you do?
Your company just completed the acquisition of Altostrat (a current GCP customer). Each company has a separate organization in GCP and has implemented a custom DNS solution. Each organization will retain its current domain and host names until after a full transition and architectural review is done in one year. These are the assumptions for both GCP environments.
• Each organization has enabled full connectivity between all of its projects by using Shared VPC.
• Both organizations strictly use the 10.0.0.0/8 address space for their instances, except for bastion hosts (for accessing the instances) and load balancers for serving web traffic.
• There are no prefix overlaps between the two organizations.
• Both organizations already have firewall rules that allow all inbound and outbound traffic from the 10.0.0.0/8 address space.
• Neither organization has Interconnects to their on-premises environment.
You want to integrate networking and DNS infrastructure of both organizations as quickly as possible and with minimal downtime.
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)
Your company has a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with two Dedicated Interconnect connections in two different regions: us-west1 and us-east1. Each Dedicated Interconnect connection is attached to a Cloud Router in its respective region by a VLAN attachment. You need to configure a high availability failover path. By default, all ingress traffic from the on-premises environment should flow to the VPC using the us-west1 connection. If us-west1 is unavailable, you want traffic to be rerouted to us-east1. How should you configure the multi-exit discriminator (MED) values to enable this failover path?
You are trying to update firewall rules in a shared VPC for which you have been assigned only Network Admin permissions. You cannot modify the firewall rules. Your organization requires using the least privilege necessary.
Which level of permissions should you request?
Your company offers a popular gaming service. Your instances are deployed with private IP addresses, and external access is granted through a global load balancer. You believe you have identified a potential malicious actor, but aren't certain you have the correct client IP address. You want to identify this actor while minimizing disruption to your legitimate users.
What should you do?
You are designing a shared VPC architecture. Your network and security team has strict controls over which routes are exposed between departments. Your Production and Staging departments can communicate with each other, but only via specific networks. You want to follow Google-recommended practices.
How should you design this topology?
You want to apply a new Cloud Armor policy to an application that is deployed in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to find out which target to use for your Cloud Armor policy.
Which GKE resource should you use?
You are using the gcloud command line tool to create a new custom role in a project by coping a predefined role. You receive this error message:
INVALID_ARGUMENT: Permission resourcemanager.projects.list is not valid
What should you do?
You have a Cloud Storage bucket in Google Cloud project XYZ. The bucket contains sensitive data. You need to design a solution to ensure that only instances belonging to VPCs under project XYZ can access the data stored in this Cloud Storage bucket. What should you do?
All the instances in your project are configured with the custom metadata enable-oslogin value set to FALSE and to block project-wide SSH keys. None of the instances are set with any SSH key, and no project-wide SSH keys have been configured. Firewall rules are set up to allow SSH sessions from any IP address range. You want to SSH into one instance.
What should you do?
You need to configure a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The initial deployment should have 5 nodes with the potential to scale to 10 nodes. The maximum number of Pods per node is 8. The number of services could grow from 100 to up to 1024. How should you design the IP schema to optimally meet this requirement?
You work for a multinational enterprise that is moving to GCP.
These are the cloud requirements:
• An on-premises data center located in the United States in Oregon and New York with Dedicated Interconnects connected to Cloud regions us-west1 (primary HQ) and us-east4 (backup)
• Multiple regional offices in Europe and APAC
• Regional data processing is required in europe-west1 and australia-southeast1
• Centralized Network Administration Team
Your security and compliance team requires a virtual inline security appliance to perform L7 inspection for URL filtering. You want to deploy the appliance in us-west1.
What should you do?
You have an HA VPN connection with two tunnels running in active/passive mode between your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and on-premises network. Traffic over the connection has recently increased from 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) to 4 Gbps, and you notice that packets are being dropped. You need to configure your VPN connection to Google Cloud to support 4 Gbps. What should you do?
Your company's web server administrator is migrating on-premises backend servers for an application to GCP. Libraries and configurations differ significantly across these backend servers. The migration to GCP will be lift-and-shift, and all requests to the servers will be served by a single network load balancer frontend. You want to use a GCP-native solution when possible.
How should you deploy this service in GCP?
You are deploying GKE clusters in your organization's Google Cloud environment. The pods in these clusters need to egress directly to the internet for a majority of their communications. You need to deploy the clusters and associated networking features using the most cost-efficient approach, and following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Question:
Recently, your networking team enabled Cloud CDN for one of the external-facing services that is exposed through an external Application Load Balancer. The application team has already defined which content should be cached within the responses. Upon testing the load balancer, you did not observe any change in performance after the Cloud CDN enablement. You need to resolve the issue. What should you do?
You have applications running in the us-west1 and us-east1 regions. You want to build a highly available VPN that provides 99.99% availability to connect your applications from your project to the cloud services provided by your partner's project while minimizing the amount of infrastructure required. Your partner's services are also in the us-west1 and us-east1 regions. You want to implement the simplest solution. What should you do?
Question:
Your organization has a hub and spoke architecture with VPC Network Peering, and hybrid connectivity is centralized at the hub. The Cloud Router in the hub VPC is advertising subnet routes, but the on-premises router does not appear to be receiving any subnet routes from the VPC spokes. You need to resolve this issue. What should you do?
Question:
You are troubleshooting connectivity issues between Google Cloud and a public SaaS provider. Connectivity between the two environments is through the public internet. Your users are reporting intermittent connection errors when using TCP to connect; however, ICMP tests show no failures. According to users, errors occur around the same time every day. You want to troubleshoot and gather information by using Google Cloud tools that are most likely to provide insights into what is occurring within Google Cloud. What should you do?
You need to create a GKE cluster in an existing VPC that is accessible from on-premises. You must meet the following requirements:
IP ranges for pods and services must be as small as possible.
The nodes and the master must not be reachable from the internet.
You must be able to use kubectl commands from on-premises subnets to manage the cluster.
How should you create the GKE cluster?
You have an application hosted on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance that cannot communicate with a resource outside of its subnet. When you review the flow and firewall logs, you do not see any denied traffic listed.
During troubleshooting you find:
• Flow logs are enabled for the VPC subnet, and all firewall rules are set to log.
• The subnetwork logs are not excluded from Stackdriver.
• The instance that is hosting the application can communicate outside the subnet.
• Other instances within the subnet can communicate outside the subnet.
• The external resource initiates communication.
What is the most likely cause of the missing log lines?
You are adding steps to a working automation that uses a service account to authenticate. You need to drive the automation the ability to retrieve files from a Cloud Storage bucket. Your organization requires using the least privilege possible.
What should you do?
You create multiple Compute Engine virtual machine instances to be used as TFTP servers.
Which type of load balancer should you use?
You are troubleshooting an application in your organization's Google Cloud network that is not functioning as expected. You suspect that packets are getting lost somewhere. The application sends packets intermittently at a low volume from a Compute Engine VM to a destination on your on-premises network through a pair of Cloud Interconnect VLAN attachments. You validated that the Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) rules do not have any deny statements blocking egress traffic, and you do not have any explicit allow rules. Following Google-recommended practices, you need to analyze the flow to see if packets are being sent correctly out of the VM to isolate the issue. What should you do?
Question:
Your organization wants to deploy HA VPN over Cloud Interconnect to ensure encryption in transit over the Cloud Interconnect connections. You have created a Cloud Router and two encrypted VLAN attachments that have a 5 Gbps capacity and a BGP configuration. The BGP sessions are operational. You need to complete the deployment of the HA VPN over Cloud Interconnect. What should you do?
Your company has recently installed a Cloud VPN tunnel between your on-premises data center and your Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You need to configure access to the Cloud Functions API for your on-premises servers. The configuration must meet the following requirements:
Certain data must stay in the project where it is stored and not be exfiltrated to other projects.
Traffic from servers in your data center with RFC 1918 addresses do not use the internet to access Google Cloud APIs.
All DNS resolution must be done on-premises.
The solution should only provide access to APIs that are compatible with VPC Service Controls.
What should you do?
Your team deployed two applications in GKE that are exposed through an external Application Load Balancer. When queries are sent to and the correct pages are displayed. However, you have received complaints that yields a 404 error. You need to resolve this error. What should you do?
Question:
You are configuring the firewall endpoints as part of the Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) intrusion prevention service in Google Cloud. You have configured a threat prevention security profile, and you now need to create an endpoint for traffic inspection. What should you do?
You just finished your company’s migration to Google Cloud and configured an architecture with 3 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks: one for Sales, one for Finance, and one for Engineering. Every VPC contains over 100 Compute Engine instances, and now developers using instances in the Sales VPC and the Finance VPC require private connectivity between each other. You need to allow communication between Sales and Finance without compromising performance or security. What should you do?
You recently deployed Cloud VPN to connect your on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You need to monitor the usage of this VPN and set up alerts in case traffic exceeds the maximum allowed. You need to be able to quickly decide whether to add extra links or move to a Dedicated Interconnect. What should you do?
Your company uses Compute Engine instances that are exposed to the public internet. Each compute instance has a single network interface with a single public IP address. You need to block any connection attempt that originates from internet clients with IP addresses that belong to the bgp_asn_toblock BGP ASN. What should you do?
Your organization is running out of private IPv4 IP addresses. You need to create a new design pattern to reduce IP usage in your Google Kubernetes Engine clusters. Each new GKE cluster should have a unique /24 range of routable RFC1918 IP addresses. What should you do?
You are configuring a new application that will be exposed behind an external load balancer with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and support TCP pass-through on port 443. You will have backends in two regions: us-west1 and us-east1. You want to serve the content with the lowest possible latency while ensuring high availability and autoscaling. Which configuration should you use?
You have the networking configuration shown in the diagram. A pair of redundant Dedicated Interconnect connections (int-Igal and int-Iga2) terminate on the same Cloud Router. The Interconnect connections terminate on two separate on-premises routers. You are advertising the same prefixes from the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions associated with the Dedicated Interconnect connections. You need to configure one connection as Active for both ingress and egress traffic. If the active Interconnect connection fails, you want the passive Interconnect connection to automatically begin routing all traffic Which two actions should you take to meet this requirement? (Choose Two)
Your company has separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks in a single region for two departments: Sales and Finance. The Sales department's VPC network already has connectivity to on-premises locations using HA VPN, and you have confirmed that the subnet ranges do not overlap. You plan to peer both VPC networks to use the same HA tunnels for on-premises connectivity, while providing internet connectivity for the Google Cloud workloads through Cloud NAT. Internet access from the on-premises locations should not flow through Google Cloud. You need to propagate all routes between the Finance department and on-premises locations. What should you do?
You are configuring load balancing for a standard three-tier (web, application, and database) application. You have configured an external HTTP(S) load balancer for the web servers. You need to configure load balancing for the application tier of servers. What should you do?
Your company has recently expanded their EMEA-based operations into APAC. Globally distributed users report that their SMTP and IMAP services are slow. Your company requires end-to-end encryption, but you do not have access to the SSL certificates.
Which Google Cloud load balancer should you use?
Your on-premises data center has 2 routers connected to your GCP through a VPN on each router. All applications are working correctly; however, all of the traffic is passing across a single VPN instead of being load-balanced across the 2 connections as desired.
During troubleshooting you find:
•Each on-premises router is configured with the same ASN.
•Each on-premises router is configured with the same routes and priorities.
•Both on-premises routers are configured with a VPN connected to a single Cloud Router.
•The VPN logs have no-proposal-chosen lines when the VPNs are connecting.
•BGP session is not established between one on-premises router and the Cloud Router.
What is the most likely cause of this problem?
You manage two VPCs: VPC1 and VPC2, each with resources spread across two regions. You connected the VPCs with HA VPN in both regions to ensure redundancy. You’ve observed that when one VPN gateway fails, workloads that are located within the same region but different VPCs lose communication with each other. After further debugging, you notice that VMs in VPC2 receive traffic but their replies never get to the VMs in VPC1. You need to quickly fix the issue. What should you do?
Your company has 10 separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks, with one VPC per project in a single region in Google Cloud. Your security team requires each VPC network to have private connectivity to the main on-premises location via a Partner Interconnect connection in the same region. To optimize cost and operations, the same connectivity must be shared with all projects. You must ensure that all traffic between different projects, on-premises locations, and the internet can be inspected using the same third-party appliances. What should you do?
You work for a university that is migrating to GCP.
These are the cloud requirements:
• On-premises connectivity with 10 Gbps
• Lowest latency access to the cloud
• Centralized Networking Administration Team
New departments are asking for on-premises connectivity to their projects. You want to deploy the most cost-efficient interconnect solution for connecting the campus to Google Cloud.
What should you do?
Your organization has a Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with subnets in us-east1, us-west4, and europe-west4 that use the default VPC configuration. Employees in a branch office in Europe need to access the resources in the VPC using HA VPN. You configured the HA VPN associated with the Google Cloud VPC for your organization with a Cloud Router deployed in europe-west4. You need to ensure that the users in the branch office can quickly and easily access all resources in the VPC. What should you do?
You have ordered Dedicated Interconnect in the GCP Console and need to give the Letter of Authorization/Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA) to your cross-connect provider to complete the physical connection.
Which two actions can accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You need to create the network infrastructure to deploy a highly available web application in the us-east1 and us-west1 regions. The application runs on Compute Engine instances, and it does not require the use of a database. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You need to create the technical architecture for hybrid connectivity from your data center to Google Cloud This will be managed by a partner. You want to follow Google-recommended practices for production-level applications. What should you do?
Question:
Your organization has a subset of applications in multiple regions that require internet access. You need to control internet access from applications to URLs, including hostnames and paths. The compute instances that run these applications have an associated secure tag. What should you do?
Your company runs an enterprise platform on-premises using virtual machines (VMS). Your internet customers have created tens of thousands of DNS domains panting to your public IP addresses allocated to the Vtvls Typically, your customers hard-code your IP addresses In their DNS records You are now planning to migrate the platform to Compute Engine and you want to use Bring your Own IP you want to minimize disruption to the Platform What Should you d0?
You are using a third-party next-generation firewall to inspect traffic. You created a custom route of 0.0.0.0/0 to route egress traffic to the firewall. You want to allow your VPC instances without public IP addresses to access the BigQuery and Cloud Pub/Sub APIs, without sending the traffic through the firewall.
Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)
You work for a university that is migrating to Google Cloud.
These are the cloud requirements:
On-premises connectivity with 10 Gbps
Lowest latency access to the cloud
Centralized Networking Administration Team
New departments are asking for on-premises connectivity to their projects. You want to deploy the most cost-efficient interconnect solution for connecting the campus to Google Cloud.
What should you do?
You have a storage bucket that contains the following objects:
- folder-a/image-a-1.jpg
- folder-a/image-a-2.jpg
- folder-b/image-b-1.jpg
- folder-b/image-b-2.jpg
Cloud CDN is enabled on the storage bucket, and all four objects have been successfully cached. You want to remove the cached copies of all the objects with the prefix folder-a, using the minimum number of commands.
What should you do?
Your organization is migrating workloads from AWS to Google Cloud. Because a particularly critical workload will take longer to migrate, you need to set up Google Cloud CDN and point it to the existing application at AWS. What should you do?
You have the following routing design. You discover that Compute Engine instances in Subnet-2 in the asia-southeast1 region cannot communicate with compute resources on-premises. What should you do?
You have created an HTTP(S) load balanced service. You need to verify that your backend instances are responding properly.
How should you configure the health check?
You need to define an address plan for a future new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This will be a VPC-native cluster, and the default Pod IP range allocation will be used. You must pre-provision all the needed VPC subnets and their respective IP address ranges before cluster creation. The cluster will initially have a single node, but it will be scaled to a maximum of three nodes if necessary. You want to allocate the minimum number of Pod IP addresses. Which subnet mask should you use for the Pod IP address range?
Your company is planning a migration to Google Kubernetes Engine. Your application team informed you that they require a minimum of 60 Pods per node and a maximum of 100 Pods per node Which Pod per node CIDR range should you use?
You are responsible for configuring firewall policies for your company in Google Cloud. Your security team has a strict set of requirements that must be met to configure firewall rules.
Always allow Secure Shell (SSH) from your corporate IP address.
Restrict SSH access from all other IP addresses.
There are multiple projects and VPCs in your Google Cloud organization. You need to ensure that other VPC firewall rules cannot bypass the security team’s requirements. What should you do?
Your end users are located in close proximity to us-east1 and europe-west1. Their workloads need to communicate with each other. You want to minimize cost and increase network efficiency.
How should you design this topology?
You’ve received reports of latency between two application VMs which run in two different regions of your Google Cloud VPC network. There is typically about 8ms of latency, but now there is approximately 17ms of latency. You've eliminated application issues as a root cause, and you suspect that the latency may be a Google Cloud platform issue. You need to confirm this hypothesis using Google-recommended practices. What should you do?