A retail customer allows users to upload comments and product reviews. The customer needs to make sure the text does not include sensitive data before the comments or reviews are published.
Which Google Cloud Service should be used to achieve this?
You must ensure that the keys used for at-rest encryption of your data are compliant with your organization's security controls. One security control mandates that keys get rotated every 90 days. You must implement an effective detection strategy to validate if keys are rotated as required. What should you do?
Your team uses a service account to authenticate data transfers from a given Compute Engine virtual machine instance of to a specified Cloud Storage bucket. An engineer accidentally deletes the service account, which breaks application functionality. You want to recover the application as quickly as possible without compromising security.
What should you do?
A customer wants to run a batch processing system on VMs and store the output files in a Cloud Storage bucket. The networking and security teams have decided that no VMs may reach the public internet.
How should this be accomplished?
Your company’s cloud security policy dictates that VM instances should not have an external IP address. You need to identify the Google Cloud service that will allow VM instances without external IP addresses to connect to the internet to update the VMs. Which service should you use?
Your company plans to move most of its IT infrastructure to Google Cloud. They want to leverage their existing on-premises Active Directory as an identity provider for Google Cloud. Which two steps should you take to integrate the company’s on-premises Active Directory with Google Cloud and configure access management? (Choose two.)
A patch for a vulnerability has been released, and a DevOps team needs to update their running containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
How should the DevOps team accomplish this?
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?
You are a Security Administrator at your organization. You need to restrict service account creation capability within production environments. You want to accomplish this centrally across the organization. What should you do?
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 security audit uncovered several inconsistencies in your project’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) configuration. Some service accounts have overly permissive roles, and a few external collaborators have more access than necessary. You need to gain detailed visibility into changes to IAM policies, user activity, service account behavior, and access to sensitive projects. What should you do?
A centralized security service has been implemented by your company. All applications running in Google Cloud are required to send data to this service. You need to ensure that developers have high autonomy to configure firewall rules within their projects, while preventing accidental blockage of access to the central security service. What should you do?
Your company’s new CEO recently sold two of the company’s divisions. Your Director asks you to help migrate the Google Cloud projects associated with those divisions to a new organization node. Which preparation steps are necessary before this migration occurs? (Choose two.)
You are a member of your company's security team. You have been asked to reduce your Linux bastion host external attack surface by removing all public IP addresses. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) require access to the bastion host from public locations so they can access the internal VPC while off-site. How should you enable this access?
Your organization has Google Cloud applications that require access to external web services. You must monitor, control, and log access to these services. What should you do?
An employer wants to track how bonus compensations have changed over time to identify employee outliers and correct earning disparities. This task must be performed without exposing the sensitive compensation data for any individual and must be reversible to identify the outlier.
Which Cloud Data Loss Prevention API technique should you use to accomplish this?
You want to use the gcloud command-line tool to authenticate using a third-party single sign-on (SSO) SAML identity provider. Which options are necessary to ensure that authentication is supported by the third-party identity provider (IdP)? (Choose two.)
A customer needs an alternative to storing their plain text secrets in their source-code management (SCM) system.
How should the customer achieve this using Google Cloud Platform?
Your organization has had a few recent DDoS attacks. You need to authenticate responses to domain name lookups. Which Google Cloud service should you use?
You control network traffic for a folder in your Google Cloud environment. Your folder includes multiple projects and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks You want to enforce on the folder level that egress connections are limited only to IP range 10.58.5.0/24 and only from the VPC network dev-vpc." You want to minimize implementation and maintenance effort
What should you do?
Which two security characteristics are related to the use of VPC peering to connect two VPC networks? (Choose two.)
A customer needs to prevent attackers from hijacking their domain/IP and redirecting users to a malicious site through a man-in-the-middle attack.
Which solution should this customer use?
When working with agents in a support center via online chat, an organization’s customers often share pictures of their documents with personally identifiable information (PII). The organization that owns the support center is concerned that the PII is being stored in their databases as part of the regular chat logs they retain for
review by internal or external analysts for customer service trend analysis.
Which Google Cloud solution should the organization use to help resolve this concern for the customer while still maintaining data utility?
Your application is deployed as a highly available cross-region solution behind a global external HTTP(S) load balancer. You notice significant spikes in traffic from multiple IP addresses but it is unknown whether the IPs are malicious. You are concerned about your application's availability. You want to limit traffic from these clients over a specified time interval.
What should you do?
A company’s application is deployed with a user-managed Service Account key. You want to use Google- recommended practices to rotate the key.
What should you do?
You are implementing data protection by design and in accordance with GDPR requirements. As part of design reviews, you are told that you need to manage the encryption key for a solution that includes workloads for Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub. Which option should you choose for this implementation?
Your company is moving to Google Cloud. You plan to sync your users first by using Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS). Some employees have already created Google Cloud accounts by using their company email addresses that were created outside of GCDS. You must create your users on Cloud Identity.
What should you do?
You have numerous private virtual machines on Google Cloud. You occasionally need to manage the servers through Secure Socket Shell (SSH) from a remote location. You want to configure remote access to the servers in a manner that optimizes security and cost efficiency.
What should you do?
You want to prevent users from accidentally deleting a Shared VPC host project. Which organization-level policy constraint should you enable?
Your company's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) creates a requirement that business data must be stored in specific locations due to regulatory requirements that affect the company's global expansion plans. After working on the details to implement this requirement, you determine the following:
The services in scope are included in the Google Cloud Data Residency Terms.
The business data remains within specific locations under the same organization.
The folder structure can contain multiple data residency locations.
You plan to use the Resource Location Restriction organization policy constraint. At which level in the resource hierarchy should you set the constraint?
A customer has 300 engineers. The company wants to grant different levels of access and efficiently manage IAM permissions between users in the development and production environment projects.
Which two steps should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
You are creating an internal App Engine application that needs to access a user’s Google Drive on the user’s behalf. Your company does not want to rely on the current user’s credentials. It also wants to follow Google- recommended practices.
What should you do?
Your company is deploying a large number of containerized applications to GKE. The existing CI/CD pipeline uses Cloud Build to construct container images, transfers the images to Artifact Registry, and then deploys the images to GKE. You need to ensure that only images that have passed vulnerability scanning and meet specific corporate policies are allowed to be deployed. The process needs to be automated and integrated into the existing CI/CD pipeline. What should you do?
You are setting up Cloud Identity for your company's Google Cloud organization. User accounts will be provisioned from Microsoft Entra ID through Directory Sync, and there will be single sign-on through Entra ID. You need to secure the super administrator accounts for the organization. Your solution must follow the principle of least privilege and implement strong authentication. What should you do?
A company is backing up application logs to a Cloud Storage bucket shared with both analysts and the administrator. Analysts should only have access to logs that do not contain any personally identifiable information (PII). Log files containing PII should be stored in another bucket that is only accessible by the administrator.
What should you do?
You are routing all your internet facing traffic from Google Cloud through your on-premises internet connection. You want to accomplish this goal securely and with the highest bandwidth possible.
What should you do?
You have created an OS image that is hardened per your organization’s security standards and is being stored in a project managed by the security team. As a Google Cloud administrator, you need to make sure all VMs in your Google Cloud organization can only use that specific OS image while minimizing operational overhead. What should you do? (Choose two.)
A customer wants to make it convenient for their mobile workforce to access a CRM web interface that is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The CRM can only be accessed by someone on the corporate network. The customer wants to make it available over the internet. Your team requires an authentication layer in front of the application that supports two-factor authentication
Which GCP product should the customer implement to meet these requirements?
You have noticed an increased number of phishing attacks across your enterprise user accounts. You want to implement the Google 2-Step Verification (2SV) option that uses a cryptographic signature to authenticate a user and verify the URL of the login page. Which Google 2SV option should you use?
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?
You are onboarding new users into Cloud Identity and discover that some users have created consumer user accounts using the corporate domain name. How should you manage these consumer user accounts with Cloud Identity?
Your organization is moving virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud. You must ensure that operating system images that are used across your projects are trusted and meet your security requirements.
What should you do?
Your customer has an on-premises Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with a certificate authority (CA). You need to issue certificates for many HTTP load balancer frontends. The on-premises PKI should be minimally affected due to many manual processes, and the solution needs to scale.
What should you do?
Your organization wants to protect all workloads that run on Compute Engine VM to ensure that the instances weren't compromised by boot-level or kernel-level malware. Also, you need to ensure that data in use on the VM cannot be read by the underlying host system by using a hardware-based solution.
What should you do?
Your security team uses encryption keys to ensure confidentiality of user data. You want to establish a process to reduce the impact of a potentially compromised symmetric encryption key in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS).
Which steps should your team take before an incident occurs? (Choose two.)
An organization is moving applications to Google Cloud while maintaining a few mission-critical applications on-premises. The organization must transfer the data at a bandwidth of at least 50 Gbps. What should they use to ensure secure continued connectivity between sites?
Your team needs to make sure that a Compute Engine instance does not have access to the internet or to any Google APIs or services.
Which two settings must remain disabled to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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.)
You discovered that sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) is being ingested to your Google Cloud environment in the daily ETL process from an on-premises environment to your BigQuery datasets. You need to redact this data to obfuscate the PII, but need to re-identify it for data analytics purposes. Which components should you use in your solution? (Choose two.)
An administrative application is running on a virtual machine (VM) in a managed group at port 5601 inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instance without access to the internet currently. You want to expose the web interface at port 5601 to users and enforce authentication and authorization Google credentials
What should you do?
You plan to deploy your cloud infrastructure using a CI/CD cluster hosted on Compute Engine. You want to minimize the risk of its credentials being stolen by a third party. What should you do?
You manage one of your organization's Google Cloud projects (Project A). AVPC Service Control (SC) perimeter is blocking API access requests to this project including Pub/Sub. A resource running under a service account in another project (Project B) needs to collect messages from a Pub/Sub topic in your project Project B is not included in a VPC SC perimeter. You need to provide access from Project B to the Pub/Sub topic in Project A using the principle of least
Privilege.
What should you do?
Your company requires the security and network engineering teams to identify all network anomalies within and across VPCs, internal traffic from VMs to VMs, traffic between end locations on the internet and VMs, and traffic between VMs to Google Cloud services in production. Which method should you use?
Your company is storing sensitive data in Cloud Storage. You want a key generated on-premises to be used in the encryption process.
What should you do?
An organization receives an increasing number of phishing emails.
Which method should be used to protect employee credentials in this situation?
Your company recently published a security policy to minimize the usage of service account keys. On-premises Windows-based applications are interacting with Google Cloud APIs. You need to implement Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with your identity provider on-premises.
What should you do?
Employees at your company use their personal computers to access your organization s Google Cloud console. You need to ensure that users can only access the Google Cloud console from their corporate-issued devices and verify that they have a valid enterprise certificate
What should you do?
You work for a healthcare provider that is expanding into the cloud to store and process sensitive patient data. You must ensure the chosen Google Cloud configuration meets these strict regulatory requirements:
Data must reside within specific geographic regions.
Certain administrative actions on patient data require explicit approval from designated compliance officers.
Access to patient data must be auditable.
What should you do?
An organization is starting to move its infrastructure from its on-premises environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The first step the organization wants to take is to migrate its current data backup and disaster recovery solutions to GCP for later analysis. The organization’s production environment will remain on- premises for an indefinite time. The organization wants a scalable and cost-efficient solution.
Which GCP solution should the organization use?
A customer is running an analytics workload on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) where Compute Engine instances are accessing data stored on Cloud Storage. Your team wants to make sure that this workload will not be able to access, or be accessed from, the internet.
Which two strategies should your team use to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Your financial services company is migrating its operations to Google Cloud. You are implementing a centralized logging strategy to meet strict regulatory compliance requirements. Your company's Google Cloud organization has a dedicated folder for all production projects. All audit logs, including Data Access logs from all current and future projects within this production folder, must be securely collected and stored in a central BigQuery dataset for long-term retention and analysis. To prevent duplicate log storage and to enforce centralized control, you need to implement a logging solution that intercepts and overrides any project-level log sinks for these audit logs, to ensure that logs are not inadvertently routed elsewhere. What should you do?
A manager wants to start retaining security event logs for 2 years while minimizing costs. You write a filter to select the appropriate log entries.
Where should you export the logs?
In a shared security responsibility model for IaaS, which two layers of the stack does the customer share responsibility for? (Choose two.)
Your Security team believes that a former employee of your company gained unauthorized access to Google Cloud resources some time in the past 2 months by using a service account key. You need to confirm the unauthorized access and determine the user activity. What should you do?
Your organization uses BigQuery to process highly sensitive, structured datasets. Following the "need to know" principle, you need to create the Identity and Access Management (IAM) design to meet the needs of these users:
• Business user must access curated reports.
• Data engineer: must administrate the data lifecycle in the platform.
• Security operator: must review user activity on the data platform.
What should you do?
An organization is migrating from their current on-premises productivity software systems to G Suite. Some network security controls were in place that were mandated by a regulatory body in their region for their previous on-premises system. The organization’s risk team wants to ensure that network security controls are maintained and effective in G Suite. A security architect supporting this migration has been asked to ensure that network security controls are in place as part of the new shared responsibility model between the organization and Google Cloud.
What solution would help meet the requirements?
You manage a mission-critical workload for your organization, which is in a highly regulated industry The workload uses Compute Engine VMs to analyze and process the sensitive data after it is uploaded to Cloud Storage from the endpomt computers. Your compliance team has detected that this workload does not meet the data protection requirements for sensitive data. You need to meet these requirements;
• Manage the data encryption key (DEK) outside the Google Cloud boundary.
• Maintain full control of encryption keys through a third-party provider.
• Encrypt the sensitive data before uploading it to Cloud Storage
• Decrypt the sensitive data during processing in the Compute Engine VMs
• Encrypt the sensitive data in memory while in use in the Compute Engine VMs
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
Your organization is using Vertex AI Workbench Instances. You must ensure that newly deployed instances are automatically kept up-to-date and that users cannot accidentally alter settings in the operating system. What should you do?
A customer wants to move their sensitive workloads to a Compute Engine-based cluster using Managed Instance Groups (MIGs). The jobs are bursty and must be completed quickly. They have a requirement to be able to manage and rotate the encryption keys.
Which boot disk encryption solution should you use on the cluster to meet this customer’s requirements?
You are exporting application logs to Cloud Storage. You encounter an error message that the log sinks don't support uniform bucket-level access policies. How should you resolve this error?
You are creating a new infrastructure CI/CD pipeline to deploy hundreds of ephemeral projects in your Google Cloud organization to enable your users to interact with Google Cloud. You want to restrict the use of the default networks in your organization while following Google-recommended best practices. What should you do?
Your organization is transitioning to Google Cloud You want to ensure that only trusted container images are deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a project. The containers must be deployed from a centrally managed. Container Registry and signed by a trusted authority.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
While migrating your organization’s infrastructure to GCP, a large number of users will need to access GCP Console. The Identity Management team already has a well-established way to manage your users and want to keep using your existing Active Directory or LDAP server along with the existing SSO password.
What should you do?
An organization’s typical network and security review consists of analyzing application transit routes, request handling, and firewall rules. They want to enable their developer teams to deploy new applications without the overhead of this full review.
How should you advise this organization?
Your Google Cloud environment has one organization node, one folder named Apps." and several projects within that folder The organizational node enforces the constraints/iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains organization policy, which allows members from the terramearth.com organization The "Apps" folder enforces the constraints/iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains organization policy, which allows members from the flowlogistic.com organization. It also has the inheritFromParent: false property.
You attempt to grant access to a project in the Apps folder to the user testuser@terramearth.com.
What is the result of your action and why?
You are part of a security team that wants to ensure that a Cloud Storage bucket in Project A can only be readable from Project B. You also want to ensure that data in the Cloud Storage bucket cannot be accessed from or copied to Cloud Storage buckets outside the network, even if the user has the correct credentials.
What should you do?
You recently joined the networking team supporting your company's Google Cloud implementation. You are tasked with familiarizing yourself with the firewall rules configuration and providing recommendations based on your networking and Google Cloud experience. What product should you recommend to detect firewall rules that are overlapped by attributes from other firewall rules with higher or equal priority?
A business unit at a multinational corporation signs up for GCP and starts moving workloads into GCP. The business unit creates a Cloud Identity domain with an organizational resource that has hundreds of projects.
Your team becomes aware of this and wants to take over managing permissions and auditing the domain resources.
Which type of access should your team grant to meet this requirement?
Your organization is using Google Cloud to develop and host its applications. Following Google-recommended practices, the team has created dedicated projects for development and production. Your development team is located in Canada and Germany. The operations team works exclusively from Germany to adhere to local laws. You need to ensure that admin access to Google Cloud APIs is restricted to these countries and environments. What should you do?
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