Free Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Questions

Question 1

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.)

1. Public IP
2. IP Forwarding
3. Private Google Access
4. Static routes
5. IAM Network User Role

Question 2

Which two implied firewall rules are defined on a VPC network? (Choose two.)

1. A rule that allows all outbound connections
2. A rule that denies all inbound connections
3. A rule that blocks all inbound port 25 connections
4. A rule that blocks all outbound connections
5. A rule that allows all inbound port 80 connections

Question 3

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?

1. Use Cloud Source Repositories, and store secrets in Cloud SQL.
2. Encrypt the secrets with a Customer-Managed Encryption Key (CMEK), and store them in Cloud Storage.
3. Run the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API to scan the secrets, and store them in Cloud SQL.
4. Deploy the SCM to a Compute Engine VM with local SSDs, and enable preemptible VMs.

Question 4

Your team wants to centrally manage GCP IAM permissions from their on-premises Active Directory Service. Your team wants to manage permissions by AD group membership.

What should your team do to meet these requirements?

1. Set up Cloud Directory Sync to sync groups, and set IAM permissions on the groups.
2. Set up SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On (SSO), and assign IAM permissions to the groups.
3. Use the Cloud Identity and Access Management API to create groups and IAM permissions from Active Directory.
4. Use the Admin SDK to create groups and assign IAM permissions from Active Directory.

Question 5

When creating a secure container image, which two items should you incorporate into the build if possible? (Choose two.)

1. Ensure that the app does not run as PID 1.
2. Package a single app as a container.
3. Remove any unnecessary tools not needed by the app.
4. Use public container images as a base image for the app.
5. Use many container image layers to hide sensitive information.

Question 6

A customer needs to launch a 3-tier internal web application on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The customer's internal compliance requirements dictate that end-user access may only be allowed if the traffic seems to originate from a specific known good CIDR. The customer accepts the risk that their application will only have SYN flood DDoS protection. They want to use GCP's native SYN flood protection.

Which product should be used to meet these requirements?

1. Cloud Armor
2. VPC Firewall Rules
3. Cloud Identity and Access Management
4. Cloud CDN

Question 7

A company is running workloads in a dedicated server room. They must only be accessed from within the private company network. You need to connect to these workloads from Compute Engine instances within a Google Cloud Platform project.

Which two approaches can you take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

1. Configure the project with Cloud VPN.
2. Configure the project with Shared VPC.
3. Configure the project with Cloud Interconnect.
4. Configure the project with VPC peering.
5. Configure all Compute Engine instances with Private Access.

Question 8

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?

1. Make sure that the ERP system can validate the JWT assertion in the HTTP requests.
2. Make sure that the ERP system can validate the identity headers in the HTTP requests.
3. Make sure that the ERP system can validate the x-forwarded-for headers in the HTTP requests.
4. Make sure that the ERP system can validate the user's unique identifier headers in the HTTP requests.

Question 9

A company has been running their application on Compute Engine. A bug in the application allowed a malicious user to repeatedly execute a script that results in the Compute Engine instance crashing. Although the bug has been fixed, you want to get notified in case this hack re-occurs.

What should you do?

1. Create an Alerting Policy in Stackdriver using a Process Health condition, checking that the number of executions of the script remains below the desired threshold. Enable notifications.
2. Create an Alerting Policy in Stackdriver using the CPU usage metric. Set the threshold to 80% to be notified when the CPU usage goes above this 80%.
3. Log every execution of the script to Stackdriver Logging. Create a User-defined metric in Stackdriver Logging on the logs, and create a Stackdriver Dashboard displaying the metric.
4. Log every execution of the script to Stackdriver Logging. Configure BigQuery as a log sink, and create a BigQuery scheduled query to count the number of executions in a specific timeframe.

Question 10

Your team needs to obtain a unified log view of all development cloud projects in your SIEM. The development projects are under the NONPROD organization folder with the test and pre-production projects. The development projects share the ABC-BILLING billing account with the rest of the organization.

Which logging export strategy should you use to meet the requirements?

1. 1. Export logs to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic with folders/NONPROD parent and includeChildren property set to True in a dedicated SIEM project. 2. Subscribe SIEM to the topic.
2. 1. Create a Cloud Storage sink with billingAccounts/ABC-BILLING parent and includeChildren property set to False in a dedicated SIEM project. 2. Process Cloud Storage objects in SIEM.
3. 1. Export logs in each dev project to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic in a dedicated SIEM project. 2. Subscribe SIEM to the topic.
4. 1. Create a Cloud Storage sink with a publicly shared Cloud Storage bucket in each project. 2. Process Cloud Storage objects in SIEM.

Question 11

You are working with a client that is concerned about control of their encryption keys for sensitive data. The client does not want to store encryption keys at rest in the same cloud service provider (CSP) as the data that the keys are encrypting.

Which Google Cloud encryption solutions should you recommend to this client?

(Choose two.)

1. Customer-supplied encryption keys.
2. Google default encryption
3. Secret Manager
4. Cloud External Key Manager
5. Customer-managed encryption keys

Question 12

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?

1. Titan Security Keys
2. Google prompt
3. Google Authenticator app
4. Cloud HSM keys

Question 13

You are designing a new governance model for your organization's secrets that are stored in Secret Manager. Currently, secrets for Production and Non-Production applications are stored and accessed using service accounts. Your proposed solution must:

• Provide granular access to secrets

• Give you control over the rotation schedules for the encryption keys that wrap your secrets

• Maintain environment separation

• Provide ease of management

Which approach should you take?

1. 1. Use separate Google Cloud projects to store Production and Non-Production secrets. 2. Enforce access control to secrets using projectlevel identity and Access Management (IAM) bindings. 3. Use customer-managed encryption keys to encrypt secrets.
2. 1. Use a single Google Cloud project to store both Production and Non-Production secrets. 2. Enforce access control to secrets using secret-level Identity and Access Management (IAM) bindings. 3. Use Google-managed encryption keys to encrypt secrets.
3. 1. Use separate Google Cloud projects to store Production and Non-Production secrets. 2. Enforce access control to secrets using secretlevel Identity and Access Management (IAM) bindings. 3. Use Google-managed encryption keys to encrypt secrets.
4. 1. Use a single Google Cloud project to store both Production and Non-Production secrets. 2. Enforce access control to secrets using project-level Identity and Access Management (IAM) bindings. 3. Use customer-managed encryption keys to encrypt secrets.

Question 14

How should a customer reliably deliver Stackdriver logs from GCP to their on-premises SIEM system?

1. Send all logs to the SIEM system via an existing protocol such as syslog.
2. Configure every project to export all their logs to a common BigQuery DataSet, which will be queried by the SIEM system.
3. Configure Organizational Log Sinks to export logs to a Cloud Pub/Sub Topic, which will be sent to the SIEM via Dataflow.
4. Build a connector for the SIEM to query for all logs in real time from the GCP RESTful JSON APIs.

Question 15

An organization 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?

1. Cryptographic hashing
2. Redaction
3. Format-preserving encryption
4. Generalization

Question 16

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?

1. VPC Flow Logs
2. Cloud Armor
3. DNS Security Extensions
4. Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy

Question 17

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.)

1. Secret Manager
2. Cloud Key Management Service
3. Cloud Data Loss Prevention with cryptographic hashing
4. Cloud Data Loss Prevention with automatic text redaction
5. Cloud Data Loss Prevention with deterministic encryption using AES-SIV

Question 18

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?

1. Enable VPC Service Controls, create a perimeter with Project A and B, and include Cloud Storage service.
2. Enable Domain Restricted Sharing Organization Policy and Bucket Policy Only on the Cloud Storage bucket.
3. Enable Private Access in Project A and B networks with strict firewall rules to allow communication between the networks.
4. Enable VPC Peering between Project A and B networks with strict firewall rules to allow communication between the networks.

Question 19

Last week, a company deployed a new App Engine application that writes logs to BigQuery. No other workloads are running in the project. You need to validate that all data written to BigQuery was done using the App Engine Default Service Account.

What should you do?

1. 1. Use Cloud Logging and filter on BigQuery Insert Jobs. 2. Click on the email address in line with the App Engine Default Service Account in the authentication field. 3. Click Hide Matching Entries. 4. Make sure the resulting list is empty.
2. 1. Use Cloud Logging and filter on BigQuery Insert Jobs. 2. Click on the email address in line with the App Engine Default Service Account in the authentication field. 3. Click Show Matching Entries. 4. Make sure the resulting list is empty.
3. 1. In BigQuery, select the related dataset. 2. Make sure that the App Engine Default Service Account is the only account that can write to the dataset.
4. 1. Go to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) section of the project. 2. Validate that the App Engine Default Service Account is the only account that has a role that can write to BigQuery.

Question 20

You need to use Cloud External Key Manager to create an encryption key to encrypt specific BigQuery data at rest in Google Cloud.

Which steps should you do first?

1. 1. Create or use an existing key with a unique uniform resource identifier (URI) in your Google Cloud project. 2. Grant your Google Cloud project access to a supported external key management partner system.
2. 1. Create or use an existing key with a unique uniform resource identifier (URI) in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). 2. In Cloud KMS, grant your Google Cloud project access to use the key.
3. 1. Create or use an existing key with a unique uniform resource identifier (URI) in a supported external key management partner system. 2. In the external key management partner system, grant access for this key to use your Google Cloud project.
4. 1. Create an external key with a unique uniform resource identifier (URI) in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). 2. In Cloud KMS, grant your Google Cloud project access to use the key.

Question 21

A website design company recently migrated all customer sites to App Engine. Some sites are still in progress and should only be visible to customers and company employees from any location.

Which solution will restrict access to the in-progress sites?

1. Upload an .htaccess file containing the customer and employee user accounts to App Engine.
2. Create an App Engine firewall rule that allows access from the customer and employee networks and denies all other traffic.
3. Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), and allow access to a Google Group that contains the customer and employee user accounts.
4. Use Cloud VPN to create a VPN connection between the relevant on-premises networks and the company's GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network.

Question 22

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 control the key lifecycle.

Which boot disk encryption solution should you use on the cluster to meet this customer's requirements?

1. Customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK)
2. Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)
3. Encryption by default
4. Pre-encrypting files before transferring to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for analysis

Question 23

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?

1. Create a BigQuery view with regular expressions matching credit card numbers to query and delete affected rows.
2. Use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API to redact related infoTypes before data is ingested into BigQuery.
3. Leverage Security Command Center to scan for the assets of type Credit Card Number in BigQuery.
4. Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy to filter out credit card numbers before storing the logs in BigQuery.

Question 24

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?

1. BigQuery using a data pipeline job with continuous updates
2. Cloud Storage using a scheduled task and gsutil
3. Compute Engine Virtual Machines using Persistent Disk
4. Cloud Datastore using regularly scheduled batch upload jobs

Question 25

An organization adopts Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for application hosting services and needs guidance on setting up password requirements for their Cloud Identity account. The organization has a password policy requirement that corporate employee passwords must have a minimum number of characters.

Which Cloud Identity password guidelines can the organization use to inform their new requirements?

1. Set the minimum length for passwords to be 8 characters.
2. Set the minimum length for passwords to be 10 characters.
3. Set the minimum length for passwords to be 12 characters.
4. Set the minimum length for passwords to be 6 characters.

Question 26

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?

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Question 27

A customer deploys an application to App Engine and needs to check for Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) vulnerabilities.

Which service should be used to accomplish this?

1. Cloud Armor
2. Google Cloud Audit Logs
3. Web Security Scanner
4. Anomaly Detection

Question 28

Your organization's Google Cloud VMs are deployed via an instance template that configures them with a public IP address in order to host web services for external users. The VMs reside in a service project that is attached to a host (VPC) project containing one custom Shared VPC for the VMs. You have been asked to reduce the exposure of the VMs to the internet while continuing to service external users. You have already recreated the instance template without a public IP address configuration to launch the managed instance group (MIG).

What should you do?

1. Deploy a Cloud NAT Gateway in the service project for the MIG.
2. Deploy a Cloud NAT Gateway in the host (VPC) project for the MIG.
3. Deploy an external HTTP(S) load balancer in the service project with the MIG as a backend.
4. Deploy an external HTTP(S) load balancer in the host (VPC) project with the MIG as a backend.

Question 29

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?

1. Cloud Armor
2. Network Load Balancing
3. SSL Proxy Load Balancing
4. NAT Gateway

Question 30

You have stored company approved compute images in a single Google Cloud project that is used as an image repository. This project is protected with VPC Service Controls and exists in the perimeter along with other projects in your organization. This lets other projects deploy images from the image repository project. A team requires deploying a third-party disk image that is stored in an external Google Cloud organization. You need to grant read access to the disk image so that it can be deployed into the perimeter.

What should you do?

1. Allow the external project by using the organizational policy, constraints/compute.trustedImageProjects.
2. 1. Update the perimeter. 2. Configure the egressTo field to include the external Google Cloud project number as an allowed resource and the serviceName to compute.googleapis.com. 3. Configure the egressFrom field to set identityType to ANY_IDENTITY.
3. 1. Update the perimeter. 2. Configure the ingressFrom field to set identityType to ANY_IDENTITY. 3. Configure the ingressTo field to include the external Google Cloud project number as an allowed resource and the serviceName to compute.googleapis.com.
4. 1. Update the perimeter. 2. Configure the egressTo field to set identityType to ANY_IDENTITY. 3. Configure the egressFrom field to include the external Google Cloud project number as an allowed resource and the serviceName to compute.googleapis.com.

Question 31

Your organization operates Virtual Machines (VMs) with only private IPs in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with internet access through Cloud NAT. Everyday, you must patch all VMs with critical OS updates and provide summary reports.

What should you do?

1. Validate that the egress firewall rules allow any outgoing traffic. Log in to each VM and execute OS specific update commands. Configure the Cloud Scheduler job to update with critical patches daily for daily updates.
2. Copy the latest patches to the Cloud Storage bucket. Log in to each VM, download the patches from the bucket, and install them.
3. Assign public IPs to VMs. Validate that the egress firewall rules allow any outgoing traffic. Log in to each VM, and configure a daily cron job to enable for OS updates at night during low activity periods.
4. Ensure that VM Manager is installed and running on the VMs. In the OS patch management service, configure the patch jobs to update with critical patches dally.

Question 32

For compliance reporting purposes, the internal audit department needs you to provide the list of virtual machines (VMs) that have critical operating system (OS) security updates available, but not installed. You must provide this list every six months, and you want to perform this task quickly.

What should you do?

1. Run a Security Command Center security scan on all VMs to extract a list of VMs with critical OS vulnerabilities every six months.
2. Run a gcloud CLI command from the Command Line Interface (CLI) to extract the VM's OS version information every six months.
3. Ensure that the Cloud Logging agent is installed on all VMs, and extract the OS last update log date every six months.
4. Ensure the OS Config agent is installed on all VMs and extract the patch status dashboard every six months.

Question 33

An office manager at your small startup company is responsible for matching payments to invoices and creating billing alerts. For compliance reasons, the office manager is only permitted to have the Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions necessary for these tasks.

Which two IAM roles should the office manager have? (Choose two.)

1. Organization Administrator
2. Project Creator
3. Billing Account Viewer
4. Billing Account Costs Manager
5. Billing Account User

Question 34

You are the Security Admin in your company. You want to synchronize all security groups that have an email address from your LDAP directory in Cloud IAM.

What should you do?

1. Configure Google Cloud Directory Sync to sync security groups using LDAP search rules that have "user email address" as the attribute to facilitate one-way sync.
2. Configure Google Cloud Directory Sync to sync security groups using LDAP search rules that have "user email address" as the attribute to facilitate bidirectional sync.
3. Use a management tool to sync the subset based on the email address attribute. Create a group in the Google domain. A group created in a Google domain will automatically have an explicit Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) role.
4. Use a management tool to sync the subset based on group object class attribute. Create a group in the Google domain. A group created in a Google domain will automatically have an explicit Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) role.

Question 35

You need to implement an encryption-at-rest strategy that protects sensitive data and reduces key management complexity for non-sensitive data.

Your solution has the following requirements:

• Schedule key rotation for sensitive data.

• Control which region the encryption keys for sensitive data are stored in.

• Minimize the latency to access encryption keys for both sensitive and non-sensitive data.

What should you do?

1. Encrypt non-sensitive data and sensitive data with Cloud External Key Manager.
2. Encrypt non-sensitive data and sensitive data with Cloud Key Management Service.
3. Encrypt non-sensitive data with Google default encryption, and encrypt sensitive data with Cloud External Key Manager.
4. Encrypt non-sensitive data with Google default encryption, and encrypt sensitive data with Cloud Key Management Service.

Question 36

Your organization develops software involved in many open source projects and is concerned about software supply chain threats. You need to deliver provenance for the build to demonstrate the software is untampered.

What should you do?

1. 1. Hire an external auditor to review and provide provenance. 2. Define the scope and conditions. 3. Get support from the Security department or representative. 4. Publish the attestation to your public web page.
2. 1. Review the software process. 2. Generate private and public key pairs and use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) protocols to sign the output software artifacts together with a file containing the address of your enterprise and point of contact. 3. Publish the PGP signed attestation to your public web page.
3. 1. Publish the software code on GitHub as open source. 2. Establish a bug bounty program, and encourage the open source community to review, report, and fix the vulnerabilities.
4. 1. Generate Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) level 3 assurance by using Cloud Build. 2. View the build provenance in the Security insights side panel within the Google Cloud console.

Question 37

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?

1. Use Forseti with Firewall filters to catch any unwanted configurations in production.
2. Mandate use of infrastructure as code and provide static analysis in the CI/CD pipelines to enforce policies.
3. Route all VPC traffic through customer-managed routers to detect malicious patterns in production.
4. All production applications will run on-premises. Allow developers free rein in GCP as their dev and QA platforms.

Question 38

An organization receives an increasing number of phishing emails.

Which method should be used to protect employee credentials in this situation?

1. Multifactor Authentication
2. A strict password policy
3. Captcha on login pages
4. Encrypted emails

Question 39

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?

1. Temporarily disable authentication on the Cloud Storage bucket.
2. Use the undelete command to recover the deleted service account.
3. Create a new service account with the same name as the deleted service account.
4. Update the permissions of another existing service account and supply those credentials to the applications.

Question 40

You work for a large organization where each business unit has thousands of users. You need to delegate management of access control permissions to each business unit. You have the following requirements:

• Each business unit manages access controls for their own projects.

• Each business unit manages access control permissions at scale.

• Business units cannot access other business units' projects.

• Users lose their access if they move to a different business unit or leave the company.

• Users and access control permissions are managed by the on-premises directory service.

What should you do? (Choose two.)

1. Use VPC Service Controls to create perimeters around each business unit's project.
2. Organize projects in folders, and assign permissions to Google groups at the folder level.
3. Group business units based on Organization Units (OUs) and manage permissions based on OUs
4. Create a project naming convention, and use Google's IAM Conditions to manage access based on the prefix of project names.
5. Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize users and group memberships in Cloud Identity.

Question 41

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?

1. Build new base images when patches are available, and use a CI/CD pipeline to rebuild VMs, deploying incrementally.
2. Federate a Domain Controller into Compute Engine, and roll out weekly patches via Group Policy Object.
3. Use Deployment Manager to provision updated VMs into new serving Instance Groups (IGs).
4. Reboot all VMs during the weekly maintenance window and allow the StartUp Script to download the latest patches from the internet.

Question 42

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?

1. Configure TCP Proxy Load Balancing as a global load balancing service listening on port 995.
2. Create a Network Load Balancer to listen on TCP port 995 with a forwarding rule to forward traffic based on location.
3. Use Cross-Region Load Balancing with an HTTP(S) load balancer to route traffic to the nearest region.
4. Use Cloud CDN to route the mail traffic to the closest origin mail server based on client IP address.

Question 43

Your company is using GSuite and has developed an application meant for internal usage on Google App Engine. You need to make sure that an external user cannot gain access to the application even when an employee's password has been compromised.

What should you do?

1. Enforce 2-factor authentication in GSuite for all users.
2. Configure Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy for the App Engine Application.
3. Provision user passwords using GSuite Password Sync.
4. Configure Cloud VPN between your private network and GCP.

Question 44

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?

1. BigQuery datasets
2. Cloud Storage buckets
3. StackDriver logging
4. Cloud Pub/Sub topics

Question 45

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.)

1. Create a project with multiple VPC networks for each environment.
2. Create a folder for each development and production environment.
3. Create a Google Group for the Engineering team, and assign permissions at the folder level.
4. Create an Organizational Policy constraint for each folder environment.
5. Create projects for each environment, and grant IAM rights to each engineering user.

Question 46

You are responsible for managing your company's identities in Google Cloud. Your company enforces 2-Step Verification (2SV) for all users. You need to reset a user's access, but the user lost their second factor for 2SV. You want to minimize risk.

What should you do?

1. On the Google Admin console, select the appropriate user account, and generate a backup code to allow the user to sign in. Ask the user to update their second factor.
2. On the Google Admin console, temporarily disable the 2SV requirements for all users. Ask the user to log in and add their new second factor to their account. Re-enable the 2SV requirement for all users.
3. On the Google Admin console, select the appropriate user account, and temporarily disable 2SV for this account. Ask the user to update their second factor, and then re-enable 2SV for this account.
4. On the Google Admin console, use a super administrator account to reset the user account's credentials. Ask the user to update their credentials after their first login.

Question 47

You plan to use a Google Cloud Armor policy to prevent common attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi) from reaching your web application's backend.

What are two requirements for using Google Cloud Armor security policies? (Choose two.)

1. The load balancer must be an external SSL proxy load balancer.
2. Google Cloud Armor Policy rules can only match on Layer 7 (L7) attributes.
3. The load balancer must use the Premium Network Service Tier.
4. The backend service's load balancing scheme must be EXTERNAL.
5. The load balancer must be an external HTTP(S) load balancer.

Question 48

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?

1. Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy
2. Cloud Armor
3. Cloud Endpoints
4. Cloud VPN

Question 49

Your company runs a website that will store PII on Google Cloud Platform. To comply with data privacy regulations, this data can only be stored for a specific amount of time and must be fully deleted after this specific period. Data that has not yet reached the time period should not be deleted. You want to automate the process of complying with this regulation.

What should you do?

1. Store the data in a single Persistent Disk, and delete the disk at expiration time.
2. Store the data in a single BigQuery table and set the appropriate table expiration time.
3. Store the data in a single Cloud Storage bucket and configure the bucket's Time to Live.
4. Store the data in a single BigTable table and set an expiration time on the column families.

Question 50

Your security team wants to reduce the risk of user-managed keys being mismanaged and compromised. To achieve this, you need to prevent developers from creating user-managed service account keys for projects in their organization.

How should you enforce this?

1. Configure Secret Manager to manage service account keys.
2. Enable an organization policy to disable service accounts from being created.
3. Enable an organization policy to prevent service account keys from being created.
4. Remove the iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken permission from users.

Question 51

Your company wants to determine what products they can build to help customers improve their credit scores depending on their age range. To achieve this, you need to join user information in the company's banking app with customers' credit score data received from a third party. While using this raw data will allow you to complete this task, it exposes sensitive data, which could be propagated into new systems.

This risk needs to be addressed using de-identification and tokenization with Cloud Data Loss Prevention while maintaining the referential integrity across the database.

Which cryptographic token format should you use to meet these requirements?

1. Deterministic encryption
2. Secure, key-based hashes
3. Format-preserving encryption
4. Cryptographic hashing

Question 52

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?

1. Set up an ACL with OWNER permission to a scope of allUsers.
2. Set up an ACL with READER permission to a scope of allUsers.
3. Set up a default bucket ACL and manage access for users using IAM.
4. Set up Uniform bucket-level access on the Cloud Storage bucket and manage access for users using IAM.

Question 53

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?

1. Cloud Key Management Service
2. Cloud Data Loss Prevention API
3. BigQuery
4. Web Security Scanner

Question 54

You need to implement an encryption at-rest strategy that reduces key management complexity for non-sensitive data and protects sensitive data while providing the flexibility of controlling the key residency and rotation schedule. FIPS 140-2 L1 compliance is required for all data types.

What should you do?

1. Encrypt non-sensitive data and sensitive data with Cloud External Key Manager.
2. Encrypt non-sensitive data and sensitive data with Cloud Key Management Service
3. Encrypt non-sensitive data with Google default encryption, and encrypt sensitive data with Cloud External Key Manager.
4. Encrypt non-sensitive data with Google default encryption, and encrypt sensitive data with Cloud Key Management Service.

Question 55

You need to follow Google-recommended practices to leverage envelope encryption and encrypt data at the application layer.

What should you do?

1. Generate a data encryption key (DEK) locally to encrypt the data, and generate a new key encryption key (KEK) in Cloud KMS to encrypt the DEK. Store both the encrypted data and the encrypted DEK.
2. Generate a data encryption key (DEK) locally to encrypt the data, and generate a new key encryption key (KEK) in Cloud KMS to encrypt the DEK. Store both the encrypted data and the KEK.
3. Generate a new data encryption key (DEK) in Cloud KMS to encrypt the data, and generate a key encryption key (KEK) locally to encrypt the key. Store both the encrypted data and the encrypted DEK.
4. Generate a new data encryption key (DEK) in Cloud KMS to encrypt the data, and generate a key encryption key (KEK) locally to encrypt the key. Store both the encrypted data and the KEK.

Question 56

Your team needs to prevent users from creating projects in the organization. Only the DevOps team should be allowed to create projects on behalf of the requester.

Which two tasks should your team perform to handle this request? (Choose two.)

1. Remove all users from the Project Creator role at the organizational level.
2. Create an Organization Policy constraint, and apply it at the organizational level.
3. Grant the Project Editor role at the organizational level to a designated group of users.
4. Add a designated group of users to the Project Creator role at the organizational level.
5. Grant the billing account creator role to the designated DevOps team.

Question 57

A customer has an analytics workload running on Compute Engine that should have limited internet access.

Your team created an egress firewall rule to deny (priority 1000) all traffic to the internet.

The Compute Engine instances now need to reach out to the public repository to get security updates.

What should your team do?

1. Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the CIDR range of the repository with a priority greater than 1000.
2. Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the CIDR range of the repository with a priority less than 1000.
3. Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the hostname of the repository with a priority greater than 1000.
4. Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the hostname of the repository with a priority less than 1000.

Question 58

A customer is collaborating with another company to build an application on Compute Engine. The customer is building the application tier in their GCP Organization, and the other company is building the storage tier in a different GCP Organization. This is a 3-tier web application. Communication between portions of the application must not traverse the public internet by any means.

Which connectivity option should be implemented?

1. VPC peering
2. Cloud VPN
3. Cloud Interconnect
4. Shared VPC

Question 59

You are setting up a CI/CD pipeline to deploy containerized applications to your production clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to prevent containers with known vulnerabilities from being deployed. You have the following requirements for your solution:

• Must be cloud-native

• Must be cost-efficient

• Minimize operational overhead

How should you accomplish this? (Choose two.)

1. Create a Cloud Build pipeline that will monitor changes to your container templates in a Cloud Source Repositories repository. Add a step to analyze Container Analysis results before allowing the build to continue.
2. Use a Cloud Function triggered by log events in Google Cloud's operations suite to automatically scan your container images in Container Registry.
3. Use a cron job on a Compute Engine instance to scan your existing repositories for known vulnerabilities and raise an alert if a noncompliant container image is found.
4. Deploy Jenkins on GKE and configure a CI/CD pipeline to deploy your containers to Container Registry. Add a step to validate your container images before deploying your container to the cluster.
5. In your CI/CD pipeline, add an attestation on your container image when no vulnerabilities have been found. Use a Binary Authorization policy to block deployments of containers with no attestation in your cluster.

Question 60

You perform a security assessment on a customer architecture and discover that multiple VMs have public IP addresses. After providing a recommendation to remove the public IP addresses, you are told those VMs need to communicate to external sites as part of the customer's typical operations.

What should you recommend to reduce the need for public IP addresses in your customer's VMs?

1. Google Cloud Armor
2. Cloud NAT
3. Cloud Router
4. Cloud VPN

Question 61

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.)

1. Remove all project-level custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles.
2. Disallow inheritance of organization policies.
3. Identify inherited Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles on projects to be migrated.
4. Create a new folder for all projects to be migrated.
5. Remove the specific migration projects from any VPC Service Controls perimeters and bridges.

Question 62

A service account key has been publicly exposed on multiple public code repositories. After reviewing the logs, you notice that the keys were used to generate short-lived credentials. You need to immediately remove access with the service account.

What should you do?

1. Delete the compromised service account.
2. Disable the compromised service account key.
3. Wait until the service account credentials expire automatically.
4. Rotate the compromised service account key.

Question 63

You want to prevent users from accidentally deleting a Shared VPC host project.

Which organization-level policy constraint should you enable?

1. compute.restrictSharedVpcHostProjects
2. compute.restrictXpnProjectLienRemoval
3. compute.restrictSharedVpcSubnetworks
4. compute.sharedReservationsOwnerProjects

Question 64

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?

1. Enable the constraints/compute.skipDefaultNetworkCreation organization policy constraint at the organization level.
2. Create a cron job to trigger a daily Cloud Function to automatically delete all default networks for each project.
3. Grant your users the IAM Owner role at the organization level. Create a VPC Service Controls perimeter around the project that restricts the compute.googleapis.com API.
4. Only allow your users to use your CI/CD pipeline with a predefined set of infrastructure templates they can deploy to skip the creation of the default networks.

Question 65

In a shared security responsibility model for IaaS, which two layers of the stack does the customer share responsibility for? (Choose two.)

1. Hardware
2. Network Security
3. Storage Encryption
4. Access Policies
5. Boot

Question 66

As adoption of the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) API grows within your company, you need to optimize usage to reduce cost. Cloud 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?

1. Set appropriate rowsLimit value on BigQuery data hosted outside the US and set appropriate bytesLimitPerFile value on multiregional Cloud Storage buckets.
2. Set appropriate rowsLimit value on BigQuery data hosted outside the US, and minimize transformation units on multiregional Cloud Storage buckets.
3. Use rowsLimit and bytesLimitPerFile to sample data and use CloudStorageRegexFileSet to limit scans.
4. Use FindingLimits and TimespanContfig to sample data and minimize transformation units.

Question 67

You are a security engineer at a finance company. Your organization plans to store data on Google Cloud, but your leadership team is worried about the security of their highly sensitive data. Specifically, your company is concerned about internal Google employees' ability to access your company's data on Google Cloud.

What solution should you propose?

1. Use customer-managed encryption keys.
2. Use Google's Identity and Access Management (IAM) service to manage access controls on Google Cloud.
3. Enable Admin activity logs to monitor access to resources.
4. Enable Access Transparency logs with Access Approval requests for Google employees.

Question 68

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.)

1. SSO SAML as a third-party IdP
2. Identity Platform
3. OpenID Connect
4. Identity-Aware Proxy
5. Cloud Identity

Question 69

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?

1. Enable Private Access on the VPC network in the production project.
2. Remove the Editor role and grant the Compute Admin IAM role to the engineers.
3. Set up an organization policy to only permit public IPs for the front-end Compute Engine instances.
4. Set up a VPC network with two subnets: one with public IPs and one without public IPs.

Question 70

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?

1. Create an ingress firewall rule to allow access only from the application to the database using firewall tags.
2. Create a different subnet for the frontend application and database to ensure network isolation.
3. Create two VPC networks, and connect the two networks using Cloud VPN gateways to ensure network isolation.
4. Create two VPC networks, and connect the two networks using VPC peering to ensure network isolation.

Question 71

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?

1. Run each tier in its own Project, and segregate using Project labels.
2. Run each tier with a different Service Account (SA), and use SA-based firewall rules.
3. Run each tier in its own subnet, and use subnet-based firewall rules.
4. Run each tier with its own VM tags, and use tag-based firewall rules.

Question 72

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?

1. Encrypt all cache storage and VM-to-VM communication using the BoringCrypto module.
2. Set Disk Encryption on the Instance Template used by the MIG to customer-managed key and use BoringSSL for all data transit between instances.
3. Change the app instance-to-instance communications from UDP to TCP and enable BoringSSL on clients' TLS connections.
4. 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.

Question 73

Which Identity-Aware Proxy role should you grant to an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user to access HTTPS resources?

1. Security Reviewer
2. IAP-Secured Tunnel User
3. IAP-Secured Web App User
4. Service Broker Operator

Question 74

You are asked to recommend a solution to store and retrieve sensitive configuration data from an application that runs on Compute Engine.

Which option should you recommend?

1. Cloud Key Management Service
2. Compute Engine guest attributes
3. Compute Engine custom metadata
4. Secret Manager

Question 75

You have an application where the frontend is deployed on a managed instance group in subnet A and the data layer is stored on a mysql Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) in subnet B on the same VPC. Subnet A and Subnet B hold several other Compute Engine VMs. You only want to allow the application frontend to access the data in the application's mysql instance on port 3306.

What should you do?

1. Configure an ingress firewall rule that allows communication from the src IP range of subnet A to the tag "data-tag" that is applied to the mysql Compute Engine VM on port 3306.
2. Configure an ingress firewall rule that allows communication from the frontend's unique service account to the unique service account of the mysql Compute Engine VM on port 3306.
3. Configure a network tag "fe-tag" to be applied to all instances in subnet A and a network tag "data-tag" to be applied to all instances in subnet B. Then configure an egress firewall rule that allows communication from Compute Engine VMs tagged with data-tag to destination Compute Engine VMs tagged fe-tag.
4. Configure a network tag "fe-tag" to be applied to all instances in subnet A and a network tag "data-tag" to be applied to all instances in subnet B. Then configure an ingress firewall rule that allows communication from Compute Engine VMs tagged with fe-tag to destination Compute Engine VMs tagged with data-tag.

Question 76

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?

1. Ensure that firewall rules are in place to meet the required controls.
2. Set up Cloud Armor to ensure that network security controls can be managed for G Suite.
3. Network security is a built-in solution and Google's Cloud responsibility for SaaS products like G Suite.
4. Set up an array of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks to control network security as mandated by the relevant regulation.

Question 77

You have been tasked with implementing external web application protection against common web application attacks for a public application on Google Cloud.

You want to validate these policy changes before they are enforced.

What service should you use?

1. Google Cloud Armor's preconfigured rules in preview mode
2. Prepopulated VPC firewall rules in monitor mode
3. The inherent protections of Google Front End (GFE)
4. Cloud Load Balancing firewall rules
5. VPC Service Controls in dry run mode

Question 78

You're developing the incident response plan for your company. You need to define the access strategy that your DevOps team will use when reviewing and investigating a deployment issue in your Google Cloud environment. There are two main requirements:

• Least-privilege access must be enforced at all times.

• The DevOps team must be able to access the required resources only during the deployment issue.

How should you grant access while following Google-recommended best practices?

1. Assign the Project Viewer Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to the DevOps team.
2. Create a custom IAM role with limited list/view permissions, and assign it to the DevOps team.
3. Create a service account, and grant it the Project Owner IAM role. Give the Service Account User Role on this service account to the DevOps team.
4. Create a service account, and grant it limited list/view permissions. Give the Service Account User Role on this service account to the DevOps team.

Question 79

A large financial institution is moving its Big Data analytics to Google Cloud Platform. They want to have maximum control over the encryption process of data stored at rest in BigQuery.

What technique should the institution use?

1. Use Cloud Storage as a federated Data Source.
2. Use a Cloud Hardware Security Module (Cloud HSM).
3. Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).
4. Customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK).

Question 80

You want to make sure that your organization's Cloud Storage buckets cannot have data publicly available to the internet. You want to enforce this across all Cloud Storage buckets.

What should you do?

1. Remove Owner roles from end users, and configure Cloud Data Loss Prevention.
2. Remove Owner roles from end users, and enforce domain restricted sharing in an organization policy.
3. Configure uniform bucket-level access, and enforce domain restricted sharing in an organization policy.
4. Remove *.setIamPolicy permissions from all roles, and enforce domain restricted sharing in an organization policy.

Question 81

You are troubleshooting access denied errors between Compute Engine instances connected to a Shared VPC and BigQuery datasets. The datasets reside in a project protected by a VPC Service Controls perimeter.

What should you do?

1. Add the host project containing the Shared VPC to the service perimeter.
2. Add the service project where the Compute Engine instances reside to the service perimeter.
3. Create a service perimeter between the service project where the Compute Engine instances reside and the host project that contains the Shared VPC.
4. Create a perimeter bridge between the service project where the Compute Engine instances reside and the perimeter that contains the protected BigQuery datasets.

Question 82

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?

1. Open Cloud Shell and run gcloud iam service-accounts enable-auto-rotate --iam-account=IAM_ACCOUNT.
2. Open Cloud Shell and run gcloud iam service-accounts keys rotate --iam-account=IAM_ACCOUNT --key=NEW_KEY.
3. Create a new key, and use the new key in the application. Delete the old key from the Service Account.
4. Create a new key, and use the new key in the application. Store the old key on the system as a backup key.

Question 83

Your company operates an application instance group that is currently deployed behind a Google Cloud load balancer in us-central-1 and is configured to use the Standard Tier network. The infrastructure team wants to expand to a second Google Cloud region, us-east-2. You need to set up a single external IP address to distribute new requests to the instance groups in both regions.

What should you do?

1. Change the load balancer backend configuration to use network endpoint groups instead of instance groups.
2. Change the load balancer frontend configuration to use the Premium Tier network, and add the new instance group.
3. Create a new load balancer in us-east-2 using the Standard Tier network, and assign a static external IP address.
4. Create a Cloud VPN connection between the two regions, and enable Google Private Access.

Question 84

You work for an organization in a regulated industry that has strict data protection requirements. The organization backs up their data in the cloud. To comply with data privacy regulations, this data can only be stored for a specific length of time and must be deleted after this specific period.

You want to automate the compliance with this regulation while minimizing storage costs.

What should you do?

1. Store the data in a persistent disk, and delete the disk at expiration time.
2. Store the data in a Cloud Bigtable table, and set an expiration time on the column families.
3. Store the data in a BigQuery table, and set the table's expiration time.
4. Store the data in a Cloud Storage bucket, and configure the bucket's Object Lifecycle Management feature.

Question 85

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?

1. Create a dedicated Cloud Identity user account for the cluster. Use a strong self-hosted vault solution to store the user's temporary credentials.
2. Create a dedicated Cloud Identity user account for the cluster. Enable the constraints/iam.disableServiceAccountCreation organization policy at the project level.
3. Create a custom service account for the cluster. Enable the constraints/iam.disableServiceAccountKeyCreation organization policy at the project level
4. Create a custom service account for the cluster. Enable the constraints/iam.allowServiceAccountCredentialLifetimeExtension organization policy at the project level.

Question 86

You need to create a VPC that enables your security team to control network resources such as firewall rules.

How should you configure the network to allow for separation of duties for network resources?

1. Set up multiple VPC networks, and set up multi-NIC virtual appliances to connect the networks.
2. Set up VPC Network Peering, and allow developers to peer their network with a Shared VPC.
3. Set up a VPC in a project. Assign the Compute Network Admin role to the security team, and assign the Compute Admin role to the developers.
4. Set up a Shared VPC where the security team manages the firewall rules, and share the network with developers via service projects.

Question 87

You are a security administrator at your company. Per Google-recommended best practices, you implemented the domain restricted sharing organization policy to allow only required domains to access your projects. An engineering team is now reporting that users at an external partner outside your organization domain cannot be granted access to the resources in a project.

How should you make an exception for your partner's domain while following the stated best practices?

1. Turn off the domain restriction sharing organization policy. Set the policy value to "Allow All."
2. Turn off the domain restricted sharing organization policy. Provide the external partners with the required permissions using Google's Identity and Access Management (IAM) service.
3. Turn off the domain restricted sharing organization policy. Add each partner's Google Workspace customer ID to a Google group, add the Google group as an exception under the organization policy, and then turn the policy back on.
4. Turn off the domain restricted sharing organization policy. Set the policy value to "Custom." Add each external partner's Cloud Identity or Google Workspace customer ID as an exception under the organization policy, and then turn the policy back on.

Question 88

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?

1. Generalization
2. Redaction
3. CryptoHashConfig
4. CryptoReplaceFfxFpeConfig

Question 89

For compliance reasons, an organization needs to ensure that in-scope PCI Kubernetes Pods reside on `in-scope` Nodes only. These Nodes can only contain the `in-scope` Pods.

How should the organization achieve this objective?

1. Add a nodeSelector field to the pod configuration to only use the Nodes labeled inscope: true.
2. Create a node pool with the label inscope: true and a Pod Security Policy that only allows the Pods to run on Nodes with that label.
3. Place a taint on the Nodes with the label inscope: true and effect NoSchedule and a toleration to match in the Pod configuration.
4. Run all in-scope Pods in the namespace "in-scope-pci".

Question 90

Your organization recently deployed a new application on Google Kubernetes Engine. You need to deploy a solution to protect the application. The solution has the following requirements:

• Scans must run at least once per week

• Must be able to detect cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

• Must be able to authenticate using Google accounts

Which solution should you use?

1. Google Cloud Armor
2. Web Security Scanner
3. Security Health Analytics
4. Container Threat Detection

Question 91

A customer terminates an engineer and needs to make sure the engineer's Google account is automatically deprovisioned.

What should the customer do?

1. Use the Cloud SDK with their directory service to remove their IAM permissions in Cloud Identity.
2. Use the Cloud SDK with their directory service to provision and deprovision users from Cloud Identity.
3. Configure Cloud Directory Sync with their directory service to provision and deprovision users from Cloud Identity.
4. Configure Cloud Directory Sync with their directory service to remove their IAM permissions in Cloud Identity.

Question 92

Your organization hosts a financial services application running on Compute Engine instances for a third-party company. The third-party company's servers that will consume the application also run on Compute Engine in a separate Google Cloud organization. You need to configure a secure network connection between the Compute Engine instances. You have the following requirements:

• The network connection must be encrypted.

• The communication between servers must be over private IP addresses.

What should you do?

1. Configure a Cloud VPN connection between your organization's VPC network and the third party's that is controlled by VPC firewall rules.
2. Configure a VPC peering connection between your organization's VPC network and the third party's that is controlled by VPC firewall rules.
3. Configure a VPC Service Controls perimeter around your Compute Engine instances, and provide access to the third party via an access level.
4. Configure an Apigee proxy that exposes your Compute Engine-hosted application as an API, and is encrypted with TLS which allows access only to the third party.

Question 93

You are on your company's development team. You noticed that your web application hosted in staging on GKE dynamically includes user data in web pages without first properly validating the inputted data. This could allow an attacker to execute gibberish commands and display arbitrary content in a victim user's browser in a production environment.

How should you prevent and fix this vulnerability?

1. Use Cloud IAP based on IP address or end-user device attributes to prevent and fix the vulnerability.
2. Set up an HTTPS load balancer, and then use Cloud Armor for the production environment to prevent the potential XSS attack.
3. Use Web Security Scanner to validate the usage of an outdated library in the code, and then use a secured version of the included library.
4. Use Web Security Scanner in staging to simulate an XSS injection attack, and then use a templating system that supports contextual autoescaping.

Question 94

A customer's company has multiple business units. Each business unit operates independently, and each has their own engineering group. Your team wants visibility into all projects created within the company and wants to organize their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects based on different business units. Each business unit also requires separate sets of IAM permissions.

Which strategy should you use to meet these needs?

1. Create an organization node, and assign folders for each business unit.
2. Establish standalone projects for each business unit, using gmail.com accounts.
3. Assign GCP resources in a project, with a label identifying which business unit owns the resource.
4. Assign GCP resources in a VPC for each business unit to separate network access.