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Your company is using Cloud Dataproc for its Spark and Hadoop jobs. You want to be able to create, rotate,
and destroy symmetric encryption keys used for the persistent disks used by Cloud Dataproc. Keys can be stored in the cloud.
What should you do?
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?
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?
A company is deploying their application on Google Cloud Platform. Company policy requires long-term data to be stored using a solution that can automatically replicate data over at least two geographic places.
Which Storage solution are they allowed to use?
Your DevOps team uses Packer to build Compute Engine images by using this process:
1 Create an ephemeral Compute Engine VM.
2 Copy a binary from a Cloud Storage bucket to the VM's file system.
3 Update the VM's package manager.
4 Install external packages from the internet onto the VM.
Your security team just enabled the organizational policy. consrraints/compure.vnExtemallpAccess. to restrict the usage of public IP Addresses on VMs. In response your DevOps team updated their scripts to remove public IP addresses on the Compute Engine VMs however the build pipeline is failing due to connectivity issues.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
Your team wants to make sure Compute Engine instances running in your production project do not have public IP addresses. The frontend application Compute Engine instances will require public IPs. The product engineers have the Editor role to modify resources. Your team wants to enforce this requirement.
How should your team meet these requirements?
A 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 migrating an application into the cloud The application will need to read data from a Cloud Storage bucket. Due to local regulatory requirements, you need to hold the key material used for encryption fully under your control and you require a valid rationale for accessing the key material.
What should you do?
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?
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.)
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?
A database administrator notices malicious activities within their Cloud SQL instance. The database administrator wants to monitor the API calls that read the configuration or metadata of resources. Which logs should the database administrator review?
Your organization processes sensitive health information. You want to ensure that data is encrypted while in use by the virtual machines (VMs). You must create a policy that is enforced across the entire organization.
What should you do?
Your company has deployed an application on Compute Engine. The application is accessible by clients on port 587. You need to balance the load between the different instances running the application. The connection should be secured using TLS, and terminated by the Load Balancer.
What type of Load Balancing should you use?
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?
Your team needs to configure their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment so they can centralize the control over networking resources like firewall rules, subnets, and routes. They also have an on-premises environment where resources need access back to the GCP resources through a private VPN connection. The networking resources will need to be controlled by the network security team.
Which type of networking design should your team use to meet these requirements?
Your company’s chief information security officer (CISO) is requiring business data to be stored in specific locations due to regulatory requirements that affect the company’s global expansion plans. After working on a plan to implement this requirement, you determine the following:
You plan to use the Resource Location Restriction organization policy constraint with very granular control. At which level in the hierarchy should you set the constraint?
After completing a security vulnerability assessment, you learned that cloud administrators leave Google Cloud CLI sessions open for days. You need to reduce the risk of attackers who might exploit these open sessions by setting these sessions to the minimum duration.
What should you do?
You need to enable VPC Service Controls and allow changes to perimeters in existing environments without preventing access to resources. Which VPC Service Controls mode should you use?
You want data on Compute Engine disks to be encrypted at rest with keys managed by Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to these keys must be managed in a grouped way because the permissions should be the same for all keys.
What should you do?
You are auditing all your Google Cloud resources in the production project. You want to identity all principals who can change firewall rules.
What should you do?
Your team wants to limit users with administrative privileges at the organization level.
Which two roles should your team restrict? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Your privacy team uses crypto-shredding (deleting encryption keys) as a strategy to delete personally identifiable information (PII). You need to implement this practice on Google Cloud while still utilizing the majority of the platform’s services and minimizing operational overhead. What should you do?
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?
Which two security characteristics are related to the use of VPC peering to connect two VPC networks? (Choose two.)
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?
You need to enforce a security policy in your Google Cloud organization that prevents users from exposing objects in their buckets externally. There are currently no buckets in your organization. Which solution should you implement proactively to achieve this goal with the least operational overhead?
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.)
Users are reporting an outage on your public-facing application that is hosted on Compute Engine. You suspect that a recent change to your firewall rules is responsible. You need to test whether your firewall rules are working properly. What should you do?
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 recently activated the Security Command Center {SCO standard tier. There are a few Cloud Storage buckets that were accidentally made accessible to the public. You need to investigate the impact of the incident and remediate it.
What should you do?
A large e-retailer is moving to Google Cloud Platform with its ecommerce website. The company wants to ensure payment information is encrypted between the customer’s browser and GCP when the customers checkout online.
What should they 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 need to set up two network segments: one with an untrusted subnet and the other with a trusted subnet. You want to configure a virtual appliance such as a next-generation firewall (NGFW) to inspect all traffic between the two network segments. How should you design the network to inspect the traffic?
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?
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 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?
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.)
You need to set up a Cloud interconnect connection between your company's on-premises data center and VPC host network. You want to make sure that on-premises applications can only access Google APIs over the Cloud Interconnect and not through the public internet. You are required to only use APIs that are supported by VPC Service Controls to mitigate against exfiltration risk to non-supported APIs. How should you configure the network?
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:
What should you do?
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?
You are consulting with a client that requires end-to-end encryption of application data (including data in transit, data in use, and data at rest) within Google Cloud. Which options should you utilize to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A customer terminates an engineer and needs to make sure the engineer's Google account is automatically deprovisioned.
What should the customer do?
How should a customer reliably deliver Stackdriver logs from GCP to their on-premises SIEM system?
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?
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 allowsmembers 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?
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?
You are a consultant for an organization that is considering migrating their data from its private cloud to Google Cloud. The organization’s compliance team is not familiar with Google Cloud and needs guidance on how compliance requirements will be met on Google Cloud. One specific compliance requirement isfor customer data at rest to reside within specific geographic boundaries. Which option should you recommend for the organization to meet their data residency requirements on Google Cloud?
You are tasked with exporting and auditing security logs for login activity events for Google Cloud console and API calls that modify configurations to Google Cloud resources. Your export must meet the following requirements:
Export related logs for all projects in the Google Cloud organization.
Export logs in near real-time to an external SIEM.
What should you do? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
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 have the following resource hierarchy. There is an organization policy at each node in the hierarchy as shown. Which load balancer types are denied in VPC A?
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 GoogleCloud experience. What product should you recommend to detect firewall rules that are overlapped by attributes from other firewall rules with higher or equal priority?
An organization is evaluating the use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for certain IT workloads. A well- established directory service is used to manage user identities and lifecycle management. This directory service must continue for the organization to use as the “source of truth” directory for identities.
Which solution meets the organization's requirements?
A 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.)
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?
Your organization is using Active Directory and wants to configure Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). You must set up and enforce single sign-on (SSO) for all users.
What should you do?
An application running on a Compute Engine instance needs to read data from a Cloud Storage bucket. Your team does not allow Cloud Storage buckets to be globally readable and wants to ensure the principle of least privilege.
Which option meets the requirement of your team?
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.)
TESTED 19 Apr 2024