Professional-Cloud-Security-Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer Questions and Answers

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?

A company migrated their entire data/center to Google Cloud Platform. It is running thousands of instances across multiple projects managed by different departments. You want to have a historical record of what was running in Google Cloud Platform at any point in time.

What should you do?

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

Which two security characteristics are related to the use of VPC peering to connect two VPC networks? (Choose two.)

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

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?

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?

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?

You are part of a security team investigating a compromised service account key. You need to audit which new resources were created by the service account.

What should you do?

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?

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.)

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?

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?

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?

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 are working with a client who plans to migrate their data to Google Cloud. You are responsible for recommending an encryption service to manage their encrypted keys. You have the following requirements:

• The master key must be rotated at least once every 45 days.
• The solution that stores the master key must be FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated.
• The master key must be stored in multiple regions within the US for redundancy.

Which solution meets these requirements?

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 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.)

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?

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?