Your organization wants to be General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant You want to ensure that your DevOps teams can only create Google Cloud resources in the Europe regions.
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?
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?
Your organization has had a few recent DDoS attacks. You need to authenticate responses to domain name lookups. Which Google Cloud service should you use?
You are routing all your internet facing traffic from Google Cloud through your on-premises internet connection. You want to accomplish this goal securely and with the highest bandwidth possible.
What should you do?
Your organization s record data exists in Cloud Storage. You must retain all record data for at least seven years This policy must be permanent.
What should you do?
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?
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?
Your company is concerned about unauthorized parties gaming access to the Google Cloud environment by using a fake login page. You must implement a solution to protect against person-in-the-middle attacks.
Which security measure should you use?
A DevOps team will create a new container to run on Google Kubernetes Engine. As the application will be internet-facing, they want to minimize the attack surface of the container.
What should they do?
Your organization is using GitHub Actions as a continuous integration and delivery (Cl/CD) platform. You must enable access to Google Cloud resources from the Cl/CD pipelines in the most secure way.
What should you do?
Your company is moving to Google Cloud. You plan to sync your users first by using Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS). Some employees have already created Google Cloud accounts by using their company email addresses that were created outside of GCDS. You must create your users on Cloud Identity.
What should you do?
Applications often require access to “secrets” - small pieces of sensitive data at build or run time. The administrator managing these secrets on GCP wants to keep a track of “who did what, where, and when?” within their GCP projects.
Which two log streams would provide the information that the administrator is looking for? (Choose two.)
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.)
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.)
Your team sets up a Shared VPC Network where project co-vpc-prod is the host project. Your team has configured the firewall rules, subnets, and VPN gateway on the host project. They need to enable Engineering Group A to attach a Compute Engine instance to only the 10.1.1.0/24 subnet.
What should your team grant to Engineering Group A to meet this requirement?
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 company has been creating users manually in Cloud Identity to provide access to Google Cloud resources. Due to continued growth of the environment, you want to authorize the Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) instance and integrate it with your on-premises LDAP server to onboard hundreds of users. You are required to:
Replicate user and group lifecycle changes from the on-premises LDAP server in Cloud Identity.
Disable any manually created users in Cloud Identity.
You have already configured the LDAP search attributes to include the users and security groups in scope for Google Cloud. What should you do next to complete this solution?
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?
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?
You control network traffic for a folder in your Google Cloud environment. Your folder includes multiple projects and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks You want to enforce on the folder level that egress connections are limited only to IP range 10.58.5.0/24 and only from the VPC network dev-vpc." You want to minimize implementation and maintenance effort
What should you do?
An organization receives an increasing number of phishing emails.
Which method should be used to protect employee credentials in this situation?
You are in charge of migrating a legacy application from your company datacenters to GCP before the current maintenance contract expires. You do not know what ports the application is using and no documentation is available for you to check. You want to complete the migration without putting your environment at risk.
What should you do?
Your company is storing sensitive data in Cloud Storage. You want a key generated on-premises to be used in the encryption process.
What should you do?
You are in charge of creating a new Google Cloud organization for your company. Which two actions should you take when creating the super administrator accounts? (Choose two.)
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 are deploying a web application hosted on Compute Engine. A business requirement mandates that application logs are preserved for 12 years and data is kept within European boundaries. You want to implement a storage solution that minimizes overhead and is cost-effective. What should you do?
Your organization is transitioning to Google Cloud You want to ensure that only trusted container images are deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a project. The containers must be deployed from a centrally managed. Container Registry and signed by a trusted authority.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
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?
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.)
Your organization is moving virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud. You must ensure that operating system images that are used across your projects are trusted and meet your security requirements.
What should you do?
Your 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?
Your organization acquired a new workload. The Web and Application (App) servers will be running on Compute Engine in a newly created custom VPC. You are responsible for configuring a secure network communication solution that meets the following requirements:
Only allows communication between the Web and App tiers.
Enforces consistent network security when autoscaling the Web and App tiers.
Prevents Compute Engine Instance Admins from altering network traffic.
What should you do?
Your company's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) creates a requirement that business data must be stored in specific locations due to regulatory requirements that affect the company's global expansion plans. After working on the details to implement this requirement, you determine the following:
The services in scope are included in the Google Cloud Data Residency Terms.
The business data remains within specific locations under the same organization.
The folder structure can contain multiple data residency locations.
You plan to use the Resource Location Restriction organization policy constraint. At which level in the resource hierarchy should you set the constraint?
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.)
You are a Security Administrator at your organization. You need to restrict service account creation capability within production environments. You want to accomplish this centrally across the organization. What should you do?
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.)
Your Security team believes that a former employee of your company gained unauthorized access to Google Cloud resources some time in the past 2 months by using a service account key. You need to confirm the unauthorized access and determine the user activity. What should you do?
You manage a fleet of virtual machines (VMs) in your organization. You have encountered issues with lack of patching in many VMs. You need to automate regular patching in your VMs and view the patch management data across multiple projects.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
You are creating an internal App Engine application that needs to access a user’s Google Drive on the user’s behalf. Your company does not want to rely on the current user’s credentials. It also wants to follow Google- recommended practices.
What should you do?
Which two security characteristics are related to the use of VPC peering to connect two VPC networks? (Choose two.)
A company is using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with container images of a mission-critical application The company wants to scan the images for known security issues and securely share the report with the security team without exposing them outside Google Cloud.
What should you do?
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?
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?
Your company conducts clinical trials and needs to analyze the results of a recent study that are stored in BigQuery. The interval when the medicine was taken contains start and stop dates The interval data is critical to the analysis, but specific dates may identify a particular batch and introduce bias You need to obfuscate the start and end dates for each row and preserve the interval data.
What should you do?
The security operations team needs access to the security-related logs for all projects in their organization. They have the following requirements:
Follow the least privilege model by having only view access to logs.
Have access to Admin Activity logs.
Have access to Data Access logs.
Have access to Access Transparency logs.
Which Identity and Access Management (IAM) role should the security operations team be granted?
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 thee application frontend to access the data in the application's mysql instance on port 3306.
What should you do?
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 tojoin 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?
An organization is moving applications to Google Cloud while maintaining a few mission-critical applications on-premises. The organization must transfer the data at a bandwidth of at least 50 Gbps. What should they use to ensure secure continued connectivity between sites?
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?
Your company recently published a security policy to minimize the usage of service account keys. On-premises Windows-based applications are interacting with Google Cloud APIs. You need to implement Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with your identity provider on-premises.
What should you do?
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?
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?
Your Google Cloud organization allows for administrative capabilities to be distributed to each team through provision of a Google Cloud project with Owner role (roles/ owner). The organization contains thousands of Google Cloud Projects Security Command Center Premium has surfaced multiplecpen_myscl_portfindings. You are enforcing the guardrails and need to prevent these types of common misconfigurations.
What should you do?
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 theuse of the default networks in your organization while following Google-recommended best practices. 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?
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?
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?
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?
A customer terminates an engineer and needs to make sure the engineer's Google account is automatically deprovisioned.
What should the customer do?
Which type of load balancer should you use to maintain client IP by default while using the standard network tier?
A patch for a vulnerability has been released, and a DevOps team needs to update their running containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
How should the DevOps team accomplish this?
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 organization uses Google Workspace Enterprise Edition tor authentication. You are concerned about employees leaving their laptops unattended for extended periods of time after authenticating into Google Cloud. You must prevent malicious people from using an employee's unattended laptop to modify their environment.
What should you do?