A customer terminates an engineer and needs to make sure the engineer's Google account is automatically deprovisioned.
What should the customer do?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 security team uses encryption keys to ensure confidentiality of user data. You want to establish a process to reduce the impact of a potentially compromised symmetric encryption key in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS).
Which steps should your team take before an incident occurs? (Choose two.)
You want to limit the images that can be used as the source for boot disks. These images will be stored in a dedicated project.
What should you do?
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?
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?
Your organization wants full control of the keys used to encrypt data at rest in their Google Cloud environments. Keys must be generated and stored outside of Google and integrate with many Google Services including BigQuery.
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?
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?
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 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 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 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 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.)
Which two security characteristics are related to the use of VPC peering to connect two VPC networks? (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?
You need to centralize your team’s logs for production projects. You want your team to be able to search and analyze the logs using Logs Explorer. What should you do?
You have numerous private virtual machines on Google Cloud. You occasionally need to manage the servers through Secure Socket Shell (SSH) from a remote location. You want to configure remote access to the servers in a manner that optimizes security and cost efficiency.
What should you do?
You are setting up a new Cloud Storage bucket in your environment that is encrypted with a customer managed encryption key (CMEK). The CMEK is stored in Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). in project "pr j -a", and the Cloud Storage bucket will use project "prj-b". The key is backed by a Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM) and resides in the region europe-west3. Your storage bucket will be located in the region europe-west1. When you create the bucket, you cannot access the key. and you need to troubleshoot why.
What has caused the access issue?
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?
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?
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?
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 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?
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?
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?
When working with agents in a support center via online chat, an organization’s customers often share pictures of their documents with personally identifiable information (PII). The organization that owns the support center is concerned that the PII is being stored in their databases as part of the regular chat logs they retain for
review by internal or external analysts for customer service trend analysis.
Which Google Cloud solution should the organization use to help resolve this concern for the customer while still maintaining data utility?
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?
You are the project owner for a regulated workload that runs in a project you own and manage as an Identity and Access Management (IAM) admin. For an upcoming audit, you need to provide access reviews evidence. Which tool should you use?
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?
You need to audit the network segmentation for your Google Cloud footprint. You currently operate Production and Non-Production infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments. All your VM instances are deployed without any service account customization.
After observing the traffic in your custom network, you notice that all instances can communicate freely – despite tag-based VPC firewall rules in place to segment traffic properly – with a priority of 1000. What are the most likely reasons for this behavior?
You are backing up application logs to a shared Cloud Storage bucket that is accessible to both the administrator and analysts. Analysts should not have access to logs that contain any personally identifiable information (PII). Log files containing PII should be stored in another bucket that is only accessible to the administrator. What should you do?
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?
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?
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 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?
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?
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?
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?
Your company's users access data in a BigQuery table. You want to ensure they can only access the data during working hours.
What should you do?
You recently joined the networking team supporting your company's Google Cloud implementation. You are tasked with familiarizing yourself with the firewall rules configuration and providing recommendations based on your networking and Google Cloud experience. What product should you recommend to detect firewall rules that are overlapped by attributes from other firewall rules with higher or equal priority?
A 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 need to connect your organization's on-premises network with an existing Google Cloud environment that includes one Shared VPC with two subnets named Production and Non-Production. You are required to:
Use a private transport link.
Configure access to Google Cloud APIs through private API endpoints originating from on-premises environments.
Ensure that Google Cloud APIs are only consumed via VPC Service Controls.
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?
You have been tasked with configuring Security Command Center for your organization’s Google Cloud environment. Your security team needs to receive alerts of potential crypto mining in the organization’s compute environment and alerts for common Google Cloud misconfigurations that impact security. Which Security Command Center features should you use to configure these alerts? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
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?
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 is for 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?
A customer is running an analytics workload on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) where Compute Engine instances are accessing data stored on Cloud Storage. Your team wants to make sure that this workload will not be able to access, or be accessed from, the internet.
Which two strategies should your team use to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Your company must follow industry specific regulations. Therefore, you need to enforce customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for all new Cloud Storage resources in the organization called org1.
What command should you execute?
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?
You manage one of your organization's Google Cloud projects (Project A). AVPC Service Control (SC) perimeter is blocking API access requests to this project including Pub/Sub. A resource running under a service account in another project (Project B) needs to collect messages from a Pub/Sub topic in your project Project B is not included in a VPC SC perimeter. You need to provide access from Project B to the Pub/Sub topic in Project A using the principle of least
Privilege.
What should you do?
Your organization previously stored files in Cloud Storage by using Google Managed Encryption Keys (GMEK). but has recently updated the internal policy to require Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK). You need to re-encrypt the files quickly and efficiently with minimal cost.
What should you do?
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?
In order to meet PCI DSS requirements, a customer wants to ensure that all outbound traffic is authorized.
Which two cloud offerings meet this requirement without additional compensating controls? (Choose two.)
You 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 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?
An organization's security and risk management teams are concerned about where their responsibility lies for certain production workloads they are running in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and where Google's responsibility lies. They are mostly running workloads using Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings, including App Engine primarily.
Which one of these areas in the technology stack would they need to focus on as their primary responsibility when using App Engine?
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?
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 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?
You need to provide a corporate user account in Google Cloud for each of your developers and operational staff who need direct access to GCP resources. Corporate policy requires you to maintain the user identity in a third-party identity management provider and leverage single sign-on. You learn that a significant number of users are using their corporate domain email addresses for personal Google accounts, and you need to follow Google recommended practices to convert existing unmanaged users to managed accounts.
Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)
A batch job running on Compute Engine needs temporary write access to a Cloud Storage bucket. You want the batch job to use the minimum permissions necessary to complete the task. What should you do?
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.)
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?