PCSE — questions

Your organization is deploying a new web application on Compute Engine and needs robust perimeter security. You need to protect the application from common web attacks, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), while also controlling network traffic based on the source IP address and user identity. What should you do?

Your company is in a regulated industry that requires low overhead encryption using private connectivity from on-premises data centers to Google Cloud. You need to establish connectivity and ensure high availability across multiple regions. What should you do?

You manage the security logs within your cloud environment. You have configured a continuous export of security logs to Cloud Storage buckets for long-term retention. You need to provide auditors the ability to analyze the logs that were exported to Cloud Storage. Your solution must be cost-effective and quickly implemented. What should you do?

Your organization currently uses a third-party identity provider (IdP) that only requires a username and password for authentication. You need to enforce 2-step verification (2SV) for the Super admins in Cloud Identity. What should you do?

Your organization has a hybrid cloud environment with a data center connected to Google Cloud through a dedicated Cloud Interconnect connection. You need to configure private access from your on-premises hosts to Google APIs, specifically Cloud Storage and BigQuery, without exposing traffic to the public internet. What should you do?

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?

Your company has recently enabled Security Command Center at the organization level. You need to implement runtime threat detection for applications running in containers within projects residing in the production folder. Specifically, you need to be notified if additional libraries are loaded or malicious scripts are executed within these running containers. You need to configure Security Command Center to meet this requirement while ensuring findings are visible within Security Command Center. What should you do?

You are managing a set of Google Cloud projects that are contained in a folder named Data Warehouse. A new data analysis team has been approved to perform data analysis for all BigQuery data in the projects within the Data Warehouse folder. They should only be able to read the data and not have permissions to modify or delete the data. You want to reduce the operational overhead of provisioning access while adhering to the principle of least privilege. What should you do?

Your company hosts a critical web application on Google Cloud. The application is experiencing an increasing number of sophisticated layer 7 attacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attempts. You need to protect the application from these attacks while minimizing the impact on legitimate traffic and ensuring high availability. What should you do?

Your financial services company needs to process customer personally identifiable information (PII) for analytics while adhering to strict privacy regulations. You must transform this data to protect individual privacy to ensure that the data retains its original format and consistency for analytical integrity. Your solution must avoid full irreversible deletion. What should you do?

Your global defense company is migrating top-secret classified data to BigQuery and Cloud Storage. National security regulations demand that master encryption key material never leaves the accredited on-premises cryptographic hardware. You must retain the unilateral ability to revoke data access, independent of any cloud provider. What should you do?

You work at a company in a regulated industry and are responsible for ongoing security of the Cloud environment. You need to prevent and detect misconfigurations in a particular folder based on specific compliance policies. You need to adhere to industry-specific compliance policies and policies that are internal to your company. What should you do?

Your organization has established a highly sensitive project within a VPC Service Controls perimeter. You need to ensure that only users meeting specific contextual requirements such as having a company-managed device, a specific location, and a valid user identity can access resources within this perimeter. You want to evaluate the impact of this change without blocking legitimate access. What should you do?

Your company’s storage team manages all product images within a specific Google Cloud project. To maintain control, you must isolate access to Cloud Storage for this project, allowing the storage team to manage restrictions at the project level. They must be restricted to using corporate computers. What should you do?

Your organization uses Google Workspace as the primary identity provider for Google Cloud. Users in your organization initially created their passwords. You need to improve password security due to a recent security event. What should you do?

Your company has deployed an artificial intelligence model in a central project. This model has a lot of sensitive intellectual property and must be kept strictly isolated from the internet. You must expose the model endpoint only to a defined list of projects in your organization. What should you do?