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PCSE Question 21

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Topic 1 · Question 21 · Select all that apply

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.)

  • AApp Engine (correct answer)
  • BCloud Functions (correct answer)
  • CCompute Engine
  • DGoogle Kubernetes Engine
  • ECloud Storage
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Correct answer: A, B

The correct answer is A, B. Option A: App Engine Option B: Cloud Functions

Explanation

Cloud Functions runs event-driven code without managing servers and scales automatically. App Engine is a fully managed platform that runs and autoscales web apps with little operational effort.

PCSE Question 22

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A website design company recently migrated all customer sites to App Engine. Some sites are still in progress and should only be visible to customers and company employees from any location. Which solution will restrict access to the in-progress sites?

  • AUpload an .htaccess file containing the customer and employee user accounts to App Engine.
  • BCreate an App Engine firewall rule that allows access from the customer and employee networks and denies all other traffic.
  • CEnable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), and allow access to a Google Group that contains the customer and employee user accounts. (correct answer)
  • DUse Cloud VPN to create a VPN connection between the relevant on-premises networks and the company's GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), and allow access to a Google Group that contains the customer and employee user accounts.

Explanation

Cloud Identity manages users, groups, and device policies as a managed identity platform. Identity-Aware Proxy enforces per-request access control to apps without a VPN.

PCSE Question 23

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When working with agents in the support center via online chat, your organization's customers often share pictures of their documents with personally identifiable information (PII). Your leadership team is concerned that this PII is being stored as part of the regular chat logs, which are reviewed by internal or external analysts for customer service trends. You want to resolve this concern while still maintaining data utility. What should you do?

  • AUse Cloud Key Management Service to encrypt PII shared by customers before storing it for analysis.
  • BUse Object Lifecycle Management to make sure that all chat records containing PII are discarded and not saved for analysis.
  • CUse the image inspection and redaction actions of the DLP API to redact PII from the images before storing them for analysis. (correct answer)
  • DUse the generalization and bucketing actions of the DLP API solution to redact PII from the texts before storing them for analysis.
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Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Use the image inspection and redaction actions of the DLP API to redact PII from the images before storing them for analysis.

PCSE Question 24

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Topic 1 · Question 24

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?

  • AOpen Cloud Shell and run gcloud iam service-accounts enable-auto-rotate --iam-account=IAM_ACCOUNT.
  • BOpen Cloud Shell and run gcloud iam service-accounts keys rotate --iam-account=IAM_ACCOUNT --key=NEW_KEY.
  • CCreate a new key, and use the new key in the application. Delete the old key from the Service Account. (correct answer)
  • DCreate a new key, and use the new key in the application. Store the old key on the system as a backup key.
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Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Create a new key, and use the new key in the application. Delete the old key from the Service Account.

Explanation

A service account provides an identity for workloads to access Google Cloud APIs securely.

PCSE Question 25

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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?

  • AShared VPC Network with a host project and service projects (correct answer)
  • BGrant Compute Admin role to the networking team for each engineering project
  • CVPC peering between all engineering projects using a hub and spoke model
  • DCloud VPN Gateway between all engineering projects using a hub and spoke model
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Shared VPC Network with a host project and service projects

Explanation

Shared VPC centralizes network administration by sharing one VPC across multiple projects. A VPC provides a global, software-defined private network for your Google Cloud resources.

PCSE Question 26

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Topic 1 · Question 26

An organization is migrating from their current on-premises productivity software systems to G Suite. Some network security controls were in place that were mandated by a regulatory body in their region for their previous on-premises system. The organization's risk team wants to ensure that network security controls are maintained and effective in G Suite. A security architect supporting this migration has been asked to ensure that network security controls are in place as part of the new shared responsibility model between the organization and Google Cloud. What solution would help meet the requirements?

  • AEnsure that firewall rules are in place to meet the required controls.
  • BSet up Cloud Armor to ensure that network security controls can be managed for G Suite.
  • CNetwork security is a built-in solution and Google's Cloud responsibility for SaaS products like G Suite. (correct answer)
  • DSet up an array of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks to control network security as mandated by the relevant regulation.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Network security is a built-in solution and Google's Cloud responsibility for SaaS products like G Suite.

PCSE Question 27

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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?

  • ACreate an organization node, and assign folders for each business unit. (correct answer)
  • BEstablish standalone projects for each business unit, using gmail.com accounts.
  • CAssign GCP resources in a project, with a label identifying which business unit owns the resource.
  • DAssign GCP resources in a VPC for each business unit to separate network access.
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Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Create an organization node, and assign folders for each business unit.

PCSE Question 28

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Topic 1 · Question 28

A company has redundant mail servers in different Google Cloud Platform regions and wants to route customers to the nearest mail server based on location. How should the company accomplish this?

  • AConfigure TCP Proxy Load Balancing as a global load balancing service listening on port 995. (correct answer)
  • BCreate a Network Load Balancer to listen on TCP port 995 with a forwarding rule to forward traffic based on location.
  • CUse Cross-Region Load Balancing with an HTTP(S) load balancer to route traffic to the nearest region.
  • DUse Cloud CDN to route the mail traffic to the closest origin mail server based on client IP address.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Configure TCP Proxy Load Balancing as a global load balancing service listening on port 995.

Explanation

A load balancer distributes traffic across healthy backends in multiple zones for availability and scale.

PCSE Question 29

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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?

  • ACompute Network User Role at the host project level.
  • BCompute Network User Role at the subnet level. (correct answer)
  • CCompute Shared VPC Admin Role at the host project level.
  • DCompute Shared VPC Admin Role at the service project level.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Compute Network User Role at the subnet level.

PCSE Question 30

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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?

  • AUse Resource Manager on the organization level.
  • BUse Forseti Security to automate inventory snapshots.
  • CUse Stackdriver to create a dashboard across all projects.
  • DUse Security Command Center to view all assets across the organization. (correct answer)
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: D

The correct answer is D. Option D: Use Security Command Center to view all assets across the organization.

Explanation

Security Command Center centralizes security findings, threats, and compliance posture.

PCSE Question 31

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An organization is starting to move its infrastructure from its on-premises environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The first step the organization wants to take is to migrate its current data backup and disaster recovery solutions to GCP for later analysis. The organization's production environment will remain on- premises for an indefinite time. The organization wants a scalable and cost-efficient solution. Which GCP solution should the organization use?

  • ABigQuery using a data pipeline job with continuous updates
  • BCloud Storage using a scheduled task and gsutil (correct answer)
  • CCompute Engine Virtual Machines using Persistent Disk
  • DCloud Datastore using regularly scheduled batch upload jobs
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Cloud Storage using a scheduled task and gsutil

Explanation

Cloud Storage provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

PCSE Question 32

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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?

  • ACreate a new Service account, and give all application users the role of Service Account User.
  • BCreate a new Service account, and add all application users to a Google Group. Give this group the role of Service Account User.
  • CUse a dedicated G Suite Admin account, and authenticate the application's operations with these G Suite credentials.
  • DCreate a new service account, and grant it G Suite domain-wide delegation. Have the application use it to impersonate the user. (correct answer)
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Correct answer: D

The correct answer is D. Option D: Create a new service account, and grant it G Suite domain-wide delegation. Have the application use it to impersonate the user.

Explanation

A service account provides an identity for workloads to access Google Cloud APIs securely.

PCSE Question 33

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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 control the key lifecycle. Which boot disk encryption solution should you use on the cluster to meet this customer's requirements?

  • ACustomer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK)
  • BCustomer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) (correct answer)
  • CEncryption by default
  • DPre-encrypting files before transferring to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for analysis
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS).

PCSE Question 34

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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?

  • AUse the Cloud Key Management Service to manage the data encryption key (DEK).
  • BUse the Cloud Key Management Service to manage the key encryption key (KEK). (correct answer)
  • CUse customer-supplied encryption keys to manage the data encryption key (DEK).
  • DUse customer-supplied encryption keys to manage the key encryption key (KEK).
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Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Use the Cloud Key Management Service to manage the key encryption key (KEK).

PCSE Question 35

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You are a member of the security team at an organization. Your team has a single GCP project with credit card payment processing systems alongside web applications and data processing systems. You want to reduce the scope of systems subject to PCI audit standards. What should you do?

  • AUse multi-factor authentication for admin access to the web application.
  • BUse only applications certified compliant with PA-DSS.
  • CMove the cardholder data environment into a separate GCP project. (correct answer)
  • DUse VPN for all connections between your office and cloud environments.
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Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Move the cardholder data environment into a separate GCP project.

PCSE Question 36

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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?

  • ACloud Key Management Service
  • BCloud Data Loss Prevention API (correct answer)
  • CBigQuery
  • DWeb Security Scanner
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Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Cloud Data Loss Prevention API.

PCSE Question 37

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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?

  • ACreate a Folder per department under the Organization. For each department's Folder, assign the Project Viewer role to the Google Group related to that department. (correct answer)
  • BCreate a Folder per department under the Organization. For each department's Folder, assign the Project Browser role to the Google Group related to that department.
  • CCreate a Project per department under the Organization. For each department's Project, assign the Project Viewer role to the Google Group related to that department.
  • DCreate a Project per department under the Organization. For each department's Project, assign the Project Browser role to the Google Group related to that department.
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Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Create a Folder per department under the Organization. For each department's Folder, assign the Project Viewer role to the Google Group related to that department.

PCSE Question 38

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A customer's internal security team must manage its own encryption keys for encrypting data on Cloud Storage and decides to use customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK). How should the team complete this task?

  • AUpload the encryption key to a Cloud Storage bucket, and then upload the object to the same bucket.
  • BUse the gsutil command line tool to upload the object to Cloud Storage, and specify the location of the encryption key. (correct answer)
  • CGenerate an encryption key in the Google Cloud Platform Console, and upload an object to Cloud Storage using the specified key.
  • DEncrypt the object, then use the gsutil command line tool or the Google Cloud Platform Console to upload the object to Cloud Storage.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Use the gsutil command line tool to upload the object to Cloud Storage, and specify the location of the encryption key.

Explanation

Cloud Storage provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed.

PCSE Question 39

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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.)

  • ACreate a project with multiple VPC networks for each environment.
  • BCreate a folder for each development and production environment. (correct answer)
  • CCreate a Google Group for the Engineering team, and assign permissions at the folder level. (correct answer)
  • DCreate an Organizational Policy constraint for each folder environment.
  • ECreate projects for each environment, and grant IAM rights to each engineering user.
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Correct answer: B, C

The correct answer is B, C. Option B: Create a folder for each development and production environment. Option C: Create a Google Group for the Engineering team, and assign permissions at the folder level.

PCSE Question 40

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You want to evaluate your organization's Google Cloud instance for PCI compliance. You need to identify Google's inherent controls. Which document should you review to find the information?

  • AGoogle Cloud Platform: Customer Responsibility Matrix (correct answer)
  • BPCI DSS Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures
  • CPCI SSC Cloud Computing Guidelines
  • DProduct documentation for Compute Engine
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Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Google Cloud Platform: Customer Responsibility Matrix.

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