Your organization is using Vertex AI Workbench Instances. You must ensure that newly deployed instances are automatically kept up-to-date and that users cannot accidentally alter settings in the operating system. What should you do?
Your organization develops software involved in many open source projects and is concerned about software supply chain threats You need to deliver provenance for the build to demonstrate the software is untampered.
What should you do?
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.)
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?
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?
Your organization processes sensitive health information. You want to ensure that data is encrypted while in use by the virtual machines (VMs). You must create a policy that is enforced across the entire organization.
What should you do?
Which Google Cloud service should you use to enforce access control policies for applications and resources?
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?
You run applications on Cloud Run. You already enabled container analysis for vulnerability scanning. However, you are concerned about the lack of control on the applications that are deployed. You must ensure that only trusted container images are deployed on Cloud Run.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
In a shared security responsibility model for IaaS, which two layers of the stack does the customer share responsibility for? (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?
Your organization operates Virtual Machines (VMs) with only private IPs in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with internet access through Cloud NAT Everyday, you must patch all VMs with critical OS updates and provide summary reports
What should you do?
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?
Your application is deployed as a highly available cross-region solution behind a global external HTTP(S) load balancer. You notice significant spikes in traffic from multiple IP addresses but it is unknown whether the IPs are malicious. You are concerned about your application's availability. You want to limit traffic from these clients over a specified time interval.
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?
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?
You have created an OS image that is hardened per your organization’s security standards and is being stored in a project managed by the security team. As a Google Cloud administrator, you need to make sure all VMs in your Google Cloud organization can only use that specific OS image while minimizing operational overhead. What should you do? (Choose two.)
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 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 multiple cpen_myscl_port findings. You are enforcing the guardrails and need to prevent these types of common misconfigurations.
What should you do?
You need to set up a Cloud interconnect connection between your company's on-premises data center and VPC host network. You want to make sure that on-premises applications can only access Google APIs over the Cloud Interconnect and not through the public internet. You are required to only use APIs that are supported by VPC Service Controls to mitigate against exfiltration risk to non-supported APIs. How should you configure the network?
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?
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 the use of the default networks in your organization while following Google-recommended best practices. 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
Your company operates an application instance group that is currently deployed behind a Google Cloud load balancer in us-central-1 and is configured to use the Standard Tier network. The infrastructure team wants to expand to a second Google Cloud region, us-east-2. You need to set up a single external IP address to distribute new requests to the instance groups in both regions.
What should you do?
You need to set up two network segments: one with an untrusted subnet and the other with a trusted subnet. You want to configure a virtual appliance such as a next-generation firewall (NGFW) to inspect all traffic between the two network segments. How should you design the network to inspect the traffic?
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?
Your DevOps team uses Packer to build Compute Engine images by using this process:
1 Create an ephemeral Compute Engine VM.
2 Copy a binary from a Cloud Storage bucket to the VM's file system.
3 Update the VM's package manager.
4 Install external packages from the internet onto the VM.
Your security team just enabled the organizational policy. consrraints/compure.vnExtemallpAccess. to restrict the usage of public IP Addresses on VMs. In response your DevOps team updated their scripts to remove public IP addresses on the Compute Engine VMs however the build pipeline is failing due to connectivity issues.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
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?
You are implementing data protection by design and in accordance with GDPR requirements. As part of design reviews, you are told that you need to manage the encryption key for a solution that includes workloads for Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub. Which option should you choose for this implementation?
You define central security controls in your Google Cloud environment for one of the folders in your organization you set an organizational policy to deny the assignment of external IP addresses to VMs. Two days later you receive an alert about a new VM with an external IP address under that folder.
What could have caused this alert?
You manage a mission-critical workload for your organization, which is in a highly regulated industry The workload uses Compute Engine VMs to analyze and process the sensitive data after it is uploaded to Cloud Storage from the endpomt computers. Your compliance team has detected that this workload does not meet the data protection requirements for sensitive data. You need to meet these requirements;
• Manage the data encryption key (DEK) outside the Google Cloud boundary.
• Maintain full control of encryption keys through a third-party provider.
• Encrypt the sensitive data before uploading it to Cloud Storage
• Decrypt the sensitive data during processing in the Compute Engine VMs
• Encrypt the sensitive data in memory while in use in the Compute Engine VMs
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
Your organization is using Vertex AI Workbench Instances. You must ensure that newly deployed instances are automatically kept up-to-date and that users cannot accidentally alter settings in the operating system. 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?
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?
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?
Your organization's application is being integrated with a partner application that requires read access to customer data to process customer orders. The customer data is stored in one of your Cloud Storage buckets. You have evaluated different options and determined that this activity requires the use of service account keys. You must advise the partner on how to minimize the risk of a compromised service account key causing a loss of data. What should you advise the partner to do?
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 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 manager wants to start retaining security event logs for 2 years while minimizing costs. You write a filter to select the appropriate log entries.
Where should you export the logs?
Your organization wants to be continuously evaluated against CIS Google Cloud Computing Foundations Benchmark v1 3 0 (CIS Google Cloud Foundation 1 3). Some of the controls are irrelevant to your organization and must be disregarded in evaluation. You need to create an automated system or process to ensure that only the relevant controls are evaluated.
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.)
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?
A company is running workloads in a dedicated server room. They must only be accessed from within the private company network. You need to connect to these workloads from Compute Engine instances within a Google Cloud Platform project.
Which two approaches can you take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
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 are on your company's development team. You noticed that your web application hosted in staging on GKE dynamically includes user data in web pages without first properly validating the inputted data. This could allow an attacker to execute gibberish commands and display arbitrary content in a victim user's browser in a production environment.
How should you prevent and fix this vulnerability?
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?
Your organization uses BigQuery to process highly sensitive, structured datasets. Following the "need to know" principle, you need to create the Identity and Access Management (IAM) design to meet the needs of these users:
• Business user must access curated reports.
• Data engineer: must administrate the data lifecycle in the platform.
• Security operator: must review user activity on the data platform.
What should you do?
You are migrating an on-premises data warehouse to BigQuery Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage. You need to configure security services in the data warehouse. Your company compliance policies mandate that the data warehouse must:
• Protect data at rest with full lifecycle management on cryptographic keys
• Implement a separate key management provider from data management
• Provide visibility into all encryption key requests
What services should be included in the data warehouse implementation?
Choose 2 answers
A security audit uncovered several inconsistencies in your project's Identity and Access Management (IAM) configuration. Some service accounts have overly permissive roles, and a few external collaborators have more access than necessary. You need to gain detailed visibility into changes to IAM policies, user activity, service account behavior, and access to sensitive projects. 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?
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?
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 exporting application logs to Cloud Storage. You encounter an error message that the log sinks don't support uniform bucket-level access policies. How should you resolve this error?
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’s Google Cloud VMs are deployed via an instance template that configures them with a public IP address in order to host web services for external users. The VMs reside in a service project that is attached to a host (VPC) project containing one custom Shared VPC for the VMs. You have been asked to reduce the exposure of the VMs to the internet while continuing to service external users. You have already recreated the instance template without a public IP address configuration to launch the managed instance group (MIG). What should you do?
You have a highly sensitive BigQuery workload that contains personally identifiable information (Pll) that you want to ensure is not accessible from the internet. To prevent data exfiltration only requests from authorized IP addresses are allowed to query your BigQuery tables.
What should you do?
An application running on a Compute Engine instance needs to read data from a Cloud Storage bucket. Your team does not allow Cloud Storage buckets to be globally readable and wants to ensure the principle of least privilege.
Which option meets the requirement of your team?
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’re developing the incident response plan for your company. You need to define the access strategy that your DevOps team will use when reviewing and investigating a deployment issue in your Google Cloud environment. There are two main requirements:
Least-privilege access must be enforced at all times.
The DevOps team must be able to access the required resources only during the deployment issue.
How should you grant access while following Google-recommended best practices?
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.)
Your organization s customers must scan and upload the contract and their driver license into a web portal in Cloud Storage. You must remove all personally identifiable information (Pll) from files that are older than 12 months. Also you must archive the anonymized files for retention purposes.
What should you do?
Your organization must follow the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). To prepare for an audit, you must detect deviations at an infrastructure-as-a-service level in your Google Cloud landing zone. What should you do?
You are responsible for protecting highly sensitive data in BigQuery. Your operations teams need access to this data, but given privacy regulations, you want to ensure that they cannot read the sensitive fields such as email addresses and first names. These specific sensitive fields should only be available on a need-to-know basis to the HR team. What should you do?
You are a security engineer at a finance company. Your organization plans to store data on Google Cloud, but your leadership team is worried about the security of their highly sensitive data Specifically, your
company is concerned about internal Google employees' ability to access your company's data on Google Cloud. What solution should you propose?
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?
When creating a secure container image, which two items should you incorporate into the build if possible? (Choose two.)
Your organization wants to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Google Cloud You must implement data residency and operational sovereignty in the EU.
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?
Your organization is rolling out a new continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) process to deploy infrastructure and applications in Google Cloud Many teams will use their own instances of the CI/CD workflow It will run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) The CI/CD pipelines must be designed to securely access Google Cloud APIs
What should you do?