You want to configure a NAT to perform address translation between your on-premises network blocks and GCP.Which NAT solution should you use?

An instance with IP forwarding enabled

An instance configured with iptables DNAT rules

An instance configured with iptables SNAT rules

You need to ensure your personal SSH key works on every instance in your project. You want to accomplish this as efficiently as possible.What should you do?

Upload your public ssh key to the project Metadata.

Upload your public ssh key to each instance Metadata.

Create a custom Google Compute Engine image with your public ssh key embedded.

Use gcloud compute ssh to automatically copy your public ssh key to the instance.

In order to provide subnet level isolation, you want to force instance-A in one subnet to route through a security appliance, called instance-B, in another subnet.What should you do?

Create a more specific route than the system-generated subnet route, pointing the next hop to instance-B with a tag applied to instance-A.

Create a more specific route than the system-generated subnet route, pointing the next hop to instance-B with no tag.

Create a more specific route than the system-generated subnet route, pointing the next hop to instance-B with a tag applied to instance-A.

Delete the system-generated subnet route and create a specific route to instance-B with a tag applied to instance-A.

Move instance-B to another VPC and, using multi-NIC, connect instance-B's interface to instance- A's network. Configure the appropriate routes to force traffic through to instance-A.

You create a Google Kubernetes Engine private cluster and want to use kubectl to get the status of the pods. In one of your instances you notice the master is not responding, even though the cluster is up and running.What should you do to solve the problem?

Create the appropriate master authorized network entries to allow the instance to communicate to the master.

Assign a public IP address to the instance.

Create a route to reach the Master, pointing to the default internet gateway.

Create the appropriate firewall policy in the VPC to allow traffic from Master node IP address to the instance.

Create the appropriate master authorized network entries to allow the instance to communicate to the master.

Your company has a security team that manages firewalls and SSL certificates. It also has a networking team that manages the networking resources. The networking team needs to be able to read firewall rules, but should not be able to create, modify, or delete them.How should you set up permissions for the networking team?

Assign members of the networking team the compute.networkAdmin role.

Assign members of the networking team the compute.networkUser role.

Assign members of the networking team the compute.networkAdmin role.

Assign members of the networking team a custom role with only the compute.networks.* and the compute.firewalls.list permissions.

Assign members of the networking team the compute.networkViewer role, and add the compute.networks.use permission.

You have created an HTTP(S) load balanced service. You need to verify that your backend instancesare responding properly.How should you configure the health check?

Set request-path to a specific URL used for health checking, and set response to a string that the backend service will always return in the response body.

Set request-path to a specific URL used for health checking, and set proxy-header to PROXY_V1.

Set request-path to a specific URL used for health checking, and set host to include a custom host header that identifies the health check.

Set request-path to a specific URL used for health checking, and set response to a string that the backend service will always return in the response body.

Set proxy-header to the default value, and set host to include a custom host header that identifies the health check.

You need to give each member of your network operations team least-privilege access to create, modify, and delete Cloud Interconnect VLAN attachments.What should you do?

Give each user the following permissions only: compute.interconnectAttachments.create, compute.interconnectAttachments.get, compute.routers.create, compute.routers.get, compute.routers.update.

Assign each user the editor role.

Assign each user the compute.networkAdmin role.

Give each user the following permissions only: compute.interconnectAttachments.create, compute.interconnectAttachments.get.

Give each user the following permissions only: compute.interconnectAttachments.create, compute.interconnectAttachments.get, compute.routers.create, compute.routers.get, compute.routers.update.

You have an application that is running in a managed instance group. Your development team has released an updated instance template which contains a new feature which was not heavily tested.You want to minimize impact to users if there is a bug in the new template.How should you update your instances?

Perform a canary update by starting a rolling update and specifying a target size for your instances to receive the new template. Verify the new feature on the canary instances, and then roll forward to the rest of the instances.

Manually patch some of the instances, and then perform a rolling restart on the instance group.

Using the new instance template, perform a rolling update across all instances in the instance group. Verify the new feature once the rollout completes.

Deploy a new instance group and canary the updated template in that group. Verify the new feature in the new canary instance group, and then update the original instance group.

Perform a canary update by starting a rolling update and specifying a target size for your instances to receive the new template. Verify the new feature on the canary instances, and then roll forward to the rest of the instances.

You have deployed a proof-of-concept application by manually placing instances in a single Compute Engine zone. You are now moving the application to production, so you need to increase your application availability and ensure it can autoscale.How should you provision your instances?

Create a single managed instance group, specify the desired region, and select Multiple zones for the location.

Create a managed instance group for each region, select Single zone for the location, and manually distribute instances across the zones in that region.

Create an unmanaged instance group in a single zone, and then create an HTTP load balancer forthe instance group.

Create an unmanaged instance group for each zone, and manually distribute the instances across the desired zones.

You have a storage bucket that contains two objects. Cloud CDN is enabled on the bucket, and both objects have been successfully cached. Now you want to make sure that one of the two objects will not be cached anymore, and will always be served to the internet directly from the origin.What should you do?

Add a Cache-Control entry with value private to the metadata of the object you don't want to be cached anymore. Invalidate all the previously cached copies.

Ensure that the object you don't want to be cached anymore is not shared publicly.

Create a new storage bucket, and move the object you don't want to be checked anymore inside it. Then edit the bucket setting and enable the private attribute.

Add an appropriate lifecycle rule on the storage bucket containing the two objects.

Add a Cache-Control entry with value private to the metadata of the object you don't want to be cached anymore. Invalidate all the previously cached copies.

Your company offers a popular gaming service. Your instances are deployed with private IP addresses, and external access is granted through a global load balancer. You have recently engaged a traffic-scrubbing service and want to restrict your origin to allow connections only from the trafficscrubbing service.What should you do?

Create a Cloud Armor Security Policy that blocks all traffic except for the traffic-scrubbing service.

Create a VPC Firewall rule that blocks all traffic except for the traffic-scrubbing service.

Create a VPC Service Control Perimeter that blocks all traffic except for the traffic-scrubbing service.

Create IPTables firewall rules that block all traffic except for the traffic-scrubbing service.

Your software team is developing an on-premises web application that requires direct connectivity to Compute Engine Instances in GCP using the RFC 1918 address space. You want to choose a connectivity solution from your on-premises environment to GCP, given these specifications:Your ISP is a Google Partner Interconnect provider.Your on-premises VPN device's internet uplink and downlink speeds are 10 Gbps.A test VPN connection between your on-premises gateway and GCP is performing at a maximum speed of 500 Mbps due to packet losses.Most of the data transfer will be from GCP to the on-premises environment.The application can burst up to 1.5 Gbps during peak transfers over the Interconnect.Cost and the complexity of the solution should be minimal.How should you provision the connectivity solution?

Provision a Partner Interconnect through your ISP.

Provision a Dedicated Interconnect instead of a VPN.

Create multiple VPN tunnels to account for the packet losses, and increase bandwidth using ECMP.

Use network compression over your VPN to increase the amount of data you can send over your VPN.

Your company has just launched a new critical revenue-generating web application. You deployed the application for scalability using managed instance groups, autoscaling, and a network load balancer as frontend. One day, you notice severe bursty traffic that the caused autoscaling to reach the maximum number of instances, and users of your application cannot complete transactions. After an investigation, you think it as a DDOS attack. You want to quickly restore user access to your application and allow successful transactions while minimizing cost.Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)

Increase the maximum autoscaling backend to accommodate the severe bursty traffic.

SSH into the backend compute engine instances, and view the auth logs and syslogs to further understand the nature of the attack.

Use Cloud Armor to blacklist the attacker's IP addresses.

Increase the maximum autoscaling backend to accommodate the severe bursty traffic.

Create a global HTTP(s) load balancer and move your application backend to this load balancer.

Shut down the entire application in GCP for a few hours. The attack will stop when the application is offline.

SSH into the backend compute engine instances, and view the auth logs and syslogs to further understand the nature of the attack.

You are creating a new application and require access to Cloud SQL from VPC instances without public IP addresses.Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)

Activate the Service Networking API in your project.

Create a private connection to a service producer.

Activate the Service Networking API in your project.

Activate the Cloud Datastore API in your project.

Create a private connection to a service producer.

Create a custom static route to allow the traffic to reach the Cloud SQL API.

You want to use Cloud Interconnect to connect your on-premises network to a GCP VPC. You cannot meet Google at one of its point-of-presence (POP) locations, and your on-premises router cannot run a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configuration.Which connectivity model should you use?

Partner Interconnect with a layer 3 partner

Partner Interconnect with a layer 2 partner

Partner Interconnect with a layer 3 partner

You have configured a Compute Engine virtual machine instance as a NAT gateway. You execute the following command:gcloud compute routes create no-ip-internet-route \--network custom-network1 \--destination-range 0.0.0.0/0 \--next-hop instance nat-gateway \--next-hop instance-zone us-central1-a \--tags no-ip --priority 800You want existing instances to use the new NAT gateway. Which command should you execute?

gcloud compute instances add-tags [existing-instance] --tags no-ip

sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

gcloud compute instances add-tags [existing-instance] --tags no-ip

gcloud builds submit --config=cloudbuild.waml --substitutions=TAG_NAME=no-ip

gcloud compute instances create example-instance --network custom-network1 \--subnet subnet-us-central \--no-address \--zone us-central1-a \--image-family debian-9 \--image-project debian-cloud \--tags no-ip

You need to configure a static route to an on-premises resource behind a Cloud VPN gateway that is configured for policy-based routing using the gcloud command.Which next hop should you choose?

The name and region of the Cloud VPN tunnel

The IP address of the Cloud VPN gateway

The name and region of the Cloud VPN tunnel

The IP address of the instance on the remote side of the VPN tunnel

You need to enable Cloud CDN for all the objects inside a storage bucket. You want to ensure that all the object in the storage bucket can be served by the CDN.What should you do in the GCP Console?

Create a new HTTP load balancer, select the storage bucket as a backend, enable Cloud CDN onthe backend, and make sure each object inside the storage bucket is shared publicly.

Create a new cloud storage bucket, and then enable Cloud CDN on it.

Create a new TCP load balancer, select the storage bucket as a backend, and then enable Cloud CDN on the backend.

Create a new SSL proxy load balancer, select the storage bucket as a backend, and then enable Cloud CDN on the backend.

Create a new HTTP load balancer, select the storage bucket as a backend, enable Cloud CDN onthe backend, and make sure each object inside the storage bucket is shared publicly.

Your company's Google Cloud-deployed, streaming application supports multiple languages. The application development team has asked you how they should support splitting audio and video traffic to different backend Google Cloud storage buckets. They want to use URL maps and minimize operational overhead. They are currently using the following directory structure:/fr/video/en/video/es/video

./video/fr/audio/en/audio/es/audio

./audioWhich solution should you recommend?

Rearrange the directory structure, create a URL map and leverage a path rule such as /video/* and /audio/*.

Rearrange the directory structure, create DNS hostname entries for video and audio and leverage a path rule such as /video/* and /audio/*.

Leave the directory structure as-is, create a URL map and leverage a path rule such as \/[az]{ 2}\/video and \/[a-z]{2}\/audio.

Leave the directory structure as-is, create a URL map and leverage a path rule such as /*/video and /*/ audio.

You are configuring a new instance of Cloud Router in your Organization's Google Cloud environment to allow connection across a new Dedicated Interconnect to your data center Sales, Marketing, and IT each have a service project attached to the Organization's host project.Where should you create the Cloud Router instance?

VPC network in the Host Project

VPC network in the Sales, Marketing, and IT Projects

You created a new VPC for your development team. You want to allow access to the resources in this VPC via SSH only.How should you configure your firewall rules?

Create a single firewall rule to allow port 22 with priority 1000.

Create two firewall rules: one to block all traffic with priority 0, and another to allow port 22 with priority 1000.

Create two firewall rules: one to block all traffic with priority 65536, and another to allow port 3389 with priority 1000.

Create a single firewall rule to allow port 22 with priority 1000.

Create a single firewall rule to allow port 3389 with priority 1000.

Your on-premises data center has 2 routers connected to your GCP through a VPN on each router. All applications are working correctly; however, all of the traffic is passing across a single VPN instead of being load-balanced across the 2 connections as desired.During troubleshooting you find:• Each on-premises router is configured with the same ASN.• Each on-premises router is configured with the same routes and priorities.• Both on-premises routers are configured with a VPN connected to a single Cloud Router.• The VPN logs have no-proposal-chosen lines when the VPNs are connecting.• BGP session is not established between one on-premises router and the Cloud Router.What is the most likely cause of this problem?

One of the VPN sessions is configured incorrectly.

A firewall is blocking the traffic across the second VPN connection.

You do not have a load balancer to load-balance the network traffic.

BGP sessions are not established between both on-premises routers and the Cloud Router.

You have created a firewall with rules that only allow traffic over HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH ports. Whiletesting, you specifically try to reach the server over multiple ports and protocols; however, you donot see any denied connections in the firewall logs. You want to resolve the issue.What should you do?

Create an explicit Deny Any rule and enable logging on the new rule.

Enable logging on the default Deny Any Firewall Rule.

Enable logging on the VM Instances that receive traffic.

Create a logging sink forwarding all firewall logs with no filters.

Create an explicit Deny Any rule and enable logging on the new rule.

In your company, two departments with separate GCP projects (code-dev and data-dev) in the same organization need to allow full cross-communication between all of their virtual machines in GCP.Each department has one VPC in its project and wants full control over their network. Neither department intends to recreate its existing computing resources. You want to implement a solution that minimizes cost.Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)

Connect the VPCs in project code-dev and data-dev using VPC Network Peering.

Enable firewall rules to allow all ingress traffic from all subnets of project code-dev to all instances in project data-dev, and vice versa.

Connect both projects using Cloud VPN.

Connect the VPCs in project code-dev and data-dev using VPC Network Peering.

Enable Shared VPC in one project (e. g., code-dev), and make the second project (e. g., data-dev) a service project.

Enable firewall rules to allow all ingress traffic from all subnets of project code-dev to all instances in project data-dev, and vice versa.

Create a route in the code-dev project to the destination prefixes in project data-dev and use nexthop as the default gateway, and vice versa.

You need to create a GKE cluster in an existing VPC that is accessible from on-premises. You must meet the following requirements:IP ranges for pods and services must be as small as possible.The nodes and the master must not be reachable from the internet.You must be able to use kubectl commands from on-premises subnets to manage the cluster.How should you create the GKE cluster?

• Create a VPC-native GKE cluster using user-managed IP ranges.• Enable privateEndpoint on the cluster master.• Set the pod and service ranges as /24.• Set up a network proxy to access the master.• Enable master authorized networks.

• Create a private cluster that uses VPC advanced routes.• Set the pod and service ranges as /24.• Set up a network proxy to access the master.

• Create a VPC-native GKE cluster using GKE-managed IP ranges.• Set the pod IP range as /21 and service IP range as /24.• Set up a network proxy to access the master.

• Create a VPC-native GKE cluster using user-managed IP ranges.• Enable a GKE cluster network policy, set the pod and service ranges as /24.• Set up a network proxy to access the master.• Enable master authorized networks.

• Create a VPC-native GKE cluster using user-managed IP ranges.• Enable privateEndpoint on the cluster master.• Set the pod and service ranges as /24.• Set up a network proxy to access the master.• Enable master authorized networks.

You are creating an instance group and need to create a new health check for HTTP(s) load balancing.Which two methods can you use to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Create a new health check using the gcloud command line tool.

Create a new health check, or select an existing one, when you complete the load balancer's backend configuration in the GCP Console.

Create a new health check using the gcloud command line tool.

Create a new health check using the VPC Network section in the GCP Console.

Create a new health check, or select an existing one, when you complete the load balancer's backend configuration in the GCP Console.

Create a new legacy health check using the gcloud command line tool.

Create a new legacy health check using the Health checks section in the GCP Console.

You are in the early stages of planning a migration to GCP. You want to test the functionality of your hybrid cloud design before you start to implement it in production. The design includes services running on a Compute Engine Virtual Machine instance that need to communicate to on-premises servers using private IP addresses. The on-premises servers have connectivity to the internet, but you have not yet established any Cloud Interconnect connections. You want to choose the lowest cost method of enabling connectivity between your instance and on-premises servers and complete the test in 24 hours.Which connectivity method should you choose?

50-Mbps Partner VLAN attachment

Dedicated Interconnect with a single VLAN attachment

Dedicated Interconnect, but don't provision any VLAN attachments

You want to implement an IPSec tunnel between your on-premises network and a VPC via Cloud VPN. You need to restrict reachability over the tunnel to specific local subnets, and you do not have a device capable of speaking BorderGateway Protocol (BGP).Which routing option should you choose?

Policy-based routing using a custom local traffic selector

Dynamic routing using Cloud Router

Route-based routing using default traffic selectors

Policy-based routing using a custom local traffic selector

Policy-based routing using the default local traffic selector

You have enabled HTTP(S) load balancing for your application, and your application developers havereported that HTTP(S) requests are not being distributed correctly to your Compute Engine VirtualMachine instances. You want to find data about how the request are being distributed.Which two methods can accomplish this? (Choose two.)

On the Load Balancer details page of the GCP Console, click on the Monitoring tab, select your backend service, and look at the graphs.

In Stackdriver Monitoring, create a new dashboard and track the https/backend_request_countmetric for the load balancer.

On the Load Balancer details page of the GCP Console, click on the Monitoring tab, select your backend service, and look at the graphs.

In Stackdriver Error Reporting, look for any unacknowledged errors for the Cloud Load Balancers service.

In Stackdriver Monitoring, select Resources > Metrics Explorer and search for https/request_bytes_count metric.

In Stackdriver Monitoring, select Resources > Google Cloud Load Balancers and review the Key Metrics graphs in the dashboard.

In Stackdriver Monitoring, create a new dashboard and track the https/backend_request_countmetric for the load balancer.

You want to use Partner Interconnect to connect your on-premises network with your VPC. You already have an Interconnect partner.What should you first?

Ask your Interconnect partner to provision a physical connection to Google.

Log in to your partner's portal and request the VLAN attachment there.

Ask your Interconnect partner to provision a physical connection to Google.

Create a Partner Interconnect type VLAN attachment in the GCP Console and retrieve the pairing key.

Run gcloud compute interconnect attachments partner update <attachment> / -- region <region> - -admin-enabled.

You need to centralize the Identity and Access Management permissions and email distribution for the WebServices Team as efficiently as possible.What should you do?

Create a Google Group for the WebServices Team.

Create a G Suite Domain for the WebServices Team.

Create a new Cloud Identity Domain for the WebServices Team.

Create a new Custom Role for all members of the WebServices Team.

You are using the gcloud command line tool to create a new custom role in a project by coping a predefined role. You receive this error message: INVALID_ARGUMENT: Permission resourcemanager.projects.list is not valid What should you do?

Remove the resourcemanager.projects.list permission, and try again.

Add the resourcemanager.projects.get permission, and try again.

Try again with a different role with a new name but the same permissions.

Remove the resourcemanager.projects.list permission, and try again.

Add the resourcemanager.projects.setIamPolicy permission, and try again.

One instance in your VPC is configured to run with a private IP address only. You want to ensure that even if this instance is deleted, its current private IP address will not be automatically assigned to a different instance.In the GCP Console, what should you do?

Change the instance's current internal IP address to static.

Assign a public IP address to the instance.

Assign a new reserved internal IP address to the instance.

Change the instance's current internal IP address to static.

Add custom metadata to the instance with key internal-address and value reserved.

After a network change window one of your company's applications stops working. The application uses an on-premises database server that no longer receives any traffic from the application. The database server IP address is 10.2.1.25.You examine the change request, and the only change is that 3 additional VPC subnets were created. The new VPC subnets created are 10.1.0.0/16, 10.2.0.0/16, and 10.3.1.0/24/ The on-premises router is advertising 10.0.0.0/8.What is the most likely cause of this problem?

The more specific VPC subnet route is taking priority.

The less specific VPC subnet route is taking priority.

The more specific VPC subnet route is taking priority.

The on-premises router is not advertising a route for the database server.

A cloud firewall rule that blocks traffic to the on-premises database server was created during the change.

You need to create a new VPC network that allows instances to have IP addresses in both the 10.1.1.0/24 network and the 172.16.45.0/24 network.What should you do?

Configure an alias-IP range of 172.16.45.0/24 on the virtual instances within the VPC subnet of 10.1.1.0/24.

Configure global load balancing to point 172.16.45.0/24 to the correct instance.

Create unique DNS records for each service that sends traffic to the desired IP address.

Configure an alias-IP range of 172.16.45.0/24 on the virtual instances within the VPC subnet of 10.1.1.0/24.

Use VPC peering to allow traffic to route between the 10.1.0.0/24 network and the 172.16.45.0/24 network.

Your company has a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network deployed in Google Cloud with access from your on-premises network using Cloud Interconnect. You must configure access only to Google APIs and services that are supported by VPC Service Controls through hybrid connectivity with a service level agreement (SLA) in place. What should you do?

Use Private Google Access for on-premises hosts with restricted.googleapis.com virtual IP addresses.

Configure the existing Cloud Routers to advertise the Google API's public virtual IP addresses.

Use Private Google Access for on-premises hosts with restricted.googleapis.com virtual IP addresses.

Configure the existing Cloud Routers to advertise a default route, and use Cloud NAT to translate traffic from your on-premises network.

Add Direct Peering links, and use them for connectivity to Google APIs that use public virtual IP addresses.

Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer Practice Test 2

You want to configure load balancing for an internet-facing, standard voice-over-IP (VOIP) application.

Which type of load balancer should you use?

HTTP(S) load balancer

Network load balancer

Internal TCP/UDP load balancer

TCP/SSL proxy load balancer

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