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?

Build small containers using small base images.

Use Cloud Build to build the container images.

Build small containers using small base images.

Delete non-used versions from Container Registry.

Use a Continuous Delivery tool to deploy the application.

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?

Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize the data in Google domain with your existing Active Directory or LDAP server.

Manually synchronize the data in Google domain with your existing Active Directory or LDAP server.

Use Google Cloud Directory Sync to synchronize the data in Google domain with your existing Active Directory or LDAP server.

Users sign in directly to the GCP Console using the credentials from your on-premises Kerberos compliant identity provider.

Users sign in using OpenID (OIDC) compatible IdP, receive an authentication token, then use that token to log in to the GCP Console.

Your company is using GSuite and has developed an application meant for internal usage on Google App Engine. You need to make sure that an external user cannot gain access to the application even when an employee's password has been compromised.What should you do?

Enforce 2-factor authentication in GSuite for all users.

Configure Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy for the App Engine Application.

Provision user passwords using GSuite Password Sync.

Configure Cloud VPN between your private network and GCP.

A large financial institution is moving its Big Data analytics to Google Cloud Platform. They want to have maximum control over the encryption process of data stored at rest in BigQuery.What technique should the institution use?

Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

Use Cloud Storage as a federated Data Source.

Use a Cloud Hardware Security Module (Cloud HSM).

Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

Customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK).

A large e-retailer is moving to Google Cloud Platform with its ecommerce website. The company wants to ensure payment information is encrypted between the customer's browser and GCP when the customers checkout online.What should they do?

Configure an SSL Certificate on an L7 Load Balancer and require encryption.

Configure an SSL Certificate on a Network TCP Load Balancer and require encryption.

Configure the firewall to allow inbound traffic on port 443, and block all other inbound traffic.

Configure the firewall to allow outbound traffic on port 443, and block all other outbound traffic.

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?

Migrate the application into an isolated project using a ''Lift & Shift'' approach. Enable all internal TCP traffic using VPC Firewall rules. Use VPC Flow logs to determine what traffic should be allowed for the application to work properly.

Migrate the application into an isolated project using a ''Lift & Shift'' approach in a custom network. Disable all traffic within the VPC and look at the Firewall logs to determine what traffic should be allowed for the application to work properly.

Refactor the application into a micro-services architecture in a GKE cluster. Disable all traffic from outside the cluster using Firewall Rules. Use VPC Flow logs to determine what traffic should be allowed for the application to work properly.

Refactor the application into a micro-services architecture hosted in Cloud Functions in an isolated project. Disable all traffic from outside your project using Firewall Rules. Use VPC Flow logs to determine what traffic should be allowed for the application to work properly.

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?

Use the Organization Policy Service to create a compute.trustedimageProjects constraint on the organization level. List the trusted projects as the exceptions in a deny operation.

Use the Organization Policy Service to create a compute.trustedimageProjects constraint on the organization level. List the trusted project as the whitelist in an allow operation.

Use the Organization Policy Service to create a compute.trustedimageProjects constraint on the organization level. List the trusted projects as the exceptions in a deny operation.

In Resource Manager, edit the project permissions for the trusted project. Add the organization as member with the role: Compute Image User.

In Resource Manager, edit the organization permissions. Add the project ID as member with the role: Compute Image User.

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.)

Remove all users from the Project Creator role at the organizational level.

Add a designated group of users to the Project Creator role at the organizational level.

Remove all users from the Project Creator role at the organizational level.

Create an Organization Policy constraint, and apply it at the organizational level.

Grant the Project Editor role at the organizational level to a designated group of users.

Add a designated group of users to the Project Creator role at the organizational level.

Grant the billing account creator role to the designated DevOps team.

A customer deployed an application on Compute Engine that takes advantage of the elastic nature of cloud computing.How can you work with Infrastructure Operations Engineers to best ensure that Windows Compute Engine VMs are up to date with all the latest OS patches?

Build new base images when patches are available, and use a CI/CD pipeline to rebuild VMs, deploying incrementally.

Federate a Domain Controller into Compute Engine, and roll out weekly patches via Group Policy Object.

Use Deployment Manager to provision updated VMs into new serving Instance Groups (IGs).

Reboot all VMs during the weekly maintenance window and allow the StartUp Script to download the latest patches from the internet.

Your team needs to make sure that their backend database can only be accessed by the frontend application and no other instances on the network.How should your team design this network?

Create an ingress firewall rule to allow access only from the application to the database using firewall tags.

Create a different subnet for the frontend application and database to ensure network isolation.

Create two VPC networks, and connect the two networks using Cloud VPN gateways to ensure network isolation.

Create two VPC networks, and connect the two networks using VPC peering to ensure network isolation.

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?

Set up an organization policy to only permit public IPs for the front-end Compute Engine instances.

Enable Private Access on the VPC network in the production project.

Remove the Editor role and grant the Compute Admin IAM role to the engineers.

Set up an organization policy to only permit public IPs for the front-end Compute Engine instances.

Set up a VPC network with two subnets: one with public IPs and one without public IPs.

Which two security characteristics are related to the use of VPC peering to connect two VPC networks? (Choose two.)

Non-transitive peered networks; where only directly peered networks can communicate

Ability to peer networks that belong to different Google Cloud Platform organizations

Central management of routes, firewalls, and VPNs for peered networks

Non-transitive peered networks; where only directly peered networks can communicate

Ability to peer networks that belong to different Google Cloud Platform organizations

Firewall rules that can be created with a tag from one peered network to another peered network

Ability to share specific subnets across peered networks

A patch for a vulnerability has been released, and a DevOps team needs to update their running containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).How should the DevOps team accomplish this?

Update the application code or apply a patch, build a new image, and redeploy it.

Use Puppet or Chef to push out the patch to the running container.

Verify that auto upgrade is enabled; if so, Google will upgrade the nodes in a GKE cluster.

Update the application code or apply a patch, build a new image, and redeploy it.

Configure containers to automatically upgrade when the base image is available in Container Registry.

A company is running their webshop on Google Kubernetes Engine and wants to analyze customer transactions in BigQuery. You need to ensure that no credit card numbers are stored in BigQueryWhat should you do?

Use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API to redact related infoTypes before data is ingested into BigQuery.

Create a BigQuery view with regular expressions matching credit card numbers to query and delete affected rows.

Use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API to redact related infoTypes before data is ingested into BigQuery.

Leverage Security Command Center to scan for the assets of type Credit Card Number in BigQuery.

Enable Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy to filter out credit card numbers before storing the logs in BigQuery.

A customer wants to deploy a large number of 3-tier web applications on Compute Engine.How should the customer ensure authenticated network separation between the different tiers of the application?

Run each tier with a different Service Account (SA), and use SA-based firewall rules.

Run each tier in its own Project, and segregate using Project labels.

Run each tier with a different Service Account (SA), and use SA-based firewall rules.

Run each tier in its own subnet, and use subnet-based firewall rules.

Run each tier with its own VM tags, and use tag-based firewall rules.

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?

Add a nodeSelector field to the pod configuration to only use the Nodes labeled inscope: true.

Create a node pool with the label inscope: true and a Pod Security Policy that only allows the Pods to run on Nodes with that label.

Place a taint on the Nodes with the label inscope: true and effect NoSchedule and a toleration to match in the Pod configuration.

Run all in-scope Pods in the namespace ''in-scope-pci''.

In an effort for your company messaging app to comply with FIPS 140-2, a decision was made to use GCP compute and network services. The messaging app architecture includes a Managed Instance Group (MIG) that controls a cluster of Compute Engine instances. The instances use Local SSDs for data caching and UDP for instance-to-instance communications. The app development team is willing to make any changes necessary to comply with the standardWhich options should you recommend to meet the requirements?

Encrypt all cache storage and VM-to-VM communication using the BoringCrypto module.

Set Disk Encryption on the Instance Template used by the MIG to customer-managed key and use BoringSSL for all data transit between instances.

Change the app instance-to-instance communications from UDP to TCP and enable BoringSSL on clients' TLS connections.

Set Disk Encryption on the Instance Template used by the MIG to Google-managed Key and use BoringSSL library on all instance-to-instance communications.

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?

Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the CIDR range of the repository with a priority less than 1000.

Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the CIDR range of the repository with a priority greater than 1000.

Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the CIDR range of the repository with a priority less than 1000.

Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the hostname of the repository with a priority greater than 1000.

Create an egress firewall rule to allow traffic to the hostname of the repository with a priority less than 1000.

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?

Create a single KeyRing for all persistent disks and all Keys in this KeyRing. Manage the IAM permissions at the KeyRing level.

Create a single KeyRing for all persistent disks and all Keys in this KeyRing. Manage the IAM permissions at the Key level.

Create a single KeyRing for all persistent disks and all Keys in this KeyRing. Manage the IAM permissions at the KeyRing level.

Create a KeyRing per persistent disk, with each KeyRing containing a single Key. Manage the IAM permissions at the Key level.

Create a KeyRing per persistent disk, with each KeyRing containing a single Key. Manage the IAM permissions at the KeyRing level.

A company is backing up application logs to a Cloud Storage bucket shared with both analysts and the administrator. Analysts should only have access to logs that do not contain any personally identifiable information (PII). Log files containing PII should be stored in another bucket that is only accessible by the administrator.What should you do?

Use Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions to trigger a Data Loss Prevention scan every time a file is uploaded to the shared bucket. If the scan detects PII, have the function move into a Cloud Storage bucket only accessible by the administrator.

Upload the logs to both the shared bucket and the bucket only accessible by the administrator. Create a job trigger using the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API. Configure the trigger to delete any files from the shared bucket that contain PII.

On the bucket shared with both the analysts and the administrator, configure Object Lifecycle Management to delete objects that contain any PII.

On the bucket shared with both the analysts and the administrator, configure a Cloud Storage Trigger that is only triggered when PII data is uploaded. Use Cloud Functions to capture the trigger and delete such files.

A customer terminates an engineer and needs to make sure the engineer's Google account is automatically deprovisioned.What should the customer do?

Configure Cloud Directory Sync with their directory service to provision and deprovision users from Cloud Identity.

Use the Cloud SDK with their directory service to remove their IAM permissions in Cloud Identity.

Use the Cloud SDK with their directory service to provision and deprovision users from Cloud Identity.

Configure Cloud Directory Sync with their directory service to provision and deprovision users from Cloud Identity.

Configure Cloud Directory Sync with their directory service to remove their IAM permissions in Cloud Identity.

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?

Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS)

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

You will create a new Service Account that should be able to list the Compute Engine instances in the project. You want to follow Google-recommended practices.What should you do?

Create a custom role with the permission compute.instances.list and grant the Service Account this role.

Create an Instance Template, and allow the Service Account Read Only access for the Compute Engine Access Scope.

Create a custom role with the permission compute.instances.list and grant the Service Account this role.

Give the Service Account the role of Compute Viewer, and use the new Service Account for all instances.

Give the Service Account the role of Project Viewer, and use the new Service Account for all instances.

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 ongoing data backup and disaster recovery solutions to GCP. The organization's on-premises production environment is going to be the next phase for migration to GCP. Stable networking connectivity between the on-premises environment and GCP is also being implemented.Which GCP solution should the organization use?

Cloud Storage using a scheduled task and gsutil via Cloud Interconnect

BigQuery using a data pipeline job with continuous updates via Cloud VPN

Cloud Storage using a scheduled task and gsutil via Cloud Interconnect

Compute Engines Virtual Machines using Persistent Disk via Cloud Interconnect

Cloud Datastore using regularly scheduled batch upload jobs via Cloud VPN

What are the steps to encrypt data using envelope encryption?

Generate a data encryption key (DEK) locally. Encrypt data with the DEK. Use a key encryption key (KEK) to wrap the DEK. Store the encrypted data and the wrapped DEK.

Generate a data encryption key (DEK) locally. Use a key encryption key (KEK) to wrap the DEK. Encrypt data with the KEK. Store the encrypted data and the wrapped KEK.

Generate a key encryption key (KEK) locally. Use the KEK to generate a data encryption key (DEK). Encrypt data with the DEK. Store the encrypted data and the wrapped DEK.

Generate a data encryption key (DEK) locally. Encrypt data with the DEK. Use a key encryption key (KEK) to wrap the DEK. Store the encrypted data and the wrapped DEK.

Generate a key encryption key (KEK) locally. Generate a data encryption key (DEK) locally. Encrypt data with the KEK. Store the encrypted data and the wrapped DEK.

Your company is storing sensitive data in Cloud Storage. You want a key generated on-premises to be used in the encryption process.What should you do?

Use customer-supplied encryption keys to manage the data encryption key (DEK).

Use the Cloud Key Management Service to manage a data encryption key (DEK).

Use the Cloud Key Management Service to manage a key encryption key (KEK).

Use customer-supplied encryption keys to manage the data encryption key (DEK).

Use customer-supplied encryption keys to manage the key encryption key (KEK).

Last week, a company deployed a new App Engine application that writes logs to BigQuery. No other workloads are running in the project. You need to validate that all data written to BigQuery was done using the App Engine Default Service Account.What should you do?

1. Use StackDriver Logging and filter on BigQuery Insert Jobs. 2. Click on the email address in line with the App Engine Default Service Account in the authentication field. 3. Click Hide Matching Entries. 4. Make sure the resulting list is empty.

1. Use StackDriver Logging and filter on BigQuery Insert Jobs. 2. Click on the email address in line with the App Engine Default Service Account in the authentication field. 3. Click Show Matching Entries. 4. Make sure the resulting list is empty.

1. In BigQuery, select the related dataset. 2. Make sure the App Engine Default Service Account is the only account that can write to the dataset.

1. Go to the IAM section on the project. 2. Validate that the App Engine Default Service Account is the only account that has a role that can write to BigQuery.

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?

Defending against XSS and SQLi attacks

Configuring and monitoring VPC Flow Logs

Defending against XSS and SQLi attacks

Manage the latest updates and security patches for the Guest OS

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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?

Store the data in a single Persistent Disk, and delete the disk at expiration time.

Store the data in a single BigQuery table and set the appropriate table expiration time.

Store the data in a Cloud Storage bucket, and configure the bucket's Object Lifecycle Management feature.

Store the data in a single BigTable table and set an expiration time on the column families.

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