You are working with a client that is concerned about control of their encryption keys for sensitive data. The client does not want to store encryption keys at rest in the same cloud service provider (CSP) as the data that the keys are encrypting. Which Google Cloud encryption solutions should you recommend to this client? (Choose two.)
Your security team wants to implement a defense-in-depth approach to protect sensitive data stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Your team has the following requirements:
What should the security team do?
A customer implements Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy for their ERP system hosted on Compute Engine. Their security team wants to add a security layer so that the ERP systems only accept traffic from Cloud Identity- Aware Proxy.
What should the customer do to meet these requirements?
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?
The security operations team needs access to the security-related logs for all projects in their organization. They have the following requirements:
Follow the least privilege model by having only view access to logs.
Have access to Admin Activity logs.
Have access to Data Access logs.
Have access to Access Transparency logs.
Which Identity and Access Management (IAM) role should the security operations team be granted?
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?
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?
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 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?
Your team wants to limit users with administrative privileges at the organization level.
Which two roles should your team restrict? (Choose two.)
You are deploying a web application hosted on Compute Engine. A business requirement mandates that application logs are preserved for 12 years and data is kept within European boundaries. You want to implement a storage solution that minimizes overhead and is cost-effective. What should you do?
A customer wants to make it convenient for their mobile workforce to access a CRM web interface that is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The CRM can only be accessed by someone on the corporate network. The customer wants to make it available over the internet. Your team requires an authentication layer in front of the application that supports two-factor authentication
Which GCP product should the customer implement to meet these requirements?
You are the Security Admin in your company. You want to synchronize all security groups that have an email address from your LDAP directory in Cloud IAM.
What should you do?
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?
Your security team wants to reduce the risk of user-managed keys being mismanaged and compromised. To achieve this, you need to prevent developers from creating user-managed service account keys for projects in their organization. How should you enforce this?
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?
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?
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?
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?
An organization receives an increasing number of phishing emails.
Which method should be used to protect employee credentials in this situation?
An employer wants to track how bonus compensations have changed over time to identify employee outliers and correct earning disparities. This task must be performed without exposing the sensitive compensation data for any individual and must be reversible to identify the outlier.
Which Cloud Data Loss Prevention API technique should you use to accomplish this?
You manage one of your organization's Google Cloud projects (Project A). AVPC Service Control (SC) perimeter is blocking API access requests to this project including Pub/Sub. A resource running under a service account in another project (Project B) needs to collect messages from a Pub/Sub topic in your project Project B is not included in a VPC SC perimeter. You need to provide access from Project B to the Pub/Sub topic in Project A using the principle of least
Privilege.
What should you do?
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?
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?
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?
Your organization hosts a financial services application running on Compute Engine instances for a third-party company. The third-party company’s servers that will consume the application also run on Compute Engine in a separate Google Cloud organization. You need to configure a secure network connection between the Compute Engine instances. You have the following requirements:
What should you do?
You are consulting with a client that requires end-to-end encryption of application data (including data in transit, data in use, and data at rest) within Google Cloud. Which options should you utilize to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You need to create a VPC that enables your security team to control network resources such as firewall rules. How should you configure the network to allow for separation of duties for network resources?
Your customer has an on-premises Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with a certificate authority (CA). You need to issue certificates for many HTTP load balancer frontends. The on-premises PKI should be minimally affected due to many manual processes, and the solution needs to scale.
What should you do?
You are routing all your internet facing traffic from Google Cloud through your on-premises internet connection. You want to accomplish this goal securely and with the highest bandwidth possible.
What should you do?
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?
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 BigQuery
What should you do?
You are working with a client who plans to migrate their data to Google Cloud. You are responsible for recommending an encryption service to manage their encrypted keys. You have the following requirements:
Which solution meets these requirements?
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 multiplecpen_myscl_portfindings. You are enforcing the guardrails and need to prevent these types of common misconfigurations.
What should you do?
Your organization uses Google Workspace Enterprise Edition tor authentication. You are concerned about employees leaving their laptops unattended for extended periods of time after authenticating into Google Cloud. You must prevent malicious people from using an employee's unattended laptop to modify their environment.
What should you do?
Your organization has on-premises hosts that need to access Google Cloud APIs You must enforce private connectivity between these hosts minimize costs and optimize for operational efficiency
What should you do?
You are using Security Command Center (SCC) to protect your workloads and receive alerts for suspected security breaches at your company. You need to detect cryptocurrency mining software.
Which SCC service should you use?
Your company plans to move most of its IT infrastructure to Google Cloud. They want to leverage their existing on-premises Active Directory as an identity provider for Google Cloud. Which two steps should you take to integrate the company’s on-premises Active Directory with Google Cloud and configure access management? (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?
You are deploying regulated workloads on Google Cloud. The regulation has data residency and data access requirements. It also requires that support is provided from the same geographical location as where the data resides.
What should you do?
Which two implied firewall rules are defined on a VPC network? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
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
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.)
You manage your organization’s Security Operations Center (SOC). You currently monitor and detect network traffic anomalies in your VPCs based on network logs. However, you want to explore your environment using network payloads and headers. Which Google Cloud product should you use?
Which type of load balancer should you use to maintain client IP by default while using the standard network tier?
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?
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?
Employees at your company use their personal computers to access your organization s Google Cloud console. You need to ensure that users can only access the Google Cloud console from their corporate-issued devices and verify that they have a valid enterprise certificate
What should you do?
You need to enable VPC Service Controls and allow changes to perimeters in existing environments without preventing access to resources. Which VPC Service Controls mode should you use?
You control network traffic for a folder in your Google Cloud environment. Your folder includes multiple projects and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks You want to enforce on the folder level that egress connections are limited only to IP range 10.58.5.0/24 and only from the VPC network dev-vpc." You want to minimize implementation and maintenance effort
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.)
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?
You need to audit the network segmentation for your Google Cloud footprint. You currently operate Production and Non-Production infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments. All your VM instances are deployed without any service account customization.
After observing the traffic in your custom network, you notice that all instances can communicate freely – despite tag-based VPC firewall rules in place to segment traffic properly – with a priority of 1000. What are the most likely reasons for this behavior?
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?
You have noticed an increased number of phishing attacks across your enterprise user accounts. You want to implement the Google 2-Step Verification (2SV) option that uses a cryptographic signature to authenticate a user and verify the URL of the login page. Which Google 2SV option should you use?
Your company’s cloud security policy dictates that VM instances should not have an external IP address. You need to identify the Google Cloud service that will allow VM instances without external IP addresses to connect to the internet to update the VMs. Which service should you use?
Your company has deployed an application on Compute Engine. The application is accessible by clients on port 587. You need to balance the load between the different instances running the application. The connection should be secured using TLS, and terminated by the Load Balancer.
What type of Load Balancing should you use?
A database administrator notices malicious activities within their Cloud SQL instance. The database administrator wants to monitor the API calls that read the configuration or metadata of resources. Which logs should the database administrator review?
When working with agents in a support center via online chat, an organization’s customers often share pictures of their documents with personally identifiable information (PII). The organization that owns the support center is concerned that the PII is being stored in their databases as part of the regular chat logs they retain for
review by internal or external analysts for customer service trend analysis.
Which Google Cloud solution should the organization use to help resolve this concern for the customer while still maintaining data utility?
You want to use the gcloud command-line tool to authenticate using a third-party single sign-on (SSO) SAML identity provider. Which options are necessary to ensure that authentication is supported by the third-party identity provider (IdP)? (Choose two.)
Users are reporting an outage on your public-facing application that is hosted on Compute Engine. You suspect that a recent change to your firewall rules is responsible. You need to test whether your firewall rules are working properly. What should you do?
Your organization s record data exists in Cloud Storage. You must retain all record data for at least seven years This policy must be permanent.
What should you do?
You have stored company approved compute images in a single Google Cloud project that is used as an image repository. This project is protected with VPC Service Controls and exists in the perimeter along with other projects in your organization. This lets other projects deploy images from the image repository project. A team requires deploying a third-party disk image that is stored in an external Google Cloud organization. You need to grant read access to the disk image so that it can be deployed into the perimeter.
What should you do?
As adoption of the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API grows within the company, you need to optimize usage to reduce cost. DLP target data is stored in Cloud Storage and BigQuery. The location and region are identified as a suffix in the resource name.
Which cost reduction options should you recommend?
A customer needs to launch a 3-tier internal web application on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The customer’s internal compliance requirements dictate that end-user access may only be allowed if the traffic seems to originate from a specific known good CIDR. The customer accepts the risk that their application will only have SYN flood DDoS protection. They want to use GCP’s native SYN flood protection.
Which product should be used to meet these requirements?
A customer terminates an engineer and needs to make sure the engineer's Google account is automatically deprovisioned.
What should the customer do?