Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Network Engineer
Last Update Jul 10, 2025
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You have ordered Dedicated Interconnect in the GCP Console and need to give the Letter of Authorization/Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA) to your cross-connect provider to complete the physical connection.
Which two actions can accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You are configuring your Google Cloud environment to connect to your on-premises network. Your configuration must be able to reach Cloud Storage APIs and your Google Kubernetes Engine nodes across your private Cloud Interconnect network. You have already configured a Cloud Router with your Interconnect VLAN attachments. You now need to set up the appropriate router advertisement configuration on the Cloud Router. What should you do?
Your company has a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network deployed in Google Cloud with access from on-premises locations using Cloud Interconnect connections. Your company must be able to send traffic to Cloud Storage only through the Interconnect links while accessing other Google APIs and services over the public internet. What should you do?
You want to configure load balancing for an internet-facing, standard voice-over-IP (VOIP) application.
Which type of load balancer should you use?
Your organization uses a Shared VPC architecture with a host project and three service projects. You have Compute Engine instances that reside in the service projects. You have critical workloads in your on-premises data center. You need to ensure that the Google Cloud instances can resolve on-premises hostnames via the Dedicated Interconnect you deployed to establish hybrid connectivity. What should you do?
You have recently taken over responsibility for your organization's Google Cloud network security configurations. You want to review your Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) configurations to ensure that there are no rules allowing ingress traffic to your VMs and services from the internet. You want to avoid manual work. What should you do?
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.)
Your organization is developing a landing zone architecture with the following requirements:
There should be no communication between production and non-production environments.
Communication between applications within an environment may be necessary.
Network administrators should centrally manage all network resources, including subnets, routes, and firewall rules.
Each application should be billed separately.
Developers of an application within a project should have the autonomy to create their compute resources.
Up to 1000 applications are expected per environment.
You need to create a design that accommodates these requirements. What should you do?
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 believe you have identified a potential malicious actor, but aren't certain you have the correct client IP address. You want to identify this actor while minimizing disruption to your legitimate users.
What should you do?
Your on-premises data center has 2 routers connected to your Google Cloud environment 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 a unique 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.
• BGP sessions are established between both on-premises routers and the Cloud Router.
• Only 1 of the on-premises router’s routes are being added to the routing table.
What is the most likely cause of this problem?
Your company is working with a partner to provide a solution for a customer. Both your company and the partner organization are using GCP. There are applications in the partner's network that need access to some resources in your company's VPC. There is no CIDR overlap between the VPCs.
Which two solutions can you implement to achieve the desired results without compromising the security? (Choose two.)
You have the networking configuration shown. In the diagram Two VLAN attachments associated With two Dedicated Interconnect connections terminate on the same Cloud Router (mycloudrouter). The Interconnect connections terminate on two separate on-premises routers. You advertise the same prefixes from the Border Gateway Protocol (BOP) sessions associated with each Of the VLAN attachments.
You notice an asymmetric traffic flow between the two Interconnect connections. Which of the following actions should you take to troubleshoot the asymmetric traffic flow?
You create multiple Compute Engine virtual machine instances to be used as TFTP servers.
Which type of load balancer should you use?
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 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Which routing option should you choose?
You are designing an IP address scheme for new private Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. Due to IP address exhaustion of the RFC 1918 address space In your enterprise, you plan to use privately used public IP space for the new clusters. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do after designing your IP scheme?
You have provisioned a Partner Interconnect connection to extend connectivity from your on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You need to configure a Cloud Router and create a VLAN attachment to connect to resources inside your VPC. You need to configure an Autonomous System number (ASN) to use with the associated Cloud Router and create the VLAN attachment.
What should you do?
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Your organization is developing a landing zone architecture with the following requirements:
No communication between production and non-production environments.
Communication between applications within an environment may be necessary.
Network administrators should centrally manage all network resources, including subnets, routes, and firewall rules.
Each application should be billed separately.
Developers of an application within a project should have the autonomy to create their compute resources.
Up to 1000 applications are expected per environment.
What should you do?
You are troubleshooting an issue where your organization's Cloud HA VPN is disconnected from your on-premises router for approximately 10 seconds before reestablishing the tunnel. The issue regularly occurs every few hours. You notice that the HA VPN logs show an entry of Received SA_DELETE when this issue occurs. You need to resolve this issue and prevent future VPN downtime from impacting your production applications. What should you do?
You want to configure a NAT to perform address translation between your on-premises network blocks and GCP.
Which NAT solution should you use?
Your team deployed two applications in GKE that are exposed through an external Application Load Balancer. When queries are sent to www.mountkirkgames.com/sales and www.mountkirkgames.com/get-an-analysis, the correct pages are displayed. However, you have received complaints that www.mountkirkgames.com yields a 404 error. You need to resolve this error. What should you do?
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Your organization has a hub and spoke architecture with VPC Network Peering, and hybrid connectivity is centralized at the hub. The Cloud Router in the hub VPC is advertising subnet routes, but the on-premises router does not appear to be receiving any subnet routes from the VPC spokes. You need to resolve this issue. What should you do?
You have an application hosted on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance that cannot communicate with a resource outside of its subnet. When you review the flow and firewall logs, you do not see any denied traffic listed.
During troubleshooting you find:
• Flow logs are enabled for the VPC subnet, and all firewall rules are set to log.
• The subnetwork logs are not excluded from Stackdriver.
• The instance that is hosting the application can communicate outside the subnet.
• Other instances within the subnet can communicate outside the subnet.
• The external resource initiates communication.
What is the most likely cause of the missing log lines?
Your company has recently installed a Cloud VPN tunnel between your on-premises data center and your Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You need to configure access to the Cloud Functions API for your on-premises servers. The configuration must meet the following requirements:
Certain data must stay in the project where it is stored and not be exfiltrated to other projects.
Traffic from servers in your data center with RFC 1918 addresses do not use the internet to access Google Cloud APIs.
All DNS resolution must be done on-premises.
The solution should only provide access to APIs that are compatible with VPC Service Controls.
What should you do?
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You are configuring the final elements of a migration effort where resources have been moved from on-premises to Google Cloud. While reviewing the deployed architecture, you noticed that DNS resolution is failing when queries are being sent to the on-premises environment. You log in to a Compute Engine instance, try to resolve an on-premises hostname, and the query fails. DNS queries are not arriving at the on-premises DNS server. You need to use managed services to reconfigure Cloud DNS to resolve the DNS error. What should you do?
Your company runs an enterprise platform on-premises using virtual machines (VMS). Your internet customers have created tens of thousands of DNS domains panting to your public IP addresses allocated to the Vtvls Typically, your customers hard-code your IP addresses In their DNS records You are now planning to migrate the platform to Compute Engine and you want to use Bring your Own IP you want to minimize disruption to the Platform What Should you d0?
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.)
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Your organization wants to seamlessly migrate a global external web application from Compute Engine to GKE. You need to deploy a simple, cloud-first solution that exposes both applications and sends 10% of the requests to the new application. What should you do?
You have a web application that is currently hosted in the us-central1 region. Users experience high latency when traveling in Asia. You've configured a network load balancer, but users have not experienced a performance improvement. You want to decrease the latency.
What should you do?
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?
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Your organization wants to deploy HA VPN over Cloud Interconnect to ensure encryption in transit over the Cloud Interconnect connections. You have created a Cloud Router and two encrypted VLAN attachments that have a 5 Gbps capacity and a BGP configuration. The BGP sessions are operational. You need to complete the deployment of the HA VPN over Cloud Interconnect. What should you do?
You have the following Shared VPC design VPC Flow Logs is configured for Subnet-1 In the host VPC. You also want to monitor flow logs for Subnet-2. What should you do?
You are the Organization Admin for your company. One of your engineers is responsible for setting up multiple host projects across multiple folders and sharing subnets with service projects. You need to enable the engineer's Identity and Access Management (IAM) configuration to complete their task in the fewest number of steps. What should you do?
Your organization is deploying a single project for 3 separate departments. Two of these departments require network connectivity between each other, but the third department should remain in isolation. Your design should create separate network administrative domains between these departments. You want to minimize operational overhead.
How should you design the topology?
You are configuring the firewall endpoints as part of the Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) intrusion prevention service in Google Cloud. You have configured a threat prevention security profile, and you now need to create an endpoint for traffic inspection. What should you do?
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?
You are designing a hybrid cloud environment for your organization. Your Google Cloud environment is interconnected with your on-premises network using Cloud HA VPN and Cloud Router. The Cloud Router is configured with the default settings. Your on-premises DNS server is located at 192.168.20.88 and is protected by a firewall, and your Compute Engine resources are located at 10.204.0.0/24. Your Compute Engine resources need to resolve on-premises private hostnames using the domain corp.altostrat.com while still resolving Google Cloud hostnames. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You have recently been put in charge of managing identity and access management for your organization. You have several projects and want to use scripting and automation wherever possible. You want to grant the editor role to a project member.
Which two methods can you use to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You are responsible for connectivity between AWS. Google Cloud, and an on-premises data center. Soon, the application team will deploy a data replication service that will move approximately 900 TB of data between Google Cloud and AWS daily. This data is sensitive and must be encrypted in transit. Your data center already has connections to both AWS and Google Cloud through 10 Gbps circuits. You need to configure additional connectivity between these environments and ensure the highest performance and lowest latency to meet business requirements. You also need to keep the existing connectivity topology to the on-premises data center the same. What should you do?
You want to deploy a VPN Gateway to connect your on-premises network to GCP. You are using a non BGP-capable on-premises VPN device. You want to minimize downtime and operational overhead when your network grows. The device supports only IKEv2, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices.
What should you do?
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?
Your organization uses a hub-and-spoke architecture with critical Compute Engine instances in your Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). You are responsible for the design of Cloud DNS in Google Cloud. You need to be able to resolve Cloud DNS private zones from your on-premises data center and enable on-premises name resolution from your hub-and-spoke VPC design. What should you do?
Your company is running out of network capacity to run a critical application in the on-premises data center. You want to migrate the application to GCP. You also want to ensure that the Security team does not lose their ability to monitor traffic to and from Compute Engine instances.
Which two products should you incorporate into the solution? (Choose two.)
Your company’s on-premises network is connected to a VPC using a Cloud VPN tunnel. You have a static route of 0.0.0.0/0 with the VPN tunnel as its next hop defined in the VPC. All internet bound traffic currently passes through the on-premises network. You configured Cloud NAT to translate the primary IP addresses of Compute Engine instances in one region. Traffic from those instances will now reach the internet directly from their VPC and not from the on-premises network. Traffic from the virtual machines (VMs) is not translating addresses as expected. What should you do?
Your organization has a new security policy that requires you to monitor all egress traffic payloads from your virtual machines in region us-west2. You deployed an intrusion detection system (IDS) virtual appliance in the same region to meet the new policy. You now need to integrate the IDS into the environment to monitor all egress traffic payloads from us-west2. What should you do?
Your organization wants to set up hybrid connectivity with VLAN attachments that terminate in a single Cloud Router with 99.9% uptime. You need to create a network design for your on-premises router that meets those requirements and has an active/passive configuration that uses only one VLAN attachment at a time. What should you do?
You are developing an HTTP API hosted on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance that must be invoked only by multiple clients within the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You want clients to be able to get the IP address of the service. What should you do?
You are troubleshooting connectivity issues between Google Cloud and a public SaaS provider. Connectivity between the two environments is through the public internet. Your users are reporting intermittent connection errors when using TCP to connect; however, ICMP tests show no failures. According to users, errors occur around the same time every day. You want to troubleshoot and gather information by using Google Cloud tools that are most likely to provide insights into what is occurring within Google Cloud. What should you do?
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?
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?
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.)
In your Google Cloud organization, you have two folders: Dev and Prod. You want a scalable and consistent way to enforce the following firewall rules for all virtual machines (VMs) with minimal cost:
Port 8080 should always be open for VMs in the projects in the Dev folder.
Any traffic to port 8080 should be denied for all VMs in your projects in the Prod folder.
What should you do?
You are responsible for designing a new connectivity solution between your organization's on-premises data center and your Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network Currently, there Is no end-to-end connectivity. You must ensure a service level agreement (SLA) of 99.99% availability What should you do?
You are creating a new GKE standard cluster. You need to configure the cluster to ensure that pods can reach other VMs in Google Cloud in the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet using the source IP of the GKE nodes. What should you do?
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Your organization has an on-premises data center. You need to provide connectivity from the on-premises data center to Google Cloud. Bandwidth must be at least 1 Gbps, and the traffic must not traverse the internet. What should you do?
You are adding steps to a working automation that uses a service account to authenticate. You need to drive the automation the ability to retrieve files from a Cloud Storage bucket. Your organization requires using the least privilege possible.
What should you do?
Your organization is implementing a new security policy to control how firewall rules are applied to control flows between virtual machines (VMs). Using Google-recommended practices, you need to set up a firewall rule to enforce strict control of traffic between VM A and VM B. You must ensure that communications flow only from VM A to VM B within the VPC, and no other communication paths are allowed. No other firewall rules exist in the VPC. Which firewall rule should you configure to allow only this communication path?
You have a storage bucket that contains the following objects:
- folder-a/image-a-1.jpg
- folder-a/image-a-2.jpg
- folder-b/image-b-1.jpg
- folder-b/image-b-2.jpg
Cloud CDN is enabled on the storage bucket, and all four objects have been successfully cached. You want to remove the cached copies of all the objects with the prefix folder-a, using the minimum number of commands.
What should you do?
Your organization recently exposed a set of services through a global external Application Load Balancer. After conducting some testing, you observed that responses would intermittently yield a non-HTTP 200 response. You need to identify the error. What should you do? (Choose 2 answers)
You need to configure a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The initial deployment should have 5 nodes with the potential to scale to 10 nodes. The maximum number of Pods per node is 8. The number of services could grow from 100 to up to 1024. How should you design the IP schema to optimally meet this requirement?
You are designing a new global application using Compute Engine instances that will be exposed by a global HTTP(S) load balancer. You need to secure your application from distributed denial-of-service and application layer (layer 7) attacks. What should you do?
You’ve received reports of latency between two application VMs which run in two different regions of your Google Cloud VPC network. There is typically about 8ms of latency, but now there is approximately 17ms of latency. You've eliminated application issues as a root cause, and you suspect that the latency may be a Google Cloud platform issue. You need to confirm this hypothesis using Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
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Recently, your networking team enabled Cloud CDN for one of the external-facing services that is exposed through an external Application Load Balancer. The application team has already defined which content should be cached within the responses. Upon testing the load balancer, you did not observe any change in performance after the Cloud CDN enablement. You need to resolve the issue. What should you do?
(You are managing the security configuration of your company's Google Cloud organization. The Operations team needs specific permissions on both a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and a Cloud SQL instance. Two predefined Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles exist that contain a subset of the permissions needed by the team. You need to configure the necessary IAM permissions for this team while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?)
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You reviewed the user behavior for your main application, which uses an external global Application Load Balancer, and found that the backend servers were overloaded due to erratic spikes in client requests. You need to limit concurrent sessions and return an HTTP 429 "Too Many Requests" response back to the client while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You created a VPC network named Retail in auto mode. You want to create a VPC network named Distribution and peer it with the Retail VPC.
How should you configure the Distribution VPC?
Your company just completed the acquisition of Altostrat (a current GCP customer). Each company has a separate organization in GCP and has implemented a custom DNS solution. Each organization will retain its current domain and host names until after a full transition and architectural review is done in one year. These are the assumptions for both GCP environments.
• Each organization has enabled full connectivity between all of its projects by using Shared VPC.
• Both organizations strictly use the 10.0.0.0/8 address space for their instances, except for bastion hosts (for accessing the instances) and load balancers for serving web traffic.
• There are no prefix overlaps between the two organizations.
• Both organizations already have firewall rules that allow all inbound and outbound traffic from the 10.0.0.0/8 address space.
• Neither organization has Interconnects to their on-premises environment.
You want to integrate networking and DNS infrastructure of both organizations as quickly as possible and with minimal downtime.
Which two steps should you take? (Choose two.)
You work for a multinational enterprise that is moving to GCP.
These are the cloud requirements:
• An on-premises data center located in the United States in Oregon and New York with Dedicated Interconnects connected to Cloud regions us-west1 (primary HQ) and us-east4 (backup)
• Multiple regional offices in Europe and APAC
• Regional data processing is required in europe-west1 and australia-southeast1
• Centralized Network Administration Team
Your security and compliance team requires a virtual inline security appliance to perform L7 inspection for URL filtering. You want to deploy the appliance in us-west1.
What should you do?
You are designing a hub-and-spoke network architecture for your company’s cloud-based environment. You need to make sure that all spokes are peered with the hub. The spokes must use the hub's virtual appliance for internet access.
The virtual appliance is configured in high-availability mode with two instances using an internal load balancer with IP address 10.0.0.5. What should you do?
Your organization has approximately 100 teams that need to manage their own environments. A central team must manage the network. You need to design a landing zone that provides separate projects for each team. You must also make sure the solution can scale. What should you do?
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