Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Last Update Dec 14, 2024
Total Questions : 234
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You are on your company's development team. You noticed that your web application hosted in staging on GKE dynamically includes user data in web pages without first properly validating the inputted data. This could allow an attacker to execute gibberish commands and display arbitrary content in a victim user's browser in a production environment.
How should you prevent and fix this vulnerability?
You need to enforce a security policy in your Google Cloud organization that prevents users from exposing objects in their buckets externally. There are currently no buckets in your organization. Which solution should you implement proactively to achieve this goal with the least operational overhead?
Applications often require access to “secrets” - small pieces of sensitive data at build or run time. The administrator managing these secrets on GCP wants to keep a track of “who did what, where, and when?” within their GCP projects.
Which two log streams would provide the information that the administrator is looking for? (Choose two.)
Your organization acquired a new workload. The Web and Application (App) servers will be running on Compute Engine in a newly created custom VPC. You are responsible for configuring a secure network communication solution that meets the following requirements:
Only allows communication between the Web and App tiers.
Enforces consistent network security when autoscaling the Web and App tiers.
Prevents Compute Engine Instance Admins from altering network traffic.
What should you do?
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:
The network connection must be encrypted.
The communication between servers must be over private IP addresses.
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?
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 Google Cloud organization allows for administrative capabilities to be distributed to each team through provision of a Google Cloud project with Owner role (roles/ owner). The organization contains thousands of Google Cloud Projects Security Command Center Premium has surfaced multiple cpen_myscl_port findings. You are enforcing the guardrails and need to prevent these types of common misconfigurations.
What should you do?
You want to make sure that your organization’s Cloud Storage buckets cannot have data publicly available to the internet. You want to enforce this across all Cloud Storage buckets. 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 company has been creating users manually in Cloud Identity to provide access to Google Cloud resources. Due to continued growth of the environment, you want to authorize the Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) instance and integrate it with your on-premises LDAP server to onboard hundreds of users. You are required to:
Replicate user and group lifecycle changes from the on-premises LDAP server in Cloud Identity.
Disable any manually created users in Cloud Identity.
You have already configured the LDAP search attributes to include the users and security groups in scope for Google Cloud. What should you do next to complete this solution?
You are backing up application logs to a shared Cloud Storage bucket that is accessible to both the administrator and analysts. Analysts should not have access to logs that contain any personally identifiable information (PII). Log files containing PII should be stored in another bucket that is only accessible to the administrator. What should you do?
You are migrating an on-premises data warehouse to BigQuery Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage. You need to configure security services in the data warehouse. Your company compliance policies mandate that the data warehouse must:
• Protect data at rest with full lifecycle management on cryptographic keys
• Implement a separate key management provider from data management
• Provide visibility into all encryption key requests
What services should be included in the data warehouse implementation?
Choose 2 answers
An administrative application is running on a virtual machine (VM) in a managed group at port 5601 inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instance without access to the internet currently. You want to expose the web interface at port 5601 to users and enforce authentication and authorization Google credentials
What should you do?
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?
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?
Your team sets up a Shared VPC Network where project co-vpc-prod is the host project. Your team has configured the firewall rules, subnets, and VPN gateway on the host project. They need to enable Engineering Group A to attach a Compute Engine instance to only the 10.1.1.0/24 subnet.
What should your team grant to Engineering Group A to meet this requirement?
A 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 are exporting application logs to Cloud Storage. You encounter an error message that the log sinks don't support uniform bucket-level access policies. How should you resolve this error?
You need to use Cloud External Key Manager to create an encryption key to encrypt specific BigQuery data at rest in Google Cloud. Which steps should you do first?
You are a consultant for an organization that is considering migrating their data from its private cloud to Google Cloud. The organization’s compliance team is not familiar with Google Cloud and needs guidance on how compliance requirements will be met on Google Cloud. One specific compliance requirement is for customer data at rest to reside within specific geographic boundaries. Which option should you recommend for the organization to meet their data residency requirements on Google Cloud?
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?
You are developing a new application that uses exclusively Compute Engine VMs Once a day. this application will execute five different batch jobs Each of the batch jobs requires a dedicated set of permissions on Google Cloud resources outside of your application. You need to design a secure access concept for the batch jobs that adheres to the least-privilege principle
What should you do?
You are in charge of creating a new Google Cloud organization for your company. Which two actions should you take when creating the super administrator accounts? (Choose two.)
You are a security administrator at your company. Per Google-recommended best practices, you implemented the domain restricted sharing organization policy to allow only required domains to access your projects. An engineering team is now reporting that users at an external partner outside your organization domain cannot be granted access to the resources in a project. How should you make an exception for your partner's domain while following the stated best practices?
You are part of a security team investigating a compromised service account key. You need to audit which new resources were created by the service account.
What should you do?
You are migrating an application into the cloud The application will need to read data from a Cloud Storage bucket. Due to local regulatory requirements, you need to hold the key material used for encryption fully under your control and you require a valid rationale for accessing the key material.
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?
You are setting up a new Cloud Storage bucket in your environment that is encrypted with a customer managed encryption key (CMEK). The CMEK is stored in Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). in project "pr j -a", and the Cloud Storage bucket will use project "prj-b". The key is backed by a Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM) and resides in the region europe-west3. Your storage bucket will be located in the region europe-west1. When you create the bucket, you cannot access the key. and you need to troubleshoot why.
What has caused the access issue?
A customer terminates an engineer and needs to make sure the engineer's Google account is automatically deprovisioned.
What should the customer do?
Your company is moving to Google Cloud. You plan to sync your users first by using Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS). Some employees have already created Google Cloud accounts by using their company email addresses that were created outside of GCDS. You must create your users on Cloud Identity.
What should you do?
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?
You need to set up two network segments: one with an untrusted subnet and the other with a trusted subnet. You want to configure a virtual appliance such as a next-generation firewall (NGFW) to inspect all traffic between the two network segments. How should you design the network to inspect the traffic?
You are tasked with exporting and auditing security logs for login activity events for Google Cloud console and API calls that modify configurations to Google Cloud resources. Your export must meet the following requirements:
Export related logs for all projects in the Google Cloud organization.
Export logs in near real-time to an external SIEM.
What should you do? (Choose two.)
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?
Your organization has had a few recent DDoS attacks. You need to authenticate responses to domain name lookups. Which Google Cloud service should you use?
Your organization operates Virtual Machines (VMs) with only private IPs in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with internet access through Cloud NAT Everyday, you must patch all VMs with critical OS updates and provide summary reports
What should you do?
You discovered that sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) is being ingested to your Google Cloud environment in the daily ETL process from an on-premises environment to your BigQuery datasets. You need to redact this data to obfuscate the PII, but need to re-identify it for data analytics purposes. Which components should you use in your solution? (Choose two.)
You need to centralize your team’s logs for production projects. You want your team to be able to search and analyze the logs using Logs Explorer. What should you do?
An organization’s typical network and security review consists of analyzing application transit routes, request handling, and firewall rules. They want to enable their developer teams to deploy new applications without the overhead of this full review.
How should you advise this organization?
How should a customer reliably deliver Stackdriver logs from GCP to their on-premises SIEM system?
You have numerous private virtual machines on Google Cloud. You occasionally need to manage the servers through Secure Socket Shell (SSH) from a remote location. You want to configure remote access to the servers in a manner that optimizes security and cost efficiency.
What should you do?
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?
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?
You need to implement an encryption-at-rest strategy that protects sensitive data and reduces key management complexity for non-sensitive data. Your solution has the following requirements:
Schedule key rotation for sensitive data.
Control which region the encryption keys for sensitive data are stored in.
Minimize the latency to access encryption keys for both sensitive and non-sensitive data.
What should you do?
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?
Your company must follow industry specific regulations. Therefore, you need to enforce customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for all new Cloud Storage resources in the organization called org1.
What command should you execute?
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 have been tasked with implementing external web application protection against common web application attacks for a public application on Google Cloud. You want to validate these policy changes before they are enforced. What service should you use?
You plan to use a Google Cloud Armor policy to prevent common attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi) from reaching your web application's backend. What are two requirements for using Google Cloud Armor security policies? (Choose two.)
Your company is using Cloud Dataproc for its Spark and Hadoop jobs. You want to be able to create, rotate,
and destroy symmetric encryption keys used for the persistent disks used by Cloud Dataproc. Keys can be stored in the cloud.
What should you do?
Which Google Cloud service should you use to enforce access control policies for applications and resources?
Your company conducts clinical trials and needs to analyze the results of a recent study that are stored in BigQuery. The interval when the medicine was taken contains start and stop dates The interval data is critical to the analysis, but specific dates may identify a particular batch and introduce bias You need to obfuscate the start and end dates for each row and preserve the interval data.
What should you do?
Your organization wants to be continuously evaluated against CIS Google Cloud Computing Foundations Benchmark v1 3 0 (CIS Google Cloud Foundation 1 3). Some of the controls are irrelevant to your organization and must be disregarded in evaluation. You need to create an automated system or process to ensure that only the relevant controls are evaluated.
What should you do?
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?
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?
An organization is migrating from their current on-premises productivity software systems to G Suite. Some network security controls were in place that were mandated by a regulatory body in their region for their previous on-premises system. The organization’s risk team wants to ensure that network security controls are maintained and effective in G Suite. A security architect supporting this migration has been asked to ensure that network security controls are in place as part of the new shared responsibility model between the organization and Google Cloud.
What solution would help meet the requirements?
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 Google Cloud environment has one organization node, one folder named Apps." and several projects within that folder The organizational node enforces the constraints/iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains organization policy, which allows members from the terramearth.com organization The "Apps" folder enforces the constraints/iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains organization policy, which allows members from the flowlogistic.com organization. It also has the inheritFromParent: false property.
You attempt to grant access to a project in the Apps folder to the user testuser@terramearth.com.
What is the result of your action and why?
Your team needs to obtain a unified log view of all development cloud projects in your SIEM. The development projects are under the NONPROD organization folder with the test and pre-production projects. The development projects share the ABC-BILLING billing account with the rest of the organization.
Which logging export strategy should you use to meet the requirements?
Your privacy team uses crypto-shredding (deleting encryption keys) as a strategy to delete personally identifiable information (PII). You need to implement this practice on Google Cloud while still utilizing the majority of the platform’s services and minimizing operational overhead. 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 manager wants to start retaining security event logs for 2 years while minimizing costs. You write a filter to select the appropriate log entries.
Where should you export the logs?
A customer wants to run a batch processing system on VMs and store the output files in a Cloud Storage bucket. The networking and security teams have decided that no VMs may reach the public internet.
How should this be accomplished?
A customer has 300 engineers. The company wants to grant different levels of access and efficiently manage IAM permissions between users in the development and production environment projects.
Which two steps should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Your company wants to determine what products they can build to help customers improve their credit scores depending on their age range. To achieve this, you need to join user information in the company's banking app with customers' credit score data received from a third party. While using this raw data will allow you to complete this task, it exposes sensitive data, which could be propagated into new systems.
This risk needs to be addressed using de-identification and tokenization with Cloud Data Loss Prevention while maintaining the referential integrity across the database. Which cryptographic token format should you use to meet these requirements?
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?
An office manager at your small startup company is responsible for matching payments to invoices and creating billing alerts. For compliance reasons, the office manager is only permitted to have the Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions necessary for these tasks. Which two IAM roles should the office manager have? (Choose two.)
A batch job running on Compute Engine needs temporary write access to a Cloud Storage bucket. You want the batch job to use the minimum permissions necessary to complete the task. What should you do?
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