Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Last Update Nov 30, 2025
Total Questions : 297
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Your Security team believes that a former employee of your company gained unauthorized access to Google Cloud resources some time in the past 2 months by using a service account key. You need to confirm the unauthorized access and determine the user activity. What should you do?
Your organization is developing a sophisticated machine learning (ML) model to predict customer behavior for targeted marketing campaigns. The BigQuery dataset used for training includes sensitive personal information. You must design the security controls around the AI/ML pipeline. Data privacy must be maintained throughout the model's lifecycle and you must ensure that personal data is not used in the training process Additionally, you must restrict access to the dataset to an authorized subset of people only. What should you do?
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.)
You are a security administrator at your company and are responsible for managing access controls (identification, authentication, and authorization) on Google Cloud. Which Google-recommended best practices should you follow when configuring authentication and authorization? (Choose two.)
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?
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.)
You want to prevent users from accidentally deleting a Shared VPC host project. Which organization-level policy constraint should you enable?
You are responsible for the operation of your company's application that runs on Google Cloud. The database for the application will be maintained by an external partner. You need to give the partner team access to the database. This access must be restricted solely to the database and cannot extend to any other resources within your company's network. Your solution should follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A company is using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with container images of a mission-critical application The company wants to scan the images for known security issues and securely share the report with the security team without exposing them outside Google Cloud.
What should you do?
Your organization recently activated the Security Command Center {SCO standard tier. There are a few Cloud Storage buckets that were accidentally made accessible to the public. You need to investigate the impact of the incident and remediate it.
What should you do?
You need to implement an encryption at-rest strategy that reduces key management complexity for non-sensitive data and protects sensitive data while providing the flexibility of controlling the key residency and rotation schedule. FIPS 140-2 L1 compliance is required for all data types. What should you do?
You have been tasked with inspecting IP packet data for invalid or malicious content. What should you do?
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?
Your organization has Google Cloud applications that require access to external web services. You must monitor, control, and log access to these services. What should you do?
Your company is deploying a large number of containerized applications to GKE. The existing CI/CD pipeline uses Cloud Build to construct container images, transfers the images to Artifact Registry, and then deploys the images to GKE. You need to ensure that only images that have passed vulnerability scanning and meet specific corporate policies are allowed to be deployed. The process needs to be automated and integrated into the existing CI/CD pipeline. What should you do?
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?
You are responsible for managing identities in your company's Google Cloud organization. Employees are frequently using your organization's corporate domain name to create unmanaged Google accounts. You want to implement a practical and efficient solution to prevent employees from completing this action in the future. What should you do?
Your company is concerned about unauthorized parties gaming access to the Google Cloud environment by using a fake login page. You must implement a solution to protect against person-in-the-middle attacks.
Which security measure should you use?
Your company has multiple teams needing access to specific datasets across various Google Cloud data services for different projects. You need to ensure that team members can only access the data relevant to their projects and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information within BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Cloud SQL. What should you do?
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?
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 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 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 work at a company in a regulated industry and are responsible for ongoing security of the Cloud environment. You need to prevent and detect misconfigurations in a particular folder based on specific compliance policies. You need to adhere to industry-specific compliance policies and policies that are internal to your company. What should you do?
A company has been running their application on Compute Engine. A bug in the application allowed a malicious user to repeatedly execute a script that results in the Compute Engine instance crashing. Although the bug has been fixed, you want to get notified in case this hack re-occurs.
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 are onboarding new users into Cloud Identity and discover that some users have created consumer user accounts using the corporate domain name. How should you manage these consumer user accounts with Cloud Identity?
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.)
Your application is deployed as a highly available cross-region solution behind a global external HTTP(S) load balancer. You notice significant spikes in traffic from multiple IP addresses but it is unknown whether the IPs are malicious. You are concerned about your application's availability. You want to limit traffic from these clients over a specified time interval.
What should you do?
Your organization is deploying a serverless web application on Cloud Run that must be publicly accessible over HTTPS. To meet security requirements, you need to terminate TLS at the edge, apply threat mitigation, and prepare for geo-based access restrictions. What should you do?
You are working with protected health information (PHI) for an electronic health record system. The privacy officer is concerned that sensitive data is stored in the analytics system. You are tasked with anonymizing the sensitive data in a way that is not reversible. Also, the anonymized data should not preserve the character set and length. Which Google Cloud solution should you use?
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?
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:
The master key must be rotated at least once every 45 days.
The solution that stores the master key must be FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated.
The master key must be stored in multiple regions within the US for redundancy.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Your organization has established a highly sensitive project within a VPC Service Controls perimeter. You need to ensure that only users meeting specific contextual requirements such as having a company-managed device, a specific location, and a valid user identity can access resources within this perimeter. You want to evaluate the impact of this change without blocking legitimate access. 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?
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 have an application where the frontend is deployed on a managed instance group in subnet A and the data layer is stored on a mysql Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) in subnet B on the same VPC. Subnet A and Subnet B hold several other Compute Engine VMs. You only want to allow thee application frontend to access the data in the application's mysql instance on port 3306.
What should you do?
You work for a financial organization in a highly regulated industry that is subject to active regulatory compliance. To meet compliance requirements, you need to continuously maintain a specific set of configurations, data residency, organizational policies, and personnel data access controls. What should you do?
You are a Cloud Identity administrator for your organization. In your Google Cloud environment groups are used to manage user permissions. Each application team has a dedicated group Your team is responsible for creating these groups and the application teams can manage the team members on their own through the Google Cloud console. You must ensure that the application teams can only add users from within your organization to their groups.
What should you do?
Your organization wants to be General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant You want to ensure that your DevOps teams can only create Google Cloud resources in the Europe regions.
What should you do?
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?
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?
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?
A company allows every employee to use Google Cloud Platform. Each department has a Google Group, with
all department members as group members. If a department member creates a new project, all members of that department should automatically have read-only access to all new project resources. Members of any other department should not have access to the project. You need to configure this behavior.
What should you do to meet these requirements?
Your organization wants to protect all workloads that run on Compute Engine VM to ensure that the instances weren't compromised by boot-level or kernel-level malware. Also, you need to ensure that data in use on the VM cannot be read by the underlying host system by using a hardware-based solution.
What should you do?
You work for an ecommerce company that stores sensitive customer data across multiple Google Cloud regions. The development team has built a new 3-tier application to process orders and must integrate the application into the production environment. You must design the network architecture to ensure strong security boundaries and isolation for the new application, facilitate secure remote maintenance by authorized third-party vendors, and follow the principle of least privilege. What should you do?
You want to update your existing VPC Service Controls perimeter with a new access level. You need to avoid breaking the existing perimeter with this change, and ensure the least disruptions to users while minimizing overhead. What should you do?
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?
Your organization uses Google Workspace as the primary identity provider for Google Cloud Users in your organization initially created their passwords. You need to improve password security due to a recent security event. What should you do?
Your organization's application is being integrated with a partner application that requires read access to customer data to process customer orders. The customer data is stored in one of your Cloud Storage buckets. You have evaluated different options and determined that this activity requires the use of service account keys. You must advise the partner on how to minimize the risk of a compromised service account key causing a loss of data. What should you advise the partner to do?
Your organization processes sensitive health information. You want to ensure that data is encrypted while in use by the virtual machines (VMs). You must create a policy that is enforced across the entire organization.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
In order to meet PCI DSS requirements, a customer wants to ensure that all outbound traffic is authorized.
Which two cloud offerings meet this requirement without additional compensating controls? (Choose two.)
An organization receives an increasing number of phishing emails.
Which method should be used to protect employee credentials in this situation?
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 are the security admin of your company. Your development team creates multiple GCP projects under the "implementation" folder for several dev, staging, and production workloads. You want to prevent data exfiltration by malicious insiders or compromised code by setting up a security perimeter. However, you do not want to restrict communication between the projects.
What should you do?
A customer wants to move their sensitive workloads to a Compute Engine-based cluster using Managed Instance Groups (MIGs). The jobs are bursty and must be completed quickly. They have a requirement to be able to manage and rotate the encryption keys.
Which boot disk encryption solution should you use on the cluster to meet this customer’s requirements?
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 company is developing a new application for your organization. The application consists of two Cloud Run services, service A and service B. Service A provides a web-based user front-end. Service B provides back-end services that are called by service A. You need to set up identity and access management for the application. Your solution should follow the principle of least privilege. What should you do?
Your organization’s Google Cloud VMs are deployed via an instance template that configures them with a public IP address in order to host web services for external users. The VMs reside in a service project that is attached to a host (VPC) project containing one custom Shared VPC for the VMs. You have been asked to reduce the exposure of the VMs to the internet while continuing to service external users. You have already recreated the instance template without a public IP address configuration to launch the managed instance group (MIG). What should you 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?
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?
Your company hosts a critical web application on Google Cloud The application is experiencing an increasing number of sophisticated layer 7 attacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attempts. You need to protect the application from these attacks while minimizing the impact on legitimate traffic and ensuring high availability. What should you do?
Which Google Cloud service should you use to enforce access control policies for applications and resources?
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 implementing a new web application on Google Cloud that will be accessed from your on-premises network. To provide protection from threats like malware, you must implement transport layer security (TLS) interception for incoming traffic to your application. What should you 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 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 security audit uncovered several inconsistencies in your project’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) configuration. Some service accounts have overly permissive roles, and a few external collaborators have more access than necessary. You need to gain detailed visibility into changes to IAM policies, user activity, service account behavior, and access to sensitive projects. What should you do?
Your organization deploys a large number of containerized applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Node updates are currently applied manually. Audit findings show that a critical patch has not been installed due to a missed notification. You need to design a more reliable, cloud-first, and scalable process for node updates. 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.)
Your team needs to make sure that a Compute Engine instance does not have access to the internet or to any Google APIs or services.
Which two settings must remain disabled 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?
You are a member of your company's security team. You have been asked to reduce your Linux bastion host external attack surface by removing all public IP addresses. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) require access to the bastion host from public locations so they can access the internal VPC while off-site. How should you enable this access?
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?
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.)
Your company wants to deploy 2-step verification (2SV). The organizational unit (OU) structure of your company is divided into four departmental units: Human Resources. Finance. Engineering, and Marketing. You need to prevent many access issues from occurring at the same time. Your solution should minimize complexity in management and configuration. What should you do?
Your organization uses the top-tier folder to separate application environments (prod and dev). The developers need to see all application development audit logs but they are not permitted to review production logs. Your security team can review all logs in production and development environments. You must grant Identity and Access Management (1AM) roles at the right resource level tor the developers and security team while you ensure least privilege.
What should you do?
Your organization operates in a highly regulated industry and uses multiple Google Cloud services. You need to identify potential risks to regulatory compliance. Which situation introduces the greatest risk?
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?
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 standard
Which options should you recommend to meet the requirements?
You are a Security Administrator at your organization. You need to restrict service account creation capability within production environments. You want to accomplish this centrally across the organization. What should you do?
Your company’s chief information security officer (CISO) is requiring business data to be stored in specific locations due to regulatory requirements that affect the company’s global expansion plans. After working on a plan to implement this requirement, you determine the following:
The services in scope are included in the Google Cloud data residency requirements.
The business data remains within specific locations under the same organization.
The folder structure can contain multiple data residency locations.
The projects are aligned to specific locations.
You plan to use the Resource Location Restriction organization policy constraint with very granular control. At which level in the hierarchy should you set the constraint?
Which Identity-Aware Proxy role should you grant to an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user to access HTTPS resources?
TESTED 30 Nov 2025
