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For compliance reasons, an organization needs to ensure that in-scope PCI Kubernetes Pods reside on “in- scope” Nodes only. These Nodes can only contain the “in-scope” Pods.
How should the organization achieve this objective?
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?
An organization is starting to move its infrastructure from its on-premises environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The first step the organization wants to take is to migrate its ongoing data backup and disaster recovery solutions to GCP. The organization's on-premises production environment is going to be the next phase for migration to GCP. Stable networking connectivity between the on-premises environment and GCP is also being implemented.
Which GCP solution should the organization use?
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 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.)
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
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?
Your company is using GSuite and has developed an application meant for internal usage on Google App Engine. You need to make sure that an external user cannot gain access to the application even when an employee’s password has been compromised.
What should you do?
You are responsible for managing your company’s identities in Google Cloud. Your company enforces 2-Step Verification (2SV) for all users. You need to reset a user’s access, but the user lost their second factor for 2SV. You want to minimize risk. What should you 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?
Your organization has implemented synchronization and SAML federation between Cloud Identity and Microsoft Active Directory. You want to reduce the risk of Google Cloud user accounts being compromised. What should you do?
How should a customer reliably deliver Stackdriver logs from GCP to their on-premises SIEM system?
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 wants full control of the keys used to encrypt data at rest in their Google Cloud environments. Keys must be generated and stored outside of Google and integrate with many Google Services including BigQuery.
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 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 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?
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 security team uses encryption keys to ensure confidentiality of user data. You want to establish a process to reduce the impact of a potentially compromised symmetric encryption key in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS).
Which steps should your team take before an incident occurs? (Choose two.)
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 requires the security and network engineering teams to identify all network anomalies and be able to capture payloads within VPCs. Which method should you use?
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?
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 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?
You are asked to recommend a solution to store and retrieve sensitive configuration data from an application that runs on Compute Engine. Which option should you recommend?
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?
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?
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?
A company is running workloads in a dedicated server room. They must only be accessed from within the private company network. You need to connect to these workloads from Compute Engine instances within a Google Cloud Platform project.
Which two approaches can you take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
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?
You are a security engineer at a finance company. Your organization plans to store data on Google Cloud, but your leadership team is worried about the security of their highly sensitive data Specifically, your
company is concerned about internal Google employees' ability to access your company's data on Google Cloud. What solution should you propose?
Your organization must comply with the regulation to keep instance logging data within Europe. Your workloads will be hosted in the Netherlands in region europe-west4 in a new project. You must configure Cloud Logging to keep your data in the country.
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 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.)
Which Identity-Aware Proxy role should you grant to an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user to access HTTPS resources?
A customer has an analytics workload running on Compute Engine that should have limited internet access.
Your team created an egress firewall rule to deny (priority 1000) all traffic to the internet.
The Compute Engine instances now need to reach out to the public repository to get security updates. What should your team do?
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?
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?
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?
You manage your organization's Security Operations Center (SOC). You currently monitor and detect network traffic anomalies in your Google Cloud VPCs based on packet header information. However, you want the capability to explore network flows and their payload to aid investigations. Which Google Cloud product should you use?
Which international compliance standard provides guidelines for information security controls applicable to the provision and use of cloud services?
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 part of a security team that wants to ensure that a Cloud Storage bucket in Project A can only be readable from Project B. You also want to ensure that data in the Cloud Storage bucket cannot be accessed from or copied to Cloud Storage buckets outside the network, even if the user has the correct credentials.
What should you do?
Your organization is transitioning to Google Cloud You want to ensure that only trusted container images are deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a project. The containers must be deployed from a centrally managed. Container Registry and signed by a trusted authority.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers
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 organization is using GitHub Actions as a continuous integration and delivery (Cl/CD) platform. You must enable access to Google Cloud resources from the Cl/CD pipelines in the most secure way.
What should you do?
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?
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?
You are auditing all your Google Cloud resources in the production project. You want to identity all principals who can change firewall rules.
What should you do?
You work for an organization in a regulated industry that has strict data protection requirements. The organization backs up their data in the cloud. To comply with data privacy regulations, this data can only be stored for a specific length of time and must be deleted after this specific period.
You want to automate the compliance with this regulation while minimizing storage costs. What should you do?
You have been tasked with inspecting IP packet data for invalid or malicious content. 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?
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 need to follow Google-recommended practices to leverage envelope encryption and encrypt data at the application layer.
What should you do?
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?
You have a highly sensitive BigQuery workload that contains personally identifiable information (Pll) that you want to ensure is not accessible from the internet. To prevent data exfiltration only requests from authorized IP addresses are allowed to query your BigQuery tables.
What should you do?
You are a member of the security team at an organization. Your team has a single GCP project with credit card payment processing systems alongside web applications anddata processing systems. You want to reduce the scope of systems subject to PCI audit standards.
What should you do?
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?
You are the project owner for a regulated workload that runs in a project you own and manage as an Identity and Access Management (IAM) admin. For an upcoming audit, you need to provide access reviews evidence. Which tool should you use?
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:
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?
Your company’s new CEO recently sold two of the company’s divisions. Your Director asks you to help migrate the Google Cloud projects associated with those divisions to a new organization node. Which preparation steps are necessary before this migration occurs? (Choose two.)
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?
You want data on Compute Engine disks to be encrypted at rest with keys managed by Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to these keys must be managed in a grouped way because the permissions should be the same for all keys.
What should you do?
A retail customer allows users to upload comments and product reviews. The customer needs to make sure the text does not include sensitive data before the comments or reviews are published.
Which Google Cloud Service should be used to achieve this?
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?
Your company's users access data in a BigQuery table. You want to ensure they can only access the data during working hours.
What should you do?