PCSE — questions

Your organization utilizes Cloud Run services within multiple projects underneath the non-production folder which requires primarily internal communication. Some services need external access to approved fully qualified domain names (FQDN) while other external traffic must be blocked. Internal applications must not be exposed. You must achieve this granular control with allowlists overriding broader restrictions only for designated VPCs. What should you do?

Your organization hosts a sensitive web application in Google Cloud. To protect the web application, you've set up a virtual private cloud (VPC) with dedicated subnets for the application's frontend and backend components. You must implement security controls to restrict incoming traffic, protect against web-based attacks, and monitor internal traffic. What should you do?

Your organization relies heavily on virtual machines (VMs) in Compute Engine. Due to team growth and resource demands, VM sprawl is becoming problematic. Maintaining consistent security hardening and timely package updates poses an increasing challenge. You need to centralize VM image management and automate the enforcement of security baselines throughout the virtual machine lifecycle. What should you do?

Customers complain about error messages when they access your organization's website. You suspect that the web application firewall rules configured in Cloud Armor are too strict. You want to collect request logs to investigate what triggered the rules and blocked the traffic. What should you do?

Your organization must follow the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). To prepare for an audit, you must detect deviations on an infrastructure-as-a-service level in your Google Cloud landing zone. What should you do?

Your organization is migrating a complex application to Google Cloud. The application has multiple internal components that interact with each other across several Google Cloud projects. Security is a major concern, and you must design an authorization scheme for administrators that aligns with the principles of least privilege and separation of duties. What should you do?

Your organization operates in a highly regulated industry and needs to implement strict controls around temporary access to sensitive Google Cloud resources. You have been using Access Approval to manage this access, but your compliance team has mandated the use of a custom signing key. Additionally, they require that the key be stored in a hardware security module (HSM) located outside Google Cloud. You need to configure Access Approval to use a custom signing key that meets the compliance requirements. What should you do?

Your organization has sensitive data stored in BigQuery and Cloud Storage. You need to design a solution that provides granular and flexible control authorization to read data. What should you do?

Your organization is using Security Command Center Premium as a central tool to detect and alert on security threats. You also want to alert on suspicious outbound traffic that is targeting domains of known suspicious web services. What should you do?

You work for a healthcare provider that is expanding into the cloud to store and process sensitive patient data. You must ensure the chosen Google Cloud configuration meets these strict regulatory requirements: • Data must reside within specific geographic regions. • Certain administrative actions on patient data require explicit approval from designated compliance officers. • Access to patient data must be auditable. What should you do?

You work for a multinational organization that has systems deployed across multiple cloud providers, including Google Cloud. Your organization maintains an extensive on-premises security information and event management (SIEM) system. New security compliance regulations require that relevant Google Cloud logs be integrated seamlessly with the existing SIEM to provide a unified view of security events. You need to implement a solution that exports Google Cloud logs to your on-premises SIEM by using a push-based, near real-time approach. You must prioritize fault tolerance, security, and auto scaling capabilities. In particular, you must ensure that if a log delivery fails, logs are re-sent. What should you do?

You work for a global company. Due to compliance requirements, certain Compute Engine instances that reside within specific projects must be located exclusively in cloud regions within the European Union (EU). You need to ensure that existing non-compliant workloads are remediated and prevent future Compute Engine instances from being launched in restricted regions. What should you do?

You are working with developers to secure custom training jobs running on Vertex AI. For compliance reasons, all supported data types must be encrypted by key materials that reside in the Europe region and are controlled by your organization. The encryption activity must not impact the training operation in Vertex AI. What should you do?

Your EU-based organization stores both Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and non-PII data in Cloud Storage buckets across multiple Google Cloud regions. EU data privacy laws require that the PII data must not be stored outside of the EU. To help meet this compliance requirement, you want to detect if Cloud Storage buckets outside of the EU contain healthcare data. What should you do?

Your organization is migrating business critical applications to Google Cloud across multiple projects. You only have the required IAM permission at the Google Cloud organization level. You want to grant project access to support engineers from two partner organizations using their existing identity provider (IdP) credentials. What should you do?

You are creating a secure network architecture. You must fully isolate development and production environments, and prevent any network traffic between the two environments. The network team requires that there is only one central entry point to the cloud network from the on-premises environment. What should you do?

You work for a large organization that is using Cloud Identity as the identity provider (IdP) on Google Cloud. Your InfoSec team has mandated the enforcement of a strong password with a length between 12 and 16 characters for all users. After configuring this requirement, users are still able to access the Google Cloud console with passwords that are less than 12 characters. You need to fix this problem within the Admin console. What should you do?

Your organization is preparing to build business services in Google Cloud for the first time. You must determine where to apply appropriate controls or policies. You must also identify what aspects of your cloud deployment are managed by Google. What should you do?

Your organization operates a hybrid cloud environment and has recently deployed a private Artifact Registry repository in Google Cloud. On-premises developers cannot resolve the Artifact Registry hostname and therefore cannot push or pull artifacts. You've verified the following: • Connectivity to Google Cloud is established by Cloud VPN or Cloud Interconnect. • No custom DNS configurations exist on-premises. • There is no route to the internet from the on-premises network. You need to identify the cause and enable the developers to push and pull artifacts. What is likely causing the issue and what should you do to fix the issue?

Your organization has an application hosted in Cloud Run. You must control access to the application by using Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) with these requirements: • Only users from the AppDev group may have access. • Access must be restricted to internal network IP addresses. What should you do?