20+ practice questions focused on Configuring Access and Security — one of the most tested topics on the Google Associate Cloud Engineer exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Configuring Access and Security PracticeAn engineer needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to a subset of Cloud Storage buckets in a project. The auditor's identity is a Google account. Which IAM approach should the engineer use?
Explanation: The best practice is to grant the Storage Object Viewer role at the project level and then use IAM Conditions to restrict access to specific bucket resources. This avoids managing multiple bindings per bucket while ensuring the auditor only sees the intended buckets. Granting at the bucket level is possible but less scalable; granting Storage Admin is too permissive; using ACLs is legacy and more complex to audit.
A security team wants to ensure that all Compute Engine instances in a project automatically use a custom service account with minimal permissions. What must the engineer do when creating new instances?
Explanation: When creating a Compute Engine instance, you can specify a custom service account using the --service-account flag. This attaches the service account to the instance and grants the associated IAM roles. The instance will use the custom service account instead of the default compute engine service account.
An engineer created a firewall rule to allow inbound HTTP traffic on port 80 from the internet to instances with the tag 'web-server'. However, after applying the rule, a test instance with the tag 'web-server' is still not reachable on port 80. What is a likely cause?
Explanation: Firewall rules are stateful, meaning return traffic is automatically allowed, but only if the inbound connection is permitted. A common misconfiguration is that the rule targets the wrong network tag, the instance does not have the tag, or the rule is not applied to the correct VPC network. Another possible issue is a higher-priority deny rule blocking the traffic. However, the most direct cause is that the instance lacks the tag specified in the rule.
A company wants to use Cloud NAT to allow private instances in a VPC to send outbound traffic to the internet and to receive inbound responses. Which two resources must be configured to set up Cloud NAT?
Explanation: Cloud NAT requires a Cloud Router (to manage dynamic routing and NAT IP allocation) and a NAT gateway (the actual NAT service). The Cloud Router is a separate resource that must be created in the same region as the NAT gateway. The NAT gateway configuration includes the Cloud Router name.
An engineer needs to view the current IAM policy for a project in JSON format. Which gcloud command should they use?
Explanation: The gcloud projects get-iam-policy command retrieves the IAM policy for a project. The --format flag allows you to specify the output format, such as JSON. The other commands are for different purposes: set-iam-policy sets the policy, add-iam-policy-binding adds a binding, and describe-iam-policy does not exist.
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