Cloud Digital Leader Google Cloud Security Practice Test 1 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A security team needs to detect and respond to threats across their cloud environment. Which THREE services should they use together? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Security Command Center. Security Command Center provides vulnerability and threat detection, Cloud IDS detects network intrusions, and Chronicle is a SIEM for log analysis and threat detection. Together they cover cloud workload, network, and log-based threats. Cloud Audit Logs are for auditing, not active detection. Mandiant is a threat intelligence/incident response offering, but not one of the primary three services to use together for day-to-day threat detection across the cloud environment.

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Cloud Audit Logs

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Mandiant

Question 2

A security engineer needs to create a VPC Service Controls perimeter that prevents data exfiltration from a project containing sensitive data. The perimeter should allow BigQuery datasets in the project to be accessed only from authorized VMs within the same perimeter. Which step is essential?

Accepted Answer

Add the project to a perimeter and set an ingress policy that allows access from the authorized VMs' service accounts. VPC Service Controls perimeters block access from outside. Resources inside the perimeter can communicate freely by default, subject to IAM permissions. Since the authorized VMs are within the same perimeter, adding the project to the perimeter alone is sufficient to block outside access while allowing internal access. An ingress policy would be necessary only if the VMs were outside the perimeter, contradicting the stem.

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Create a separate perimeter for each VM and use IAM conditions

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Add the project to a perimeter and create an egress rule to allow access from authorized VMs

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Use Cloud Armor to whitelist the VMs' IP addresses for BigQuery access

Question 3

A company wants to protect sensitive data stored in Cloud Storage from being downloaded by users outside their organization. They also need to prevent data from being copied to external projects. Which TWO services should they use? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

IAM conditions with access levels. To protect sensitive data in Cloud Storage, use both VPC Service Controls and IAM conditions. VPC Service Controls create a security perimeter around Cloud Storage buckets, preventing data exfiltration to external projects and unauthorized networks. IAM conditions restrict access to Cloud Storage buckets based on attributes like user identity, device, or IP address, ensuring only authorized users within the organization can download data. Together, they provide defense in depth: VPC Service Controls block data movement across perimeters, while IAM conditions enforce fine-grained access control within the perimeter.

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Cloud DLP

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Cloud KMS

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Cloud Armor

Question 4

A company uses Cloud KMS to manage encryption keys. They want to rotate keys automatically every 90 days. How can they achieve this?

Accepted Answer

Use the gcloud kms keys set-rotation-schedule command. Cloud KMS supports automatic key rotation by setting a rotation period. This can be configured using the gcloud command-line tool with 'gcloud kms keys set-rotation-schedule', or by setting the rotation period when creating the key in the Cloud Console. Both methods achieve automatic rotation every 90 days.

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Use a cron job to call the Google Cloud API

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Manually create a new key version every 90 days

Question 5

Which TWO services help protect against data exfiltration in Google Cloud? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP). VPC Service Controls create security perimeters that prevent data from being exfiltrated from specified VPC networks. Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) helps detect and redact sensitive data, preventing accidental leaks of sensitive information. Cloud Armor protects against DDoS attacks, and Cloud IDS detects intrusions, but neither directly prevents data exfiltration.

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Cloud Armor

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Sensitive Data Protection (DLP)

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Cloud IDS

Question 6

A security engineer wants to ensure that Google personnel access to customer data stored in Cloud Storage is visible and auditable. Which Google Cloud feature should be enabled?

Accepted Answer

Access Transparency. Access Transparency provides near real-time logs of Google personnel access to customer data, enabling visibility and auditability. Access Approval would be used to require explicit approval before access, but it is not listed. Therefore, for the given options, Access Transparency is the correct choice.

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Data Loss Prevention API

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VPC Service Controls

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Cloud Audit Logs

Question 7

A financial services company needs to restrict access to its Cloud Storage buckets containing sensitive customer data. The company wants to prevent data exfiltration by ensuring that only authorized VMs in specific VPCs can access the buckets, and that data cannot be copied to unauthorized locations. Which two Google Cloud services should be used together? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

VPC Service Controls. VPC Service Controls create perimeters around Google Cloud resources such as Cloud Storage, preventing data exfiltration to unauthorized networks and allowing only requests from authorized VPC networks via access levels. Private Google Access enables VMs without external IP addresses to reach Google APIs and services, including Cloud Storage, over the private Google network, ensuring that access to the restricted buckets occurs through a controlled, private path rather than the public internet. Cloud Armor provides DDoS and WAF protection but does not restrict data access. Cloud NAT is used for outbound connectivity, not for preventing data exfiltration. Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) is an application-level access control, not suited for storage-level restrictions.

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Cloud Armor

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Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)

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Cloud NAT

Question 8

A company wants to replace its VPN-based remote access with a zero-trust solution that verifies user identity and device health before granting access to internal applications. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Accepted Answer

BeyondCorp Enterprise. BeyondCorp Enterprise provides zero-trust access based on user identity and device context, eliminating the need for a VPN. IAP is a component but the full solution is BeyondCorp Enterprise.

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Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)

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Cloud VPN

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Cloud Identity

Question 9

An organization needs to ensure that data stored in Cloud Storage is encrypted using keys that they manage and rotate themselves. Which encryption option should they choose?

Accepted Answer

Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). CMEK allows customers to manage their own keys via Cloud KMS. CSEK requires customer-supplied keys but has operational overhead. Google-managed keys are default but not customer-managed.

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Default encryption at rest

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Customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEK)

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Google-managed encryption keys

Question 10

A security team needs to monitor and analyze logs from multiple GCP projects to detect threats across the organization. They require a SIEM solution that can ingest logs from on-premises and other clouds. Which service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Chronicle. Chronicle is a Google Cloud SIEM that ingests logs from various sources, including on-premises and other clouds, and provides threat detection. Security Command Center is for vulnerability scanning, not SIEM.

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Security Command Center

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Cloud IDS

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Cloud Logging

Question 11

A company wants to protect its web application running on Google Cloud from DDoS attacks and SQL injection. Which service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Armor. Cloud Armor provides DDoS protection and WAF capabilities (including SQL injection prevention). Cloud CDN caches content but does not protect against attacks. VPC firewall rules are network-level only. reCAPTCHA protects against bots but not SQL injection.

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reCAPTCHA Enterprise

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Cloud CDN

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VPC firewall rules

Question 12

A data engineering team needs to store and manage database passwords and API keys used by their applications. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Secret Manager. Secret Manager is designed to store secrets like passwords and API keys. Cloud KMS is for encryption keys. Cloud Key Management Service is for creating and managing cryptographic keys, not storing secrets. Cloud Storage is for objects.

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Cloud KMS

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Cloud Key Management Service

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Cloud Storage

Question 13

What is the primary purpose of VPC Service Controls?

Accepted Answer

To prevent data exfiltration from Google Cloud services. VPC Service Controls create perimeters around Google Cloud services to prevent data exfiltration. VPC firewall rules control network traffic. Cloud Armor is for DDoS. Cloud IDS is for intrusion detection.

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To control ingress and egress traffic at the network level

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To detect network intrusions

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To protect against DDoS attacks

Question 14

A security administrator needs to ensure that Google personnel do not access customer data without explicit authorization. Which service should they use to get logs of Google employee access?

Accepted Answer

Access Transparency. Access Transparency provides logs of Google personnel actions on customer data. Cloud Audit Logs track user activities within the customer's project. Assured Workloads is for regulatory compliance. Security Command Center is for threat detection.

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Cloud Audit Logs

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Security Command Center

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Assured Workloads

Question 15

A company wants to scan its Cloud Storage buckets for sensitive data like credit card numbers and social security numbers. Which service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Sensitive Data Protection. Sensitive Data Protection (DLP API) is used to inspect and de-identify sensitive data. Security Command Center is for vulnerabilities. Web Risk API checks URLs against threat lists. reCAPTCHA is for bot protection.

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Security Command Center

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reCAPTCHA Enterprise

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Web Risk API