20+ practice questions focused on Designing for Security and Compliance — one of the most tested topics on the Google Professional Cloud Architect exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Designing for Security and Compliance PracticeA company wants to control which resources can be accessed by a service account in a specific project. Which IAM policy binding approach should be used?
Explanation: IAM roles are bound to members (including service accounts) at the resource, project, folder, or organization level. The correct approach is to grant the service account an IAM role at the project or resource level.
An organization requires that all container images deployed to GKE be signed and verified before deployment. Which GCP service should be used?
Explanation: Binary Authorization enforces deployment policies that require images to be signed by trusted authorities (e.g., using Cloud KMS) and verified before being deployed to GKE.
A security team wants to prevent data exfiltration from a GKE cluster to external storage. They need to restrict access to Cloud Storage buckets from the cluster without using private IPs. Which solution should they implement?
Explanation: VPC Service Controls use service perimeters to protect resources and prevent data exfiltration from authorized networks, including GKE clusters, to external resources.
A company uses Cloud KMS with CMEK to encrypt data stored in BigQuery. They need to audit who has used the encryption key and when. Which type of audit log should they enable?
Explanation: Cloud KMS operations (e.g., encrypt, decrypt) are recorded in Data Access audit logs. Admin Activity logs record configuration changes, not data access.
An engineer needs to grant a user the ability to create and manage service accounts in a project. Which predefined IAM role provides these permissions?
Explanation: The roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin role includes permissions to create, delete, and manage service accounts.
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