Implementing Hybrid Interconnectivity

A company wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a Dedicated Interconnect. They have already ordered a cross-connect from their co-location facility to a Google Point of Presence (PoP). What is the NEXT step to establish the connection?

An organization is connecting their on-premises data center to Google Cloud via Partner Interconnect. The partner offers both Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity options. The organization wants to manage their own BGP sessions and IP addressing. Which connectivity option should they choose?

A company has deployed an HA VPN gateway in Google Cloud to connect to their on-premises network. They have configured two tunnels with IKEv2 and BGP. One tunnel is established, but the second tunnel is not coming up. What could be a likely cause?

A company has two Dedicated Interconnect connections from different metro areas to Google Cloud. Both connections are active and they want to use both simultaneously for load balancing traffic. They have configured two VLAN attachments each with a Cloud Router and BGP sessions. How should they configure BGP to achieve active-active load sharing?

An engineer needs to set up DNS resolution for on-premises resources from Google Cloud. They want to resolve a custom domain (e.g., corp.example.com) using on-premises DNS servers. Which Cloud DNS feature should they use?

A company has a HA VPN gateway in Google Cloud with two tunnels to their on-premises router. They want to ensure that if one tunnel fails, all traffic automatically fails over to the other tunnel. What configuration is necessary on the on-premises router?

A network engineer is setting up a Dedicated Interconnect with a 10 Gbps circuit. They need to achieve 99.99% availability SLA. Which of the following configurations meets the SLA requirements?

A company is using Partner Interconnect with a service provider that requires the use of VLAN attachments. Which type of VLAN attachment should they create in Google Cloud to use the partner's connection?

A company has set up a route-based HA VPN tunnel between Google Cloud and their on-premises network. They are experiencing packet loss and need to troubleshoot. Which logs or metrics would provide the MOST relevant information to diagnose the issue?

An organization has a Dedicated Interconnect with one VLAN attachment. They want to add a second VLAN attachment on the same interconnect circuit for additional capacity. What is the correct approach?

A company has deployed a Cloud VPN tunnel using route-based VPN (using IKEv2) and has configured BGP on the tunnel. The tunnel is up, but the BGP session is not establishing. What is a likely cause?

A company wants to use AS path prepending to influence traffic from Google Cloud to their on-premises network to prefer one Dedicated Interconnect connection over another. How should they configure AS path prepending?

A company needs to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with high availability and load balancing across multiple tunnels. They plan to use HA VPN. Which TWO of the following are required to achieve active-active load balancing across multiple tunnels?

An organization is setting up a Dedicated Interconnect and wants to monitor the health and performance of the connection using Cloud Monitoring. Which THREE metrics are available for Dedicated Interconnect?

A company is deploying Cloud DNS to enable on-premises resources to resolve Google Cloud private zone names. Which TWO resources are required for this setup?

A company wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud with a Dedicated Interconnect. They have ordered a circuit from a telecom provider and need to complete the setup. Which of the following steps is required during the provisioning process?

A network engineer needs to test connectivity after setting up a Dedicated Interconnect VLAN attachment and BGP session. Which tool should they use to verify that Google Cloud can reach an on-premises IP address?

A company uses Partner Interconnect with a service provider that offers Layer 2 connectivity. The engineer needs to establish BGP peering between the on-premises router and Cloud Router. What must be created in Google Cloud to enable this?

A company is setting up HA VPN between GCP and an on-premises network. They need to configure two VPN tunnels for high availability. Which of the following is required for the HA VPN gateway?

A network engineer is troubleshooting a failing HA VPN tunnel. They need to view VPN gateway logs to identify the issue. Which Google Cloud service should they use to access the logs?

A company wants to use HA VPN with route-based VPN. Which VPN configuration option must be enabled?

A company has two Dedicated Interconnect connections from different metro areas to Google Cloud. They want to achieve a 99.99% SLA. What is the minimum requirement?

An engineer needs to monitor the operational status of a Dedicated Interconnect link. Which Cloud Monitoring metric should they use?

A company wants to use BGP AS path prepending to influence traffic from Google Cloud to their on-premises network. They have two Dedicated Interconnect connections. Where should they configure the AS path prepending?

A company needs to resolve on-premises DNS names from Google Cloud VMs. They want to forward DNS queries for a specific domain (example.corp) to an on-premises DNS server. Which Cloud DNS feature should they use?

A company wants to allow on-premises DNS servers to resolve Google Cloud private VM names. They need to configure a Google-managed forwarding server IP. Which Cloud DNS feature should they use?

A company has two HA VPN tunnels between GCP and on-premises. They want to use both tunnels simultaneously for load balancing traffic. Which BGP feature should they configure on the Cloud Router to achieve equal-cost multipath (ECMP)?

A company is planning a hybrid cloud connectivity strategy with Google Cloud. They need high bandwidth (10 Gbps) and low latency. They also want to avoid internet transit. Which TWO connectivity options meet these requirements? (Choose 2.)

A network engineer is configuring HA VPN between GCP and an on-premises network. They need to ensure that the VPN tunnels are established and BGP sessions are up. Which THREE steps are required? (Choose 3.)

A company wants to use BGP traffic engineering to control how traffic flows between GCP and their on-premises network over two Dedicated Interconnect connections. Which TWO BGP attributes can they use on Cloud Router? (Choose 2.)

An organization wants to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud using a Dedicated Interconnect. They have ordered a circuit from a network service provider and need to determine the correct co-location facility to connect to. Which factor is most critical when selecting a co-location facility?

A network engineer is setting up a Dedicated Interconnect between an on-premises network and Google Cloud. After the circuit is ordered and the physical connection is established at the co-location facility, what is the first step to configure the interconnect inside GCP?

A company is using Partner Interconnect to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud. They need to choose between Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity options offered by the service provider. Which statement correctly describes the difference between Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity in Partner Interconnect?

An organization needs to set up a High Availability VPN (HA VPN) between their on-premises network and Google Cloud. They have created an HA VPN gateway with two interfaces and two external IP addresses. What is the next step to establish a functional VPN tunnel pair?

A network engineer is troubleshooting a Cloud VPN gateway that is not establishing a VPN tunnel with an on-premises device. The engineer checks the Cloud VPN gateway logs and sees the error 'IKE SA negotiation failed due to mismatched authentication method'. What is the most likely cause?

A company has two Dedicated Interconnect connections in the same metro area to meet the 99.99% SLA. One connection is active and the other is passive. During a maintenance window, the active connection goes down. The engineer expects traffic to fail over to the passive connection, but it does not. What is the most likely reason?

An organization is using Cloud VPN with dynamic routing (BGP) to connect their on-premises network to Google Cloud. They want to prioritize traffic from on-premises to GCP over one VPN tunnel when multiple tunnels are available. Which BGP attribute should they configure on their on-premises router?

A company needs to resolve DNS queries from their Google Cloud VPC for on-premises hostnames (e.g., internal.mycompany.com). They have a Cloud VPN tunnel between GCP and on-premises. Which approach should they use?

A network engineer is configuring an HA VPN tunnel pair between an on-premises VPN device and Google Cloud. The engineer wants to use IKEv2 with pre-shared keys. After configuring both ends, the tunnels do not come up. The engineer sees 'IKE SA negotiation failed - no proposal chosen' in the logs. What is the most likely cause?

A company has two Dedicated Interconnect circuits in different metro areas to meet the 99.99% SLA. They have configured active-active mode. During a test, they intentionally bring down one circuit. They expect traffic to continue using the other circuit, but they notice packet loss during the failover. What could be the cause?

A network engineer wants to monitor the operational status of a Dedicated Interconnect link using Cloud Monitoring. Which metric should they use to check if the physical link is up or down?

A company is using Partner Interconnect with a service provider that offers Layer 2 connectivity. The engineer has created a VLAN attachment of type PARTNER_PROVIDER in Google Cloud. What must the service provider do to complete the connection?

A network engineer is configuring a route-based VPN tunnel between an on-premises network and Google Cloud using Cloud VPN. Which two statements are true about route-based VPN compared to policy-based VPN? (Choose two.)

A company has two Dedicated Interconnect connections in different metro areas to meet the 99.99% SLA. They want to ensure that traffic uses both connections in an active-active manner. Which three configurations are required? (Choose three.)

A network engineer is troubleshooting a VPN tunnel that is up but not passing traffic. The Cloud Router shows that BGP sessions are established, but routes are not being exchanged. Which two should the engineer check? (Choose two.)

A company wants to establish a dedicated physical connection between their on-premises network and Google Cloud. They need a 10 Gbps connection and are willing to manage the circuit and colocation facility themselves. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

An engineer has set up a Dedicated Interconnect with a VLAN attachment and a Cloud Router BGP session. They can ping the on-premises gateway IP but cannot reach an on-premises subnet 10.0.0.0/24 from a GCE instance. The on-premises router is advertising the subnet via BGP. What is the most likely cause?

An enterprise requires a hybrid connectivity solution that meets a 99.99% SLA. They plan to use Dedicated Interconnect. Which configuration satisfies the SLA requirement?

A company uses High Availability VPN (HA VPN) with two tunnels and BGP to connect to an on-premises network. They notice traffic only flows through one tunnel. They want to ensure both tunnels are used simultaneously. What should they do?

A company wants to resolve on-premises DNS names from Google Cloud VMs. They have a Cloud DNS private zone for their domain and on-premises DNS servers at IP 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.1.2. Which Cloud DNS feature should they use?

A company is using Partner Interconnect with a service provider that offers Layer 3 connectivity. The service provider manages the BGP sessions. The engineer needs to create a VLAN attachment on the Google side. Which attachment type should they choose?

An engineer configures an HA VPN with two tunnels to an on-premises network using IKEv2 and pre-shared keys. After configuration, the tunnels show as established, but no traffic flows. The Cloud Router BGP sessions are not established. The on-premises firewall logs show IKE packets are being sent but no response. What is the most likely cause?

An organization has two Dedicated Interconnect connections in an active-passive configuration. They want to make the passive connection active for maintenance. What should they do to fail over traffic?

A company needs to monitor the operational status of their Dedicated Interconnect links. Which Cloud Monitoring metric should they use?

An engineer is configuring a Cloud Router for HA VPN. They need to enable BGP on the VPN tunnels. Which BGP configuration is required for the Cloud Router to advertise the VPC subnets to the on-premises network?

A company has a Partner Interconnect connection (Layer 2) with a service provider. They need to configure BGP sessions on their on-premises router and Google Cloud Router. The engineer creates a VLAN attachment of type PARTNER. However, the BGP session does not come up. What is the most likely reason?

An organization wants to use Cloud DNS to forward DNS queries from on-premises to Google Cloud for a private zone. Which feature should they implement?

A company is designing a highly available hybrid network using HA VPN. They need to ensure that if one VPN tunnel fails, traffic automatically fails over to the other tunnel. Which TWO configurations are required? (Choose TWO.)

An engineer is troubleshooting a High Availability VPN setup. The VPN tunnels are established, but the BGP sessions are flapping. Which THREE factors could cause this? (Choose THREE.)

An organization is considering using Partner Interconnect to connect to Google Cloud. They want the service provider to manage the BGP sessions. Which TWO configurations must they choose? (Choose TWO.)

A company is deploying a Dedicated Interconnect connection between their on-premises data center and Google Cloud. They require 99.99% availability for the interconnect. Which two actions must they take to meet this SLA?

You are configuring a Cloud Router for a Dedicated Interconnect VLAN attachment. The on-premises BGP AS number is 65001. You want to ensure that traffic from Google Cloud to on-premises prefers the primary attachment over the backup. Which BGP attribute should you configure on the primary Cloud Router to achieve this?

A network engineer is setting up a HA VPN between GCP and an on-premises network. They want to use route-based VPN with dynamic routing. Which two resources must be created together to form a functional HA VPN tunnel?

Your company has a Partner Interconnect connection via a service provider that offers Layer 3 connectivity. The provider assigns an IP address on the VLAN attachment. Which VLAN attachment type should you use when creating the attachment in Google Cloud?

You are troubleshooting a failing HA VPN tunnel between GCP and on-premises. The tunnel status shows 'Tunnel is down' in Cloud Console. Which TWO steps should you take to diagnose the issue? (Choose two.)

A company has two Dedicated Interconnect connections from different metro areas to their GCP VPC. They want to use both connections actively (active-active load balancing) without manual intervention. Which TWO configurations are required to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Your organization uses Cloud DNS for private DNS resolution within GCP. You need to enable on-premises DNS servers to resolve GCP private zone names (e.g., myinstance.internal.example.com). Which TWO resources must you configure? (Choose two.)

A network engineer is configuring BGP on a Cloud Router for a Dedicated Interconnect. They want to apply traffic engineering to prefer one path over another for inbound traffic from on-premises to GCP. Which THREE BGP attributes can be used to influence this inbound traffic? (Choose three.)

You are setting up Partner Interconnect with a service provider that offers both Layer 2 and Layer 3 options. Your on-premises network uses BGP to exchange routes. Which THREE statements are true about the connectivity types? (Choose three.)

You need to monitor the health and performance of a Dedicated Interconnect connection. Which THREE Cloud Monitoring metrics should you use? (Choose three.)