PCNE Timed Practice Test 3 — 10 Questions

Question 1

An organization wants to migrate legacy on-premises applications to Google Cloud but must maintain low-latency connectivity for real-time data synchronization. The on-premises data center is in a colocation facility that is not directly served by Google Cloud. Which hybrid connectivity option is most cost-effective while meeting the latency requirement?

10 minute time limit — choose an answer to begin.

Accepted Answer

Partner Interconnect. Partner Interconnect is the most cost-effective option because it provides a dedicated, low-latency connection through a supported service provider that can extend connectivity from the colocation facility to a Google Cloud region. Unlike Dedicated Interconnect, it does not require physical cross-connects in a Google Cloud colocation facility, making it ideal when the on-premises site is not directly served by Google Cloud. It meets the real-time synchronization latency requirement by offering a reliable, high-bandwidth connection with SLA-backed uptime.

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Direct Peering

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Cloud VPN with dynamic routing

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Dedicated Interconnect

Question 2

A company wants to forward DNS queries from their on-premises network to Google Cloud for resolution of private zone names. Which configuration is required?

Accepted Answer

DNS inbound server policy. A DNS inbound server policy allows an on-premises DNS resolver to forward queries to Google Cloud, enabling resolution of private zone names. This policy creates a forwarding path from on-premises to Cloud DNS using a specific inbound endpoint, which is required for hybrid cloud DNS resolution.

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DNS peering

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DNS forwarding zone

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Managed private zone

Question 3

A customer wants to use Cloud VPN to connect a small branch office to Google Cloud. The branch office has a dynamic public IP address. Which Cloud VPN type should they use?

Accepted Answer

HA VPN with a single VPN gateway and a dynamic peer IP. HA VPN supports dynamic peer IP addresses through its use of IKEv2 and route-based VPN tunnels. When the branch office has a dynamic public IP, HA VPN can establish tunnels using the peer's current IP address, which is discovered during IKE negotiation. Classic VPN (option A) requires a static peer IP, and option D requires two static peer IPs, making them unsuitable for a dynamic IP scenario.

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Classic VPN with a static IP on the peer

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A custom SSL VPN appliance on Compute Engine

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HA VPN with two VPN gateways and static peer IPs

Question 4

A company wants to run a DNS resolution service for their hybrid cloud environment. They need on-premises servers to resolve GCP private VM hostnames, and GCP VMs to resolve on-premises hostnames. Which Google Cloud service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Cloud DNS with inbound and outbound DNS forwarding. Cloud DNS with inbound and outbound DNS forwarding enables bidirectional DNS resolution between on-premises and GCP.

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Cloud DNS public zone

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Cloud DNS private zone with DNS peering

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Cloud NAT

Question 5

You are configuring an HA VPN tunnel between GCP and on-premises. The on-premises VPN device only supports IKEv1 and static routing. Which of the following is true regarding this setup?

Accepted Answer

Classic VPN must be used. HA VPN requires IKEv2 and dynamic routing (BGP). Classic VPN supports IKEv1 and static routing.

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Partner Interconnect can be used instead

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HA VPN can be used with static routing if you disable BGP

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HA VPN can be configured with IKEv1 and static routes

Question 6

A company uses Traffic Director with Envoy sidecars to manage traffic in their service mesh. They want to perform canary deployments where 10% of traffic goes to the new version and 90% to the stable version. Which TWO Traffic Director resources should they configure? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A TrafficDirectorService with a traffic splitting policy (weighted clusters). Traffic splitting is achieved through TrafficDirectorService with a weighted traffic policy. BackendService defines the service backends. Envoy Route Configuration is used for routing, but Traffic Director configures it automatically. HTTPRoute and gRPC filters are not used for traffic splitting.

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A gRPC filter in the Envoy configuration

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An HTTPRoute resource

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An Envoy Route Configuration with weighted clusters

Question 7

A company wants to ensure that only traffic from specific source IP ranges can reach a Cloud Load Balancer. How should they enforce this?

Accepted Answer

Configure Cloud Armor with IP allowlist.. Cloud Armor is a web application firewall (WAF) that can be attached to a Cloud Load Balancer to filter incoming traffic based on IP addresses, including allowlisting specific source IP ranges. This directly meets the requirement to restrict access to the load balancer by source IP without affecting backend instance configurations.

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Use IAP.

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Set up Cloud NAT.

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Use VPC firewall rules on the load balancer's backend.

Question 8

A company is using Cloud NAT for outbound traffic. They want to log when a connection fails due to resource exhaustion. Which logging feature should be enabled?

Accepted Answer

Cloud NAT logging with filter for errors

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Firewall Rules logging

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VPC Flow Logs on the subnet

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Cloud Armor request logs

Question 9

You need to create a load balancer that distributes traffic across Compute Engine instances in multiple regions for a TCP application without SSL offload. The clients should connect to a single anycast IP. Which load balancer should you use?

Accepted Answer

Global external TCP Proxy Load Balancer. Global external TCP Proxy Load Balancer provides a single anycast IP and handles TCP traffic without SSL offload (though it supports SSL offload optionally). It is the only global TCP load balancer that does not require SSL termination.

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External TCP/UDP Network Load Balancer

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Global external SSL Proxy Load Balancer

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Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancer

Question 10

A startup is deploying a microservices application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). They want to expose a service to the internet using a load balancer that provides SSL termination and supports WebSocket. Which type of Service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Create a Service of type LoadBalancer with an HTTP(S) load balancer.. A Service of type LoadBalancer with an HTTP(S) load balancer is correct because it provides a public IP address, handles SSL termination at the load balancer level, and natively supports WebSocket connections without additional configuration. This is the simplest and most direct way to expose a microservice to the internet with these requirements on GKE.

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Create a Service of type ClusterIP and use an Ingress resource with a backendConfig.

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Create a Service of type NodePort and configure an external TCP/UDP load balancer.

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Create a Headless Service with an external DNS A record pointing to the pod IPs.