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Start Designing, planning, and prototyping a GCP network PracticeYour company is deploying a multi-tier web application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with a regional cluster. You need to design network policies to allow traffic only from the frontend pods to the backend pods on port 8080. Which of the following is the most secure and recommended approach?
Explanation: A Kubernetes NetworkPolicy is the native and most secure way to control pod-to-pod traffic within a GKE cluster. By defining an ingress rule that allows traffic only from frontend pods (selected via pod labels) to backend pods on TCP port 8080, you enforce micro-segmentation at the pod level, which is the recommended practice for multi-tier applications. This approach works regardless of the underlying node or VPC configuration and is fully integrated with GKE's network policies engine (Calico or Cilium).
A company is designing a hybrid connectivity solution between an on-premises data center and Google Cloud. They have a high bandwidth requirement of 20 Gbps and need a service level agreement (SLA) of 99.99% availability. Which connectivity option should they choose?
Explanation: Dedicated Interconnect provides direct, private connections between your on-premises network and Google Cloud, supporting up to 10 Gbps per circuit. By using two 10 Gbps connections in an active-active or active-passive configuration, you can achieve the required 20 Gbps aggregate bandwidth and meet the 99.99% SLA, as Google guarantees this SLA when you have at least two redundant connections.
A network engineer needs to design a VPC network for a global application that will have Compute Engine instances in multiple regions. The instances need to communicate with each other using internal IP addresses. What is the simplest way to enable this communication?
Explanation: A single VPC network is global and can contain subnets in any region. By placing subnets in each required region within the same VPC, instances can communicate using internal IP addresses (RFC 1918) without any additional connectivity services. This is the simplest and most scalable approach because VPCs inherently provide global routing between subnets.
Which TWO of the following are valid methods to reduce latency between users in Europe and a GCP-hosted application?
Explanation: Cloud CDN uses Google's globally distributed edge caches to serve content from locations closer to users, reducing round-trip time and latency. For users in Europe, cached static or dynamic content is delivered from a nearby edge PoP, bypassing the need to fetch from the origin server in a potentially distant region.
Which THREE of the following are requirements for implementing a Global External HTTP(S) Load Balancer with an external backend?
Explanation: Option B is correct because Global External HTTP(S) Load Balancers use Google's frontend (proxying) IP ranges to send health checks to backends. The backend must allow inbound traffic from these specific health check IP ranges (e.g., 35.191.0.0/16 and 130.211.0.0/22) to receive health probes; otherwise, the load balancer will mark the backend as unhealthy and stop forwarding traffic.
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