Google PCA Designing for Security and Compliance Practice Question
A company uses Cloud Armor to protect an HTTPS Load Balancer. They want to allow traffic only from users who have passed a reCAPTCHA challenge. Cloud Armor supports which feature for this?
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WAF rules with reCAPTCHA
Cloud Armor security policies can include rules that use reCAPTCHA tokens to block or allow traffic based on the challenge outcome.
Answer analysis
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WAF rules with reCAPTCHA
Why this is correct
Cloud Armor supports reCAPTCHA token-based enforcement as a WAF feature.
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Preconfigured WAF rules
Why it's wrong here
Preconfigured rules are for known attack patterns, not reCAPTCHA.
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Adaptive Protection
Why it's wrong here
Adaptive Protection uses machine learning to detect DDoS, not reCAPTCHA.
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Rate limiting
Why it's wrong here
Rate limiting restricts request rates, not user validation.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
HTTPS
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is the secure version of HTTP that encrypts data between a web browser and a web server using SSL/TLS protocols.
Key term
Cloud Armor
Cloud Armor is a Google Cloud web application firewall (WAF) service that protects applications and websites from attacks like DDoS and SQL injection using customizable security rules.
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