Google PCA Designing for Security and Compliance Practice Question
An organization wants to protect an HTTPS load-balanced web application from common web attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), as well as rate-limit traffic from specific IPs. Which three capabilities should they use together? (Choose three.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Armor rate limiting
Cloud Armor provides WAF rules (preconfigured rules for SQLi, XSS, etc.), rate limiting, and IP blacklisting/whitelisting. All three are part of Cloud Armor security policies.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Cloud Armor rate limiting
Why this is correct
Rate limiting can throttle traffic from specific IPs.
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Cloud CDN
Why it's wrong here
Cloud CDN caches content, does not provide WAF or rate limiting.
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Cloud Armor WAF rules
Why this is correct
Preconfigured rules block SQLi, XSS, etc.
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Cloud Load Balancing logging
Why it's wrong here
Logging provides visibility, not protection.
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Cloud Armor IP blacklist/whitelist
Why this is correct
IP lists can be used to block or allow traffic.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
Organization
An Organization is a top-level container in Google Cloud that represents your company or entities and serves as the root node for all your cloud resources, policies, and access control.
Key term
IPS
An Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is a network security device that monitors traffic in real time and automatically blocks threats before they reach your systems.
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