PCNE Practice Question: Designing, Planning, and Prototyping a GCP Network
A company has a Dedicated Interconnect connection with a VLAN attachment in their GCP VPC. They want to use BGP to exchange routes with their on-premises router. Which GCP resource must be configured to establish the BGP session?
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Cloud Router
A Cloud Router is required to establish BGP sessions over VLAN attachments. The Cloud Router manages BGP peers and route advertisements.
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Cloud Router
Why this is correct
Cloud Router is used for BGP sessions with on-premises routers over Interconnect or VPN.
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VPC peering
Why it's wrong here
VPC peering connects VPCs, not on-premises networks.
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Network Connectivity Center
Why it's wrong here
NCC is for hub-and-spoke topology, not direct BGP setup for Interconnect.
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Cloud VPN gateway
Why it's wrong here
Cloud VPN is for IPsec VPN, not for Interconnect.
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