PCNE Practice Question: Managing, Monitoring, and Optimising Network Operations
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?
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Cloud NAT logging with filter for errors
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Cloud NAT logging with filter for errors
Why this is correct
Cloud NAT logging captures connection and allocation failures.
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Firewall Rules logging
Why it's wrong here
Firewall logging logs rule matches, not NAT errors.
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VPC Flow Logs on the subnet
Why it's wrong here
Flow Logs do not capture NAT allocation failures.
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Cloud Armor request logs
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Armor logs HTTP requests, not NAT errors.
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