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PCNE Configuring Network Services Practice Question

A company uses Cloud CDN to serve content. They need to generate signed URLs to allow temporary access to premium content. They have set up a signing key. Which command correctly generates a signed URL for the object /video.mp4 in a bucket served by a load balancer?

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Correct answer & explanation

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gcloud compute sign-url --key-name mykey --expires 2024-12-31T23:59:59Z https://example.com/video.mp4

The gcloud compute sign-url command is used to sign URLs for Cloud CDN. It requires the --key-name and --expires flags.

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  • ✓

    gcloud compute sign-url --key-name mykey --expires 2024-12-31T23:59:59Z https://example.com/video.mp4

    Why this is correct

    Correct: sign-url with --key-name and --expires.

  • ✗

    gcloud compute url-maps sign-url --key-name mykey https://example.com/video.mp4

    Why it's wrong here

    There is no sign-url subcommand under url-maps.

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    gsutil signurl --key-name mykey https://example.com/video.mp4

    Why it's wrong here

    gsutil signurl is for Storage signed URLs.

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    gcloud storage sign-url --key-name mykey --expires 2024-12-31T23:59:59Z https://example.com/video.mp4

    Why it's wrong here

    gcloud storage sign-url is for Cloud Storage signed URLs, not Cloud CDN.

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