PCSE Practice Question: Managing Operations in a Cloud Solution Environment
A security team needs to automatically respond to high-severity vulnerability findings in Security Command Center. They want to trigger a Cloud Function that quarantines the affected VM. What is the recommended way to connect SCC findings to Cloud Functions?
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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Create a SCC notification config that sends findings to a Pub/Sub topic, and set up a Cloud Function to subscribe to that topic.
SCC can publish findings to a Pub/Sub topic via notification configs. Cloud Functions can subscribe to that topic and execute the remediation logic. This is the recommended event-driven architecture.
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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Use Cloud Scheduler to poll SCC API every minute and invoke Cloud Function.
Why it's wrong here
Polling is inefficient and not real-time.
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Configure Cloud Logging to capture SCC findings and create a log-based metric with an alert that triggers Cloud Function.
Why it's wrong here
SCC findings are not captured in Cloud Logging by default; notifications are via Pub/Sub.
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Create a SCC notification config that sends findings to a Pub/Sub topic, and set up a Cloud Function to subscribe to that topic.
Why this is correct
This is the real-time event-driven approach.
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Export SCC findings to BigQuery and set up a BigQuery scheduled query to trigger Cloud Function.
Why it's wrong here
This adds latency and complexity.
Quick reference
Cloud Service Model Comparison
| Model | You Manage | Provider Manages | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| IaaS | OS, runtime, apps, data | Hardware, hypervisor, networking | EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine |
| PaaS | Apps and data | OS, runtime, middleware, hardware | Elastic Beanstalk, Azure App Service |
| SaaS | Data and settings only | Everything else | Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday |
| FaaS / Serverless | Function code only | Infra, scaling, runtime | Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Run |
| CaaS | Containers and apps | Kubernetes, OS, hardware | EKS, AKS, GKE |
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