PCSE Practice Question: Managing Operations in a Cloud Solution Environment
An organization uses Security Command Center Premium tier. They want to receive notifications when a finding of type 'Cryptomining' is detected in their Compute Engine instances. What should they configure?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Event Threat Detection and a Pub/Sub notification config
Event Threat Detection (Premium) detects cryptomining. You set up a notification config in SCC to send findings of that type to Pub/Sub.
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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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Container Threat Detection and an email alert
Why it's wrong here
Container Threat Detection is for GKE workloads, not Compute Engine. Also, direct email is not natively supported; Pub/Sub is standard.
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Security Health Analytics and a Cloud Storage bucket
Why it's wrong here
Security Health Analytics detects misconfigurations, not cryptomining threats.
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Web Security Scanner and a Cloud Function
Why it's wrong here
Web Security Scanner is for web app vulnerabilities like XSS, not cryptomining.
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Event Threat Detection and a Pub/Sub notification config
Why this is correct
Event Threat Detection (Premium) identifies cryptomining activity, and a notification config sends findings to Pub/Sub.
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