- A
Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
Why wrong: CMEK encrypts data at rest and in transit but not during processing in memory.
- B
Access Transparency logs
Why wrong: Access Transparency logs provide audit trails but do not encrypt data in use.
- C
VPC Service Controls
Why wrong: VPC Service Controls prevent data exfiltration but do not encrypt data in use.
- D
Confidential VMs
Confidential VMs encrypt data in use using AMD SEV, ensuring no third party can inspect memory during inference.
Question 38 of 997
Generative AI Leader Google AI Ecosystem and Strategy Practice Question
This Generative AI Leader practice question tests your understanding of google ai ecosystem and strategy. The scenario asks you to isolate a root cause — eliminate options that address a different problem before choosing. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
A financial services company needs to deploy an AI model that handles highly sensitive transaction data. They require that the model's predictions cannot be inspected by any third party, and the data must remain encrypted at all times, including during inference. Which Google Cloud feature should they use?
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
✓
Confidential VMs
Confidential VMs (D) are the correct choice because they provide hardware-based memory encryption using AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), ensuring that data remains encrypted while in use (during inference). This meets the requirement that the model's predictions cannot be inspected by any third party, including Google Cloud operators, and that data stays encrypted at all times.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
Why it's wrong here
CMEK encrypts data at rest and in transit but not during processing in memory.
- ✗
Access Transparency logs
Why it's wrong here
Access Transparency logs provide audit trails but do not encrypt data in use.
- ✗
VPC Service Controls
Why it's wrong here
VPC Service Controls prevent data exfiltration but do not encrypt data in use.
- ✓
Confidential VMs
Why this is correct
Confidential VMs encrypt data in use using AMD SEV, ensuring no third party can inspect memory during inference.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates often confuse encryption at rest/in transit with encryption in use, and mistakenly choose CMEK or VPC Service Controls, not realizing that only Confidential VMs protect data during active computation.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Confidential VMs leverage AMD SEV to encrypt the entire VM memory with a unique, ephemeral key generated by the AMD Secure Processor, which is not accessible to the hypervisor or host OS. This ensures that even if an attacker gains physical access to the host, the in-memory data (including model weights and inference results) remains encrypted. A real-world scenario is a financial institution running a fraud detection model on sensitive transaction data in a Confidential VM, where the model's predictions are protected from any cloud provider access or side-channel attacks.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
A company's IT admin needs to give a contractor read-only access to production logs without sharing account credentials. Using role-based access control (RBAC) and temporary scoped permissions — not a permanent shared password — is the correct pattern. Questions like this test whether you can apply least-privilege access across cloud identity services.
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Google AI Ecosystem and Strategy — This question tests Google AI Ecosystem and Strategy — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Confidential VMs — Confidential VMs (D) are the correct choice because they provide hardware-based memory encryption using AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), ensuring that data remains encrypted while in use (during inference). This meets the requirement that the model's predictions cannot be inspected by any third party, including Google Cloud operators, and that data stays encrypted at all times.
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