Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Network Engineer Questions and Answers
You are using the gcloud command line tool to create a new custom role in a project by coping a predefined role. You receive this error message:
INVALID_ARGUMENT: Permission resourcemanager.projects.list is not valid
What should you do?
You are designing a hybrid cloud environment for your organization. Your Google Cloud environment is interconnected with your on-premises network using Cloud HA VPN and Cloud Router. The Cloud Router is configured with the default settings. Your on-premises DNS server is located at 192.168.20.88 and is protected by a firewall, and your Compute Engine resources are located at 10.204.0.0/24. Your Compute Engine resources need to resolve on-premises private hostnames using the domain corp.altostrat.com while still resolving Google Cloud hostnames. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You have a storage bucket that contains the following objects:
- folder-a/image-a-1.jpg
- folder-a/image-a-2.jpg
- folder-b/image-b-1.jpg
- folder-b/image-b-2.jpg
Cloud CDN is enabled on the storage bucket, and all four objects have been successfully cached. You want to remove the cached copies of all the objects with the prefix folder-a, using the minimum number of commands.
What should you do?
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Your company's current network architecture has three VPC Service Controls perimeters:
One perimeter (PERIMETER_PROD) to protect production storage buckets
One perimeter (PERIMETER_NONPROD) to protect non-production storage buckets
One perimeter (PERIMETER_VPC) that contains a single VPC (VPC_ONE)
In this single VPC (VPC_ONE), the IP_RANGE_PROD is dedicated to the subnets of the production workloads, and the IP_RANGE_NONPROD is dedicated to subnets of non-production workloads. Workloads cannot be created outside those two ranges. You need to ensure that production workloads can access only production storage buckets and non-production workloads can access only non-production storage buckets with minimal setup effort. What should you do?
Your company is working with a partner to provide a solution for a customer. Both your company and the partner organization are using GCP. There are applications in the partner's network that need access to some resources in your company's VPC. There is no CIDR overlap between the VPCs.
Which two solutions can you implement to achieve the desired results without compromising the security? (Choose two.)
You are the Organization Admin for your company. One of your engineers is responsible for setting up multiple host projects across multiple folders and sharing subnets with service projects. You need to enable the engineer's Identity and Access Management (IAM) configuration to complete their task in the fewest number of steps. What should you do?
You need to give each member of your network operations team least-privilege access to create, modify, and delete Cloud Interconnect VLAN attachments.
What should you do?
Your company's on-premises office is connected to Google Cloud using HA VPN. The security team will soon enable VPC Service Controls. You need to create a plan with minimal configuration adjustments, so clients at the office will still be able to privately call the Google APIs and be protected by VPC Service Controls. What should you do?
Your organization has a new security policy that requires you to monitor all egress traffic payloads from your virtual machines in region us-west2. You deployed an intrusion detection system (IDS) virtual appliance in the same region to meet the new policy. You now need to integrate the IDS into the environment to monitor all egress traffic payloads from us-west2. What should you do?
You want to use Cloud Interconnect to connect your on-premises network to a GCP VPC. You cannot meet Google at one of its point-of-presence (POP) locations, and your on-premises router cannot run a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configuration.
Which connectivity model should you use?
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You reviewed the user behavior for your main application, which uses an external global Application Load Balancer, and found that the backend servers were overloaded due to erratic spikes in client requests. You need to limit concurrent sessions and return an HTTP 429 "Too Many Requests" response back to the client while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You are troubleshooting an issue where your organization's Cloud HA VPN is disconnected from your on-premises router for approximately 10 seconds before reestablishing the tunnel. The issue regularly occurs every few hours. You notice that the HA VPN logs show an entry of Received SA_DELETE when this issue occurs. You need to resolve this issue and prevent future VPN downtime from impacting your production applications. What should you do?
You have a web application that is currently hosted in the us-central1 region. Users experience high latency when traveling in Asia. You've configured a network load balancer, but users have not experienced a performance improvement. You want to decrease the latency.
What should you do?
Your organization has a Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with subnets in us-east1, us-west4, and europe-west4 that use the default VPC configuration. Employees in a branch office in Europe need to access the resources in the VPC using HA VPN. You configured the HA VPN associated with the Google Cloud VPC for your organization with a Cloud Router deployed in europe-west4. You need to ensure that the users in the branch office can quickly and easily access all resources in the VPC. What should you do?
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Your organization has distributed geographic applications with significant data volumes. You need to create a design that exposes the HTTPS workloads globally and keeps traffic costs to a minimum. What should you do?
You want to implement an IPSec tunnel between your on-premises network and a VPC via Cloud VPN. You need to restrict reachability over the tunnel to specific local subnets, and you do not have a device capable of speaking Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Which routing option should you choose?
Your organization recently created a sandbox environment for a new cloud deployment. To have parity with the production environment, a pair of Compute Engine instances with multiple network interfaces (NICs) were deployed. These Compute Engine instances have a NIC in the Untrusted VPC (10.0.0.0/23) and a NIC in the Trusted VPC (10.128.0.0/9). A HA VPN tunnel has been established to the on-premises environment from the Untrusted VPC. Through this pair of VPN tunnels, the on-premises environment receives the route advertisements for the Untrusted and Trusted VPCs. In return, the on-premises environment advertises a number of CIDR ranges to the Untrusted VPC. However, when you tried to access one of the test services from the on-premises environment to the Trusted VPC, you received no response. You need to configure a highly available solution to enable the on-premises users to connect to the services in the Trusted VPC. What should you do?
You manage two VPCs: VPC1 and VPC2, each with resources spread across two regions. You connected the VPCs with HA VPN in both regions to ensure redundancy. You’ve observed that when one VPN gateway fails, workloads that are located within the same region but different VPCs lose communication with each other. After further debugging, you notice that VMs in VPC2 receive traffic but their replies never get to the VMs in VPC1. You need to quickly fix the issue. What should you do?
You have just deployed your infrastructure on Google Cloud. You now need to configure the DNS to meet the following requirements:
Your on-premises resources should resolve your Google Cloud zones.
Your Google Cloud resources should resolve your on-premises zones.
You need the ability to resolve “. internal” zones provisioned by Google Cloud.
What should you do?
You recently deployed Compute Engine instances in regions us-west1 and us-east1 in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with default routing configurations. Your company security policy mandates that virtual machines (VMs) must not have public IP addresses attached to them. You need to allow your instances to fetch updates from the internet while preventing external access. What should you do?
You want to create a service in GCP using IPv6.
What should you do?
You have an application hosted on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance that cannot communicate with a resource outside of its subnet. When you review the flow and firewall logs, you do not see any denied traffic listed.
During troubleshooting you find:
• Flow logs are enabled for the VPC subnet, and all firewall rules are set to log.
• The subnetwork logs are not excluded from Stackdriver.
• The instance that is hosting the application can communicate outside the subnet.
• Other instances within the subnet can communicate outside the subnet.
• The external resource initiates communication.
What is the most likely cause of the missing log lines?
You are planning to use Terraform to deploy the Google Cloud infrastructure for your company The design must meet the following requirements
• Each Google Cloud project must represent an Internal project that your team Will work on
• After an internal project is finished, the infrastructure must be deleted
• Each Internal project must have Its own Google Cloud project owner to manage the Google Cloud resources-
• You have 10-100 projects deployed at a time,
While you are writing the Terraform code, you need to ensure that the deployment IS Simple, and the code IS reusable With
centralized management What should you doo
Your organization is deploying a single project for 3 separate departments. Two of these departments require network connectivity between each other, but the third department should remain in isolation. Your design should create separate network administrative domains between these departments. You want to minimize operational overhead.
How should you design the topology?
Your organization uses a Shared VPC architecture with a host project and three service projects. You have Compute Engine instances that reside in the service projects. You have critical workloads in your on-premises data center. You need to ensure that the Google Cloud instances can resolve on-premises hostnames via the Dedicated Interconnect you deployed to establish hybrid connectivity. What should you do?
(You are deploying an application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application needs to make API calls to a private Cloud Storage bucket. You need to configure your application Pods to authenticate to the Cloud Storage API, but your organization policy prevents the usage of service account keys. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?)
Your company offers a popular gaming service. Your instances are deployed with private IP addresses, and external access is granted through a global load balancer. You believe you have identified a potential malicious actor, but aren't certain you have the correct client IP address. You want to identify this actor while minimizing disruption to your legitimate users.
What should you do?
You have two Google Cloud projects in a perimeter to prevent data exfiltration. You need to move a third project inside the perimeter; however, the move could negatively impact the existing environment. You need to validate the impact of the change. What should you do?
You need to define an address plan for a future new GKE cluster in your VPC. This will be a VPC native cluster, and the default Pod IP range allocation will be used. You must pre-provision all the needed VPC subnets and their respective IP address ranges before cluster creation. The cluster will initially have a single node, but it will be scaled to a maximum of three nodes if necessary. You want to allocate the minimum number of Pod IP addresses.
Which subnet mask should you use for the Pod IP address range?
You have deployed an HTTP(s) load balancer, but health checks to port 80 on the Compute Engine virtual machine instance are failing, and no traffic is sent to your instances. You want to resolve the problem. Which commands should you run?
You are creating an instance group and need to create a new health check for HTTP(s) load balancing.
Which two methods can you use to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You want to set up two Cloud Routers so that one has an active Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session, and the other one acts as a standby.
Which BGP attribute should you use on your on-premises router?
You have the following firewall ruleset applied to all instances in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC):
You need to update the firewall rule to add the following rule to the ruleset:
You are using a new user account. You must assign the appropriate identity and Access Management (IAM) user roles to this new user account before updating the firewall rule. The new user account must be able to apply the update and view firewall logs. What should you do?
You work for a multinational enterprise that is moving to GCP.
These are the cloud requirements:
• An on-premises data center located in the United States in Oregon and New York with Dedicated Interconnects connected to Cloud regions us-west1 (primary HQ) and us-east4 (backup)
• Multiple regional offices in Europe and APAC
• Regional data processing is required in europe-west1 and australia-southeast1
• Centralized Network Administration Team
Your security and compliance team requires a virtual inline security appliance to perform L7 inspection for URL filtering. You want to deploy the appliance in us-west1.
What should you do?
You’ve received reports of latency between two application VMs which run in two different regions of your Google Cloud VPC network. There is typically about 8ms of latency, but now there is approximately 17ms of latency. You've eliminated application issues as a root cause, and you suspect that the latency may be a Google Cloud platform issue. You need to confirm this hypothesis using Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You are creating a new application and require access to Cloud SQL from VPC instances without public IP addresses.
Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)
Your company acquired a new division. The new division’s network team requires complete control over their networking infrastructure. You need to extend your existing Google Cloud network infrastructure, that consists of a single VPC, to allow workloads from all divisions to communicate with each other. You want to avoid incurring extra costs and granting unnecessary permissions to the new division’s networking team. What should you do?
You need to configure a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The initial deployment should have 5 nodes with the potential to scale to 10 nodes. The maximum number of Pods per node is 8. The number of services could grow from 100 to up to 1024. How should you design the IP schema to optimally meet this requirement?
You are designing a new global application using Compute Engine instances that will be exposed by a global HTTP(S) load balancer. You need to secure your application from distributed denial-of-service and application layer (layer 7) attacks. What should you do?
Your company has a security team that manages firewalls and SSL certificates. It also has a networking team that manages the networking resources. The networking team needs to be able to read firewall rules, but should not be able to create, modify, or delete them.
How should you set up permissions for the networking team?
You successfully provisioned a single Dedicated Interconnect. The physical connection is at a colocation facility closest to us-west2. Seventy-five percent of your workloads are in us-east4, and the remaining twenty-five percent of your workloads are in us-central1. All workloads have the same network traffic profile. You need to minimize data transfer costs when deploying VLAN attachments. What should you do?
You need to enable Private Google Access for use by some subnets within your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Your security team set up the VPC to send all internet-bound traffic back to the on- premises data center for inspection before egressing to the internet, and is also implementing VPC Service Controls in the environment for API-level security control. You have already enabled the subnets for Private Google Access. What configuration changes should you make to enable Private Google Access while adhering to your security team’s requirements?
Your organization wants to deploy HA VPN over Cloud Interconnect to ensure encryption-in-transit over the Cloud Interconnect connections. You have created a Cloud Router and two encrypted VLAN attachments that have a 5 Gbps capacity and a BGP configuration. The BGP sessions are operational. You need to complete the deployment of the HA VPN over Cloud Interconnect. What should you do?
You have created a firewall with rules that only allow traffic over HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH ports. While testing, you specifically try to reach the server over multiple ports and protocols; however, you do not see any denied connections in the firewall logs. You want to resolve the issue.
What should you do?
Your company has a single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network deployed in Google Cloud with access from on-premises locations using Cloud Interconnect connections. Your company must be able to send traffic to Cloud Storage only through the Interconnect links while accessing other Google APIs and services over the public internet. What should you do?
You work for a university that is migrating to GCP.
These are the cloud requirements:
• On-premises connectivity with 10 Gbps
• Lowest latency access to the cloud
• Centralized Networking Administration Team
New departments are asking for on-premises connectivity to their projects. You want to deploy the most cost-efficient interconnect solution for connecting the campus to Google Cloud.
What should you do?
In your project my-project, you have two subnets in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): subnet-a with IP range 10.128.0.0/20 and subnet-b with IP range 172.16.0.0/24. You need to deploy database servers in subnet-a. You will also deploy the application servers and web servers in subnet-b. You want to configure firewall rules that only allow database traffic from the application servers to the database servers. What should you do?
You want Cloud CDN to serve the static image file that is hosted in a private Cloud Storage bucket, You are using the VSE ORIG.-X_NZADERS cache mode You receive an HTTP 403 error when opening the file In your browser and you see that the HTTP response has a Cache-control: private, max-age=O header How should you correct this Issue?
You want to deploy a VPN Gateway to connect your on-premises network to GCP. You are using a non BGP-capable on-premises VPN device. You want to minimize downtime and operational overhead when your network grows. The device supports only IKEv2, and you want to follow Google-recommended practices.
What should you do?
You are maintaining a Shared VPC in a host project. Several departments within your company have infrastructure in different service projects attached to the Shared VPC and use Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to manage the cloud resources in those projects. VPC Network Peering is also set up between the Shared VPC and a common services VPC that is not in a service project. Several users are experiencing failed connectivity between certain instances in different Shared VPC service projects and between certain instances and the internet. You need to validate the network configuration to identify whether a misconfiguration is the root cause of the problem. What should you do?
You are using a 10-Gbps direct peering connection to Google together with the gsutil tool to upload files to Cloud Storage buckets from on-premises servers. The on-premises servers are 100 milliseconds away from the Google peering point. You notice that your uploads are not using the full 10-Gbps bandwidth available to you. You want to optimize the bandwidth utilization of the connection.
What should you do on your on-premises servers?
You have the following routing design. You discover that Compute Engine instances in Subnet-2 in the asia-southeast1 region cannot communicate with compute resources on-premises. What should you do?
You have configured a service on Google Cloud that connects to an on-premises service via a Dedicated Interconnect. Users are reporting recent connectivity issues. You need to determine whether the traffic is being dropped because of firewall rules or a routing decision. What should you do?
Your company uses Compute Engine instances that are exposed to the public internet. Each compute instance has a single network interface with a single public IP address. You need to block any connection attempt that originates from internet clients with IP addresses that belong to the bgp_asn_toblock BGP ASN. What should you do?
Your company is running out of network capacity to run a critical application in the on-premises data center. You want to migrate the application to GCP. You also want to ensure that the Security team does not lose their ability to monitor traffic to and from Compute Engine instances.
Which two products should you incorporate into the solution? (Choose two.)
You ate planning to use Terraform to deploy the Google Cloud infrastructure for your company, The design must meet the following requirements
• Each Google Cloud project must represent an Internal project that your team Will work on
• After an Internal project is finished, the infrastructure must be deleted
• Each Internal project must have Its own Google Cloud project owner to manage the Google Cloud resources.
• You have 10—100 projects deployed at a time
While you are writing the Terraform code, you need to ensure that the deployment is simple and the code is reusable With
centralized management What should you do?
You have enabled HTTP(S) load balancing for your application, and your application developers have reported that HTTP(S) requests are not being distributed correctly to your Compute Engine Virtual Machine instances. You want to find data about how the request are being distributed.
Which two methods can accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You built a web application with several containerized microservices. You want to run those microservices on Cloud Run. You must also ensure that the services are highly available to your customers with low latency. What should you do?
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You are troubleshooting connectivity issues between Google Cloud and a public SaaS provider. Connectivity between the two environments is through the public internet. Your users are reporting intermittent connection errors when using TCP to connect; however, ICMP tests show no failures. According to users, errors occur around the same time every day. You want to troubleshoot and gather information by using Google Cloud tools that are most likely to provide insights into what is occurring within Google Cloud. What should you do?
Your company recently migrated to Google Cloud in a Single region. You configured separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks for two departments. Department A and Department B. Department A has requested access to resources that are part Of Department Bis VPC. You need to configure the traffic from private IP addresses to flow between the VPCs using multi-NIC virtual machines (VMS) to meet security requirements Your configuration also must
• Support both TCP and UDP protocols
• Provide fully automated failover
• Include health-checks
Require minimal manual Intervention In the client VMS
Which approach should you take?
Your organization is running out of private IPv4 IP addresses. You need to create a new design pattern to reduce IP usage in your Google Kubernetes Engine clusters. Each new GKE cluster should have a unique /24 range of routable RFC1918 IP addresses. What should you do?
You have recently taken over responsibility for your organization's Google Cloud network security configurations. You want to review your Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) configurations to ensure that there are no rules allowing ingress traffic to your VMs and services from the internet. You want to avoid manual work. What should you do?
You are designing a hub-and-spoke network architecture for your company’s cloud-based environment. You need to make sure that all spokes are peered with the hub. The spokes must use the hub's virtual appliance for internet access.
The virtual appliance is configured in high-availability mode with two instances using an internal load balancer with IP address 10.0.0.5. What should you do?
Your on-premises data center has 2 routers connected to your Google Cloud environment through a VPN on each router. All applications are working correctly; however, all of the traffic is passing across a single VPN instead of being load-balanced across the 2 connections as desired.
During troubleshooting you find:
• Each on-premises router is configured with a unique ASN.
• Each on-premises router is configured with the same routes and priorities.
• Both on-premises routers are configured with a VPN connected to a single Cloud Router.
• BGP sessions are established between both on-premises routers and the Cloud Router.
• Only 1 of the on-premises router’s routes are being added to the routing table.
What is the most likely cause of this problem?
You recently deployed Cloud VPN to connect your on-premises data canter to Google Cloud. You need to monitor the usage of this VPN and set up alerts in case traffic exceeds the maximum allowed. You need to be able to quickly decide whether to add extra links or move to a Dedicated Interconnect. What should you do?
Your company's security team wants to limit the type of inbound traffic that can reach your web servers to protect against security threats. You need to configure the firewall rules on the web servers within your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to handle HTTP and HTTPS web traffic for TCP only. What should you do?
You are developing an HTTP API hosted on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance that must be invoked only by multiple clients within the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You want clients to be able to get the IP address of the service. What should you do?
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Your organization's security team recently discovered that there is a high risk of malicious activities originating from some of your VMs connected to the internet. These malicious activities are currently undetected when TLS communication is used. You must ensure that encrypted traffic to the internet is inspected. What should you do?
You configured Cloud VPN with dynamic routing via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You added a custom route to advertise a network that is reachable over the VPN tunnel. However, the on-premises clients still cannot reach the network over the VPN tunnel. You need to examine the logs in Cloud Logging to confirm that the appropriate routers are being advertised over the VPN tunnel. Which filter should you use in Cloud Logging to examine the logs?
