Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Network Engineer Questions and Answers
You want to apply a new Cloud Armor policy to an application that is deployed in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to find out which target to use for your Cloud Armor policy.
Which GKE resource should you use?
You configured a single IPSec Cloud VPN tunnel for your organization to a third-party customer. You confirmed that the VPN tunnel is established; however, the BGP session status states that BGP is not configured. The customer has provided you with their BGP settings:
Local BGP address: 169.254.11.1/30
Local ASN: 64515
Peer BGP address: 169.254.11.2
Peer ASN: 64517
Base MED: 1000
MD5 Authentication: Disabled
You need to configure the local BGP session for this tunnel based on the settings provided by the customer. You already associated the Cloud Router with the Cloud VPN Tunnel. What settings should you use for the BGP session?
Your organization is implementing a new security policy to control how firewall rules are applied to control flows between virtual machines (VMs). Using Google-recommended practices, you need to set up a firewall rule to enforce strict control of traffic between VM A and VM B. You must ensure that communications flow only from VM A to VM B within the VPC, and no other communication paths are allowed. No other firewall rules exist in the VPC. Which firewall rule should you configure to allow only this communication path?
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 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?
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?
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 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?
Your organization's security policy requires that all internet-bound traffic return to your on-premises data center through HA VPN tunnels before egressing to the internet, while allowing virtual machines (VMs) to leverage private Google APIs using private virtual IP addresses 199.36.153.4/30. You need to configure the routes to enable these traffic flows. What should you do?
You have created an HTTP(S) load balanced service. You need to verify that your backend instances are responding properly.
How should you configure the health check?
You have provisioned a Dedicated Interconnect connection of 20 Gbps with a VLAN attachment of 10 Gbps. You recently noticed a steady increase in ingress traffic on the Interconnect connection from the on-premises data center. You need to ensure that your end users can achieve the full 20 Gbps throughput as quickly as possible. Which two methods can you use to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
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?
You are responsible for designing a new connectivity solution for your organization's enterprise network to access and use Google Workspace. You have an existing Shared VPC with Compute Engine instances in us-west1. Currently, you access Google Workspace via your service provider's internet access. You want to set up a direct connection between your network and Google. What should you do?
You recently deployed two network virtual appliances in us-central1. Your network appliances provide connectivity to your on-premises network, 10.0.0.0/8. You need to configure the routing for your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Your design must meet the following requirements:
All access to your on-premises network must go through the network virtual appliances.
Allow on-premises access in the event of a single network virtual appliance failure.
Both network virtual appliances must be used simultaneously.
Which method should you use to accomplish this?
You created a new VPC network named Dev with a single subnet. You added a firewall rule for the network Dev to allow HTTP traffic only and enabled logging. When you try to log in to an instance in the subnet via Remote Desktop Protocol, the login fails. You look for the Firewall rules logs in Stackdriver Logging, but you do not see any entries for blocked traffic. You want to see the logs for blocked traffic.
What should you do?
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Your organization has an on-premises data center. You need to provide connectivity from the on-premises data center to Google Cloud. Bandwidth must be at least 1 Gbps, and the traffic must not traverse the internet. 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?
You just finished your company’s migration to Google Cloud and configured an architecture with 3 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks: one for Sales, one for Finance, and one for Engineering. Every VPC contains over 100 Compute Engine instances, and now developers using instances in the Sales VPC and the Finance VPC require private connectivity between each other. You need to allow communication between Sales and Finance without compromising performance or security. What should you do?
You suspect that one of the virtual machines (VMs) in your default Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is under a denial-of-service attack. You need to analyze the incoming traffic for the VM to understand where the traffic is coming from. What should you do?
You need to create a new VPC network that allows instances to have IP addresses in both the 10.1.1.0/24 network and the 172.16.45.0/24 network.
What should you do?
You are designing a hybrid cloud environment. Your Google Cloud environment is interconnected with your on-premises network using HA VPN and Cloud Router in a central transit hub VPC. The Cloud Router is configured with the default settings. Your on-premises DNS server is located at 192.168.20.88. You need to ensure that your Compute Engine resources in multiple spoke VPCs can resolve on-premises private hostnames using the domain corp.altostrat.com while also resolving Google Cloud hostnames. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
You decide to set up Cloud NAT. After completing the configuration, you find that one of your instances is not using the Cloud NAT for outbound NAT.
What is the most likely cause of this problem?
You have ordered Dedicated Interconnect in the GCP Console and need to give the Letter of Authorization/Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA) to your cross-connect provider to complete the physical connection.
Which two actions can accomplish this? (Choose two.)
Your company has a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with two Dedicated Interconnect connections in two different regions: us-west1 and us-east1. Each Dedicated Interconnect connection is attached to a Cloud Router in its respective region by a VLAN attachment. You need to configure a high availability failover path. By default, all ingress traffic from the on-premises environment should flow to the VPC using the us-west1 connection. If us-west1 is unavailable, you want traffic to be rerouted to us-east1. How should you configure the multi-exit discriminator (MED) values to enable this failover path?
You deployed a hub-and-spoke architecture in your Google Cloud environment that uses VPC Network Peering to connect the spokes to the hub. For security reasons, you deployed a private Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster in one of the spoke projects with a private endpoint for the control plane. You configured authorized networks to be the subnet range where the GKE nodes are deployed. When you attempt to reach the GKE control plane from a different spoke project, you cannot access it. You need to allow access to the GKE control plane from the other spoke projects. What should you do?
You have an application running on Compute Engine that uses BigQuery to generate some results that are stored in Cloud Storage. You want to ensure that none of the application instances have external IP addresses.
Which two methods can you use to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You have the following Shared VPC design VPC Flow Logs is configured for Subnet-1 In the host VPC. You also want to monitor flow logs for Subnet-2. What should you do?
Your organization has Compute Engine instances in us-east1, us-west2, and us-central1. Your organization also has an existing Cloud Interconnect physical connection in the East Coast of the United States with a single VLAN attachment and Cloud Router in us-east1. You need to provide a design with high availability and ensure that if a region goes down, you still have access to all your other Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets. You need to accomplish this in the most cost-effective manner possible. 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?)
(You need to migrate multiple PostgreSQL databases from your on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You want to significantly improve the performance of your databases while minimizing changes to your data schema and application code. You expect to exceed 150 TB of data per geographical region. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and minimize your operational costs. What should you do?)
You are troubleshooting an application in your organization's Google Cloud network that is not functioning as expected. You suspect that packets are getting lost somewhere. The application sends packets intermittently at a low volume from a Compute Engine VM to a destination on your on-premises network through a pair of Cloud Interconnect VLAN attachments. You validated that the Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) rules do not have any deny statements blocking egress traffic, and you do not have any explicit allow rules. Following Google-recommended practices, you need to analyze the flow to see if packets are being sent correctly out of the VM to isolate the issue. What should you do?
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?
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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 created a new VPC for your development team. You want to allow access to the resources in this VPC via SSH only.
How should you configure your firewall rules?
You want to configure a NAT to perform address translation between your on-premises network blocks and GCP.
Which NAT solution should you use?
You need to create the network infrastructure to deploy a highly available web application in the us-east1 and us-west1 regions. The application runs on Compute Engine instances, and it does not require the use of a database. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
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 need to enable Cloud CDN for all the objects inside a storage bucket. You want to ensure that all the object in the storage bucket can be served by the CDN.
What should you do in the GCP Console?
Your company has provisioned 2000 virtual machines (VMs) in the private subnet of your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in the us-east1 region. You need to configure each VM to have a minimum of 128 TCP connections to a public repository so that users can download software updates and packages over the internet. You need to implement a Cloud NAT gateway so that the VMs are able to perform outbound NAT to the internet. You must ensure that all VMs can simultaneously connect to the public repository and download software updates and packages. Which two methods can you use to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
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 have a Cloud Storage bucket in Google Cloud project XYZ. The bucket contains sensitive data. You need to design a solution to ensure that only instances belonging to VPCs under project XYZ can access the data stored in this Cloud Storage bucket. What should you do?
You need to configure a static route to an on-premises resource behind a Cloud VPN gateway that is configured for policy-based routing using the gcloud command.
Which next hop should you choose?
You are designing a packet mirroring policy as pan of your network security architecture for your gaming workload. Your Infrastructure is located in the us-west2 region and deployed across several zones: us-west2-a. us-west2-b. and us-west2-c The Infrastructure Is running a web-based application on TCP ports 80 and 443 with other game servers that utilize the UDP protocol. You need to deploy packet mirroring policies and collector instances to monitor web application traffic while minimizing inter-zonal network egress costs.
Following Google-recommended practices, how should you deploy the packet mirroring policies and collector instances?
You are configuring a new instance of Cloud Router in your Organization’s Google Cloud environment to allow connection across a new Dedicated Interconnect to your data center Sales, Marketing, and IT each have a service project attached to the Organization’s host project.
Where should you create the Cloud Router instance?
Your organization uses a hub-and-spoke architecture with critical Compute Engine instances in your Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). You are responsible for the design of Cloud DNS in Google Cloud. You need to be able to resolve Cloud DNS private zones from your on-premises data center and enable on-premises name resolution from your hub-and-spoke VPC design. What should you do?
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You need to enable Private Google Access for 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 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 has a single project that contains multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). You need to secure API access to your Cloud Storage buckets and BigQuery datasets by allowing API access only from resources in your corporate public networks. What should you do?
You have recently been put in charge of managing identity and access management for your organization. You have several projects and want to use scripting and automation wherever possible. You want to grant the editor role to a project member.
Which two methods can you use to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
You have deployed a new internal application that provides HTTP and TFTP services to on-premises hosts. You want to be able to distribute traffic across multiple Compute Engine instances, but need to ensure that clients are sticky to a particular instance across both services.
Which session affinity should you choose?
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?
Your company has separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks in a single region for two departments: Sales and Finance. The Sales department's VPC network already has connectivity to on-premises locations using HA VPN, and you have confirmed that the subnet ranges do not overlap. You plan to peer both VPC networks to use the same HA tunnels for on-premises connectivity, while providing internet connectivity for the Google Cloud workloads through Cloud NAT. Internet access from the on-premises locations should not flow through Google Cloud. You need to propagate all routes between the Finance department and on-premises locations. What should you do?
Your organization has resources in two different VPCs, each in different Google Cloud projects, and requires connectivity between the resources in the two VPCs. You have already determined that there is no IP address overlap; however, one VPC uses privately used public IP (PUPI) ranges. You would like to enable connectivity between these resources by using a lower cost and higher performance method. What should you do?
Your organization has a hub and spoke architecture with VPC Network Peering, and hybrid connectivity is centralized at the hub. The Cloud Router in the hub VPC is advertising subnet routes, but the on-premises router does not appear to be receiving any subnet routes from the VPC spokes. You need to resolve this issue. What should you do?
(You are developing an internet of things (IoT) application that captures sensor data from multiple devices that have already been set up. You need to identify the global data storage product your company should use to store this data. You must ensure that the storage solution you choose meets your requirements of sub-millisecond latency. What should you do?)
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You are designing the architecture for your organization so that clients can connect to certain Google APIs. Your plan must include a way to connect to Cloud Storage and BigQuery. You also need to ensure the traffic does not traverse the internet. You want your solution to be cloud-first and require the least amount of configuration steps. What should you do?
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 want to configure load balancing for an internet-facing, standard voice-over-IP (VOIP) application.
Which type of load balancer should you use?
You have an HA VPN connection with two tunnels running in active/passive mode between your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and on-premises network. Traffic over the connection has recently increased from 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) to 4 Gbps, and you notice that packets are being dropped. You need to configure your VPN connection to Google Cloud to support 4 Gbps. What should you do?
Your company's current network architecture has two VPCs that are connected by a dual-NIC instance that acts as a bump-in-the-wire firewall between the two VPCs. Flows between pairs of subnets across the two VPCs are working correctly. Suddenly, you receive an alert that none of the flows between the two VPCs are working anymore. You need to troubleshoot the problem. What should you do? (Choose 2 answers)
You need to create the technical architecture for hybrid connectivity from your data center to Google Cloud This will be managed by a partner. You want to follow Google-recommended practices for production-level applications. What should you do?
Your organization is developing a landing zone architecture with the following requirements:
There should be no communication between production and non-production environments.
Communication between applications within an environment may be necessary.
Network administrators should centrally manage all network resources, including subnets, routes, and firewall rules.
Each application should be billed separately.
Developers of an application within a project should have the autonomy to create their compute resources.
Up to 1000 applications are expected per environment.
You need to create a design that accommodates these requirements. What should you do?
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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?
Your team is developing an application that will be used by consumers all over the world. Currently, the application sits behind a global external application load balancer You need to protect the application from potential application-level attacks. What should you do?
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Your organization has a hub and spoke architecture with VPC Network Peering, and hybrid connectivity is centralized at the hub. The Cloud Router in the hub VPC is advertising subnet routes, but the on-premises router does not appear to be receiving any subnet routes from the VPC spokes. You need to resolve this issue. 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 have recently engaged a traffic-scrubbing service and want to restrict your origin to allow connections only from the traffic-scrubbing service.
What should you do?
You are configuring the firewall endpoints as part of the Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) intrusion prevention service in Google Cloud. You have configured a threat prevention security profile, and you now need to create an endpoint for traffic inspection. What should you do?
