Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) Practice Exam

Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) 

About Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (GCP)

Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam enables candidates working in the organizations to design and implement a secure infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. Candidates are required to get a thorough understanding of security best practices and industry security requirements, this individual designs, develops, and manages a secure infrastructure leveraging Google security technologies.

Who should take the exam?

Candidates preparing for Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) exam are cloud Security Professional. They are required to be proficient in all aspects of Cloud Security which include -

• Managing identity and access management
• Defining organizational structure and policies
• Using Google technologies to provide data protection
• Configuring network security defenses
• Collecting and analyzing Google Cloud Platform logs
• Managing incident responses
• Understanding of regulatory concerns

Skills Measured

Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam assesses your ability to -

• Configure access within a cloud solution environment
• Configure network security
• Ensure data protection
• Manage operations within a cloud solution environment
• Ensure compliance

Exam Format

• Exam Duration: 2 hours
• Exam Languages: English
  
• Exam format: Multiple choice and multiple select
• Prerequisites: None
• Recommended experience: 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.

Course Outline

The Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) exam covers the latest and updated topics - 

Domain 1: Understand configuring Access (approx 27%)

1.1 Managing Cloud Identity

• Learn to configure Google Cloud Directory Sync and third-party connectors
  
• Understand the management of a super administrator account
• Explain the automation of user lifecycle management
• Describe how to administer user accounts and groups programmatically
• Understand the configuration of Workforce Identity Federation

1.2 Managing Service Accounts

• Learn to secure and protect service accounts, including default accounts
  
• Identify scenarios requiring service accounts
• Explain the process of creating, disabling, and authorizing service accounts
• Understand how to secure and audit service account keys
• Learn to manage short-lived credentials
• Explain how to configure Workload Identity Federation
• Describe the management of service account impersonation

1.3 Managing Authentication

• Learn to create a password and session management policy for user accounts
  
• Understand how to set up Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and OAuth
• Explain how to configure and enforce two-step verification

1.4 Managing and Implementing Authorization Controls

• Understand the management of privileged roles and separation of duties with IAM roles and permissions
  
• Explain how to manage IAM and access control list (ACL) permissions
• Learn to grant permissions using IAM conditions and IAM deny policies
• Describe the design of identity roles at the organization, folder, project, and resource level
• Explain how to configure Access Context Manager
• Learn to apply Policy Intelligence for better permission management
• Understand the management of permissions through groups

1.5 Defining Resource Hierarchy

• Learn to create and manage organizations at scale
  
• Explain the management of organization policies for folders, projects, and resources
• Understand the use of resource hierarchy for access control and permissions inheritance

Domain 2 - Understand securing Communications and Establishing Boundary Protection (approx 21%)

2.1 Designing and Configuring Perimeter Security

• Learn to configure network perimeter controls (firewall rules, hierarchical firewall policies, IAP, load balancers, and Certificate Authority Service)
  
• Understand the difference between private and public IP addressing
• Explain the configuration of web application firewall (Google Cloud Armor)
• Describe how to deploy Secure Web Proxy
• Learn to configure Cloud DNS security settings
• Understand the monitoring and restriction of configured APIs

2.2 Configuring Boundary Segmentation

• Learn to configure security properties of VPC networks, VPC peering, and Shared VPC
  
• Explain the configuration of network isolation and data encapsulation for N-tier applications
• Understand how to configure VPC Service Controls

2.3 Establishing Private Connectivity

• Learn to design and configure private connectivity between VPC networks and Google Cloud projects
  
• Explain the design and configuration of private connectivity between data centers and VPC networks
• Describe how to establish private connectivity between VPC and Google APIs
• Learn how to use Cloud NAT to enable outbound traffic

Domain 3: Understand ensuring Data Protection (approx 20%)

3.1 Protecting Sensitive Data and Preventing Data Loss

• Learn to inspect and redact personally identifiable information (PII)
  
• Understand the continuous discovery of sensitive data
• Explain how to configure pseudonymization and format-preserving encryption
• Learn to restrict access to BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Cloud SQL
• Describe how to secure secrets with Secret Manager
• Understand the protection of compute instance metadata

3.2 Managing Encryption at Rest, In Transit, and In Use

• Identify use cases for Google default encryption, CMEK, EKM, and Cloud HSM
  
• Explain how to create and manage encryption keys for CMEK and EKM
• Learn to apply Google’s encryption approach to various use cases
• Understand how to configure object lifecycle policies for Cloud Storage
• Explain the enabling of Confidential Computing

3.3 Planning for Security and Privacy in AI

• Explain how to implement security controls for AI/ML systems
• Understand the security requirements for IaaS-hosted and PaaS-hosted training models

Domain 4: Understand managing Operations (approx 22%)

4.1 Automating Infrastructure and Application Security

• Learn to automate security scanning for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) within a CI/CD pipeline
  
• Explain how to configure Binary Authorization for GKE clusters and Cloud Run
• Learn to automate virtual machine image creation, maintenance, and patch management
• Describe the automation of container image creation, verification, and maintenance
• Understand how to manage policy and drift detection at scale

4.2 Configuring Logging, Monitoring, and Detection

• Learn to configure and analyze network logs (Firewall Rules Logging, VPC flow logs, Packet Mirroring, Cloud IDS, Log Analytics)
  
• Explain how to design an effective logging strategy
• Understand how to monitor, respond to, and remediate security incidents
• Learn to design secure access to logs and export them to external security systems
• Explain how to configure Google Cloud audit and data access logs
• Understand the configuration of log exports and monitoring through Security Command Center

Domain 5: Supporting Compliance Requirements (approx 10%)

5.1 Determining Regulatory Requirements for the Cloud

• Learn to determine regulatory concerns related to compute, data, network, and storage
• Explain the shared responsibility model in the cloud
• Understand how to configure security controls to support compliance requirements
• Learn to restrict compute and data for regulatory compliance
• Determine the Google Cloud environment in scope for regulatory compliance

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