EMT Practice Test

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Question1: You are a security administrator at your company and are responsible for managing access controls (identification, authentication, and authorization) on Google Cloud. Which Google-recommended best practices should you follow when configuring authentication and authorization? (Choose two.)

Question2: You need to centralize your team's logs for production projects. You want your team to be able to search and analyze the logs using Logs Explorer. What should you do?

Question3: You are the project owner for a regulated workload that runs in a project you own and manage as an Identity and Access Management (IAM) admin. For an upcoming audit, you need to provide access reviews evidence. Which tool should you use?

Question4: You need to set up two network segments: one with an untrusted subnet and the other with a trusted subnet. You want to configure a virtual appliance such as a next-generation firewall (NGFW) to inspect all traffic between the two network segments. How should you design the network to inspect the traffic?

Question5: Your team wants to limit users with administrative privileges at the organization level.
Which two roles should your team restrict? (Choose two.)

Question6: You are using Security Command Center (SCC) to protect your workloads and receive alerts for suspected security breaches at your company. You need to detect cryptocurrency mining software.
Which SCC service should you use?

Question7: You are auditing all your Google Cloud resources in the production project. You want to identity all principals who can change firewall rules.
What should you do?

Question8: When working with agents in a support center via online chat, an organization's customers often share pictures of their documents with personally identifiable information (PII). The organization that owns the support center is concerned that the PII is being stored in their databases as part of the regular chat logs they retain for review by internal or external analysts for customer service trend analysis.
Which Google Cloud solution should the organization use to help resolve this concern for the customer while still maintaining data utility?

Question9: You are working with a client who plans to migrate their data to Google Cloud. You are responsible for recommending an encryption service to manage their encrypted keys. You have the following requirements:
The master key must be rotated at least once every 45 days.
The solution that stores the master key must be FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated.
The master key must be stored in multiple regions within the US for redundancy.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question10: You are working with protected health information (PHI) for an electronic health record system. The privacy officer is concerned that sensitive data is stored in the analytics system. You are tasked with anonymizing the sensitive data in a way that is not reversible. Also, the anonymized data should not preserve the character set and length. Which Google Cloud solution should you use?

Question11: Your organization is using Active Directory and wants to configure Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). You must set up and enforce single sign-on (SSO) for all users.
What should you do?

Question12: A customer is collaborating with another company to build an application on Compute Engine. The customer is building the application tier in their GCP Organization, and the other company is building the storage tier in a different GCP Organization. This is a 3-tier web application. Communication between portions of the application must not traverse the public internet by any means.
Which connectivity option should be implemented?

Question13: For compliance reasons, an organization needs to ensure that in-scope PCI Kubernetes Pods reside on "in- scope" Nodes only. These Nodes can only contain the "in-scope" Pods.
How should the organization achieve this objective?

Question14: Which two security characteristics are related to the use of VPC peering to connect two VPC networks? (Choose two.)

Question15: You're developing the incident response plan for your company. You need to define the access strategy that your DevOps team will use when reviewing and investigating a deployment issue in your Google Cloud environment. There are two main requirements:
Least-privilege access must be enforced at all times.
The DevOps team must be able to access the required resources only during the deployment issue.
How should you grant access while following Google-recommended best practices?

Question16: You perform a security assessment on a customer architecture and discover that multiple VMs have public IP addresses. After providing a recommendation to remove the public IP addresses, you are told those VMs need to communicate to external sites as part of the customer's typical operations. What should you recommend to reduce the need for public IP addresses in your customer's VMs?

Question17: In order to meet PCI DSS requirements, a customer wants to ensure that all outbound traffic is authorized.
Which two cloud offerings meet this requirement without additional compensating controls? (Choose two.)

Question18: A company is deploying their application on Google Cloud Platform. Company policy requires long-term data to be stored using a solution that can automatically replicate data over at least two geographic places.
Which Storage solution are they allowed to use?

Question19: You are in charge of creating a new Google Cloud organization for your company. Which two actions should you take when creating the super administrator accounts? (Choose two.)

Question20: Your organization wants full control of the keys used to encrypt data at rest in their Google Cloud environments. Keys must be generated and stored outside of Google and integrate with many Google Services including BigQuery.
What should you do?

Question21: An organization is moving applications to Google Cloud while maintaining a few mission-critical applications on-premises. The organization must transfer the data at a bandwidth of at least 50 Gbps. What should they use to ensure secure continued connectivity between sites?

Question22: You are migrating an on-premises data warehouse to BigQuery Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage. You need to configure security services in the data warehouse. Your company compliance policies mandate that the data warehouse must:
* Protect data at rest with full lifecycle management on cryptographic keys
* Implement a separate key management provider from data management
* Provide visibility into all encryption key requests
What services should be included in the data warehouse implementation?
Choose 2 answers

Question23: You are deploying regulated workloads on Google Cloud. The regulation has data residency and data access requirements. It also requires that support is provided from the same geographical location as where the data resides.
What should you do?

Question24: A company is running workloads in a dedicated server room. They must only be accessed from within the private company network. You need to connect to these workloads from Compute Engine instances within a Google Cloud Platform project.
Which two approaches can you take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

Question25: A customer wants to make it convenient for their mobile workforce to access a CRM web interface that is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The CRM can only be accessed by someone on the corporate network. The customer wants to make it available over the internet. Your team requires an authentication layer in front of the application that supports two-factor authentication Which GCP product should the customer implement to meet these requirements?

Question26: You want to limit the images that can be used as the source for boot disks. These images will be stored in a dedicated project.
What should you do?

Question27: Your organization's Google Cloud VMs are deployed via an instance template that configures them with a public IP address in order to host web services for external users. The VMs reside in a service project that is attached to a host (VPC) project containing one custom Shared VPC for the VMs. You have been asked to reduce the exposure of the VMs to the internet while continuing to service external users. You have already recreated the instance template without a public IP address configuration to launch the managed instance group (MIG). What should you do?

Question28: Last week, a company deployed a new App Engine application that writes logs to BigQuery. No other workloads are running in the project. You need to validate that all data written to BigQuery was done using the App Engine Default Service Account.
What should you do?

Question29: You manage a mission-critical workload for your organization, which is in a highly regulated industry The workload uses Compute Engine VMs to analyze and process the sensitive data after it is uploaded to Cloud Storage from the endpomt computers. Your compliance team has detected that this workload does not meet the data protection requirements for sensitive dat a. You need to meet these requirements;
* Manage the data encryption key (DEK) outside the Google Cloud boundary.
* Maintain full control of encryption keys through a third-party provider.
* Encrypt the sensitive data before uploading it to Cloud Storage
* Decrypt the sensitive data during processing in the Compute Engine VMs
* Encrypt the sensitive data in memory while in use in the Compute Engine VMs What should you do?
Choose 2 answers

Question30: An organization's security and risk management teams are concerned about where their responsibility lies for certain production workloads they are running in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and where Google's responsibility lies. They are mostly running workloads using Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings, including App Engine primarily.
Which one of these areas in the technology stack would they need to focus on as their primary responsibility when using App Engine?

Question31: A retail customer allows users to upload comments and product reviews. The customer needs to make sure the text does not include sensitive data before the comments or reviews are published.
Which Google Cloud Service should be used to achieve this?

Question32: You need to follow Google-recommended practices to leverage envelope encryption and encrypt data at the application layer.
What should you do?

Question33: Your company must follow industry specific regulations. Therefore, you need to enforce customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for all new Cloud Storage resources in the organization called org1.
What command should you execute?

Question34: You are implementing data protection by design and in accordance with GDPR requirements. As part of design reviews, you are told that you need to manage the encryption key for a solution that includes workloads for Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub. Which option should you choose for this implementation?

Question35: You are a Cloud Identity administrator for your organization. In your Google Cloud environment groups are used to manage user permissions. Each application team has a dedicated group Your team is responsible for creating these groups and the application teams can manage the team members on their own through the Google Cloud console. You must ensure that the application teams can only add users from within your organization to their groups.
What should you do?

Question36: Your team needs to make sure that a Compute Engine instance does not have access to the internet or to any Google APIs or services.
Which two settings must remain disabled to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question37: An organization is starting to move its infrastructure from its on-premises environment to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The first step the organization wants to take is to migrate its ongoing data backup and disaster recovery solutions to GCP. The organization's on-premises production environment is going to be the next phase for migration to GCP. Stable networking connectivity between the on-premises environment and GCP is also being implemented.
Which GCP solution should the organization use?

Question38: You are exporting application logs to Cloud Storage. You encounter an error message that the log sinks don't support uniform bucket-level access policies. How should you resolve this error?

Question39: You are asked to recommend a solution to store and retrieve sensitive configuration data from an application that runs on Compute Engine. Which option should you recommend?

Question40: You are a consultant for an organization that is considering migrating their data from its private cloud to Google Cloud. The organization's compliance team is not familiar with Google Cloud and needs guidance on how compliance requirements will be met on Google Cloud. One specific compliance requirement is for customer data at rest to reside within specific geographic boundaries. Which option should you recommend for the organization to meet their data residency requirements on Google Cloud?

Question41: After completing a security vulnerability assessment, you learned that cloud administrators leave Google Cloud CLI sessions open for days. You need to reduce the risk of attackers who might exploit these open sessions by setting these sessions to the minimum duration.
What should you do?

Question42: You are designing a new governance model for your organization's secrets that are stored in Secret Manager. Currently, secrets for Production and Non-Production applications are stored and accessed using service accounts. Your proposed solution must:
Provide granular access to secrets
Give you control over the rotation schedules for the encryption keys that wrap your secrets Maintain environment separation Provide ease of management Which approach should you take?

Question43: You are in charge of migrating a legacy application from your company datacenters to GCP before the current maintenance contract expires. You do not know what ports the application is using and no documentation is available for you to check. You want to complete the migration without putting your environment at risk.
What should you do?

Question44: An application running on a Compute Engine instance needs to read data from a Cloud Storage bucket. Your team does not allow Cloud Storage buckets to be globally readable and wants to ensure the principle of least privilege.
Which option meets the requirement of your team?

Question45: Your organization is moving virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud. You must ensure that operating system images that are used across your projects are trusted and meet your security requirements.
What should you do?

Question46: Your organization wants to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Google Cloud You must implement data residency and operational sovereignty in the EU.
What should you do?
Choose 2 answers

Question47: An organization is migrating from their current on-premises productivity software systems to G Suite. Some network security controls were in place that were mandated by a regulatory body in their region for their previous on-premises system. The organization's risk team wants to ensure that network security controls are maintained and effective in G Suite. A security architect supporting this migration has been asked to ensure that network security controls are in place as part of the new shared responsibility model between the organization and Google Cloud.
What solution would help meet the requirements?

Question48: Employees at your company use their personal computers to access your organization s Google Cloud console. You need to ensure that users can only access the Google Cloud console from their corporate-issued devices and verify that they have a valid enterprise certificate What should you do?

Question49: In a shared security responsibility model for IaaS, which two layers of the stack does the customer share responsibility for? (Choose two.)

Question50: A database administrator notices malicious activities within their Cloud SQL instance. The database administrator wants to monitor the API calls that read the configuration or metadata of resources. Which logs should the database administrator review?

Question51: Your organization s customers must scan and upload the contract and their driver license into a web portal in Cloud Storage. You must remove all personally identifiable information (Pll) from files that are older than 12 months. Also you must archive the anonymized files for retention purposes.
What should you do?

Question52: Your company plans to move most of its IT infrastructure to Google Cloud. They want to leverage their existing on-premises Active Directory as an identity provider for Google Cloud. Which two steps should you take to integrate the company's on-premises Active Directory with Google Cloud and configure access management? (Choose two.)

Question53: You are troubleshooting access denied errors between Compute Engine instances connected to a Shared VPC and BigQuery datasets. The datasets reside in a project protected by a VPC Service Controls perimeter. What should you do?

Question54: A customer has 300 engineers. The company wants to grant different levels of access and efficiently manage IAM permissions between users in the development and production environment projects.
Which two steps should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question55: Your organization develops software involved in many open source projects and is concerned about software supply chain threats You need to deliver provenance for the build to demonstrate the software is untampered.
What should you do?

Question56: Your team needs to configure their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment so they can centralize the control over networking resources like firewall rules, subnets, and routes. They also have an on-premises environment where resources need access back to the GCP resources through a private VPN connection. The networking resources will need to be controlled by the network security team.
Which type of networking design should your team use to meet these requirements?

Question57: You need to implement an encryption at-rest strategy that reduces key management complexity for non-sensitive data and protects sensitive data while providing the flexibility of controlling the key residency and rotation schedule. FIPS 140-2 L1 compliance is required for all data types. What should you do?

Question58: You plan to use a Google Cloud Armor policy to prevent common attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi) from reaching your web application's backend. What are two requirements for using Google Cloud Armor security policies? (Choose two.)

Question59: A company is running their webshop on Google Kubernetes Engine and wants to analyze customer transactions in BigQuery. You need to ensure that no credit card numbers are stored in BigQuery What should you do?

Question60: You are tasked with exporting and auditing security logs for login activity events for Google Cloud console and API calls that modify configurations to Google Cloud resources. Your export must meet the following requirements:
Export related logs for all projects in the Google Cloud organization.
Export logs in near real-time to an external SIEM.
What should you do? (Choose two.)

Question61: You are developing a new application that uses exclusively Compute Engine VMs Once a day. this application will execute five different batch jobs Each of the batch jobs requires a dedicated set of permissions on Google Cloud resources outside of your application. You need to design a secure access concept for the batch jobs that adheres to the least-privilege principle What should you do?

Question62: Your company's chief information security officer (CISO) is requiring business data to be stored in specific locations due to regulatory requirements that affect the company's global expansion plans. After working on a plan to implement this requirement, you determine the following:
The services in scope are included in the Google Cloud data residency requirements.
The business data remains within specific locations under the same organization.
The folder structure can contain multiple data residency locations.
The projects are aligned to specific locations.
You plan to use the Resource Location Restriction organization policy constraint with very granular control. At which level in the hierarchy should you set the constraint?

Question63: Your privacy team uses crypto-shredding (deleting encryption keys) as a strategy to delete personally identifiable information (PII). You need to implement this practice on Google Cloud while still utilizing the majority of the platform's services and minimizing operational overhead. What should you do?

Question64: A customer's company has multiple business units. Each business unit operates independently, and each has their own engineering group. Your team wants visibility into all projects created within the company and wants to organize their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects based on different business units. Each business unit also requires separate sets of IAM permissions.
Which strategy should you use to meet these needs?

Question65: An engineering team is launching a web application that will be public on the internet. The web application is hosted in multiple GCP regions and will be directed to the respective backend based on the URL request.
Your team wants to avoid exposing the application directly on the internet and wants to deny traffic from a specific list of malicious IP addresses Which solution should your team implement to meet these requirements?

Question66: You are part of a security team that wants to ensure that a Cloud Storage bucket in Project A can only be readable from Project B. You also want to ensure that data in the Cloud Storage bucket cannot be accessed from or copied to Cloud Storage buckets outside the network, even if the user has the correct credentials.
What should you do?

Question67: You are a member of your company's security team. You have been asked to reduce your Linux bastion host external attack surface by removing all public IP addresses. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) require access to the bastion host from public locations so they can access the internal VPC while off-site. How should you enable this access?

Question68: Which Identity-Aware Proxy role should you grant to an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user to access HTTPS resources?

Question69: You need to provide a corporate user account in Google Cloud for each of your developers and operational staff who need direct access to GCP resources. Corporate policy requires you to maintain the user identity in a third-party identity management provider and leverage single sign-on. You learn that a significant number of users are using their corporate domain email addresses for personal Google accounts, and you need to follow Google recommended practices to convert existing unmanaged users to managed accounts.
Which two actions should you take? (Choose two.)

Question70: You recently joined the networking team supporting your company's Google Cloud implementation. You are tasked with familiarizing yourself with the firewall rules configuration and providing recommendations based on your networking and Google Cloud experience. What product should you recommend to detect firewall rules that are overlapped by attributes from other firewall rules with higher or equal priority?

Question71: Your Google Cloud organization allows for administrative capabilities to be distributed to each team through provision of a Google Cloud project with Owner role (roles/ owner). The organization contains thousands of Google Cloud Projects Security Command Center Premium has surfaced multiple cpen_myscl_port findings. You are enforcing the guardrails and need to prevent these types of common misconfigurations.
What should you do?

Question72: Your organization wants to be continuously evaluated against CIS Google Cloud Computing Foundations Benchmark v1 3 0 (CIS Google Cloud Foundation 1 3). Some of the controls are irrelevant to your organization and must be disregarded in evaluation. You need to create an automated system or process to ensure that only the relevant controls are evaluated.
What should you do?

Question73: You are routing all your internet facing traffic from Google Cloud through your on-premises internet connection. You want to accomplish this goal securely and with the highest bandwidth possible.
What should you do?

Question74: Your company has deployed an application on Compute Engine. The application is accessible by clients on port 587. You need to balance the load between the different instances running the application. The connection should be secured using TLS, and terminated by the Load Balancer.
What type of Load Balancing should you use?

Question75: A customer is running an analytics workload on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) where Compute Engine instances are accessing data stored on Cloud Storage. Your team wants to make sure that this workload will not be able to access, or be accessed from, the internet.
Which two strategies should your team use to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question76: When creating a secure container image, which two items should you incorporate into the build if possible? (Choose two.)

Question77: Your organization wants to be General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant You want to ensure that your DevOps teams can only create Google Cloud resources in the Europe regions.
What should you do?

Question78: You are consulting with a client that requires end-to-end encryption of application data (including data in transit, data in use, and data at rest) within Google Cloud. Which options should you utilize to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Question79: A DevOps team will create a new container to run on Google Kubernetes Engine. As the application will be internet-facing, they want to minimize the attack surface of the container.
What should they do?

Question80: Your company is using GSuite and has developed an application meant for internal usage on Google App Engine. You need to make sure that an external user cannot gain access to the application even when an employee's password has been compromised.
What should you do?

Question81: A company is backing up application logs to a Cloud Storage bucket shared with both analysts and the administrator. Analysts should only have access to logs that do not contain any personally identifiable information (PII). Log files containing PII should be stored in another bucket that is only accessible by the administrator.
What should you do?

Question82: You have an application where the frontend is deployed on a managed instance group in subnet A and the data layer is stored on a mysql Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) in subnet B on the same VPC. Subnet A and Subnet B hold several other Compute Engine VMs. You only want to allow thee application frontend to access the data in the application's mysql instance on port 3306.
What should you do?

Question83: You will create a new Service Account that should be able to list the Compute Engine instances in the project. You want to follow Google-recommended practices.
What should you do?

Question84: A patch for a vulnerability has been released, and a DevOps team needs to update their running containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
How should the DevOps team accomplish this?

Question85: Your team needs to make sure that a Compute Engine instance does not have access to the internet or to any Google APIs or services.
Which two settings must remain disabled to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question86: Your team needs to prevent users from creating projects in the organization. Only the DevOps team should be allowed to create projects on behalf of the requester.
Which two tasks should your team perform to handle this request? (Choose two.)

Question87: Your team wants to make sure Compute Engine instances running in your production project do not have public IP addresses. The frontend application Compute Engine instances will require public IPs. The product engineers have the Editor role to modify resources. Your team wants to enforce this requirement.
How should your team meet these requirements?

Question88: You want data on Compute Engine disks to be encrypted at rest with keys managed by Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to these keys must be managed in a grouped way because the permissions should be the same for all keys.
What should you do?

Question89: You are responsible for managing your company's identities in Google Cloud. Your company enforces 2-Step Verification (2SV) for all users. You need to reset a user's access, but the user lost their second factor for 2SV. You want to minimize risk. What should you do?

Question90: You have a highly sensitive BigQuery workload that contains personally identifiable information (Pll) that you want to ensure is not accessible from the internet. To prevent data exfiltration only requests from authorized IP addresses are allowed to query your BigQuery tables.
What should you do?

Question91: A manager wants to start retaining security event logs for 2 years while minimizing costs. You write a filter to select the appropriate log entries.
Where should you export the logs?

Question92: Your security team wants to implement a defense-in-depth approach to protect sensitive data stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Your team has the following requirements:
The Cloud Storage bucket in Project A can only be readable from Project B.
The Cloud Storage bucket in Project A cannot be accessed from outside the network.
Data in the Cloud Storage bucket cannot be copied to an external Cloud Storage bucket.
What should the security team do?

Question93: You are backing up application logs to a shared Cloud Storage bucket that is accessible to both the administrator and analysts. Analysts should not have access to logs that contain any personally identifiable information (PII). Log files containing PII should be stored in another bucket that is only accessible to the administrator. What should you do?

Question94: Your application is deployed as a highly available cross-region solution behind a global external HTTP(S) load balancer. You notice significant spikes in traffic from multiple IP addresses but it is unknown whether the IPs are malicious. You are concerned about your application's availability. You want to limit traffic from these clients over a specified time interval.
What should you do?

Question95: You are setting up a CI/CD pipeline to deploy containerized applications to your production clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to prevent containers with known vulnerabilities from being deployed. You have the following requirements for your solution:
Must be cloud-native
Must be cost-efficient
Minimize operational overhead
How should you accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Question96: Your company runs a website that will store PII on Google Cloud Platform. To comply with data privacy regulations, this data can only be stored for a specific amount of time and must be fully deleted after this specific period. Data that has not yet reached the time period should not be deleted. You want to automate the process of complying with this regulation.
What should you do?

Question97: You are on your company's development team. You noticed that your web application hosted in staging on GKE dynamically includes user data in web pages without first properly validating the inputted dat a. This could allow an attacker to execute gibberish commands and display arbitrary content in a victim user's browser in a production environment.
How should you prevent and fix this vulnerability?

Question98: Your organization processes sensitive health information. You want to ensure that data is encrypted while in use by the virtual machines (VMs). You must create a policy that is enforced across the entire organization.
What should you do?

Question99: You have stored company approved compute images in a single Google Cloud project that is used as an image repository. This project is protected with VPC Service Controls and exists in the perimeter along with other projects in your organization. This lets other projects deploy images from the image repository project. A team requires deploying a third-party disk image that is stored in an external Google Cloud organization. You need to grant read access to the disk image so that it can be deployed into the perimeter.
What should you do?