Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer Exam - Topic 2 Question 130 Discussion

Question

You recently noticed a recurring daily spike in network usage in your Google Cloud project. You need to identify the virtual machine (VM) instances and type of traffic causing the spike in traffic utilization while minimizing the cost and management overhead required. What should you do?

Sharmaine · Accepted Answer

C) Configure Packet Mirroring to send all traffic to a VM. Use Wireshark on the VM to identity traffic utilization for each VM in the VPC.

Sharmaine · Answer

A) Enable VPC Flow Logs and send the output to BigQuery for analysis.

Sharmaine · Answer

B) Enable Firewall Rules Logging for all allowed traffic and send the output to BigQuery for analysis.

Sharmaine · Answer

D) Deploy a third-party network appliance and configure it as the default gateway. Use the third-party network appliance to identify users with high network traffic.