Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam - Topic 1 Question 66 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam

Question #: 66
Topic #: 1

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You define central security controls in your Google Cloud environment for one of the folders in your organization you set an organizational policy to deny the assignment of external IP addresses to VMs. Two days later you receive an alert about a new VM with an external IP address under that folder.

What could have caused this alert?

AThe VM was created with a static external IP address that was reserved in the project before the organizational policy rule was set.

BThe organizational policy constraint wasn't properly enforced and is running in 'dry run mode.

CAt project level, the organizational policy control has been overwritten with an 'allow' value.

DThe policy constraint on the folder level does not have any effect because of an allow' value for that constraint on the organizational level.

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by Billye at Oct 08, 2023, 06:56 AM

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Marguerita

3 months ago

Really? I thought once a policy is set, it should stick!

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Tawanna

3 months ago

Wait, how can a folder policy not work if the org level allows it?

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Antonio

4 months ago

Definitely a project-level override issue.

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Marlon

4 months ago

I think it could be a static IP from before the policy.

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Angella

4 months ago

Sounds like the policy wasn't enforced properly.

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Elinore

4 months ago

I think option D could be valid too, especially if there's an 'allow' at the organizational level that conflicts with the folder policy. It's tricky!

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Georgeanna

4 months ago

I feel like I saw something about project-level overrides in my notes. Could option C be the right answer if the policy was changed at that level?

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Elouise

4 months ago

This reminds me of a practice question where the enforcement mode was a key factor. I think option B might be a possibility if the policy wasn't enforced correctly.

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Vanda

5 months ago

I remember studying about organizational policies, but I'm not entirely sure if the static IP reservation could bypass the policy.

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Bernardo

5 months ago

This seems like a good opportunity to apply my knowledge of Google Cloud's policy enforcement mechanisms. I'll methodically evaluate each option.

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Cassie

5 months ago

I'm a bit confused by this question. I'll need to re-read the details and think through the different scenarios that could lead to the alert.

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Barrie

5 months ago

I'm pretty confident I know the answer to this one. I'll carefully review the options and select the most likely cause.

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Natalie

5 months ago

Okay, let's see. The key here is understanding how the organizational policy and project-level settings interact. I'll need to consider each of the options closely.

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Jeanice

5 months ago

Hmm, this seems like a tricky one. I'll need to think through the different possibilities carefully.

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Micaela

5 months ago

Hmm, I'm a bit confused by the wording on some of these. Does Net Zero Cloud really not use energy usage records? That seems odd. I'll need to think through each option carefully to make sure I don't miss anything.

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Irma

5 months ago

The algorithms for cryptographic operations sound right! I recall practicing questions that involved specifying security requirements like this.

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Vincenza

5 months ago

This one seems pretty straightforward. The question mentions smart cards, usernames, and passwords, so I'm thinking the answer is multi-factor authentication.

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