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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

By : Ankush Chowdhary, Prashant Kulkarni
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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

By: Ankush Chowdhary, Prashant Kulkarni

Overview of this book

Google Cloud security offers powerful controls to assist organizations in establishing secure and compliant cloud environments. With this book, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of the Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification exam objectives, including Google Cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), network security, data security, and security operations. The chapters go beyond the exam essentials, helping you explore advanced topics such as Google Cloud Security Command Center, the BeyondCorp Zero Trust architecture, and container security. With step-by-step explanations, practical examples, and practice exams to help you improve your skills for the exam, you'll be able to efficiently review and apply key concepts of the shared security responsibility model. Finally, you’ll get to grips with securing access, organizing cloud resources, network and data security, and logging and monitoring. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in designing, developing, and operating security controls on Google Cloud and gain insights into emerging concepts for future exams.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam I
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Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam II
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Understanding resource hierarchy

The key components that make up the resource hierarchy are as follows:

  • Organization: The top-level component—all other components are linked to this.
  • Folders: Used to group similar projects to consistently apply policies. These are optional but highly recommended.
  • Projects: Where all the resources, such as your compute instances, databases, and others, exist.

Now, let’s look at each of these components in detail. From a certification standpoint, you will be tested on resource hierarchy and the topics covered in this chapter. It’s important to understand how to manage and create resources and apply access policies and organizational constraints. We will cover all these topics in this chapter.

Organization

This is the root node and hierarchical super-node of the project. It is closely associated with the Workspace / Cloud Identity account. It’s a single directory containing the organization’...