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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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Overview of VPC

Google Cloud VPC is a virtual network built on Google’s internal production network and is based on Andromeda, which is Google’s implementation of its software-defined network. Andromeda is out of scope for the exam, but those who want to understand more about the underlying network and how it is built can read more about it by using the link in the Further reading section.

You can think of Google Cloud VPC as a virtual network, which is very similar to a physical environment but more powerful due to its software-defined nature. At a high level, VPC is responsible for providing underlying connectivity to your Google Cloud services, such as Compute Engine (virtual machines), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google App Engine (GAE), and any other Google Cloud services that are built on top of these services. VPC also natively provides load balancing and proxy services, helps distribute traffic to backend services, and provides the capability to connect...