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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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Google Cloud regions and zones

This topic is not part of the exam blueprint. Due to the fact that this is related to the design and architecture and how services are organized, it’s important to understand some of the foundational concepts of how Google organizes its regions and zones. We will also look at what global, regional, and zonal resources are.

Regions refer to geographic locations where Google Cloud has data centers that offer cloud services. For example, in the United States, Google has regions in Iowa (us-central), Virginia (us-east), and Los Angeles (us-west); across the globe, Google Cloud has regions in Australia, Singapore, India, the UK, Germany, and more. A full list of Google Cloud regions can be found here: https://packt.link/b9TVP.

Figure 7.2 – Google Cloud region locations

Figure 7.2 – Google Cloud region locations

At the time of writing, Google has a presence in more than 200 countries, with 29 regions, 88 zones, and 146 PoP or edge locations. As part of...