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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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Load balancers

In this section, we will look at load balancing. There are many different load balancers that are available on Google Cloud. We will look at each of the different types of load balancers, what they are, and when to use which type of load balancer based on the traffic type. We will go over a decision tree that helps you decide what type of load balancer would meet your requirements, along with some limitations as well.

The other aspects that we will cover include the difference between external and internal load balancers and when to use which and why; regional versus global load balancers; and some considerations from a network tier perspective, as some load balancers are only supported by Premium Tier while others are also supported by Standard Tier. This can be an important thing to be aware of both from a cost and security perspective.

Let us start by looking at the different types of load balancers:

  • Global external HTTP(S) load balancer: This load balancer...