A Cloud Security Engineer enables organizations to design and implement secure workloads and infrastructure on Google Cloud. Through an understanding of security best practices and industry security requirements, this individual designs develops and manages a secure infrastructure leveraging Google security technologies. The Cloud Security Engineer should be proficient in all aspects of cloud Security including identity and access management, defining organizational structure and policies, using Google technologies to provide data protection, configuring network security defenses, collecting and analyzing Google Cloud logs, managing incident responses, and demonstrating an understanding of the application of dynamic regulatory considerations.

Our SkillPractical Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

• Configure access within a cloud solution environment

• Configure network security

• Ensure data protection

• Manage operations within a cloud solution environment

• Ensure compliance

Intended Audience

• People who want to become Google Cloud Platform security engineers

• People preparing for the Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam

Google recommends you have three or more years of industry experience, including one or more years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud. A strong IT security background is an absolute must-have to fully comprehend and understand these topics.

Course Outline

Our SkillPractical Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) covers the following topics -

Module 1 - Configuring access within a cloud solution environment

1.1 Configuring Cloud Identity
1.2 Managing user accounts
1.3 Managing service accounts
1.4 Managing authentication
1.5 Managing and implementing authorization controls
1.6 Defining resource hierarchy

Module 2 - Configuring network security

2.1 Designing network security
2.2 Configuring network segmentation
2.3 Establish private connectivity

Module 3 - Ensuring data protection

3.1 Preventing data loss with the DLP API
3.2 Managing encryption at rest.

Module 4 - Managing operations within a cloud solution environment

4.1 Building and deploying infrastructure
4.2 Building and deploying applications
4.3 Monitoring for security events

Module 5 - Ensuring compliance

5.1 Comprehension of regulatory concerns
5.2 Comprehension of compute environment concerns

Exam Results:

This SkillPractical course provides six practice exams. Each exam focuses on a specific category of Google Cloud Platform Services.

You will be required to correctly answer at least 70% of the questions to PASS the practice test.