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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer (PCNE)

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Practice exam for the Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Network Engineer. Covers VPC design, hybrid interconnectivity, network services, and operations monitoring.

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Sample Questions — Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer (PCNE)

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1. A network engineer needs to design a VPC network for a company with multiple departments that require isolation but also need to share centralized services like databases and Active Directory. Which GCP architecture best meets this requirement?

A Create separate VPCs with VPC peering between each department and a central services VPC
B Use Shared VPC with a host project containing the shared subnets and service projects for each department ✓ Correct
C Create separate VPCs for each department and connect them using Cloud VPN tunnels
D Use auto-mode VPCs for each department and enable Private Google Access on all subnets

2. A company runs workloads in GCP and on-premises. On-premises DNS resolves names under corp.example.com using an internal DNS server at 192.168.1.53. VMs in GCP need to resolve corp.example.com names. Which Cloud DNS configuration achieves this?

A Create a public Cloud DNS zone for corp.example.com and point GCP VMs to the Cloud DNS resolver
B Create a private Cloud DNS zone for corp.example.com and manually add all records
C Create a Cloud DNS forwarding zone for corp.example.com that forwards queries to 192.168.1.53 ✓ Correct
D Configure split-horizon DNS in Cloud DNS so internal GCP VMs resolve corp.example.com differently

3. A network engineer needs to create a custom-mode VPC and add a subnet in us-central1 with the CIDR range 10.10.1.0/24 using the gcloud CLI. Which command sequence correctly accomplishes this?

A Run `gcloud compute networks create my-vpc --subnet-mode=custom`, then `gcloud compute networks subnets create my-subnet --network=my-vpc --region=us-central1 --range=10.10.1.0/24` ✓ Correct
B Run `gcloud compute networks subnets create my-subnet --region=us-central1 --range=10.10.1.0/24` before creating the VPC network
C Run `gcloud compute networks create my-vpc --subnet-mode=auto`, then `gcloud compute networks subnets create my-subnet --network=my-vpc --region=us-central1 --range=10.10.1.0/24`
D Run `gcloud compute networks create my-vpc --subnet-mode=custom`, then `gcloud compute networks subnets create my-subnet --network=my-vpc --region=us-central1` without specifying the range

4. A company wants to deploy a regional internal TCP/UDP load balancer to distribute traffic to a backend service. They need to understand when to use a regional internal load balancer (passthrough) versus a global internal Application Load Balancer. Which scenario requires the regional internal passthrough load balancer?

A HTTPS-based microservices that require URL-based routing and TLS termination at the load balancer
B HTTP web application frontend that needs URL path-based routing to different backend services
C A custom TCP-based protocol application that requires Layer 4 load balancing within a single region ✓ Correct
D DNS-based load balancing using weighted round-robin routing to multiple backend instances

5. A company wants to deploy a global HTTP(S) load balancer to distribute traffic to backends in multiple GCP regions. The load balancer must support content-based routing where /api/* requests go to one backend and /static/* requests go to another. Which GCP load balancer component handles this path-based routing?

A Forwarding rules with path-based matching for /api/* and /static/* prefixes
B URL maps with path matchers that route /api/* and /static/* to different backend services ✓ Correct
C Backend services configured with URL path affinity for different content types
D Target HTTP proxies with host rules that distinguish API and static content traffic

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