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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

You're reading from   Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide Become an expert and get Google Cloud certified with this practitioner's guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468869
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant Kulkarni Prashant Kulkarni
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Ankush Chowdhary Ankush Chowdhary
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: About the GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Google Cloud Security Concepts 3. Chapter 3: Trust and Compliance 4. Chapter 4: Resource Management 5. Chapter 5: Understanding Google Cloud Identity 6. Chapter 6: Google Cloud Identity and Access Management 7. Chapter 7: Virtual Private Cloud 8. Chapter 8: Advanced Network Security 9. Chapter 9: Google Cloud Key Management Service 10. Chapter 10: Cloud Data Loss Prevention 11. Chapter 11: Secret Manager 12. Chapter 12: Cloud Logging 13. Chapter 13: Image Hardening and CI/CD Security 14. Chapter 14: Security Command Center 15. Chapter 15: Container Security 16. Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam I
17. Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam II 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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