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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-NETWORK-ENGINEER · Question #17
Your company has recently expanded their EMEA-based operations into APAC. Globally distributed users report that their SMTP and IMAP services are slow. Your company requires end-to-end encryption…
The correct answer is D. TCP proxy load balancer. https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/choosing-load-balancer SSL offload yes >> SSL proxy SSL offload no >> TCP proxy
Submitted by lucia.co· Apr 18, 2026Designing, planning, and prototyping a Google Cloud network
Question
Your company has recently expanded their EMEA-based operations into APAC. Globally distributed users report that their SMTP and IMAP services are slow. Your company requires end-to-end encryption, but you do not have access to the SSL certificates. Which Google Cloud load balancer should you use?
Options
- ASSL proxy load balancer
- BNetwork load balancer
- CHTTPS load balancer
- DTCP proxy load balancer
How the community answered
(25 responses)- A8% (2)
- B4% (1)
- C4% (1)
- D84% (21)
Explanation
https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/choosing-load-balancer SSL offload yes >> SSL proxy SSL offload no >> TCP proxy
Topics
#TCP Proxy Load Balancer#Global Load Balancing#SSL/TLS Termination#Application Protocols (SMTP/IMAP)
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