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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-NETWORK-ENGINEER · Question #214

Recently, your networking team enabled Cloud CDN for one of the external-facing services that is exposed through an external Application Load Balancer. The application team has already defined which…

The correct answer is C. Configure the USE_ORIGIN_HEADERS caching mode on Cloud CDN to ensure Cloud CDN. Since the application team already defined caching behavior via Cache-Control headers in responses, the correct Cloud CDN caching mode is USE_ORIGIN_HEADERS. This mode instructs Cloud CDN to respect the cache directives sent by the origin server. Without this mode set…

Submitted by femi9· Apr 18, 2026Configuring network services

Question

Recently, your networking team enabled Cloud CDN for one of the external-facing services that is exposed through an external Application Load Balancer. The application team has already defined which content should be cached within the responses. Upon testing the load balancer, you did not observe any change in performance after the Cloud CDN enablement. You need to resolve the issue. What should you do?

Options

  • AConfigure the CACHE_ALL_STATIC caching mode on Cloud CDN to ensure Cloud CDN caches
  • BConfigure the FORCE_CACHE_ALL caching mode on Cloud CDN to ensure all appropriate
  • CConfigure the USE_ORIGIN_HEADERS caching mode on Cloud CDN to ensure Cloud CDN
  • DConfigure the CACHE_ALL_STATIC caching mode on Cloud CDN to ensure Cloud CDN cache

How the community answered

(64 responses)
  • A
    8% (5)
  • B
    17% (11)
  • C
    72% (46)
  • D
    3% (2)

Explanation

Since the application team already defined caching behavior via Cache-Control headers in responses, the correct Cloud CDN caching mode is USE_ORIGIN_HEADERS. This mode instructs Cloud CDN to respect the cache directives sent by the origin server. Without this mode set explicitly (or if the wrong mode is configured), Cloud CDN may ignore the origin's cache headers. CACHE_ALL_STATIC caches only static content types regardless of headers. FORCE_CACHE_ALL overrides headers and caches everything, which could cache content that should not be cached. USE_ORIGIN_HEADERS is the appropriate mode when the origin already controls caching logic.

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#Cloud CDN#Caching Modes#Troubleshooting

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