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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-NETWORK-ENGINEER · Question #216

Your organization has a subset of applications in multiple regions that require internet access. You need to control internet access from applications to URLs, including hostnames and paths. The…

The correct answer is D. Deploy a Secure Web Proxy instance in each region. Apply a Secure Web Proxy policy to allow. Secure Web Proxy (SWP) is the GCP service designed specifically for egress web traffic filtering by full URL including hostnames and URL paths - capabilities that Cloud NAT and VPC firewall FQDN objects do not provide (FQDN objects match hostnames only, not paths). Because SWP…

Submitted by hassan_iq· Apr 18, 2026Implementing network security

Question

Your organization has a subset of applications in multiple regions that require internet access. You need to control internet access from applications to URLs, including hostnames and paths. The compute instances that run these applications have an associated secure tag. What should you do?

Options

  • ADeploy a Cloud NAT gateway. Use fully qualified domain name (FQDN) objects in the firewall
  • BDeploy a Cloud NAT gateway. Use fully qualified domain name (FQDN) objects in the firewall
  • CDeploy a single Secure Web Proxy instance with global access enabled. Apply a Secure Web
  • DDeploy a Secure Web Proxy instance in each region. Apply a Secure Web Proxy policy to allow

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    10% (4)
  • D
    83% (33)

Explanation

Secure Web Proxy (SWP) is the GCP service designed specifically for egress web traffic filtering by full URL including hostnames and URL paths - capabilities that Cloud NAT and VPC firewall FQDN objects do not provide (FQDN objects match hostnames only, not paths). Because SWP is a regional service, it must be deployed in each region where the workloads reside. SWP policies can target instances using secure tags, matching the requirement. Option C suggests a single instance with global access enabled, but SWP does not support a single global instance serving multiple regions. Option D is the architecturally correct, regionally distributed approach.

Topics

#Secure Web Proxy#URL filtering#Outbound network security#Regional network architecture

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