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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER · Question #163

Your organization hosts a financial services application running on Compute Engine instances for a third-party company. The third-party company's servers that will consume the application also run…

The correct answer is B. Configure a VPC peering connection between your organization's VPC network and the third. Google encrypts and authenticates data in transit at one or more network layers when data moves outside physical boundaries not controlled by Google or on behalf of Google. All VM-to- VM traffic within a VPC network and peered VPC networks is encrypted…

Submitted by the_admin· Apr 18, 2026Configuring network security

Question

Your organization hosts a financial services application running on Compute Engine instances for a third-party company. The third-party company's servers that will consume the application also run on Compute Engine in a separate Google Cloud organization. You need to configure a secure network connection between the Compute Engine instances. You have the following requirements: - The network connection must be encrypted. - The communication between servers must be over private IP addresses. What should you do?

Options

  • AConfigure a Cloud VPN connection between your organization's VPC network and the third
  • BConfigure a VPC peering connection between your organization's VPC network and the third
  • CConfigure a VPC Service Controls perimeter around your Compute Engine instances, and provide
  • DConfigure an Apigee proxy that exposes your Compute Engine-hosted application as an API, and

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    71% (29)
  • C
    7% (3)
  • D
    17% (7)

Explanation

Google encrypts and authenticates data in transit at one or more network layers when data moves outside physical boundaries not controlled by Google or on behalf of Google. All VM-to- VM traffic within a VPC network and peered VPC networks is encrypted. https://cloud.google.com/docs/security/encryption-in-transit#cio-level_summary

Topics

#VPC Peering#Network Security#Cross-Organization Connectivity#Private IP Communication

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