You manage your organization's Security Operations Center (SOC). You currently monitor and detect network traffic anomalies in your VPCs based on network logs. However, you want to explore your…

The correct answer is E. Packet Mirroring. https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/packet-mirroring Packet Mirroring clones the traffic of specified instances in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network and forwards it for examination. Packet Mirroring captures all traffic and packet data, including payloads and headers.

Submitted by femi9· Apr 18, 2026Configuring network security

Question

You manage your organization's Security Operations Center (SOC). You currently monitor and detect network traffic anomalies in your VPCs based on network logs. However, you want to explore your environment using network payloads and headers. Which Google Cloud product should you use?

Options

ACloud IDS
BVPC Service Controls logs
CVPC Flow Logs
DGoogle Cloud Armor
EPacket Mirroring

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B
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C
7% (2)
D
10% (3)
E
79% (23)

Explanation

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/packet-mirroring Packet Mirroring clones the traffic of specified instances in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network and forwards it for examination. Packet Mirroring captures all traffic and packet data, including payloads and headers.

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#Packet Mirroring#Network Monitoring#Network Security#Traffic Analysis

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