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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER · Question #22
Your company operates an application instance group that is currently deployed behind a Google Cloud load balancer in us-central-1 and is configured to use the Standard Tier network. The…
The correct answer is B. Change the load balancer frontend configuration to use the Premium Tier network, and add the. In Standard Tier LB, Backends must be in the same region. https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balancing- overview#backend_region_and_network
Submitted by omar99· Apr 18, 2026Configuring access within a cloud solution environment
Question
Your company operates an application instance group that is currently deployed behind a Google Cloud load balancer in us-central-1 and is configured to use the Standard Tier network. The infrastructure team wants to expand to a second Google Cloud region, us-east-2. You need to set up a single external IP address to distribute new requests to the instance groups in both regions. What should you do?
Options
- AChange the load balancer backend configuration to use network endpoint groups instead of
- BChange the load balancer frontend configuration to use the Premium Tier network, and add the
- CCreate a new load balancer in us-east-2 using the Standard Tier network, and assign a static
- DCreate a Cloud VPN connection between the two regions, and enable Google Private Access.
How the community answered
(40 responses)- A3% (1)
- B83% (33)
- C5% (2)
- D10% (4)
Explanation
In Standard Tier LB, Backends must be in the same region. https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balancing- overview#backend_region_and_network
Topics
#Google Cloud Load Balancer#Network Service Tiers#Global Load Balancing#Multi-Region Deployment
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