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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER · Question #283

Your organization relies heavily on virtual machines (VMs) in Compute Engine. Due to team growth and resource demands, VM sprawl is becoming problematic. Maintaining consistent security hardening…

The correct answer is A. Use VM Manager to automatically distribute and apply patches to YMs across your projects. VM Manager allows you to centrally manage and automate patching, configuration management, and compliance enforcement for VMs. By integrating with hardened VM images stored in a central repository, you ensure that VMs are consistently created with security baselines and…

Submitted by viktor_hu· Apr 18, 2026Managing operations within a cloud solution environment

Question

Your organization relies heavily on virtual machines (VMs) in Compute Engine. Due to team growth and resource demands, VM sprawl is becoming problematic. Maintaining consistent security hardening and timely package updates poses an increasing challenge. You need to centralize VM image management and automate the enforcement of security baselines throughout the virtual machine lifecycle. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse VM Manager to automatically distribute and apply patches to YMs across your projects.
  • BConfigure the sole-tenancy feature in Compute Engine for all projects. Set up custom
  • CCreate a Cloud Build trigger to build a pipeline that generates hardened VM images. Run
  • DActivate Security Command Center Enterprise. Use VM discovery and posture management

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    73% (22)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    7% (2)
  • D
    17% (5)

Explanation

VM Manager allows you to centrally manage and automate patching, configuration management, and compliance enforcement for VMs. By integrating with hardened VM images stored in a central repository, you ensure that VMs are consistently created with security baselines and regularly updated. This solution provides automation and central control, which addresses both the challenges of VM sprawl and the need for consistent security.

Topics

#VM Manager#OS Patch Management#VM Security Hardening#Lifecycle Management

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