Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
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GCP-PCNE
200 questions
6 topics
Updated May 2026Designing and planning a Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network
48 questions14 easy22 medium12 hard~24% of exam
A peered VPC imports custom routes so it can reach an on-premises network through the peer's Cloud Router. On-premises a...A company peers VPC A with VPC B and also peers VPC B with VPC C. They expect workloads in VPC A to reach workloads in V...Two connected VPC networks use different MTU values. A VM in the larger-MTU network sends large UDP packets with the DF ...
Implementing a VPC network
36 questions10 easy19 medium7 hard~19% of exam
You increase the MTU of a VPC network from 1460 to 1500. Existing Linux and Windows VMs must start using the new MTU. Wh...Two ingress firewall rules match the same traffic. One rule allows TCP 80 at priority 900, and the other denies all traf...You are creating an ingress firewall rule and want to define targets and sources. Which combination is invalid in a sing...
Configuring managed network services
33 questions9 easy16 medium8 hard~16% of exam
A team expects Cloud CDN content to be present in every cache worldwide immediately after enabling the feature. What sho...You create an outbound Cloud DNS server policy so VMs forward all DNS requests to an alternative name server. What impor...Which load balancing combination supports Cloud CDN according to the overview documentation?
Configuring and implementing hybrid and multi-cloud network interconnectivity
30 questions6 easy16 medium8 hard~15% of exam
Managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network operations
25 questions6 easy13 medium6 hard~12% of exam
A VM without an external IP needs outbound internet access through a managed NAT service. Which Cloud NAT behavior is co...A SOC needs full packet payloads for IDS analysis and wants to send mirrored traffic to collector instances. Which desig...You need a one-time diagnostic that analyzes configuration and, for supported paths, can send probe packets over the dat...
Configuring, implementing and managing a cloud network security solution
28 questions7 easy14 medium7 hard~14% of exam
What is the primary security boundary that VPC Service Controls creates?A backend service uses Cloud CDN. You want one policy to filter requests before cached content is served and another to ...A security architect says VPC Service Controls alone is enough to govern both protected data and all metadata movement f...
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You increase the MTU of a VPC network from 1460 to 1500. Existing Linux and Windows VMs must start u... | Implementing a VPC network | hard |
| 2 | A VM without an external IP needs outbound internet access through a managed NAT service. Which Clou... | Managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network operations | easy |
| 3 | A peered VPC imports custom routes so it can reach an on-premises network through the peer's Cloud R... | Designing and planning a Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network | hard |
| 4 | Which Cloud Interconnect type provides direct physical connectivity between your on-premises network... | Configuring and implementing hybrid and multi-cloud network interconnectivity | medium |
| 5 | What is the primary security boundary that VPC Service Controls creates? | Configuring, implementing and managing a cloud network security solution | medium |
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