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Professional Cloud Security Engineer
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple select
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 50–60.
- Time limit
- 2 hours
- Exam fee
- $200 plus applicable tax
Examination outline
Configuring access (25%)
- Managing Cloud Identity
- Managing service accounts
- Managing authentication
- Managing and implementing authorization controls
- Defining the resource hierarchy
Securing communications and establishing boundary protection (22%)
- Designing and configuring perimeter security
- Configuring boundary segmentation
- Establishing private connectivity
Ensuring data protection (23%)
- Protecting sensitive data and preventing data loss
- Managing encryption at rest, in transit, and in use
- Securing AI workloads
Managing operations (19%)
- Automating infrastructure and application security
- Configuring logging, monitoring, and detection
Supporting compliance requirements (11%)
- Adhering to regulatory and industry standards requirements for the cloud
Examination sources
- Google Cloud PCSE page
Exam overview > Review the exam guide
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- Google Cloud PCSE page
About this certification exam > Exam format
- Google Cloud certification terms
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- Google Cloud PCSE page
About this certification exam > Exam delivery method
- Google Cloud PCSE page
About this certification exam > Registration fee
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