Professional Cloud Security Engineer — Requirements & Free Practice

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Google Cloud professional certification for individuals who demonstrate cloud security engineering skills through the certification examination.

Licensing authority: Google, LLC

Initial by examination

Prerequisites: None stated on current certification page
Score Validation: Google validates the score before issuing the digital certificate

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

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