GIAC (SANS)

GIAC Cloud Security Essentials

GCLD

The GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD) certification validates a practitioner's ability to secure cloud-based workloads across the full cloud security landscape. It proves you can implement preventive, detective, and reactionary techniques to defend valuable assets in single and multi-cloud environments. Ideal for security engineers, analysts, and administrators responsible for securing cloud environments, this credential demonstrates fluency in the unique challenges of cloud security.

Practice Free Questions

6Domains

16Objectives

135Practice pages

636Free questions

GCLD free practice questions

Choose any objective and open any question page — no sign-in required.

Cloud Account Fundamentals

36 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–36

Understanding Shared Responsibility and Threat Informed Defense

37 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–37

Frameworks for Built-in Security

33 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–33

Risk Management and Compliance

46 questions · 10 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–46

Cloud Networking Technology

31 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–31

Securing Cloud Networks

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

Network Security Monitoring in the Cloud

43 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–43

External access and IAM Best Practices

44 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–44

Secrets Management

51 questions · 11 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–51

Secure Compute Deployment

31 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–31

Containers and Cloud Storage

40 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40

Discovering and Storing Sensitive Data

51 questions · 11 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–51

Using Sensitive Data

53 questions · 11 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–53

Cloud Automation

45 questions · 9 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45

Cloud Logging Fundamentals

36 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–36

Attacking the Cloud and Responding to Intrusions

30 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30

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GIAC Cloud Security Essentials

GCLD free practice questions

Domain 1 · Cloud Fundamentals and Shared Responsibility24% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 152 questions24%

Domain 2 · Cloud Networking and Security16% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 103 questions16%

Domain 3 · Identity, Access, and Secrets15% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 95 questions15%

Domain 4 · Compute, Storage, and Containers11% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 71 questions11%

Domain 5 · Data Protection and Automation23% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 149 questions23%

Domain 6 · Logging and Incident Response10% of practice bank · 2 objectives · 66 questions10%