A company has a hybrid cloud environment with a VPC in the cloud and an on-premises data center. The company needs a dedicated, private, and consistent network connection between the two environments that does not traverse the public internet. Which connectivity option should the company choose?

Set up a site-to-site VPN over the public internet.

Set up VPC peering with the on-premises network.

Set up a transit gateway and attach the on-premises network.

Set up a dedicated connection using the cloud provider's direct connect service.

What is the primary function of a cloud load balancer?

To distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets to improve availability and scalability

To filter malicious traffic using intrusion prevention rules

To provide a static IP address for a single virtual machine

To encrypt data at rest for storage services

What is the primary purpose of a site-to-site VPN in a hybrid cloud architecture?

To block malicious traffic from the internet

To create an encrypted tunnel over the public internet between on-premises and cloud networks

To distribute traffic across multiple cloud regions

To provide a dedicated physical connection with guaranteed bandwidth

GIAC Cloud Security Essentials

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Cloud Networking Technology GCLD Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Cloud Networking and Security domain, which makes up ~16% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~8–13 in this domain), expect 3–4 from this objective — we provide 31 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Which cloud networking component acts as a virtual firewall at the subnet level, providing a stateless filter for traffic entering or leaving the subnet?
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In cloud networking, which component provides the highest-level logical isolation boundary within a cloud provider's global infrastructure?
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A company has a hybrid cloud environment with a VPC in the cloud and an on-premises data center. The company needs a dedicated, private, and consistent network connection between the two environments that does not traverse the public internet. Which connectivity option should the company choose?
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What is the primary function of a cloud load balancer?
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5foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of a site-to-site VPN in a hybrid cloud architecture?
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Cloud Networking Technology GCLD Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

Which cloud networking component acts as a virtual firewall at the subnet level, providing a stateless filter for traffic entering or leaving the subnet?

In cloud networking, which component provides the highest-level logical isolation boundary within a cloud provider's global infrastructure?

A company has a hybrid cloud environment with a VPC in the cloud and an on-premises data center. The company needs a dedicated, private, and consistent network connection between the two environments that does not traverse the public internet. Which connectivity option should the company choose?

What is the primary function of a cloud load balancer?

What is the primary purpose of a site-to-site VPN in a hybrid cloud architecture?

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