GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your security team requires that worker nodes in a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster never receive public IP addresses. The cluster's control-plane must be reachable only from the company's on-premises network (10.1.0.0/16) over an existing Cloud VPN tunnel. Workloads must still be able to pull container images from Artifact Registry and send logs to Cloud Logging. Which configuration will meet all of these requirements?

Create a private GKE cluster but leave the public control-plane endpoint enabled with a master-authorized-network entry for 10.1.0.0/16, and disable Private Google Access on the subnet.
Create a private GKE cluster, enable the private control-plane endpoint and disable the public endpoint, and enable Private Google Access on the cluster's subnet. Use the existing Cloud VPN to reach the private endpoint from 10.1.0.0/16.
Create a private GKE cluster, disable the private endpoint, and enable Cloud NAT for the subnet so nodes can reach Google APIs while the control-plane is accessed through its public endpoint.
Create a standard (public) GKE cluster, remove external IPs from the node pool template, and restrict SSH access with firewall rules. Use Cloud NAT so nodes can reach Artifact Registry and Cloud Logging.

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A private GKE cluster assigns only internal IP addresses to nodes, satisfying the "no public IP" requirement. Enabling the cluster's private endpoint and disabling the public endpoint ensures the control-plane is reachable only inside the VPC; traffic from the on-premises network can reach that endpoint through the Cloud VPN. Because the nodes have no external IPs, Private Google Access must be enabled on the subnet so they can reach Google APIs such as Artifact Registry and Cloud Logging without traversing the public internet. The other options fail at least one requirement: a standard (public) cluster gives nodes external IPs; leaving the control-plane's public endpoint enabled exposes it beyond on-prem; omitting Private Google Access prevents image pulls and telemetry; and disabling the private endpoint removes the only path the VPN can use.

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