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GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Question

Your security team is replacing a fleet of autoscaled third-party firewall virtual machines that currently sit behind an internal TCP/UDP load balancer. They are evaluating Google Cloud Next Generation Firewall (Cloud NGFW) to improve scalability and reduce network complexity. Which characteristic of Cloud NGFW directly removes the need for traffic hair-pinning through a centralized firewall appliance and enables line-rate inspection of both east-west and north-south traffic?

  • Only traffic that first reaches an external or internal load balancer is inspected; intra-VPC (east-west) flows bypass the service entirely.

  • It runs as a managed instance group of dedicated firewall VMs that all traffic must traverse via custom next-hop routes.

  • Packets are forwarded to a regional firewall service through static routes, introducing a single inspection point limited to 80 Gbps per region.

  • Firewall rules are enforced at each VM's virtual NIC, distributing inspection across Google's network fabric and eliminating any centralized choke point.

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Securing communications and establishing boundary protection
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