Networking Flashcards

1
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Google Front End

A

Reverse proxy that protects backend Google services.
Authenticates, assures integrity, and encrypts traffic.
Once traffic passed to GFE, under purview of GCP.

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2
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What are the two network service tiers GC offers?

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Premium - cold potato routing

Standard - hot potato routing

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3
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What is meant by cold potato routing?

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GC will hold on to traffic within Google network for as long as possible before passing to public internet.

GC will hand off to edge POP closest to user.

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Google Front End (GFE)

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Reverse proxy that protects backend Google services

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5
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Default route

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System-generated route that defines path for traffic that needs to leave VPC

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6
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Subnet

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Logical subdivision of RFC 1918 IP space

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7
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Are VPCs and subnets global or regional resources?

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VPCs are global

Subnets are regional

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8
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What’s the difference between an auto mode VPC network and custom mode VPC network?

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Auto mode - default network created when you create a project. Each region automatically gets a /20 subnet.

Custom mode - does not come with any subnets or IP ranges so admin has full control to define.

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9
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What’s the difference between regions and zones?

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Region is collection of zones.

Zone is isolated location within a region, typically a single data center.

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10
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What’s a useful application of network tags?

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Strings that are used by FIREWALLS and ROUTES to apply to specific VM instances.

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11
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T/F: you can modify the primary IP range for your subnet.

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F. You can expand the IP address range of your subnet once you’ve created, but you do so by adding an alias IP range.

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12
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Private Google Access

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Allows instances without external IP addresses to access resources outside of the network from within GC services, i.e. GCS, Cloud Source Repos.

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13
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Private Service Access

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Allows you to connect to Google or third-party services located on OTHER VPC NETWORKS hosted by Google or third parties.

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What is the difference between Private Google Access and Private Service Access?

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Private Google Access allows you to access assets/resources from outside your network via GC services.

Private Service Access allows you to access third-party services without leaving GC’s network.

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15
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Shared VPC

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Allows you to connect resources from different projects to a single VPC.

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T/F: in a shared VPC model, billing is attributed to the host project.

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F. One benefit of using a shared VPC is that organizations can centrally manage network resources while individual BUs own their portions of the bill.

17
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VPC Peering

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Allows two separately managed VPCs to communicate with each other.

18
Q

T/F: there is more latency between two resources across peered VPCs than between two resources within the same VPC.

A

F

19
Q

Cloud VPN

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Allows you to connect any of your peer networks to VPC securely through an IPSec-encrypted tunnel.

VPNs create secure connections over non-secure connections.

20
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Name two use cases for Cloud DNS

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Cloud DNS can act as

  • An authoritative DNS server for public domains with Internet visibility
  • A DNS server for private zones only visible within a private network.
21
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What is the difference between Dedicated and Partner Interconnect?

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Dedicated Interconnect provides a direct, dedicated physical connection between your on-prem network and GCP.

Partner Interconnect provides a connection between your on-prem and VPC networks through a supported service provider.

22
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What are the different bandwidth constraints between Cloud VPN and Cloud Interconnect?

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Cloud VPN supports up to 3 Gbps per tunnel

Cloud Interconnect supports up to 10 Gbps for Partner and 100 Gbps for Direct

23
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What are the different types of Cloud Load Balancers?

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Internal (TCP/UDP, HTTP)

External (

24
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What are the different types of Cloud Load Balancers?

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Internal (TCP/UDP, HTTP)

External (TCP/UDP network, TCP proxy, SSL proxy, HTTP)

25
Q

What might be the reason VM instances sitting behind a load balancer keep restarting?

A

Firewall rule not configured to allow traffic from internal LB to hit backend VM instances for health checks.

26
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What kinds of resources does Cloud CDN cache store content from?

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VM instances and storage buckets