Your company runs its Linux workloads on Compute Engine instances.

Vendor: Google
Product: Associate-Cloud-Engineer
Update on: Jan 29, 2026
Questions: 332

Google Associate-Cloud-Engineer Question Answer

Your company runs its Linux workloads on Compute Engine instances. Your company will be working with a new operations partner that does not use Google Accounts. You need to grant access to the instances to your operations partner so they can maintain the installed tooling. What should you do?

Enable Cloud IAP for the Compute Engine instances, and add the operations partner as a Cloud IAP Tunnel User.

Tag all the instances with the same network tag. Create a firewall rule in the VPC to grant TCP access on port 22 for traffic from the operations partner to instances with the network tag.

Set up Cloud VPN between your Google Cloud VPC and the internal network of the operations partner.

Ask the operations partner to generate SSH key pairs, and add the public keys to the VM instances.