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PCSE Practice Exam — Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Professional Cloud Security Engineer is about configuring Google Cloud's security controls correctly: identities, service accounts and authorization, network boundaries and private connectivity, data protection and encryption, security operations, and compliance. Practise across all five official sections with full 50-question papers and a score breakdown per section.
PCSE exam at a glance
- Questions per paper
- 50
- Time limit
- 120 minutes
- Passing score
- Not published by Google
- Question format
- Multiple choice and multiple select
- Official exam fee
- USD $200
- Certification valid for
- 2 years
- ReadyForCert access
- 60 days · $8.99 AUD
- Free sample
- 20 questions
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What the PCSE exam covers
Configuring access
Cloud Identity, service accounts, authentication, IAM and other authorization controls, and the resource hierarchy.
25%Securing communications and establishing boundary protection
Perimeter security, VPC segmentation and firewall rules, VPC Service Controls, and private connectivity.
22%Ensuring data protection
Sensitive Data Protection, encryption at rest, in transit and in use, key management, and securing AI workloads.
23%Managing operations
Automating infrastructure and application security, and configuring logging, monitoring and threat detection.
19%Supporting compliance requirements
Meeting regulatory and industry standards, and controlling where data and workloads are located.
11%
A sample PCSE question
One question written for this page, in the same style as the questions in the bank.
Securing communications and establishing boundary protection
A company must stop data in BigQuery and Cloud Storage from being copied to projects outside its organization, even by users who hold valid IAM permissions. What should you do?
- ACreate a VPC Service Controls perimeter around the projects that hold the data. — Correct answer
- BRemove the BigQuery Data Viewer role from every user.
- CAdd firewall rules that deny egress traffic from the VPC network.
- DProtect the datasets and buckets with customer-managed encryption keys.
About the PCSE exam
How many questions are on the Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam?
50–60 multiple choice and multiple select questions in two hours. ReadyForCert papers use 50 questions in 120 minutes.
What score do I need to pass the PCSE exam?
Google does not publish a passing score or your numeric result — you receive a pass or fail. Because there is no published bar, aim comfortably above a bare pass: ReadyForCert scores you against a 72% threshold so you have a concrete target.
How much does the exam cost and how long is it valid?
Registration is USD $200 plus tax where applicable, and the certification is valid for 2 years.
Are these the real Google PCSE exam questions?
No. These are practice questions written against the current official exam guide. Google's exam content is confidential and the bank is rotated, so practising against leaked questions does not survive an exam refresh.
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