How to achieve Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification in Google.

Want to share my recent experience attaining the “Professional Google Cloud Security Engineer” certification.

There are not so many up to date courses online which could help with this certification, I have learned from the following couple of courses .,

1. https://www.coursera.org/programs/learning-program-1apnd?collectionId=&currentTab=CATALOG&productId=mdlUSgjiEeuSxQ5EfP2d0Q&productType=s12n&showMiniModal=true
2. https://acloudguru.com/course/google-cloud-certified-professional-cloud-security-engineer

Similar to all GCP certifications, this one too has 50 questions and 2 hours time to complete the exam. 120 mins are sufficient for the questions based on my experience. Utilize labs to the fullest from Coursera if available. Full details of the examination can be found on google @ https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-security-engineer

Let me start with some topics which appeared and were not covered well in the above 2 courses,

1. DLP and options like, pseudonymization
2. External key manager -> https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/ekm
3. Shielded VM, confidential VM
4. Cloud Identity, GCDS, User migration/authentication with…