Objective 3.1
PCNEConfiguring load balancing
Objective 3.1 sits in Configuring managed network services, which carries 16% of the Cloud Network Engineer exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A team asks where a load balancer's session affinity, health check selection and Cloud Armor attachment are all configured. Which resource holds those?
Correct.
Concept
One configuration object usually gathers the decisions about how traffic is distributed and inspected, while the objects around it carry only addressing and protocol.
Why A
The backend service determines which health check monitors the backends, specifies session affinity, and decides whether Cloud CDN, Cloud Armor security policies and Identity-Aware Proxy are enabled.
Source
Backend services overview, checked August 2026Determine which health check is monitoring the health of the backends. Specify session affinity . Determine whether other services are enabled, including the following services that are only available for certain load balancers : Cloud CDN Google Cloud Armor security policies Identity-Aware Proxy
Now you: objective 3.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A team needs clients in other regions to reach an internal passthrough Network Load Balancer. What does the scope of its backend service allow?
Sample question 2 of 3
An engineer adds zonal NEG backends to a passthrough Network Load Balancer, which forwards packets without rewriting the destination port. Which endpoint type applies?
Sample question 3 of 3
A company runs a classic Application Load Balancer in Standard Network Tier and wants backends spread across three regions. What does that tier impose?
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