A critical Compute Engine instance was unexpectedly deleted. You need to find out which user or service account issued the delete command.

Which type of Cloud Audit Log should you review?

Answer options:

Admin Activity audit logs

Data Access audit logs

System Event audit logs

VPC Flow Logs

How to approach this question

Differentiate between the types of audit logs. Deleting a resource is an administrative action.

Full Answer

A.Admin Activity audit logs✓ Correct

Cloud Audit Logs are divided into several categories. 'Admin Activity' logs contain log entries for API calls or other actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources. Deleting a VM is a configuration change. These logs are always enabled and cannot be disabled.

Common mistakes

Choosing Data Access logs, which are for tracking who *looked* at data, not who *deleted* infrastructure.

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