ARC116

Overview

In a challenge lab you’re given a scenario and a set of tasks. Instead of following step-by-step instructions, you will use the skills learned from the labs in the course to figure out how to complete the tasks on your own! An automated scoring system (shown on this page) will provide feedback on whether you have completed your tasks correctly.

When you take a challenge lab, you will not be taught new Google Cloud concepts. You are expected to extend your learned skills, like changing default values and reading and researching error messages to fix your own mistakes.

To score 100% you must successfully complete all tasks within the time period!

Setup and requirements

Before you click the Start Lab button

Read these instructions. Labs are timed and you cannot pause them. The timer, which starts when you click Start Lab, shows how long Google Cloud resources are made available to you.

This hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.

To complete this lab, you need:

• Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).

Note: Use an Incognito (recommended) or private browser window to run this lab. This prevents conflicts between your personal account and the student account, which may cause extra charges incurred to your personal account.

• Time to complete the lab—remember, once you start, you cannot pause a lab.

Note: Use only the student account for this lab. If you use a different Google Cloud account, you may incur charges to that account.

Challenge scenario

You are working as a junior cloud engineer in your organization. You're part of a team of cloud engineers assigned to using Sensitive Data Protection API's powerful detection engine to protect and screen for personally identifiable information (PII) and other privacy-sensitive data. As part of this project, you are asked to use the Sensitive Data Protection service in Google Cloud to redact sensitive information from text, de-identify sensitive data, and create a DLP template to use for inspecting data.

You are expected to have the skills and knowledge for the tasks that follow.

Your challenge

For this challenge, you have been tasked with redacting and de-identifying sensitive information, and creating templates to inspect structured and unstructured data.

You need to:

• Inspect strings and files to perform de-identification.
• Create de-identification inspection templates.
• Configure a job trigger to run DLP inspections.

Each task is described in detail below, good luck!

Task 1. Redact sensitive data from text content

To complete this task, set an environmental variable for your project ID and obtain an authorization token in Cloud Shell.

1. Create a JSON file called redact-request.json using the code that follows and use curl to make a content:deidentify request.

2. Save the curl command output in a file called redact-response.txt.

3. Upload the output file, redact-response.txt, to the Cloud Storage Bucket .

{ "item": { "value": "Please update my records with the following information:\n Email address: foo@example.com,\nNational Provider Identifier: 1245319599" }, "deidentifyConfig": { "infoTypeTransformations": { "transformations": [{ "primitiveTransformation": { "replaceWithInfoTypeConfig": {} } }] } }, "inspectConfig": { "infoTypes": [{ "name": "EMAIL_ADDRESS" }, { "name": "US_HEALTHCARE_NPI" } ] } }

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Redact sensitive data from text content

Task 2. Create DLP inspection templates

For this task, you create two de-identification templates that are used to inspect structured and unstructured data, respectively.

1. Create a de-identify template for structured data with the name structured_data_template (in Multi-region > us (multiple regions in United States) that has two transformation rules:

a. First transformation rule:

Parameter	Configuration
Transformation Rule fields	bank name, zip code
Transformation type	Primitive field transformation
Transformation method	Mask with character
Masking Character	#
Mask all characters	Enable mask all characters checkbox and do not ignore any characters

b. Second transformation rule:

Parameter	Configuration
Transformation Rule fields	message
Transformation type	Match on infoType
Transformation method	Replace with infoType name

2. Create a de-identify template for unstructured data with the name unstructured_data_template (in Multi-region > us (multiple regions in United States), configured as:

Parameter	Configuration
Transformation Rule	Replace
String value	[redacted]

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Create DLP inspection templates

Task 3. Configure a job trigger to run DLP inspection

For this task, you configure a job trigger to run the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API. A few sample files have been provided for you in the Cloud Storage Bucket named .

1. Create a DLP inspection job trigger named dlp_job (in Multi-region > us (multiple regions in United States).

Parameter	Configuration
Storage type	Cloud Storage
Location Type	Scan a bucket with optional include/exclude rules.
Cloud Storage Input location
Percentage of included objects scanned within the bucket	100%
Sampling method	No sampling
Actions	Toggle Make a de-identify copy. Enter the names of the two templates that you created into the appropriate boxes
Cloud Storage output location
Schedule	Create a trigger to run the job on a periodic schedule (Weekly)

2. Run DLP inspection and explore the various folders and files in the Cloud Storage Bucket to verify the redacted data.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Configure a job trigger to run DLP inspection

Congratulations!

You have successfully redacted sensitive data from text to de-identify it, created a DLP inspection template, and configured a job trigger to perform de-identification and review the results.

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Manual Last Updated May 21, 2025

Lab Last Tested May 21, 2025

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