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Start Configuring Access Within a Cloud Solution Environment PracticeA security engineer needs to grant a DevOps team the ability to deploy and manage Cloud Run services, but they should not be able to modify IAM policies or delete the service. Which predefined role should be assigned?
Explanation: The Cloud Run Admin role (roles/run.admin) allows full control over Cloud Run services, including deploying, updating, and deleting services, as well as managing IAM policies. While this role grants more permissions than required (including the ability to delete services and modify IAM), it is the only predefined role among the options that enables deploying and managing services. If strict restrictions on IAM modifications and deletion are needed, a custom role should be created. However, given the required ability to deploy and manage, Admin is the predefined role that meets the core requirement, despite the over-permissive nature. The other options (Invoker, Viewer, Developer) either lack deploy/manage permissions or include deletion but not IAM modification. Note: The Developer role also includes deletion, so it is not suitable either.
A security engineer is designing access control for a multi-project environment. The engineer needs to ensure that a data science team can read data from a BigQuery dataset in Project A and write results to a Cloud Storage bucket in Project B. The team members are authenticated via an external SAML IdP. Which TWO steps should be taken? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Explanation: To meet the requirements, the correct steps are: first, create a Cloud Identity group and synchronize it with the SAML IdP using Google Cloud Directory Sync (Option E). This ensures that users from the SAML IdP are represented as a group in Google Cloud. Second, grant that group BigQuery Data Viewer on the specific dataset in Project A and Storage Object Creator on the specific bucket in Project B (Option D). These roles provide the necessary read and write access at the resource level, following the principle of least privilege. Option A is incorrect because assigning a custom role at the organization level is too broad. Option B is incorrect because using a service account with workload identity federation adds unnecessary complexity when a Cloud Identity group with GCDS can be used. Option C is incorrect because granting roles at the project level (BigQuery Data Viewer at project A, Storage Object Admin at project B) grants more permissions than needed; the Storage Object Admin role includes delete and other permissions not required, and granting at project level affects all datasets/buckets in the project.
A security engineer needs to ensure that no one in the organization can disable or delete Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) keys, except for a designated security team. Which TWO approaches should be combined? (Choose 2 correct answers)
Explanation: The Cloud KMS Admin role (roles/cloudkms.admin) includes the permissions needed to manage key lifecycle, such as disabling and destroying keys. Granting this role at the organization level ensures the security team can control keys across all projects, while the IAM deny policy in option C blocks all other principals from performing those actions, creating a secure, layered access control approach.
An organization has a requirement that all service account keys must be rotated every 90 days. The security engineer wants to automate the detection of keys older than 90 days. Which TWO methods can achieve this? (Choose 2)
Explanation: The IAM API's `validAfterTime` field directly indicates when a service account key was created. By listing keys and comparing this timestamp to the current time, you can programmatically identify keys older than 90 days. This method is precise and does not rely on indirect log analysis or policy enforcement.
A company runs a batch job on Compute Engine that reads data from Cloud Storage and writes results to BigQuery. The Compute Engine instance uses a service account. The job fails with a permission error. Which THREE steps should the engineer take to resolve this? (Choose three.)
Explanation: The service account needs the roles/bigquery.dataEditor role on the BigQuery dataset to write data (insert rows) into BigQuery tables. Without this IAM permission, the job fails with a permission error when attempting to execute INSERT or load jobs against the dataset.
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