Google ACE Setting Up a Cloud Solution Environment Practice Question
You need to list all projects in your organization using the gcloud CLI. Which command is correct?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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gcloud projects list
'gcloud projects list' lists projects accessible to the authenticated user. To list all projects in an organization, you need the --filter or use organizations. But 'gcloud projects list' with appropriate permissions shows all projects. The other commands are incorrect: 'gcloud config list' shows config, 'gcloud compute projects list' doesn't exist, 'gcloud resource-manager projects list' is not a command.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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gcloud compute projects list
Why it's wrong here
gcloud compute projects list is invalid because the gcloud compute command group does not include a projects subcommand; it only manages Compute Engine resources such as instances, disks, and networks. Project-level listing is not part of the compute namespace, so this command returns a grammar error. The correct way to list projects is gcloud projects list.
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gcloud config list
Why it's wrong here
gcloud config list displays the properties of your active gcloud configuration (e.g., current project, account, zone), not a directory of all projects in your organization. It shows only what you have set locally, and it can list a single project ID but never enumerates multiple projects. For an org-wide listing, you need gcloud projects list.
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gcloud projects list
Why this is correct
gcloud projects list is correct: it calls the Cloud Resource Manager API (projects.list) and returns all projects that your authenticated account has permission to view, including those from your organization if you have the appropriate IAM roles. It supports flags like --filter, --limit, and --format to narrow and shape the output. This is the standard, documented command for enumerating projects.
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gcloud resource-manager projects list
Why it's wrong here
gcloud resource-manager projects list is invalid because gcloud has no top-level resource-manager command group. The Cloud Resource Manager API is accessed through the dedicated gcloud projects command family, not through a resource-manager subcommand. Typing this produces an unrecognized command error; the correct syntax is simply gcloud projects list.
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Organization
An Organization is a top-level container in Google Cloud that represents your company or entities and serves as the root node for all your cloud resources, policies, and access control.
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gcloud CLI
The gcloud CLI is a command-line tool that lets you manage Google Cloud resources by typing commands instead of clicking through a web interface.
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