Cloud Digital Leader How Google Cloud Resources Are Managed Practice Question
A company wants to enforce a policy that prevents all projects in the organization from enabling certain Google Cloud APIs. Where should the policy be applied to ensure it is inherited by all projects, including future ones?
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On the organization node
Organization policies applied at the organization node are inherited by all folders and projects under it. This is the most efficient way to enforce a blanket restriction across the entire resource hierarchy.
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On the organization node
Why this is correct
The organization node is the root of the Google Cloud resource hierarchy. Organization policies set at this level are inherited by every folder and project beneath it, including future projects that are created later. This is the only placement that guarantees the policy is enforced uniformly across all projects in the organization without any per-project or per-folder exceptions.
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On the billing account
Why it's wrong here
Billing accounts are not part of the resource hierarchy and cannot have organization policies attached. They serve solely for cost management, payments, and linking projects for billing purposes. Google Cloud does not support placing API enablement restrictions or other resource constraints on a billing account, so this approach is technically impossible.
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On each individual project
Why it's wrong here
Applying the policy to each individual project would require repeated manual configuration for every existing project, and any new project created after the policy is set would miss it unless someone remembers to apply it again. This approach is inefficient, error-prone, and does not scale across a large organization. Even if every current project is covered, future projects are not automatically protected, leaving compliance gaps.
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On the folder containing the projects
Why it's wrong here
A folder-level policy only affects the projects contained in that specific folder branch of the hierarchy. Projects located in other folders, or directly under the organization node, would remain outside the policy scope. Therefore, this placement does not meet the requirement of covering all projects—only the organization node provides the necessary global breadth.
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Google Cloud
Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides infrastructure, platform, and software solutions over the internet.
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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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