Google PCA Designing for Security and Compliance Practice Question
A company wants to give a new employee read-only access to all projects in their GCP organization. Which IAM role should they assign at the organization level to grant this access?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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roles/viewer
The Viewer primitive role (roles/viewer) grants read-only access to all resources in the organization. Owner and Editor roles are too broad. Organization Viewer is not a valid role.
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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roles/owner
Why it's wrong here
Owner grants full control, not read-only.
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roles/editor
Why it's wrong here
Editor allows modification, not read-only.
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roles/viewer
Why this is correct
Viewer provides read-only access to all resources.
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roles/orgadmin
Why it's wrong here
Organization admin grants admin access, not read-only.
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Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy and Organization
Key term
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.
Key term
Primitive role
A primitive role is a predefined, basic set of permissions in Google Cloud that grants limited, fixed access to a single service.
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