PCSE Ensuring Data Protection Practice Question
A security engineer needs to enforce that all new Compute Engine disks are created in a specific geographic region to meet data residency requirements. Which organization policy constraint should they use?
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gcp.resourceLocations
The constraint 'gcp.resourceLocations' restricts where Google Cloud resources can be created. It can be set to a list of allowed locations. The other constraints: 'iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains' restricts member domains, 'compute.skipDefaultNetworkCreation' prevents default network creation, 'constraints/compute.trustedImageProjects' restricts image projects.
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gcp.resourceLocations
Why this is correct
This organization policy constraint restricts the locations where resources can be created.
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constraints/compute.trustedImageProjects
Why it's wrong here
This constraint restricts which image projects can be used, not resource locations.
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compute.skipDefaultNetworkCreation
Why it's wrong here
This constraint prevents automatic default network creation, not location restriction.
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iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains
Why it's wrong here
This constraint restricts IAM member domains, not resource locations.
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