- A
Assign the roles/storage.admin IAM role with a condition that restricts region.
Why wrong: IAM conditions cannot restrict creation region.
- B
Use Assured Workloads to enforce data residency.
Why wrong: Assured Workloads is for compliance frameworks, not simple location restriction.
- C
Define a bucket policy that allows only europe-west1.
Why wrong: Bucket policies control access, not creation location.
- D
Configure an organization policy with the constraint gcp.resourceLocations to allow only europe-west1.
This constraint restricts where resources can be created.
Question 560 of 985
PCSE Ensuring Data Protection Practice Question
This PCSE practice question tests your understanding of ensuring data protection. Read the scenario carefully and evaluate each option against the stated constraints before committing to an answer. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
An organization needs to enforce that all new Cloud Storage buckets are created only in the europe-west1 region to meet data residency requirements. Which method should they use?
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
✓
Configure an organization policy with the constraint gcp.resourceLocations to allow only europe-west1.
Organization policies with the `gcp.resourceLocations` constraint allow you to restrict the physical location of resources at the organization, folder, or project level. This is the correct method because it enforces that all new Cloud Storage buckets (and other supported resources) can only be created in the specified region, meeting data residency requirements without relying on IAM conditions or bucket-level policies.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Assign the roles/storage.admin IAM role with a condition that restricts region.
Why it's wrong here
IAM conditions cannot restrict creation region.
- ✗
Use Assured Workloads to enforce data residency.
Why it's wrong here
Assured Workloads is for compliance frameworks, not simple location restriction.
- ✗
Define a bucket policy that allows only europe-west1.
Why it's wrong here
Bucket policies control access, not creation location.
- ✓
Configure an organization policy with the constraint gcp.resourceLocations to allow only europe-west1.
Why this is correct
This constraint restricts where resources can be created.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
Cisco often tests the distinction between IAM conditions (which control who can act) and organization policies (which control what can be done), leading candidates to choose IAM conditions when the question asks for a blanket enforcement across all users.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
The `gcp.resourceLocations` organization policy constraint uses a list of allowed locations (e.g., `europe-west1`) and is evaluated at resource creation time by the Resource Manager service. It applies to over 100 Google Cloud services, including Cloud Storage, and can be set at the organization, folder, or project level, with inheritance and deny rules to override. A real-world scenario is a financial institution that must keep all data within the EU; this policy ensures that even if a developer accidentally uses a different region in their Terraform script, the API call is rejected.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
A media company stores terabytes of video archives that are accessed once a year for audit purposes. Moving these objects to a cold storage tier (Azure Archive, S3 Glacier, or Google Nearline) costs a fraction of hot storage. Questions like this test whether you understand storage tiers, access frequency tradeoffs, and retrieval latency requirements.
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Ensuring Data Protection — This question tests Ensuring Data Protection — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
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The correct answer is: Configure an organization policy with the constraint gcp.resourceLocations to allow only europe-west1. — Organization policies with the `gcp.resourceLocations` constraint allow you to restrict the physical location of resources at the organization, folder, or project level. This is the correct method because it enforces that all new Cloud Storage buckets (and other supported resources) can only be created in the specified region, meeting data residency requirements without relying on IAM conditions or bucket-level policies.
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