Cloud-Security-Engineer Prisma Cloud Architecture And Components Practice Question
An administrator wants to organize cloud accounts in Prisma Cloud based on business units (e.g., Finance, Engineering) to apply granular access control and policy scoping. Which Prisma Cloud feature should be used?
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Account Groups
Account Groups in Prisma Cloud allow administrators to logically group cloud accounts together. These groups can then be used to scope roles, alerts, and policies to specific teams or business units.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Account Groups
Why this is correct
Correct. Account Groups allow logical organization of cloud accounts for scoping permissions and policies.
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Defender Scope Sets
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. Defender scopes are used for Compute runtime and vulnerability scanning configurations.
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Resource Lists
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. Resource lists are used in RQL queries to group specific cloud resource IDs or tags.
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Compliance Standards
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect. Compliance standards map requirements to policies, not accounts to business units.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official Palo Alto Networks exam blueprint
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