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You are a Google Cloud Engineer and assigned to set up a project for the team of four members. You need to grant only general permissions for all the resources of the project. You decided to grant a…

The correct answer is D. Publisher. This question asks to identify which of the given options is not considered a primitive role in Google Cloud Platform.

Submitted by stefanr· Mar 30, 2026Configuring access and security

Question

You are a Google Cloud Engineer and assigned to set up a project for the team of four members. You need to grant only general permissions for all the resources of the project. You decided to grant a primitive role to each person for different levels of access on the basis of their responsibilities in the project. What is not considered as a primitive role in the Google Cloud Platform console?

Options

  • AViewer
  • BEditor
  • COwner
  • DPublisher

How the community answered

(22 responses)
  • A
    5% (1)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • D
    91% (20)

Why each option

This question asks to identify which of the given options is not considered a primitive role in Google Cloud Platform.

AViewer

Viewer is a primitive role that grants read-only access to all resources within a project.

BEditor

Editor is a primitive role that grants read and write access, but not administrative control, to all resources within a project.

COwner

Owner is a primitive role that grants full administrative access, including managing roles and permissions, to all resources within a project.

DPublisherCorrect

Publisher is not a primitive role in Google Cloud Platform IAM. Primitive roles are broad, legacy roles that include Owner, Editor, and Viewer, which grant predefined sets of permissions across all resources in a project.

Concept tested: Google Cloud IAM Primitive Roles

Source: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles#primitive_roles

Topics

#IAM#primitive roles#GCP console#permissions

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