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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 p

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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