Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments independently, but centrally. Which approach should you take?

The correct answer is C. A single Organization with Folders for each department. Folders are nodes in the Cloud Platform Resource Hierarchy. A folder can contain projects, other folders, or a combination of both. You can use folders to group projects under an organization in a hierarchy. For example, your organization might contain multiple departments, each

Submitted by ahmad_uae· Mar 30, 2026Designing for security and compliance

Question

Your organization wants to control IAM policies for different departments independently, but centrally. Which approach should you take?

Options

AMultiple Organizations with multiple Folders
BMultiple Organizations, one for each department
CA single Organization with Folders for each department
DA single Organization with multiple projects, each with a central owner

How the community answered

(27 responses)

B
4% (1)
C
93% (25)
D
4% (1)

Explanation

Folders are nodes in the Cloud Platform Resource Hierarchy. A folder can contain projects, other folders, or a combination of both. You can use folders to group projects under an organization in a hierarchy. For example, your organization might contain multiple departments, each with its own set of GCP resources. Folders allow you to group these resources on a per-department basis. Folders are used to group resources that share common IAM policies. While a folder can contain multiple folders or resources, a given folder or resource can have exactly one parent.

Topics

#IAM policies#resource hierarchy#Organization#Folders

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