You are developing an application that needs to store files belonging to users in Cloud Storage. You want each user to have their own subdirectory in Cloud Storage. When a new user is created, the…

Question

Options

• ACreate an object with the name of the subdirectory ending with a trailing slash ('/') that is zero
• BCreate an object with the name of the subdirectory, and then immediately delete the object within
• CCreate an object with the name of the subdirectory that is zero bytes in length and has WRITER
• DCreate an object with the name of the subdirectory that is zero bytes in length. Set the Content-

• A
  74% (25)
• B
  9% (3)
• C
  15% (5)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Cloud Storage is a flat object store - it has no real directory hierarchy. The conventional way to simulate a directory is to create a zero-byte object whose name ends with a trailing slash ('/'), e.g., users/alice/. Most GCP tools (Console, gsutil, client libraries) recognize this convention and display it as a folder. Option B (create then immediately delete) is nonsensical - deleting the object removes any trace of the directory. Option C incorrectly sets WRITER permissions on an object, which is not how Cloud Storage IAM works and is a security anti-pattern. Option D sets a Content-Type, which is irrelevant to creating a directory placeholder. A zero-byte object with a trailing slash is the correct, widely-used pattern.

No community discussion yet for this question.