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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER · Question #74

A customer's company has multiple business units. Each business unit operates independently, and each has their own engineering group. Your team wants visibility into all projects created within the…

The correct answer is A. Create an organization node, and assign folders for each business unit. Google Cloud's resource hierarchy - Organization → Folders → Projects → Resources - is designed exactly for this use case. Creating an Organization node provides a single point of visibility across all projects. Creating a Folder per business unit allows separate IAM policies…

Submitted by daniela_cl· Apr 18, 2026Configuring access within a cloud solution environment

Question

A customer's company has multiple business units. Each business unit operates independently, and each has their own engineering group. Your team wants visibility into all projects created within the company and wants to organize their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects based on different business units. Each business unit also requires separate sets of IAM permissions. Which strategy should you use to meet these needs?

Options

  • ACreate an organization node, and assign folders for each business unit.
  • BEstablish standalone projects for each business unit, using gmail.com accounts.
  • CAssign GCP resources in a project, with a label identifying which business unit owns the
  • DAssign GCP resources in a VPC for each business unit to separate network access.

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    88% (28)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Google Cloud's resource hierarchy - Organization → Folders → Projects → Resources - is designed exactly for this use case. Creating an Organization node provides a single point of visibility across all projects. Creating a Folder per business unit allows separate IAM policies at the folder level (inherited by all child projects), centralized billing visibility, and independent administration for each engineering group. Option B (standalone projects with Gmail accounts) loses centralized visibility and control, and Gmail accounts should not be used for corporate GCP. Option C (resource labels) provides metadata tags but does not enforce separate IAM boundaries. Option D (separate VPCs) addresses network isolation only, not IAM permissions or project organization.

Topics

#GCP Resource Hierarchy#Folders#IAM#Organizational Governance

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