Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Question 149
Select 3Google Cloud PlatformYour organization uses Google Cloud IAM to manage permissions across projects. The security team is concerned about over-provisioned IAM roles that grant unnecessary access to users. To address this, you are tasked with identifying and reducing excessive permissions while ensuring business continuity. Which Policy Intelligence features can help you achieve this goal?
- A
Policy Simulator to test the impact of permission changes before applying them
- B
IAM Recommender to identify and remove unused or excessive permissions
- C
Access Approval to enforce manual approval for sensitive actions
- D
Policy Analyzer to detect overly permissive IAM policies across projects
- E
Cloud DLP (Data Loss Prevention) to monitor data access patterns
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Correct answers: A, B, D
Explanation
Policy Intelligence provides tools like Policy Simulator, IAM Recommender, and Policy Analyzer to help manage and optimize IAM policies. Policy Simulator ensures proposed changes won't break workflows, IAM Recommender helps identify and remove excessive permissions, and Policy Analyzer detects overly permissive policies. Together, they help address the security team's concerns about over-provisioned roles while maintaining business continuity.
- A. Correct.
Policy Simulator can simulate the impact of proposed IAM policy changes, helping you ensure that removing or modifying permissions does not disrupt business operations.
- B. Correct.
IAM Recommender analyzes IAM policies and provides recommendations to remove unused or excessive permissions, making it a key tool for rightsizing access.
- C. Incorrect.
Access Approval is unrelated to identifying or reducing excessive permissions. It is used to enforce manual approval workflows for sensitive actions.
- D. Correct.
Policy Analyzer helps detect overly permissive IAM policies across projects, making it useful for identifying areas of concern in your access policies.
- E. Incorrect.
Cloud DLP is focused on sensitive data protection and does not provide insights about IAM permissions or their usage.