GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Question
Your company uses Google Workspace with users and groups synchronized from an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory domain through Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS). Security architects now have two additional requirements:
Internal employees must continue to sign in with their on-premises credentials when accessing Google Cloud services.
External consultants whose identities live in the partner's Azure AD tenant must be able to access the Google Cloud Console for a single project without creating or synchronizing local accounts, and their credentials must remain short-lived.
Which solution satisfies both requirements while following Google-recommended identity security practices?
Keep GCDS for provisioning, configure Google as a SAML service provider that delegates employee logins to AD FS, and create a Workforce Identity Federation pool with an Azure AD SAML provider for the consultants.
Enable GCDS password synchronization so employees authenticate directly with Google, and add the partner's Azure AD tenant to Cloud Identity as a secondary domain.
Replace GCDS with a SCIM-based connector, then set up Workload Identity Federation for the partner so their users obtain service account tokens.
Create break-glass super-administrator accounts and share them with the partner; configure OpenID Connect sign-in for employees through Google OAuth.
SAML single sign-on (SSO) allows Google to redirect authentication for your existing Workspace accounts to the corporate AD FS IdP, so employees use their on-premises passwords while the GCDS-provisioned accounts and groups remain intact. Workforce Identity Federation lets Google Cloud trust an external IdP (such as Azure AD) and issues short-lived Google-signed tokens to those users at sign-in, eliminating the need to create or sync separate Google accounts for the consultants. This combination meets both stated needs. The other options either fail to meet the "no new accounts" requirement, do not delegate authentication to AD FS, or introduce insecure practices such as sharing super-administrator credentials.
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