GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Question

Your company, which uses the Cloud Identity domain corp.example, runs dozens of projects under one Google Cloud organization. A new Payment-Processing folder must meet PCI-DSS requirements that mandate every IAM principal in that folder belong only to corp.example. Other folders may continue granting roles to partner.com users. Which action will enforce this requirement on the Payment-Processing folder without impacting the rest of the organization?

Add IAM deny policies to each project in the Payment-Processing folder that exclude any principal whose email does not end with @corp.example.
Apply the Organization Policy constraint "constraints/iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains" to the Payment-Processing folder, allowing only the corp.example domain and leaving the constraint unset at higher levels.
Create a VPC Service Controls perimeter for the Payment-Processing folder and configure an access level that admits only corp.example identities.
Enable Access Approval on the Payment-Processing folder and reject any approval requests that originate from partner.com accounts.

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The iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains organization policy lets you define an allowlist of Google Workspace or Cloud Identity domains whose members can appear in IAM policy bindings. By attaching this constraint to the Payment-Processing folder and specifying only corp.example in the allowed_values list, any attempt-now or in the future-to add principals from partner.com (or any other domain) to IAM roles on resources in that folder will be denied. Leaving the constraint unset at higher levels means other folders keep their current flexibility.

VPC Service Controls secure data movement, not IAM membership, so they cannot block adding principals. IAM Deny Policies cannot express a condition like "email domain not equals partner.com" and would require continual manual updates. Access Approval governs Google employee access to customer content and has no effect on who customers add to IAM policies. Hence, using the iam.allowedPolicyMemberDomains constraint at the folder level is the only solution that meets the requirement and preserves existing access elsewhere.

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