GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Question
Your enterprise uses two external identity systems. Azure AD issues SAML 2.0 assertions, while an internal identity provider releases only OpenID Connect (OIDC) ID tokens. Company policy forbids copying user accounts into Cloud Identity; instead, you must rely on Workforce Identity Federation so both groups can obtain short-lived Google Cloud access tokens. Which configuration will meet the requirements with the least operational overhead?
Create one workload identity pool and configure two OIDC providers, directing Azure AD users to authenticate through OIDC instead of SAML.
Deploy Google Cloud Directory Sync to import all users, then configure SAML single sign-on for both identity systems.
Create a single workforce identity pool, add a SAML provider for Azure AD and an OIDC provider for the custom IdP, then grant IAM roles to identities in the pool.
Establish LDAP over Cloud VPN for each identity system and allow access through service account impersonation.
Workforce Identity Federation supports both SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. You create a workforce identity pool that can contain multiple providers, each representing one external IdP. By adding a SAML provider for Azure AD and an OIDC provider for the in-house IdP, you accept each system's native tokens and map asserted attributes to Google Cloud principals, allowing users to exchange their SAML or OIDC assertions for Google-issued short-lived credentials without synchronizing accounts. Using Google Cloud Directory Sync would violate the no-sync requirement, workload identity pools are intended for non-human workloads, and LDAP integration is not a supported federation protocol for workforce pools, so those alternatives do not satisfy the constraints.
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