GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Practice Question

Your organization syncs 40,000 Active Directory users and groups into Cloud Identity with GCDS, but only about 2,000 ever sign in to Google services. Each synchronized user consumes a Cloud Identity license, increasing cost and audit overhead. Leadership wants a new design that 1) keeps ADFS SAML SSO with AD credentials and 2) avoids creating standing Google accounts for the other 38,000 users while still exposing their AD group memberships for IAM policies. Which solution best meets these requirements with minimal ongoing effort?

  • Enable Google account linking so employees authenticate with personal Gmail accounts federated to their corporate email addresses, eliminating directory synchronization.

  • Create a Workforce Identity Federation pool and SAML provider that trusts ADFS, include AD group claims in the SAML assertion, and turn off user-account synchronization in GCDS.

  • Replace GCDS with a groups-only sync tool and rely on just-in-time provisioning to create Cloud Identity users the first time they single sign-on.

  • Continue using GCDS for all users and groups but run it only quarterly and enable password-hash sync so users authenticate with their AD passwords.

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