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What is the smallest unit at which most Google Cloud resources (Compute Engine VMs, Cloud Storage buckets, BigQuery datasets) are created and billed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) concept defines a SET of permissions that can be granted to a principal?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Google Cloud principal type is meant to authenticate workloads (e.g. a Compute Engine VM calling Cloud Storage) rather than humans?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Google Cloud compute service provides standard virtual machine instances that you provision, configure, and manage yourself?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What is the smallest unit at which most Google Cloud resources (Compute Engine VMs, Cloud Storage buckets, BigQuery datasets) are created and billed?

  1. A Region
  2. An Organization node
  3. A Project
  4. A Billing Account
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Correct answer: C. A Project

Almost every Google Cloud resource lives inside a Project. Organizations contain folders and projects Billing Accounts pay for projects Regions describe geography. The Project is the unit of resource ownership, IAM, quota, and billing.

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Which Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) concept defines a SET of permissions that can be granted to a principal?

  1. A Project
  2. A Network endpoint
  3. A Persistent Disk
  4. A Role (predefined, basic, or custom)
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Correct answer: D. A Role (predefined, basic, or custom)

An IAM role bundles permissions (e.g. `compute.instances.start`). You bind a role to a principal (user, group, service account) at a scope to grant access. Projects, network endpoints, and disks are resources — not permission sets.

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Which Google Cloud principal type is meant to authenticate workloads (e.g. a Compute Engine VM calling Cloud Storage) rather than humans?

  1. A Cloud NAT gateway
  2. An Organization policy
  3. A Folder
  4. A Service Account
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Correct answer: D. A Service Account

Service Accounts are non-human identities used by VMs, functions, and workloads to authenticate to Google Cloud APIs. Organization policies are governance rules, folders are hierarchy containers, Cloud NAT is networking — none represent workload identity.

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