Resource Hierarchy

Question 1

What is a resource?

Answer 1

Resources are positioned at the service level and contain services that process/run your workloads

Question 2

What is resource management?

Answer 2

How you configure and grant access to cloud resources for your team set up and organization of account-level resources.

Question 3

What is a domain?

Answer 3

Your org’s primary identity

Question 4

What is the function of a Domain?

Answer 4

1. Universally administers policies for your users and devices.
2. Defines which users are associated with your org.
   3.Linked to either a Google Workspace or Cloud Identity account.

Note: GWS or CI can only be linked to one org.

Question 5

What is the Organization level within GCPs hierarchy of resources?

Answer 5

The root note of a GCP hierarchy of resources that allows you to centrally manage your GCP resources and user access with proactive AND reactive management

Question 6

What are the key components of a organization?

Answer 6

1. Allows you to define settings, permissions, and policies for projects, folders, resources, and Cloud Billing accounts it parents.

Question 7

How is a resource hierarchy structured from the top down?

Answer 7

Domain –> Org –> Folders –> Projects –> Resources

Question 8

What are folders? What service level’s does it parent?

Answer 8

The logical groupings of of projects and/or other folders.

Projects and Resources.

Note: Folders can contain other folders.

Question 9

How are folders commonly structured?

Answer 9

1. By departments and/or teams.
2. Structured in such a way that resources share common IAM policies.

Question 10

What are projects?

Answer 10

A logical grouping of service level resources.

Child to folders
Parent to resources

Question 11

What can projects represent?

Answer 11

1. Teams
2. environments
3. OUs
4. Business departments

Question 12

What 3 functions do projects serve?

Answer 12

enabling services,
APIs,
IAM permissions

Question 13

What are labels? What is there beneft?

Answer 13

Used to categorize and filter resources with key/value pairs.

Great for cost tracking at a granular level

Question 14

What are the 3 suggested hierarchy resources?

Answer 14

1. Environment oriented
2. Function- oriented
3. Granular access-oriented

Question 15

What is a Environment oriented hierarchy? Key benefit? Key challenges?

Answer 15

A hierarchy whereby one org contains ONE folder PER environment.

Easy to implement, but challenging to share services that are shared by multiple environments.

Question 16

What is a Function- oriented hierarchy? Its benefits & cons?

Answer 16

Structure whereby one org contains one folder PER business FUNCTION .

Question 17

Key benefit of Function-oirented hierachy?

Answer 17

1. allows you to deploy shared services
2. more flexible than environment oriented hierarchy,
3. gives the same environment separation,

Question 18

Can each business folder function contain (parent) multiple environment folders?

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

What are business functions in a function oriented environment?

Answer 19

App
Management
IT

Question 20

What is Granular Access oriented hierarchy?

Answer 20

An org structure that containes one folder per each business UNIT.

And whereby each business unit can contain one folder per business FUNCTION.

Question 21

PRO vs Cons of granular environments?

Answer 21

Most flexible and extensible option

Cons: complex network topology AND needs greater time and effort to manage the structure, roles, and permissions.