IAM Roles and Permissions

IAM is an important topic on the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Exam. You should know what role to assign for what tasks. Most of the problems are caused solely by wrong permissions. So, this lesson is crucial for you to learn how to control IAM easily.

As you read in the last lesson, IAM controls who can do what on which resource. So, let’s break this sentence down into IAM components.

• Who: Members
• Can do what: Permissions and Roles
• On which resource: Services

Let’s look at each component in detail.