Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer PCDBE — Topic 1 Question 151

Question

Your company uses a custom application to service thousands of users. The application is running on a Compute Engine and a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database. The company requires database passwords to be changed every 60 days. You need to ensure that the credentials used by the web application to connect to the database are managed securely. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: B. The correct answer is B. Option B: 1. Store the credentials to the database in Secret Manager.2. Modify the application to retrieve the credentials from Secret Manager on startup.3. Configure the rotation interval to 60 days. Secret Manager stores and controls access to secrets such as API keys and credentials.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer PCDBE — Question 151