Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer PCDBE — Topic 1 Question 51

Question

You are deploying a new Cloud SQL instance on Google Cloud using the Cloud SQL Auth proxy. You have identified snippets of application code that need to access the new Cloud SQL instance. The snippets reside and execute on an application server running on a Compute Engine machine. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) as quickly and securely as possible. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: For the application server, set up a service account. A service account provides an identity for workloads to access Google Cloud APIs securely.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer PCDBE — Question 51