Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer PCD — Topic 1 Question 69

Question

Your application requires service accounts to be authenticated to GCP products via credentials stored on its host Compute Engine virtual machine instances. You want to distribute these credentials to the host instances as securely as possible. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: B. The correct answer is B. Option B: Use the instance's service account Application Default Credentials to authenticate to the required resources. A service account provides an identity for workloads to access Google Cloud APIs securely.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer PCD — Question 69