Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer ACE — Topic 1 Question 134

Question

You built an application on your development laptop that uses Google Cloud services. Your application uses Application Default Credentials for authentication and works fine on your development laptop. You want to migrate this application to a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) and set up authentication using Google- recommended practices and minimal changes. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: B. The correct answer is B. Option B: Create a service account with appropriate access for Google services, and configure the application to use this account. A service account provides an identity for workloads to access Google Cloud APIs securely.

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer ACE — Question 134