What is the primary purpose of a Service Account in Google Cloud?

Answer options:

To act as a backup administrator account in case the primary owner gets locked out.

To provide an identity for applications and virtual machines to authenticate and access GCP APIs.

To group multiple human users together for easier IAM management.

To manage billing and invoicing for a GCP project.

How to approach this question

Understand the definition and use case of a Service Account.

Full Answer

B.To provide an identity for applications and virtual machines to authenticate and access GCP APIs.✓ Correct

A service account is a special kind of account used by an application or compute workload (like a VM or Cloud Function), rather than a person. Applications use service accounts to make authorized API calls to other Google Cloud services.

Common mistakes

Confusing Service Accounts with Google Groups or human admin accounts.

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