Domain 5.2: Managing service accounts — GCP ACE Practice Question 45

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Understand that Service Accounts are for machines/applications, not humans.

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B.To provide an identity for an application or compute instance to authenticate and access other Google Cloud services programmatically.✓ Correct

A Service Account is a special kind of account used by an application or a virtual machine (VM), not a person. Applications use service accounts to make authorized API calls. For example, if an application running on Compute Engine needs to read data from Cloud Storage, you attach a service account to the VM and grant that service account the 'Storage Object Viewer' role. This allows the application to authenticate securely without embedding human user credentials in the code.

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Confusing Service Accounts with Google Groups or human admin accounts.

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

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