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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

A startup is migrating a data-processing script to a Linux VM on Google Cloud. The script must upload result files to a Cloud Storage bucket in the same project. The security team requires that no long-lived user credentials or other static secrets be stored on the instance. Which approach follows Google-recommended practices for authenticating the script to Cloud Storage?

  • Create a new user-managed service account, grant it the Storage Object Creator role on the bucket, and configure the VM to run as that service account.

  • Enable Cloud Shell, copy its temporary access token to the VM at runtime, and reuse the token for the script.

  • Create an API key in the Google Cloud console and set it as an environment variable on the VM for the script to call Cloud Storage.

  • Generate a JSON key file for a Google Account, copy the key to the VM, and have the script use it to obtain an access token.

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