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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your security team bans long-lived service account keys. A developer must run a local script that uploads files to a production Cloud Storage bucket for the next hour. The developer should not gain permanent Storage permissions. Which approach best meets the requirement?

  • Generate an HMAC access key for the service account, share it with the developer, and require them to rotate it after seven days.

  • Grant the developer the Storage Object Admin role on the bucket and have them authenticate with gcloud auth login before running the script.

  • Download a JSON key for the service account, set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable, and run the script with gsutil.

  • Impersonate a dedicated service account by running gcloud auth print-access-token --impersonate-service-account and use the returned token with gsutil; give the developer only the Service Account Token Creator role on that account.

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