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ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER · Question #179
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.
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Submitted by naveen.iyer· Mar 30, 2026Configuring access and security
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?
Options
- AAssign appropriate access for Google services to the service account used by the Compute
- BCreate a service account with appropriate access for Google services, and configure the
- CStore credentials for service accounts with appropriate access for Google services in a config file,
- DStore credentials for your user account with appropriate access for Google services in a config
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#Application Default Credentials#Compute Engine service account#ADC migration#authentication best practices