You will have several applications running on different Compute Engine instances in the same project. You want to specify at a more granular level the service account each instance uses when calling G

The correct answer is A. When creating the instances, specify a Service Account for each instance. When you create an instance using the gcloud command-line tool or the Google Cloud Console, you can specify which service account the instance uses when calling Google Cloud APIs. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service- accounts#associating_a_service_account_to_an_i

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You will have several applications running on different Compute Engine instances in the same project. You want to specify at a more granular level the service account each instance uses when calling Google Cloud APIs. What should you do?

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AWhen creating the instances, specify a Service Account for each instance
BWhen creating the instances, assign the name of each Service Account as instance metadata
CAfter starting the instances, use gcloud compute instances update to specify a Service Account
DAfter starting the instances, use gcloud compute instances update to assign the name of the

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When you create an instance using the gcloud command-line tool or the Google Cloud Console, you can specify which service account the instance uses when calling Google Cloud APIs. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service- accounts#associating_a_service_account_to_an_instance

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