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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #40
You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database back-end. You want to store the credentials securely. Whe
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Submitted by deeparc· Mar 30, 2026Designing for security and compliance
Question
You are designing a large distributed application with 30 microservices. Each of your distributed microservices needs to connect to a database back-end. You want to store the credentials securely. Where should you store the credentials?
Options
- AIn the source code
- BIn an environment variable
- CIn a secret management system
- DIn a config file that has restricted access through ACLs
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#secret management#credentials security#microservices#IAM