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What are the minimum permissions needed for a service account used with Google Dataproc?

The correct answer is D. Read and write to Google Cloud Storage; write to Google Cloud Logging. Explanation/Reference: Service accounts authenticate applications running on your virtual machine instances to other Google Cloud Platform services. For example, if you write an application that reads and writes files on Google Cloud Storage, it must first authenticate to the…

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Question

What are the minimum permissions needed for a service account used with Google Dataproc?

Options

  • AExecute to Google Cloud Storage; write to Google Cloud Logging
  • BWrite to Google Cloud Storage; read to Google Cloud Logging
  • CExecute to Google Cloud Storage; execute to Google Cloud Logging
  • DRead and write to Google Cloud Storage; write to Google Cloud Logging

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Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Service accounts authenticate applications running on your virtual machine instances to other Google Cloud Platform services. For example, if you write an application that reads and writes files on Google Cloud Storage, it must first authenticate to the Google Cloud Storage API. At a minimum, service accounts used with Cloud Dataproc need permissions to read and write to Google Cloud Storage, and to write to Google Cloud Logging.

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#Dataproc service account#IAM permissions#Cloud Storage#Cloud Logging

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