What is the primary purpose of a Service Account in Google Cloud?

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To provide an identity for applications and virtual machines to authenticate and authorize API calls to other GCP services.

To allow human administrators to log into the Cloud Console without a password.

To group multiple user accounts together for easier IAM management.

To act as a billing entity for cross-project resource sharing.

How to approach this question

Identify the type of identity used by machines/code.

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A.To provide an identity for applications and virtual machines to authenticate and authorize API calls to other GCP services.✓ Correct

To provide an identity for applications and virtual machines to authenticate and authorize API calls to other GCP services.

A service account is a special kind of account used by an application or a virtual machine, not a person. Applications use service accounts to make authorized API calls to Google Cloud services.

Common mistakes

Confusing Service Accounts with Google Groups.

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