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    PracticeGCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 3Question 47
    Hard1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 5.2: Managing service accountsDomain 5.2Service AccountsCross-ProjectIAM

    GCP ACE · Question 47 · Domain 5.2: Managing service accounts

    You have two GCP projects: 'Project-App' and 'Project-Data'. A Compute Engine VM in 'Project-App' needs to read data from a Cloud Storage bucket located in 'Project-Data'.

    Which TWO steps are required to configure this cross-project access securely? (Select TWO)

    Answer options:

    A.

    Create a custom Service Account in 'Project-App' and attach it to the VM.

    B.

    Create a custom Service Account in 'Project-Data' and attach it to the VM in 'Project-App'.

    C.

    In 'Project-Data', grant the Storage Object Viewer role to the Service Account created in 'Project-App'.

    D.

    Set up VPC Peering between 'Project-App' and 'Project-Data'.

    E.

    Move the Cloud Storage bucket into 'Project-App'.

    How to approach this question

    Understand that Service Accounts are identities (email addresses) that can be granted permissions in ANY project.

    Full Answer

    Create a custom Service Account in 'Project-App' and attach it to the VM., In 'Project-Data', grant the Storage Object Viewer role to the Service Account created in 'Project-App'.
    To achieve cross-project access, you create the Service Account in the project where the compute resource lives ('Project-App') and attach it to the VM. Then, you go to the resource project ('Project-Data') and add that Service Account's email address to the IAM policy, granting it the necessary role (Storage Object Viewer).

    Common mistakes

    Thinking VPC peering is required for API access, or trying to create the SA in the data project.
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