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Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam

284 Questions120 Minutes70% Passing Score▣ Updated: Sep 2026

Question 256 of 284

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You are configuring service accounts for an application that spans multiple projects. Virtual machines (VMs) running in the web-applications project need access to BigQuery datasets in the crm-databases project. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to grant access to the service account in the web-applications project. What should you do?
AInstruct the external consultant to use the gcloud compute ssh command line tool by using Identity-Aware Proxy to access the instance.
BInstruct the external consultant to use the gcloud compute ssh command line tool by using the public IP address of the instance to access it.
CInstruct the external consultant to generate an SSH key pair, and request the public key from the consultant. Add the public key to the instance yourself, and have the consultant access the instance through SSH with their private key.
DInstruct the external consultant to generate an SSH key pair, and request the private key from the consultant. Add the private key to the instance yourself, and have the consultant access the instance through SSH with their public key.
Correct Answer: C

Instruct the external consultant to generate an SSH key pair, and request the public key from the consultant. Add the public key to the instance yourself, and have the consultant access the instance through SSH with their private key.

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