Exam Associate-Cloud-Engineer Topic 3 Question 75 Discussion
Actual exam question for Google's Associate-Cloud-Engineer exam
Question #: 75
Topic #: 3
Question #: 75
Topic #: 3
You received a JSON file that contained a private key of a Service Account in order to get access to several resources in a Google Cloud project. You downloaded and installed the Cloud SDK and want to use this private key for authentication and authorization when performing gcloud commands. What should you do?
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Authorizing with a service account
gcloud auth activate-service-account authorizes access using a service account. As with gcloud init and gcloud auth login, this command saves the service account credentials to the local system on successful completion and sets the specified account as the active account in your Cloud SDK configuration.
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/authorizing#authorizing_with_a_service_account
gcloud auth activate-service-account authorizes access using a service account. As with gcloud init and gcloud auth login, this command saves the service account credentials to the local system on successful completion and sets the specified account as the active account in your Cloud SDK configuration.
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/authorizing#authorizing_with_a_service_account
by Everley at Jan 21, 2026, 02:47 PM
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