Your team uses a service account to authenticate data transfers from a given Compute Engine...

Vendor: Google
Product: Professional-Cloud-Security-Engineer
Update on: Nov 2, 2025
Questions: 266

Google Professional-Cloud-Security-Engineer Question Answer

Your team uses a service account to authenticate data transfers from a given Compute Engine virtual machine instance of to a specified Cloud Storage bucket. An engineer accidentally deletes the service account, which breaks application functionality. You want to recover the application as quickly as possible without compromising security.

What should you do?

Temporarily disable authentication on the Cloud Storage bucket.

Use the undelete command to recover the deleted service account.

Create a new service account with the same name as the deleted service account.

Update the permissions of another existing service account and supply those credentials to the applications.