IAM Roles for Service Accounts Quiz

Quiz covering Privileged Access Management

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   What is the primary purpose of using a Service Account instead of an individual user account for an application?

2. 2

   When configuring a service account for a production application that needs to write logs to a storage bucket, which principle should you follow?

3. 3

   Which of the following is considered a security best practice when managing service account keys?

4. 4

   You are auditing service accounts and notice an account that hasn't been used in 18 months. What is the recommended remediation action?

5. 5

   An application running on a virtual machine needs to access a database. Instead of using service account keys, you decide to use 'Workload Identity' or 'Instance Metadata'. Why is this approach more secure?