What should they do?

For this question, refer to the HipLocal case study.

A recent security audit discovers that HipLocal’s database credentials for their Compute Engine-hosted MySQL databases are stored in plain text on persistent disks. HipLocal needs to reduce the risk of these credentials being stolen.

What should they do?
A . Create a service account and download its key. Use the key to authenticate to Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) to obtain the database credentials.
B . Create a service account and download its key. Use the key to authenticate to Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) to obtain a key used to decrypt the database credentials.
C . Create a service account and grant it the roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role. Impersonate as this account and authenticate using the Cloud SQL Proxy.
D . Grant the roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor role to the Compute Engine service account. Store and access the database credentials with the Secret Manager API.

Answer: D

Explanation:

https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager/docs/overview