GCP-ACE Google Associate Cloud Engineer
Deploying, securing and operating workloads on Google Cloud: project and billing setup, compute and storage choices, networking, monitoring and logging, and IAM.
Exam domains
What the exam covers and how much each part counts — the provider publishes ranges, shown as published. Select a domain to practise just that area.
| Domain | Weight | Practice questions |
|---|---|---|
| Setting up a cloud solution environmentResource hierarchy and organisation policies, IAM roles within a project, Cloud Identity, enabling APIs, quotas, and billing accounts, budgets and exports. | ~20% | 2 |
| Planning and implementing a cloud solutionChoosing and deploying compute, storage and data products, planning networking resources, and using infrastructure-as-code tooling. | ~30% | 3 |
| Ensuring the successful operation of a cloud solutionManaging compute, data and networking resources in flight, and the monitoring, logging and diagnostics that keep them healthy. | ~30% | 2 |
| Configuring access and securityIAM policies and role types, custom roles, and service accounts — creation, least privilege, impersonation and workload identity federation. | ~20% | 2 |
Topics you can drill
Each domain breaks down into topics you can practise on their own.
Setting up a cloud solution environment
- Projects and billingResource hierarchy, organisation policies, billing accounts, budgets and exports.
Planning and implementing a cloud solution
- Compute choicesCompute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run and functions, and which suits a given workload.
- Storage and dataCloud Storage classes, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Spanner and Bigtable.
- NetworkingVPCs and subnets, firewall rules and policies, connectivity options and load balancers.
Ensuring the successful operation of a cloud solution
- Operating resourcesInstances, images and snapshots, GKE node pools and workloads, Cloud Run revisions.
- Monitoring and loggingCloud Monitoring alerts and custom metrics, log routing and analysis, diagnostics tooling.
Configuring access and security
- IAMPolicies, inheritance through the hierarchy, role types and custom roles.
- Service accountsLeast privilege, attachment to resources, impersonation, short-lived credentials and workload identity.
Who sits this exam
Engineers who deploy and operate applications on Google Cloud day to day.
Google Cloud’s own page for this exam (opens in a new tab)How these questions are written
- Original, from Google Cloud’s published guide for GCP-ACE — never recalled from a real exam.
- Mapped to a domain and topic, and reviewed before it is published.
- Every option explained, with a link to the documentation behind it.
Preparing for GCP-ACE with SupportExams
Practise, see where your evidence is thin, fix it, and reassess — until readiness across the 4 domains above says you are ready to book.
Practice available
- Quick practiceTen mixed questions across the exam. A short daily session, with the explanation after each one.
- Custom practiceChoose a domain, a topic, a difficulty and a length.
- Readiness assessmentBalanced across every domain of the blueprint, favouring questions you have not seen. Builds the evidence readiness needs.
- Weak areasProLeads with the concepts you keep missing, then weights toward the domains you are losing marks in.
- Review mistakesProSpaced review of every question you have missed. Each comes back after 0, 1, 3 and 7 days and clears only after four correct answers in a row.
- Exam simulationProFull length, timed, and proportioned to the published blueprint. Original practice questions, not real exam items.
How readiness works
Every answer is evidence for one of the GCP-ACE domains. Readiness weighs that evidence by the domain’s share of the exam, by difficulty and by how recent it is, and refuses to give a figure until there is enough of it. It moves you through five stages — Getting started, Building evidence, Making progress, Nearly ready, Ready — and names what is holding you back at each one.
How readiness is calculated →Free and Pro
Free: 20 practice questions a day; full explanations, including why each wrong option is wrong; quick practice, custom practice and readiness assessments; current readiness stage, blueprint coverage and next step.
Pro: unlimited practice questions; timed exam simulations, proportioned to the blueprint; weak-area practice and mistake review; your readiness journey over time — for every certification, one subscription.
Questions people ask
How many practice questions do you have for GCP-ACE?
9 published questions, written against the current GCP-ACE exam guide and reviewed before publication. The bank grows one reviewed batch at a time.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Every question is original work written from the provider’s published exam guide and public documentation. Reproducing real exam questions would breach the provider’s NDA, is worthless for learning, and can cost a candidate their certification.
Which version of the GCP-ACE exam is this for?
Questions are written against Google Cloud’s published exam guide for GCP-ACE, last checked against the source on 2026-09-11. When a provider revises an exam, the new version is tracked separately so existing practice is never silently relabelled.
Does a good score here mean I will pass?
A SupportExams practice score is not an official exam result and does not use the provider’s scoring model. It measures how you performed on the questions in this product. Readiness is not a probability of passing; it summarises how much of the blueprint you have evidenced and how well.
What can I do for free?
20 questions a day with full explanations, quick and custom practice, readiness assessments, and your current readiness stage with a recommended next step. No card is needed. Pro adds unlimited practice, timed exam simulations, weak-area practice, mistake review and your readiness journey over time, across every certification for one price.