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. The most hands-on of the entry-level cloud certifications.
The exam
- Exam code
- GCP-ACE
- Questions
- 55
- Scored questions
- —
- Time
- 120 minutes
- Passing standard
- Not published
- Domains
- 4
Exam domains
| Domain | Weight | 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
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 ↗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.
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.