Google Associate Cloud Engineer
Unlimited Associate Cloud Engineer practice exam retakes, each drawn fresh from a question pool weighted by the official exam domains — covering setting up a cloud environment, planning and configuring solutions, deploying and implementing, and ensuring successful operation on Google Cloud.
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- A 91-question pool — every attempt draws 60 fresh questions weighted by the official exam domains
- Unlimited retakes, lifetime access
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Exam domains
Every attempt draws questions in these official proportions. Open a domain to see the subtopics it covers.
Setting up a cloud solution environment20%
- Creating a resource hierarchy and applying organizational policies
- Granting members IAM roles within a project
- Managing users and groups in Cloud Identity
- Enabling APIs within projects
- Provisioning and setting up products in Google Cloud Observability
- Assessing quotas and requesting increases
- Creating billing accounts and linking projects to a billing account
- Establishing billing budgets and alerts and setting up billing exports
Planning and configuring a cloud solution15%
- Selecting appropriate compute choices for a given workload
- Choosing the appropriate storage for Compute Engine
- Identifying whether to use GPUs or TPUs
- Choosing data products (e.g., Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Spanner, Bigtable)
- Choosing storage products and Cloud Storage classes
- Choosing load balancers and differentiating Network Service Tiers
- AI-assisted planning (e.g., Gemini CLI, Gemini Cloud Assist, Application Design Center)
Deploying and implementing a cloud solution15%
- Launching a compute instance and creating an autoscaled managed instance group
- Deploying a GKE cluster and a containerized application to GKE
- Deploying an application to serverless compute platforms
- Loading data (e.g., command-line upload, Storage Transfer Service)
- Creating a VPC with subnets and applying VPC firewall and Cloud NGFW rules
- Establishing network connectivity (Cloud VPN, VPC Network Peering, Interconnect)
- Implementing resources with Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution30%
- Managing compute resources
- Managing storage and data solutions
- Managing networking resources
- Monitoring and logging
Configuring access and security20%
- Viewing and creating IAM policies
- Attaching roles and policy inheritance in the Organization hierarchy
- Managing role types and defining custom IAM roles
- Creating service accounts and using them in IAM policies with minimum permissions
- Assigning service accounts to resources and managing their IAM permissions
- Managing service account impersonation and short-lived credentials
- Using a Google Cloud service account with a GKE application
- Provisioning Workload Identity Federation
References
- Official exam page:cloud.google.com
- Official study guide:services.google.com (PDF)
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