Google Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam (ACE)

GCP's first certification validating infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and management skills. Best entry point for GCP.

Exam at a glance

Setting up a cloud solution environment — 18%
Project & Billing Account Setup, Cloud Billing, Budgets & Alerts, gcloud, gsutil, bq CLI Configuration, API Enablement & IAM Role Assignment
Planning and configuring a cloud solution — 17%
Choosing Compute (GCE, GKE, Cloud Run, Functions), Choosing Data Storage (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, BigQuery), VPC & Network Design, Cost Estimation with Pricing Calculator
Deploying and implementing a cloud solution — 25%
Compute Engine Instance & MIG Deployment, GKE Cluster & Node Pool Configuration, App Engine, Cloud Run & Cloud Functions Deployment, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL & BigQuery Data Solutions, Deployment Manager & Terraform (IaC), Cloud Marketplace Deployments
Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution — 20%
Compute Engine & GKE Resource Management, Serverless Versioning & Traffic Management, Storage Lifecycle & Backups, Cloud Monitoring, Logging & Alerts, Cloud Trace & Error Reporting
Configuring access and security — 20%
Cloud IAM Roles & Policies, Service Accounts & Key Management, Workload Identity Federation, Cloud Audit Logs Analysis, Organization Policies & VPC Service Controls

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Exam modeA timed, randomized set that mirrors the real exam conditions.

The Google Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) exam consists of 50 questions with a 120-minute time limit.

The passing score for the ACE exam is approximately 70%.

The ACE sample set (20 questions with full explanations) is free. The full bank of 360+ questions is available with a CloudMasterIT subscription.

The ACE certification is valid for 3 years after passing. Recertification is required after that.