Google Associate Cloud Engineer — Study Guide
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This guide covers each ACE domain in depth. Pick a domain to go deep, or work through them in order.
The domains
- Resource Hierarchy, IAM and Billing Administration — Resource hierarchy, identity and access management (IAM), and billing administration form the control plane of Google Cloud operations. A resilient
- Compute Engine and Virtual Machine Operations — Compute Engine provides flexible, high-performance virtual machines and orchestration primitives to run general-purpose and specialized workloads.
- Containers, App Hosting and Serverless Platforms — - Node pools and scheduling - Separate node pools by workload class (e.g., general, GPU, spot) and use taints/tolerations to steer Pods. - Enable
- VPC Networking, Connectivity and Traffic Management — Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking on Google Cloud provides software-defined, global networking primitives with granular control of addressing,
- Storage, Databases and Data Services — This section provides a practical, operations-focused reference for Google Cloud storage, databases, and analytical data services. It emphasizes
- Deployment, Configuration and Automation — Deployment, configuration, and automation on Google Cloud center on repeatable, auditable, and safe change delivery. Sound practice relies on
- Monitoring, Logging and Operational Troubleshooting — - Metrics and cardinality - Monitored resource types (for example, gce_instance, aws_ec2_instance, global) scope dimensions like project, region, and
- Security, Compliance and Data Protection — - Application access protection with BeyondCorp and Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) - IAP terminates identity-aware access at Google’s edge for HTTPS apps
- Reliability, Backup and Disaster Recovery — Reliability, backup, and disaster recovery on Google Cloud require intentional design across failure domains, data protection mechanisms, traffic
- Cost Management, Performance and Capacity Optimization — - Budgets and alerts: - Create budgets scoped to billing accounts, projects, folders, services, or label/tag filters; configure threshold alerts
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