GOOGLE CLOUDGoogle Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
The Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification validates your ability to deploy and maintain cloud projects on Google Cloud. It is designed for engineers who build and operate applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions. Earning this credential proves you can apply Google Cloud technologies to solve real-world business problems and sets you apart in the cloud job market.
378 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
4Domains
12Objectives
142Concepts
378Questions
ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER exam measures.
- Resource Hierarchy
- Organizational Policies
- IAM Roles and Members
- Cloud Identity Management
- Enabling APIs
- Google Cloud Observability Setup
- Quotas and Increases
- Standalone Organizations
- Cloud Networking Setup
- Geographical Availability
- Cloud Asset Inventory and Gemini
- Workforce Identity Federation
- Create billing accounts
- Link projects to billing accounts
- Establish billing budgets
- Set up budget alerts
- Set up billing exports
- Compute options selection
- Compute Engine instance provisioning
- Compute Engine storage selection
- Managed instance group autoscaling
- OS Login configuration
- VM Manager configuration
- Spot VMs and custom machine types
- kubectl installation and configuration
- GKE cluster deployment configurations
- Containerized application deployment to GKE
- Serverless application deployment
- GPU and TPU selection
- Choosing data products
- Deploying data products
- Choosing storage products
- Understanding Cloud Storage classes
- Deploying storage products
- Loading data via command-line
- Loading data from Cloud Storage
- Using Storage Transfer Service
- Maintaining multi-region redundancy
- Custom Mode VPC Creation
- Shared VPC Configuration
- VPC Network Peering Setup
- VPC Firewall Rules Creation
- Cloud NGFW Policy Management
- Tags and Service Accounts in NGFW Rules
- Cloud VPN Deployment
- Cloud Interconnect Options
- Load Balancer Selection
- Load Balancer Deployment
- Network Service Tiers Differentiation
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) fundamentals
- Terraform for GCP
- Helm for Kubernetes on GCP
- Config Connector
- Fabric FAST
- AI-assisted planning with Gemini CLI
- Google Antigravity
- Gemini Cloud Assist
- Application Design Center
- Remote Connection to Compute Engine
- Listing Compute Engine Instances
- Creating and Managing Snapshots
- Creating and Managing Images
- Viewing GKE Cluster Inventory
- Configuring GKE for Artifact Registry
- Managing GKE Node Pools
- Working with Kubernetes Resources
- Configuring Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
- Configuring Vertical Pod Autoscaling
- Managing GKE Autopilot Pod Resource Requests
- Deploying Cloud Run Revisions
- Traffic Splitting in Cloud Run
- Traffic Splitting in Cloud Run Functions
- Traffic Splitting in GKE
- Configuring Cloud Run Autoscaling
- Attaching GPUs to Compute Resources
- Attaching TPUs to Compute Resources
- Deploying Agents to Agent Runtime
- Managing Notebooks in Workbench
- Managing Notebooks in BigQuery
- Managing Cloud Workstations
- Cloud Storage bucket security
- Cloud Storage object management
- Object lifecycle management policies
- Querying Cloud SQL
- Querying BigQuery
- Querying Bigtable
- Querying Spanner
- Querying Firestore
- Querying AlloyDB
- Estimating data storage costs
- Backing up Cloud SQL
- Restoring Cloud SQL
- Backing up Firestore
- Restoring Firestore
- Backing up Spanner
- Restoring Spanner
- Backing up AlloyDB
- Restoring AlloyDB
- Backing up Bigtable
- Restoring Bigtable
- Reviewing Dataflow job status
- Reviewing BigQuery job status
- Using Database Center
- Configuring CMEK for data storage
- Subnet IPv4 Address Range Resizing
- Static External IP Address Reservation
- Static Internal IP Address Reservation
- Custom Static Route Creation
- Cloud DNS Configuration
- Cloud NAT Configuration
- VPC Firewall Rules Management
- Cloud NGFW Policy Management
- Cloud Monitoring Alerts
- Custom Metrics Ingestion
- Audit Logs Configuration
- Log Export to External Systems
- Log Buckets and Log Routers
- Viewing and Filtering Logs
- Log Message Details
- Cloud Diagnostic Tools
- Personalized Service Health Dashboard
- Ops Agent Configuration
- Managed Service for Prometheus
- Gemini Cloud Assist for Monitoring
- Active Assist for Resource Optimization
- Cloud Hub Monitoring
- IAM Policy Structure
- Viewing IAM Policies
- Creating IAM Policies
- IAM Role Types
- Policy Inheritance in Hierarchy
- Attaching Roles to Members
- Defining Custom IAM Roles
- Managing Custom IAM Roles
- Creating service accounts
- Applying IAM policies to service accounts
- Assigning service accounts to resources
- Managing service account IAM permissions
- Service account impersonation
- Creating short-lived service account credentials
- Using a service account with a GKE application
- Provisioning Workload Identity Federation
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