Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer 

About Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer 

An Associate Cloud Engineer deploys applications, monitors operations, and manages enterprise solutions. This individual is able to use Google Cloud Console and the command-line interface to perform common platform-based tasks to maintain one or more deployed solutions that leverage Google-managed or self-managed services on Google Cloud.

Exam Assessment

The Associate Cloud Engineer exam assesses your ability to - 

• Set up a cloud solution environment
  
• Plan and configure a cloud solution
• Deploy and implement a cloud solution
• Ensure successful operation of a cloud solution
• Configure access and security

Exam Details

• Exam Duration: 2 hours
• Exam Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
  
• Exam format: Multiple choice and multiple select, taken in person at a test center. Locate a test center near you.
• Exam Language: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German

Exam Prerequisites

• No prerequisites to take the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Exam
• Recommended experience: 6 months+ hands-on experience with GCP

Who should take this exam?

This exam is designed to test technical skills related to the job role. Hands-on experience is the best preparation for the exam. If you feel you may need more experience or practice, use the hands-on labs available on Qwiklabs as well as the GCP free tier to level up your knowledge and skills. 

Course Outline

The Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer exam covers latest and updated exam topics -  

Domain1: Overview of Setting up a Cloud Solution Environment (Approx. 20%)

1.1 Learn to Set Up Cloud Projects and Accounts

• Understand how to create a resource hierarchy.
  
• Learn to apply organizational policies to the resource hierarchy.
• Explain how to grant IAM roles to members within a project.
• Describe managing users and groups in Cloud Identity, both manually and through automation.
• Understand how to enable APIs for projects.
• Learn to provision and set up products using Google Cloud’s operations suite.
• Understand how to assess quotas and request increases.

1.2 Manage Billing Configuration

• Learn to create one or more billing accounts.
  
• Describe the process of linking projects to a billing account.
• Understand how to establish billing budgets and set up alerts.
• Explain how to configure billing exports for better tracking.

Domain2: Overview of Planning and Configuring a Cloud Solution (Approx. 17.5%)

2.1 Plan and Configure Compute Resources

• Learn to select the appropriate compute resources for specific workloads (e.g., Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions).
• Understand how and when to use Spot VM instances and custom machine types to optimize performance and cost.

2.2 Plan and Configure Data Storage Options

• Describe the process of selecting the right data storage products (e.g., Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Spanner, Bigtable).
• Learn how to choose the correct storage option (e.g., Zonal Persistent Disk, Regional Persistent Disk, Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive) based on your needs.

2.3 Plan and Configure Network Resources

• Understand load balancing to distribute network traffic.
• Explain how to consider the availability of resource locations within a network.
• Describe the benefits of using different Network Service Tiers for performance optimization.

Domain3: Overview of Deploying and Implementing a Cloud Solution (Approx. 25%)

3.1 Deploy and Implement Compute Engine Resources

• Learn how to launch a compute instance (e.g., assign disks, configure availability policy, SSH keys).
• Understand how to create autoscaled managed instance groups using an instance template.
• Describe configuring OS Login and setting up VM Manager.

3.2 Deploy and Implement Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Resources

• Explain the installation and configuration of Kubernetes command-line interface (kubectl).
• Understand the process of deploying Google Kubernetes Engine clusters with various configurations (e.g., Autopilot, regional clusters, private clusters, GKE Enterprise).
• Learn to deploy containerized applications in Google Kubernetes Engine.

3.3 Deploy and Implement Cloud Run and Cloud Functions Resources

• Describe the steps to deploy an application.
• Learn how to deploy applications that handle Google Cloud events (e.g., Pub/Sub events, Cloud Storage object changes, Eventarc).
• Understand how to determine the best deployment platform (Cloud Run, Cloud Run for Anthos, or Cloud Functions).

3.4 Deploy and Implement Data Solutions

• Learn to deploy data products such as Cloud SQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and AlloyDB.
• Describe methods for loading data into these solutions, including command-line uploads and Cloud Storage.

3.5 Deploy and Implement Networking Resources

• Understand how to create a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with subnets, such as a custom mode VPC or Shared VPC.
• Learn to create ingress and egress firewall rules and policies using IP subnets, network tags, and service accounts.
• Explain how to peer external networks using technologies like Cloud VPN and VPC Network Peering.

3.6 Implement Resources Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Learn to use Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Cloud Foundation Toolkit, Config Connector, Terraform, Helm) to deploy and manage resources.
  

Domain 4: Overview of ensuring Successful Operation of a Cloud Solution (Approx. 20%)

4.1 Manage Compute Engine Resources

• Understand how to remotely connect to instances and view the current VM inventory.
• Learn to work with snapshots, including creating, viewing, deleting, and scheduling them.
• Describe the process of managing images (e.g., creating, viewing, or deleting images from VMs or snapshots).

4.2 Manage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Resources

• Learn to view the current running cluster inventory (e.g., nodes, Pods, Services).
  
• Understand how to configure GKE to access the Artifact Registry.
• Explain how to manage node pools and Kubernetes resources, including Pods, Services, and Statefulsets.
• Describe how to configure Horizontal and Vertical autoscaling in GKE.

4.3 Manage Cloud Run Resources

• Learn how to deploy new versions of applications and adjust traffic-splitting parameters.
• Understand how to set scaling parameters for autoscaling Cloud Run instances.

4.4 Manage Storage and Database Solutions

• Describe the process of managing and securing objects in Cloud Storage buckets.
  
• Learn how to set object lifecycle policies for Cloud Storage buckets.
• Explain how to query and retrieve data from various instances (e.g., Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Spanner, Firestore, AlloyDB).
• Understand how to estimate the costs of different data storage resources and back up and restore database instances.

4.5 Manage Networking Resources

• Learn to add subnets to an existing VPC and expand them to allocate more IP addresses.
  
• Understand how to reserve static external or internal IP addresses.
• Describe the process of managing Cloud DNS and Cloud NAT configurations.

4.6 Monitoring and Logging

• Explain how to create Cloud Monitoring alerts based on resource metrics.
  
• Learn to ingest and create custom metrics in Cloud Monitoring.
• Understand how to export logs to external systems and configure log buckets, log analytics, and log routers.
• Describe using cloud diagnostics and viewing specific logs to troubleshoot application issues.

Domain 5 - Overview of configuring Access and Security (Approx. 17.5%)

5.1 Manage Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Learn to view and create IAM policies for resources.
• Understand the different role types and how to define custom IAM roles (e.g., basic, predefined, custom).

5.2 Manage Service Accounts

• Describe how to create and manage service accounts and assign them to resources with minimum permissions.
• Learn how to configure service accounts in IAM policies and manage service account impersonation.
• Understand how to create and manage short-lived service account credentials for enhanced security.

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