Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Guide

The Associate Cloud Engineer certification validates your ability to deploy and manage GCP solutions.

Exam Overview

Aspect	Details
Duration	2 hours
Questions	50-60 questions
Format	Multiple choice, multiple select
Cost	$125 USD

Exam Domains

Setting Up a Cloud Environment (17.5%)

• Projects and accounts
• Billing management

Planning and Configuring Solutions (17.5%)

• Compute resources
• Data solutions

Deploying and Implementing (25%)

• Compute Engine
• Kubernetes Engine
• App Engine

Ensuring Successful Operations (20%)

• Monitoring
• Logging

Configuring Access and Security (20%)

• IAM
• Service accounts

Key GCP Services

• Compute Engine: Virtual machines
• GKE: Kubernetes service
• Cloud Storage: Object storage
• BigQuery: Data warehouse
• Cloud Functions: Serverless

gcloud Commands

# Create VM instance
gcloud compute instances create my-vm \
  --zone=us-central1-a \
  --machine-type=e2-medium

# Create GKE cluster
gcloud container clusters create my-cluster \
  --num-nodes=3 \
  --zone=us-central1-a

# Deploy App Engine
gcloud app deploy

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