ACEGoogle Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
What the exam covers
Study guide
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About ACE
The hands-on Google Cloud exam. It covers projects and the resource hierarchy, IAM, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, networking and storage, mostly from the gcloud and console side: what you would actually run to get something done.
Who it's for. Engineers who deploy and operate workloads on Google Cloud.
How to prepare
- Learn the gcloud command shapes. Several questions hinge on the right subcommand or flag.
- IAM inheritance down the hierarchy (organization → folder → project → resource) and predefined vs custom roles come up again and again.
- Know when to choose Cloud Run, GKE Autopilot, GKE Standard, Compute Engine or App Engine.
Sample ACE questions
Try these with the answers on the page, then practise the full bank.
- A consulting firm is mapping its Google Cloud structure and wants to identify the top-most container that every folder and project sits beneath. Which element is that? Setting up a cloud solution environment
- A compliance analyst at a payments firm needs one printable list of every role granted to every principal on the project ledger-prod. Which command returns that full set of project-level bindings? Setting up a cloud solution environment
- A developer wants to add an optional component to the local gcloud installation, keep the installed components current, and remove any she no longer uses. Which command group handles this? Setting up a cloud solution environment
- A batch rendering job can safely restart if interrupted. What is the main financial reason to run its worker VMs as Spot VMs instead of standard VMs? Planning and implementing a cloud solution
- An engineer stops a VM to save compute cost but keeps its boot disk attached. What happens to the disk contents? Planning and implementing a cloud solution
- A payments platform must keep one consistent ledger across three continents, scale writes horizontally, and still use SQL. Which product should the architect choose instead of Cloud SQL? Planning and implementing a cloud solution
- A web app needs sub-millisecond reads for session tokens and cached query results. Which managed service supplies that in-memory store? Planning and implementing a cloud solution
- A regional fleet of web servers runs in a managed instance group. The team has published a revised instance template and wants the running servers moved to it gradually, with a cap on how many instances can be unavailable at any moment. What should they do? Ensuring successful operation
- All 24 sample questions
Questions people ask
Is this ACE practice exam free?
Yes. All 200 questions, the timed mock exam and the explanations are free, and there's no account to create.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Real exam questions are confidential under the Google Cloud candidate agreement. These are practice questions written to cover the same domains in the same scenario style, each with an explanation of why the answer is right.
How is the ACE mock exam scored?
Questions are drawn from every domain in proportion to the exam guide, and you get a raw percentage with a breakdown by domain. Google Cloud uses scaled scoring, so treat 75% or more here as a sign you're ready rather than a predicted score.
Where is my progress saved?
In your browser, on this device. Nothing is sent to us apart from the answers you check, and clearing site data resets it.