ACE study notes
- Setting up a cloud solution environment ACE notes on the resource hierarchy, organization policies, Cloud Identity, enabling APIs, quotas, the operations suite, billing accounts, budgets and billing export, with the gcloud commands the exam tests. 20%
- Planning and implementing a cloud solution ACE notes on choosing compute, storage and network services, then deploying Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, data products, VPC networking and infrastructure as code with gcloud and kubectl. 42.5%
- Ensuring successful operation ACE notes on day-two operations: Compute Engine snapshots and images, GKE inventory, node pools and autoscaling, Cloud Run revisions and traffic splitting, storage lifecycle and backups, VPC changes, Cloud DNS and NAT, monitoring, logging and the Ops Agent. 20%
- Configuring access and security ACE notes on IAM policies and role types, custom roles, deny policies and conditions, service accounts, impersonation, short-lived credentials, workload identity and related security controls. 17.5%