Google Cloud || Associate Cloud Engineer || 4 Practice Tests

Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer exam is intended for the Google Cloud Engineers who are expertise to deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions. Associate Cloud Engineers can use Google Cloud Console and the command line interface to perform various tasks to maintain one or more deployed solutions on the Google Cloud platform.
The Associate Cloud Engineer exam checks one’s expertise to:
•Set up a cloud solution environment
•Plan and configure a cloud solution
•Deploy and implement a cloud solution
•Ensure the successful operation of a cloud solution
•Configure access and security
About this official exam
•Length: 2 hours
•Registration fee: $200 (plus tax where applicable)
•Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese.
•Exam format: Multiple choice and multiple select, taken in person at a test center.
•Prerequisites: None
•Recommended experience: 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.
What are the Important Topics for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam Preparation?
It is very important to prepare yourself with the important topics to clear the exam in the first attempt. So, as per my experience, here I enlist the important topics, you should have a proper understanding of, in order to pass the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer exam.
•IAM
•Too many questions on IAM roles (Least privilege principle). For example, testing user knowledge on billing account roles, storage access roles, compute engine role, etc.
•How to list and describe the roles using CLI
•How to filter the roles and members using GCP console
•App Engine
•How to deploy applications on App Engine using CLI.
•Use cases on App Engine Versions functionality
•How to split the traffic between multiple versions in the App Engine.
•VPC (Networking)
•How to configure firewalls and use cases
•Shared VPC
•VPC peering vs VPN vs Interconnect
•Types of load balancers and use cases
•Projects
•How to create projects
•Linking projects with the billing accounts
•How to list and describe the existing configurations
•How to create and manage projects via CLI
•Billing Accounts
•Required roes to create and manage the billing accounts
•Understanding the relation between Billing accounts & Projects & Organizations
•Compute Engine
•The understanding of market place uses cases (Ex: If the user wants to deploy functional software packages without having to manually configure the software or Virtual machine instances)
•Auto-scaling types (Selecting best scaling type based on the given scenario)
•When to use External IP address (Static external vs Ephemeral external IP)
•Importance of metadata and labels
•High availability (Spreading the resources across the Global vs Regional)
•Understanding Managed and Unmanaged instance groups.
•Cloud Storage (Object-based)
•When to use different storage classes available in GCP (Ex: Multi-regional vs Regional vs Nearline vs Coldline)
•Changing or conversion of storage classes. (Ex: Multi-regional to Nearline, Multi-regional to Coldline, etc)
•Automatic deletion of objects and Objects transfer between the different storage classes using lifecycle policies
•Kubernetes Engine
•The deployment process of docker file
•How to create a docker file and understanding of container registry
•Autoscaling in Kubernetes
•Working of cluster nodes and services
•Databases
•Relational databases: SQL vs Spanner
•When to use BigQuery and Cloud Bigtable
•Bigdata Tools
•Difference between Dataproc vs Dataperp
•Questions based on Pub/Sub use cases and integration with other services
•Data Analytics tools use cases
•Image-based Questions: Got 2 Questions
•Provided the sample company cloud architecture diagram with blanks and asked to fill the blanks with suitable GCP services as per requirement demand
•Stackdriver
•Importance of Stackdriver in the Google cloud and how it works
•Creating and configuring the workspaces
•How to add projects form different GCP accounts to single Stackdriver account via GCP console
This course includes
•200 UNIQUE and LATEST practice questions
•4 Practice Tests
•Detailed and exhaustive explanations of each answer
•Official documentation reference links
•30 Days money back
•Lifetime access