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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
Deploying and operating on Google Cloud: the resource hierarchy and billing, the compute and storage choices, the global VPC, monitoring and cost control, and IAM with service accounts done properly.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Setting up and planning a cloud solution | Not published |
| Deploying and implementing a cloud solution | Not published |
| Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution | Not published |
| Configuring access and security | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Which tool estimates the monthly cost of a proposed architecture before it is built?
- The Google Cloud Pricing Calculator — correct
- The billing export to BigQuery
- The quota increase request form page
- The Cloud Monitoring dashboard
Why: The Pricing Calculator models planned resources so costs can be estimated ahead of deployment.
2. Which service groups repeated application exceptions so their frequency can be tracked?
- Cloud Trace timing spans
- Error Reporting — correct
- Cloud Profiler sampling CPU
- Cloud Monitoring metric charts
Why: Error Reporting aggregates identical stack traces into a single issue with counts and first and last seen times.
The real Associate Cloud Engineer exam
| Length | 120 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 50-60 |
| Pass mark | Not published; Google does not publish passing scores |
| Price | $125 USD |
| Recommended before you sit it | None. Google recommends six months of hands-on experience. |
| Valid for | 3 years |
Exam facts as published by Google Cloud; always check the vendor’s page before you book.
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