Preparing your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey (GC-CERT-CE)

This course helps learners create a study plan for the ACE (Associate Cloud Engineer) certification exam.

Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam.

Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

Products

• Google Cloud Armor
• Cloud CDN
• Cloud Console
• Cloud DNS
• IAM
• Cloud Interconnect
• Cloud Load Balancing
• Cloud Shell
• Network Service Tiers
• Networking
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Have 6 months or more experience in the role of Associate Cloud engineer, or have equivalent experience

• List the five domains covered on the Associate Cloud Engineer certification exam.
• Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain and create a study plan.

Introduction to the Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

• Role of an Associate Cloud Engineer and scenario introduction*
• Certification value and benefits
• Certification process

Setting up a Cloud Environment

• Scenario: starting the process to migrate from on-premises to Google Cloud by setting up a solution environment.
• Creating projects, assigning IAM roles, enabling APIs, provisioning logging/monitoring workspaces, managing billing, installing command-line tools.

Planning and Configuring a Cloud Solution

• Scenario: understanding the Cloud Engineer’s role in planning and configuring a solution in Google Cloud.
• Estimating pricing, planning compute, data storage, and network resources.

Deploying and Implementing a Cloud Solution

• Scenario: continuing to explore the Associate Cloud Engineer’s role in helping the organization explore options for deploying and implementing a solution.
• Differentiating and deploying among compute options including Compute Engine GKE, App Engine, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions.
• Differentiating and deploying among storage and data options including Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
• Differentiating and deploying among networking options including VPC, firewall rules, interconnect options (VPN), and load balancer options.

Ensuring Successful Operation of a Cloud Solution

• Scenario: now that the organization’s cloud solution has been deployed, continue to explore the Associate Cloud Engineer's role in operations of the cloud solution.
• Managing and adjusting the configuration of compute resources, and understanding cost implications.
• Managing and adjusting the configuration of storage and data resources, and understanding cost implications.
• Managing and adjusting the configuration of network resources, and understanding cost implications.

Configuring Access and Security

• Scenario: configuring access is a key part of administering a cloud solution. This final section of the scenario introduces the Associate Cloud Engineer’s role in configuring access and security of project resources.
• Managing IAM and service accounts.
• Viewing project audit logs.

Your Next Steps

• Finalizing your study plan
• Creating a weekly study sheet
• Registering for the exam