Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exams

ACE

⭐ Most popularIntermediateAssociateCloud Engineer

Validates the ability to deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions on Google Cloud using the Console and the gcloud CLI — the core associate-level credential for cloud engineers.

120

minutes

70%

passing score

$125

exam fee

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5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 50-question bank

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Overview

What this certification is and how the exam works.

The Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification validates the hands-on skills needed to deploy and operate workloads on Google Cloud. It covers setting up a cloud environment (projects, billing, IAM), planning and configuring compute, storage, and networking, deploying with Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run and App Engine, ensuring successful operations with the Cloud Operations suite, and configuring access and security. The exam is 50–60 questions in 2 hours, and Google recommends 6+ months of hands-on experience using the Console and the gcloud command-line tool.

Why should I take the exam?

What this credential does for your career.

1The entry credential to Google Cloud — the platform behind Kubernetes, BigQuery, and much of the modern data/AI stack
2Hands-on by design: preparation teaches the gcloud CLI and Console skills you use on the job every day
3Cloud engineer, DevOps, and SRE roles increasingly list a major-cloud certification as a baseline
4The natural stepping stone to the Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certifications

Skills measured

What you need to know to pass this exam.

✓Set up cloud projects, billing accounts, budgets, and the resource hierarchy (organization, folders, projects)
✓Manage identities and access with IAM roles, service accounts, and policies
✓Deploy and manage Compute Engine VMs, instance templates, and managed instance groups with autoscaling
✓Deploy container workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run
✓Configure Cloud Storage buckets, storage classes, lifecycle rules, and persistent disks
✓Design VPC networks: subnets, firewall rules, routes, load balancing, and Cloud NAT
✓Choose and provision managed data services: Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, and BigQuery
✓Monitor, log, and troubleshoot workloads with the Cloud Operations suite (Monitoring, Logging, Trace)
✓Operate Google Cloud from the Console, Cloud Shell, and the gcloud/gsutil/kubectl command-line tools

About our ACE practice exams

Our Associate Cloud Engineer ACE question bank holds 50 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the five exam domains published for ACE, covering Setting up a cloud solution environment, Planning and configuring a cloud solution, Deploying and implementing a cloud solution, Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution and Configuring access and security.

Alongside the bank there are two full-length timed exams at the real 120-minute limit and 70% pass mark, plus five topic-based learning tests for working a single domain at a time. The bank includes 3 multiple-response questions, so the interactive formats are not a surprise on exam day. Randomised mock exams are dealt on demand from the full 50-question pool, so you never run out of fresh papers.

Questions: 50
Exam domains: 5
Timed exams: 2
Pass mark: 70%

How our practice content is created

Practice questions are independently developed using the official Google Cloud ACE exam guide and Google Cloud documentation. Each question is checked for alignment with the current exam objectives and reviewed for technical accuracy before publication.

The ACE bank cites 51 distinct Google Cloud documentation pages, and every question links the source it was written against — so you can check any answer at first hand.

Official ACE exam guide

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