All The Resources Needed To Clear Associate Cloud Engineer Exam

Sarveshwaran
4 min readMar 5, 2020

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Coursera (Architecting with Google Compute Engine)

You need to complete the following courses on coursera to get a better understanding and clear the exam. These courses have personally helped me a lot in the beginning stages.

· Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

· Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation

· Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

· Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation

· Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services

Watching the videos over and over again is the main key for understanding any GCP products in the beginning stage.

Google Official Docs

I also referred the Google Official Docs, here are some of the topics to get you started with the Google Official Docs. I would recommend you go through it .

https://cloud.google.com/docs/overview

https://cloud.google.com/docs/overview/cloud-platform-services

https://cloud.google.com/docs/geography-and-regions

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview

https://cloud.google.com/what-is-cloud-computing

https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations

Qwiklabs

Qwiklabs gives you hands on experience on Google Cloud Platform. I have listed as well as linked the quests I took up on Qwiklabs. It helps if you are a beginner and working your way up slowly.

Security & Identity Fundamentals

Networking in the Google Cloud

Cloud Engineering

Cloud Architecture

Baseline: Infrastructure

Kubernetes in the Google Cloud

Google Cloud Essentials

Official Google Cloud Study Guide:

I have uploaded the PDF of Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide by Dan Sullivan on my Google Drive. Link is Provided below.

Commands List:

I have uploaded the PDF of Commands used in GCP. These are a few and not all the commands and hence would encourage you to look into the study guide to find more commands.

Practice Exam:

Practice Exam provided by Google gives an idea of how challenging the exam might be. Don't be discouraged if you get low score in Practice Exam , put in your hard work and one day it will be fruitful.

Flowcharts:

Flowchart which are useful to glance through before exam is mentioned below. You can learn about these flowchart in Coursera course.

Compute:

Network:

Storage:

IAM:

Encryption:

Conclusion:

Now you have the power to crack the exam. You know what they say,

“ With great power comes great responsibility ”

and now it's your responsibility to crack the ACE Certification Exam.

Get in contact with me on Linkedin for any queries.

Continue Reading:

If you want to know more about my journey check out:

How I Passed Google Cloud Engineering Exam.(My Journey)

If you want to know more about the exam itself check out:

Everything You Need To Know About Associate Cloud Engineer Exam.

If you are a Noob in cloud then check out:

Google Cloud Platform And Its Products For Beginners.(Overview)

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