How many questions are on the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer exam?

The GCP ACE exam contains 50 questions to be completed in 120 minutes. Questions are multiple choice and multiple select.

What is the passing score for the GCP ACE exam?

Google Cloud does not publish a specific passing score for the ACE exam.

What topics does the GCP ACE cover?

The exam covers five domains: Setting up a cloud solution environment, Planning and configuring a cloud solution, Deploying and implementing, Ensuring successful operation, and Configuring access and security.

How long is the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification valid?

GCP Associate certifications are valid for 2 years, after which recertification is required.

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 1 — Free 50-Question GCP ACE Practice Test

Q01What is the highest level of the Google Cloud resource hierarchy?Easy

Q02You need to enable the Compute Engine API in a new project using the command line. Which command should you use?Easy

Q03You are setting up a new GCP environment. You need to grant a group of developers access to view resources in a speci...Medium

Q04You want to receive an email notification when your GCP spending exceeds $1000 this month. What should you configure?Easy

Q05You need to analyze your GCP billing data using complex SQL queries to understand cost trends across multiple project...Medium

Q06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local machine. Which command should you run FIRST to authenticat...Easy

Q07You are working on multiple GCP projects. You want to switch your active gcloud configuration from 'project-a-config'...Medium

Q08You need to set the default compute zone to `us-central1-a` and the default project to `my-project-123` for your curr...Medium

Q09You are writing a bash script that creates a Compute Engine instance. The script needs to run without user interactio...Hard

Q10You are estimating the cost of running a workload on Compute Engine. Which factor does NOT affect the monthly cost in...Easy

Q11Your company plans to migrate 50 TB of archive data to Cloud Storage. The data will be accessed at most once a year. ...Medium

Q12You are designing a stateless, containerized web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. You want ...Medium

Q13You have a batch processing workload that takes 2 hours to complete. The workload is fault-tolerant and can be interr...Medium

Q14You are deploying a legacy application that requires a specific older version of a Linux kernel and cannot run in a c...Hard

Q15You need a fully managed relational database for a new application. The database will be approximately 50 GB in size ...Easy

Q16Your application generates massive amounts of time-series IoT data (petabytes). You need a NoSQL database capable of ...Medium

Q17You are deploying a global web application with users in the US, Europe, and Asia. You want to route users to the clo...Medium

Q18You need to connect your on-premises data center to your GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The connection requires a s...Hard

Q19Which gcloud command is used to create a new Compute Engine virtual machine instance named 'web-server-1'?Easy

Q20You need to ensure that a specific Compute Engine instance always restarts automatically if it crashes or is terminat...Medium

Q21You are creating a Managed Instance Group (MIG) that needs to scale automatically based on CPU utilization. Which TWO...Medium

Q22You have created a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. You need to configure your local `kubectl` command-lin...Medium

Q23You are deploying a containerized application to GKE. You want to ensure that the application is exposed to the inter...Medium

Q24You are deploying a GKE Autopilot cluster. You need to deploy a workload that requires specific hardware accelerators...Hard

Q25You need to execute a lightweight piece of code every time a new file is uploaded to a specific Cloud Storage bucket....Easy

Q26You are deploying a container image to Cloud Run. You want to ensure that unauthenticated users cannot access the ser...Medium

Q27You have a CSV file named `data.csv` on your local machine. You need to upload this file to a Cloud Storage bucket na...Medium

Q28You need to load a large JSONL (JSON Lines) file from Cloud Storage into a BigQuery table. Which TWO methods can you ...Medium

Q29You are creating a custom VPC network. You need to create a subnet in the `us-west1` region with a CIDR range of `10....Medium

Q30You have Compute Engine instances in a VPC subnet that do not have external IP addresses. They need to download softw...Hard

Q31You need to securely connect to a Compute Engine Linux instance using SSH from your local terminal without managing S...Easy

Q32A Compute Engine instance is running out of disk space. You have increased the size of the persistent disk in the Goo...Medium

Q33You want to create a custom 'golden image' from an existing Compute Engine instance to use for future deployments. Wh...Medium

Q34You need to view the logs of a specific pod named `frontend-pod-123` running in your GKE cluster to troubleshoot an a...Medium

Q35Your GKE cluster is running out of resources, and new pods are stuck in the `Pending` state. You are using a Standard...Medium

Q36You have deployed a new revision of a Cloud Run service. You want to route 10% of the traffic to the new revision for...Easy

Q37You want to automatically transition objects in a Cloud Storage bucket to Archive storage if they haven't been access...Medium

Q38You are managing a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. You need to ensure you can recover the database to a specific p...Medium

Q39You have a custom VPC with a subnet `10.0.0.0/24`. You are running out of IP addresses in this subnet and need to exp...Medium

Q40You have an internal application running on Compute Engine instances in a VPC. You want to expose this application to...Hard

Q41In Google Cloud IAM, what is the fundamental difference between a primitive role (like Editor) and a predefined role ...Easy

Q42A developer needs to view the configuration of Compute Engine instances and Cloud Storage buckets in a project, but s...Medium

Q43You need to grant a new team member access to manage Cloud SQL instances in a specific project. You want to follow th...Medium

Q44You are creating a custom IAM role because predefined roles provide too much access. Which TWO statements are true re...Hard

Q45What is the primary purpose of a Google Cloud Service Account?Easy

Q46An application running on a Compute Engine VM needs to read files from a Cloud Storage bucket. What is the MOST secur...Medium

Q47You need to run a script on your local on-premises workstation that interacts with GCP APIs. The script needs to auth...Medium

Q48Which type of Cloud Audit Log records administrative actions that modify the configuration or metadata of resources, ...Easy

Q49You suspect that an unauthorized user has been reading sensitive data from a Cloud Storage bucket. Which type of audi...Medium

Q50You need to retain Admin Activity audit logs for 3 years for compliance reasons. By default, Cloud Logging only retai...Medium

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