ExpertGCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)
GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 4
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Comprehensive practice exam for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Covers all 5 domains including environment setup, planning, deployment, operations, and security. Features scenario-based and practical gcloud command questions.
50
Questions
Mixed
Difficulty
70%
Pass mark
Difficulty breakdown
Easy(14)
Medium(29)
Hard(7)
Topics covered
Browse all topics →Domain 1.1: Setting up cloud projects and accountsDomain 1.2: Managing billing configurationDomain 1.3: Installing and configuring the CLIDomain 2.1: Planning and estimating GCP product useDomain 2.2: Planning and configuring compute resourcesDomain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage optionsDomain 2.4: Planning and configuring network resourcesDomain 3.1: Deploying and implementing Compute Engine resourcesDomain 3.2: Deploying and implementing GKE resourcesDomain 3.3: Deploying Cloud Run and Cloud FunctionsDomain 3.4: Deploying and implementing data solutionsDomain 3.5: Deploying and implementing networking resourcesDomain 4.1: Managing Compute Engine resourcesDomain 4.2: Managing GKE resourcesDomain 4.3: Managing Cloud Run resourcesDomain 4.4: Managing storage and database solutionsDomain 4.5: Managing networking resourcesDomain 5.1: Managing Identity and Access Management (IAM)Domain 5.2: Managing service accountsDomain 5.3: Viewing audit logs
Sample questions
Q01Easy1 mark
You have recently joined a new team and need to set up a new Google Cloud project for a development environment. You want to use the Cloud SDK to create the project with the ID 'dev-env-789'.
Which gcloud command should you use?
Q02Medium1 mark
Your company uses Google Workspace. You need to grant a new developer, Alice, the ability to view all resources in your 'production-app' project, but she should not be able to modify anything. You want to follow the principle of least privilege using predefined roles.
What should you do?
Q03Medium1 mark
You have created a new GCP project and want to deploy a Compute Engine instance. However, when you try to run the deployment command, you receive an error stating that the Compute Engine API is not enabled.
Which TWO methods can you use to enable the Compute Engine API for your project? (Select TWO)
Q04Easy1 mark
Your startup has a strict monthly cloud budget of $500. You want to be notified via email when your Google Cloud spending reaches 50%, 90%, and 100% of this amount. You do NOT want GCP to automatically shut down your resources if the budget is exceeded.
What should you configure?
Q05Medium1 mark
Your finance team wants to analyze Google Cloud costs using standard SQL and build custom dashboards in Looker Studio. They need granular, daily cost data including resource labels.
What is the MOST efficient way to provide this data to the finance team?
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Free to browse · no sign-up requiredQ01You have recently joined a new team and need to set up a new Google Cloud project for a development environment. You ...EasyQ02Your company uses Google Workspace. You need to grant a new developer, Alice, the ability to view all resources in yo...MediumQ03You have created a new GCP project and want to deploy a Compute Engine instance. However, when you try to run the dep...MediumQ04Your startup has a strict monthly cloud budget of $500. You want to be notified via email when your Google Cloud spen...EasyQ05Your finance team wants to analyze Google Cloud costs using standard SQL and build custom dashboards in Looker Studio...MediumQ06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local workstation. You need to authenticate, set your default pr...EasyQ07You are working in Cloud Shell and need to deploy resources to a project named 'finance-prod-2023'. Your current acti...MediumQ08You frequently switch between two different GCP environments: a personal project using your personal Gmail account, a...MediumQ09You are trying to create a Cloud Storage bucket using the command line, but you cannot remember the exact syntax or f...MediumQ10You are using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running a Compute Engine virtual ma...EasyQ11Your company is planning to migrate a legacy application to Google Cloud. The application requires 4 vCPUs and 16 GB ...MediumQ12You are designing an architecture for a batch processing job that renders video frames. The job can be paused and res...EasyQ13Your development team has created a stateless, containerized microservice that handles webhooks. Traffic is highly un...MediumQ14You are migrating a specialized database to Compute Engine. The database vendor requires exactly 6 vCPUs and 40 GB of...HardQ15Your company needs to store petabytes of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 7 years but are rarely accessed...EasyQ16You are designing the database backend for a global inventory management system. The system requires relational datab...MediumQ17You are deploying a public-facing web application that will be accessed by users worldwide. The application runs on C...MediumQ18Your company hosts a media-heavy website on GCP. You want to improve page load times for global users by caching stat...HardQ19You need to create a new Compute Engine virtual machine named 'web-server-01' in the 'us-east1-b' zone using the e2-m...EasyQ20You want to deploy a fleet of identical web servers that automatically scale up when CPU utilization exceeds 70%. If ...MediumQ21You are deploying a machine learning model on Compute Engine that requires GPU acceleration. You have created a VM an...MediumQ22You need to deploy a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) standard cluster named 'prod-cluster' in the 'us-central1-a' ...EasyQ23You have a GKE cluster running and you have written a Kubernetes Deployment manifest file named `app-deployment.yaml`...MediumQ24You are deploying a new application to GKE and want to ensure that application logs and cluster metrics are automatic...HardQ25You want to execute a Python script automatically every time a new image file is uploaded to a specific Cloud Storage...EasyQ26You have built a Docker container image for a web application and pushed it to Google Artifact Registry. You want to ...MediumQ27You have a 50 GB CSV file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. You need to load this data into a BigQuery table named 's...MediumQ28You are setting up a new Cloud Spanner database for a global application. You need to initialize the instance, create...HardQ29You are creating a new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network for your organization. You want complete control over the ...MediumQ30You have a VPC network with several Compute Engine instances. You want to allow incoming HTTP (port 80) traffic ONLY ...MediumQ31You have a Compute Engine instance that you only use during business hours. To save costs, you want to shut it down o...EasyQ32You need to perform a major OS upgrade on a critical Compute Engine instance. You want to ensure you can quickly roll...MediumQ33You have a Compute Engine instance that does NOT have an external public IP address. You need to connect to this inst...MediumQ34A developer reports that their application running in a GKE cluster is crashing on startup. You need to view the stan...MediumQ35Your GKE cluster currently runs on a node pool of e2-standard-2 machines. You are deploying a new machine learning wo...HardQ36You have a Cloud Run service currently serving 100% of production traffic. You deploy a new revision of the service, ...MediumQ37You have a Cloud Storage bucket used for storing daily database backups. You want to automatically transition backups...EasyQ38You are about to run a complex SQL query in BigQuery that joins several multi-terabyte tables. You are concerned abou...MediumQ39You have a custom-mode VPC with a subnet in 'us-west1' using the CIDR range 10.0.0.0/24. You are running out of IP ad...MediumQ40You need to assign a permanent, public IP address to a Compute Engine instance running a legacy application. The IP a...HardQ41You are reviewing the IAM permissions for your project. You notice several users have the 'Editor' role.
Why does G...EasyQ42You want to see a list of all users, groups, and service accounts that have been granted the `roles/storage.objectAdm...MediumQ43You need to create a Custom IAM Role because none of the predefined roles exactly match your security requirements. Y...HardQ44Your company has a team of 50 developers. They all need the `roles/compute.instanceAdmin` role in the 'dev-project'. ...MediumQ45What is the primary purpose of a Service Account in Google Cloud?EasyQ46You have an application running on a Compute Engine VM that needs to read files from a specific Cloud Storage bucket....MediumQ47You have an application running on-premises (outside of GCP) that needs to write data to Cloud Pub/Sub. You have crea...MediumQ48You suspect that a user accidentally deleted a critical Compute Engine instance yesterday. You need to verify who per...MediumQ49You are investigating a security incident and need to search through your project's Admin Activity audit logs for the...EasyQ50Your compliance department requires that all Admin Activity audit logs be retained for 5 years. By default, Cloud Log...Medium