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 5 — Free 50-Question GCP ACE Practice Test

Q01You are starting a new initiative and need to create a new Google Cloud project using the command-line interface. W...Easy

Q02A developer on your team needs to manage App Engine applications, including deploying new versions and splitting traf...Medium

Q03You have created a new Google Cloud project. You need to allow a specific group of developers to provision Compute En...Medium

Q04Which statement best describes the relationship between Google Cloud projects and billing accounts?Easy

Q05Your company wants to be notified immediately in their Slack channel whenever their monthly Google Cloud spending exc...Medium

Q06You have just installed the Google Cloud SDK on your local workstation. You need to authenticate your user account, s...Medium

Q07You are working in Cloud Shell and need to execute several commands against a project named 'analytics-prod-992'. You...Medium

Q08You frequently switch between two different Google Cloud projects: 'dev-env' and 'prod-env'. Each project requires yo...Hard

Q09You need to write a bash script that uploads local log files to a Google Cloud Storage bucket every night. Which com...Easy

Q10You are using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running 10 Compute Engine virtual m...Medium

Q11You have built a complex cost estimate in the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator for a new application architecture. You...Medium

Q12Your team has developed a stateless, containerized web application that processes HTTP requests. Traffic is highly un...Easy

Q13You are designing an architecture for a batch processing job that analyzes large datasets. The job is highly fault-to...Medium

Q14You are migrating a legacy application to Compute Engine. The vendor specifies that the application requires exactly ...Hard

Q15Your company is migrating an on-premises MySQL database to Google Cloud. The database is 500 GB in size. The applicat...Easy

Q16Your company needs to store petabytes of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 5 years but are expected to be ...Easy

Q17You are deploying a web application that will be accessed by users globally. You need to terminate SSL/TLS connection...Medium

Q18You are designing the network architecture for a highly available application. The application backend runs on Comput...Medium

Q19You need to create a new Compute Engine instance using the gcloud CLI. The instance must run under a specific custom ...Medium

Q20You have a Managed Instance Group (MIG) running a web application. You need to update the OS image for all instances ...Medium

Q21Your security team requires that SSH access to Compute Engine instances be managed centrally using IAM roles. They wa...Hard

Q22You need to create a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) standard cluster named 'web-cluster' with 3 nodes in the `us-...Medium

Q23You have successfully provisioned a GKE cluster and authenticated your local `kubectl` tool to it. You have a contain...Medium

Q24An application running on your GKE cluster is crashing. You need to view the application logs outputted by a specific...Hard

Q25You are deploying a new public-facing website using Cloud Run. You want anyone on the internet to be able to access t...Easy

Q26You are writing a Cloud Function that needs to process messages as soon as they are published to a Cloud Pub/Sub topi...Medium

Q27You have a large CSV file stored in a Cloud Storage bucket (`gs://my-bucket/sales_data.csv`). You need to load this d...Medium

Q28You need to initialize a new Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance by importing a `.sql` dump file. Which TWO requireme...Medium

Q29You are setting up a custom network topology. You need to create a new VPC network that does not automatically create...Medium

Q30You have a VPC network with several Compute Engine instances. You want to allow incoming HTTP (port 80) traffic from ...Hard

Q31A Compute Engine instance named `data-cruncher` has finished its processing task. You want to shut it down to stop in...Easy

Q32You need to implement a disaster recovery strategy for a critical Compute Engine instance. You want to capture the st...Medium

Q33You are configuring autoscaling for a Managed Instance Group (MIG). You want the group to automatically add instances...Medium

Q34You are troubleshooting an application running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to see a list of all curre...Easy

Q35Your team has an existing GKE standard cluster running web applications. A new data science team wants to deploy mach...Medium

Q36You have deployed a new revision of a Cloud Run service. You want to perform a canary deployment by routing exactly 1...Medium

Q37You have an object named `report.pdf` in a Cloud Storage bucket. It is currently stored in the Standard storage class...Easy

Q38You need to optimize costs for a Cloud Storage bucket used for backups. You want objects to automatically transition ...Medium

Q39Your company has a custom-mode VPC. A subnet in the `us-east1` region was created with a `/24` CIDR block (256 IP add...Medium

Q40You are configuring a Global External HTTP(S) Load Balancer for a new web application. You need to ensure that the IP...Hard

Q41When configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Google Cloud, what is the recommended best practice regardin...Easy

Q42You need to grant a new auditor access to your Google Cloud project. The auditor needs to be able to list and view th...Medium

Q43You have reviewed all predefined IAM roles but cannot find one that exactly matches the specific set of permissions r...Medium

Q44A user is assigned the `roles/editor` (Project Editor) role at the Folder level. However, at the Project level (for a...Hard

Q45When you enable the Compute Engine API in a new project, a default service account is automatically created. What i...Easy

Q46You are deploying a custom application on a Compute Engine VM. The application needs to read configuration files from...Medium

Q47You have a Compute Engine VM running in `Project A`. The application on this VM needs to write data to a BigQuery dat...Medium

Q48A critical Compute Engine instance was unexpectedly deleted. You need to find out which user or service account issue...Easy

Q49You are using the Logs Explorer in the Google Cloud Console. You want to write a query to filter the logs so that you...Medium

Q50Your organization is subject to strict compliance regulations. You are required to retain all Admin Activity and Data...Medium

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