GCP-ACE · Google Cloud
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
The Google Cloud counterpart of SAA-C03 or AZ-104, and the first Google certification on CertKata.
The first Google Cloud certification on CertKata, and the GCP counterpart of SAA-C03 or AZ-104: an associate-level exam for engineers who deploy and operate workloads on Google Cloud day to day. It is hands-on and CLI-heavy. Expect gcloud commands, IAM roles and policy inheritance, GKE and Cloud Run, VPC networking and firewall rules, Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage, and the monitoring and logging you need to keep it all running. Like the real exam, this bank mixes single-answer questions with multiple-select ones. Please note: Google does not publish an official passing score for this exam. The 70% threshold used here is a widely cited community estimate.
Who sits this exam
Engineers who deploy and operate workloads on Google Cloud day to day. It is hands-on and CLI-heavy rather than conceptual - if you have never run a gcloud command, expect to.
What it covers
Each domain below is weighted the way the real exam weights it, and scored separately, so you can see which one is holding the total down.
- 01Set up a cloud solution environment
- 02Plan and implement a cloud solution
- 03Ensure the successful operation of a cloud solution
- 04Configure access and security
How you will practise
- Review
- Practice with answers explained immediately.
- Section
- Review one domain at a time.
- Timed
- A timed set with results at the end.
- Final
- The full exam simulation — every question, timed.
What passing proves
That you can actually operate a Google Cloud project: IAM roles and policy inheritance, GKE and Cloud Run, VPC networking and firewall rules, Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage, and the monitoring and logging that keeps it all running.