Google GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Tips

I just passed my Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. It is a bit more difficult than the AWS ones since it covers more topics and goes deeper into certain areas such as Kubernetes.

You have 2 hours to answer 50 questions. Most of the answers are single choice but there are some multiple choice answers. There is no passing score and you will only get a pass/fail result. You should aim to get around 70% right but this is just my guess. The exam cost $125 and it can be done online.

The exam covers many areas and you will require to know gcloud commands, IAM roles, and Kubernetes.

The main areas are IAM(you need to know the most important roles including billing account roles), Compute Engine, Kubernetes, VPCs and networking and deployment and monitoring. Make sure you are confortable setting up permissions, access management, gcloud commands, managing VMs, VPC networks, subnets, load balancers, compute and storage. Also, you will get few questions about Stackdriver, different machine types, etc.

Preparation

Start by creating a free trial account in GCP, get familiar with the console and try some of the tutorials in the console. Also, start watching the GCP Next videos to get more familiar with the different services. Take the free…