Ace the Google Cloud Associate Engineer Exam: Practice Tests

Updated 2024, Master GCP fundamentals and confidently achieve your Associate Cloud Engineer certification | CertShield

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• Industry Recognition: Validates your skills to employers, potential clients, and peers.

• Career Advancement: Enhances your professional credentials and can lead to career development opportunities.

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• Realistic & Challenging Practice for Real-World Success

• Sharpen Your Skills

  • Put your Google Cloud expertise to the test and identify areas for improvement with meticulously designed practice Exam. Experience exam-like scenarios and challenging questions that closely mirror the official Google Cloud Professional Architect certification.

About Practice Exam-

1. Exam Purpose and Alignment

• Clear Objectives: Define exactly what the exam intends to measure (knowledge, skills, judgment). Closely tied to the competencies required for professional practice.

• Alignment with Standards: The exam aligns with relevant exam standards, guidelines. This reinforces the validity and relevance of the exam.

2. Questions in Practice Exam-

• Relevance: Focus on real-world scenarios and problems that professionals are likely to encounter in their practice.

• Cognitive Level: Include a mix of questions that assess different levels of thinking:

  • Knowledge/Recall

  • Understanding/Application

  • Analysis/Evaluation

• Clarity: Best effort - Questions to be concise, unambiguous, and free from jargon or overly technical language.

• Reliability: Questions to consistently measure the intended knowledge or skill, reducing the chance of different interpretations.

• No Trickery: Avoided "trick" questions or phrasing intended to mislead. Instead, focus on testing genuine understanding.

3. Item Types

• Variety: Incorporated diverse question formats best suited to the knowledge/skill being tested. This could include:

  • Multiple-choice questions

  • Short answer

  • Case studies with extended response

  • Scenario-based questions

  • Simulations (where applicable)

• Balance: Ensured a balanced mix of item types to avoid over-reliance on any single format.

Key Features & Benefits:

• • Up-to-Date & Exam-Aligned Questions: Continuously updated to reflect the latest exam syllabus, our questions mirror the difficulty, format, and content areas of the actual exam.

  • Regular Updates: Practice exam is constantly updated to reflect the latest exam changes and ensure you have the most up-to-date preparation resources.

  • Comprehensive Coverage: Questions span the entire breadth of the certification exam, including:

    • Designing and planning cloud solutions

    • Managing and provisioning cloud infrastructure

    • Designing for security and compliance

    • Analyzing and optimizing technical/business processes

    • Managing implementations

    • Ensuring solution and operations reliability

• • Detailed Explanations for Every Answer: We don't just tell you if you got it right or wrong – we provide clear explanations to reinforce concepts and help you pinpoint areas for improvement.

  • Scenario-Based Challenges: Test your ability to apply learned principles in complex real-world scenarios, just like the ones you'll encounter on the exam.

  • Progress Tracking: Monitor your performance and pinpoint specific topics that require further study.

• Why Choose Practice Exam?

  
  

  • Boost Confidence, Reduce Anxiety: Practice makes perfect! Arrive at the exam confident knowing you've faced similarly challenging questions.

  • Cost-Effective Supplement: Practice simulators, when combined with thorough studying, enhance your chances of success and save you from costly exam retakes.

Breakdown of the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer exam details:

Purpose:

• The Associate Cloud Engineer exam is designed to validate your ability to perform fundamental cloud engineering tasks on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• It demonstrates your competence in deploying, monitoring, and managing production-ready solutions on GCP.

Exam Format:

• Multiple-choice and multiple-select questions

• 2 hours to complete

• 50 questions (though this can change)

• Online proctored exam (remotely or at a testing center)

• Available in English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Indonesian.

Cost:

• $125 USD (or local equivalent)

Prerequisites:

• While there are no official prerequisites, Google recommends at least 6 months of hands-on experience with GCP.

Exam Content (Domains):

1. Setting up a cloud solution environment (15%)

   • Project setup, Cloud IAM, billing configuration, resource hierarchy

2. Planning and configuring a cloud solution (20%)

   • Compute options (CE, GKE, App Engine), storage choices, networking, solution design

3. Deploying and implementing a cloud solution (25%)

   • Deployment tools, Cloud Shell, Stackdriver, migrating workloads, software delivery

4. Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution (26%)

   • Monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, scaling, managing costs, and support

5. Configuring access and security (14%)

   • IAM, encryption, security best practices, auditing

Certification Renewal / Recertification: Candidates must recertify in order to maintain their certification status. Unless explicitly stated in the detailed exam descriptions, all Google Cloud certifications are valid for two years from the date of certification. Recertification is accomplished by retaking the exam during the recertification eligibility time period and achieving a passing score. You may attempt recertification starting 60 days prior to your certification expiration date.