Just passed the ACE – Here what you should know

The test has gotten harder. There were no easy questions. The format is all radio buttons with one selection. No more choose 2 answers. It’s generally four choices which seem like they could all work. This is very different from the practice test here on acloud.guru and even the official practice test with Google. My test had 7 questions on Spanner. They no longer focus on trivial things, like whether a permission contained the word ‘account’ or ‘accounts’. It is conceptual. It seems they are moving the test closer toward the professional level where it is solutions based. You need to know data flows – which services to use to move data from a source to a destination with certain constraints. Here’s what else I noticed, they put really hard questions at the beginning. The first three questions I had left me clueless. I had no idea and could not eliminate even one choice. It got better after that, but be aware, you may get hard questions to start you off. Don’t be discouraged! Check the box to review them later and move on. This test took my entire 2 hours. I finished with just seconds to spare. Pace yourself.