Passed Google ACE exam

Passed the Google ACE Exam. The course while it doesn’t provide all the content covered on the exam, it definitely points out all the topics which are required to pass the exam. Prior to taking this exam, I had limited GCP experience, but extensive AWS experience.

In addition to what is covered in the Acloud.guru course, I found these following topics extremely helpful.

https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/

[IAM]

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service-accounts#compute_engine_default_service_account

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles#primitive_roles

https://cloud.google.com/iam/reference/rest/v1/Policy

[Compute]

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/config/set

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/startupscript

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/#autohealing

[Storage]

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes

[Analytics]

https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-file

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery

[App Engine]

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/app/deploy

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/deployment-manager/deployments/list

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php/an-overview-of-app-engine#limits

[Networking]

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/using-vpc

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/firewalls

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/choosing-load-balancer

https://cloud.google.com/router/docs/

[Kubernetes]

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/replicaset/

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/statefulset

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/pod

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/daemonset

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/container/clusters/create

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/container/clusters/resize

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/explore/explore-intro/

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/quotas

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/troubleshooting

[Billing]

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets

[DB]

https://cloud.google.com/sql/

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/backup-recovery/restore

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/binary-log.html

https://cloud.google.com/db-migration/

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/

https://cloud.google.com/datastore/

[Functions]

https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/concepts/overview

[Stackdriver]

https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/

https://cloud.google.com/logging/

https://cloud.google.com/profiler/

https://cloud.google.com/debugger/

https://cloud.google.com/trace/

https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/

Several people in the forums and the Internet have made comments comparing the GCP ACE to AWS. I found that difficult of the exam compares to the AWS Solution Architect Associate combined with the AWS SysOps Associate exam.

Thank you Mattias Anderson for putting together a good course on acloud guru.