Passed Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

Hello all,

I passed GCP’s Certified Associate Cloud Engineer. This one really summarizes the important points, but I like to share a few points as well:

– Kubernetes: There were so many in depth questions on Kubernetes. I was shocked. I knew Kubernetes from my job experience or else I would have not been able to get at least 10 questions. Don’t go to the exam until you know it inside outside. Know every detail of how you deploy and manage apps, how GCP implemented K8s services, how they interact. Basically be K8s expert.

– IAM: There were a few questions on how how you would interact between projects. For example how would one cluster accesses a resource in another project. It’s good to read best practises.

– Valid option to interact with GCP: A lot of different resources point out that there are many questions on how you perform a task, but most of the questions were looking for a valid option between GUI and gcloud

• Tricky questions: I noticed that GCP exam was trickier than AWS. A single word (project vs resource vs org) would change the answer and you had to pay attention to each word. This is apparent even in their sample exam, so just read the question.

• Time: i found time management not to be an issue even for a slow reader (English not my first Lang). I had more than an hour left on my exam.

– Watching Cloud Minute: A big thank to Mattias for introducing me to Cloud Minute. It definitely helped.

Thanks for Mattias for his great introduction to the platform. I look forward to seeing his course complete