Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam

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• Questions across all five ACE domains, including the gcloud command recall the exam leans on heavily.
• Timed mock exams matching the real two-hour format.
• Per-domain scoring after each attempt, so you can see whether IAM or networking is the actual problem.
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Sample ACE questions

Four real questions from the ACE bank, written by a certified subject-matter expert, with the answer and the reasoning. This is the format and difficulty of every question inside.

1. Domain 2: Plan and configure a cloud solution

   Q1. Which gcloud command correctly sets your default working project for subsequent commands?

   • A gcloud init project [PROJECT_ID]
   • B gcloud config set project [PROJECT_ID]Correct
   • C gcloud projects set-default [PROJECT_ID]
   • D gcloud auth set project [PROJECT_ID]

   Why: Defaults live in the active gcloud configuration, and `gcloud config set` is how you write to it. The ACE exam tests exact command syntax more than most cloud exams — the other three options are plausible-looking commands that do not exist.

2. Domain 1: Setting up a cloud solution environment

   Q2. To proactively control costs, you want to receive an email alert when a project's forecasted spend reaches 90% of its budget. Where do you configure this?

   • A In Cloud Monitoring, create an alerting policy on the billing metric
   • B In the Billing section of the Cloud Console, create a budget and add an alert ruleCorrect
   • C In IAM, assign the Billing Account Viewer role with a quota
   • D In the project settings, enable spending limits

   Why: Budgets and their alert thresholds are a Cloud Billing feature, configured on the billing account rather than per project. Note that budget alerts notify — they do not cap spend, which is a distinction the exam likes to test.

3. Domain 3: Deploying and implementing a cloud solution

   Q3. What is the most operationally efficient and secure method to grant a team of developers SSH access to a group of Compute Engine instances?

   • A Add each developer's public SSH key to project-wide metadata
   • B Share a single service account key file with the team
   • C Enable OS Login and grant the 'compute.osAdminLogin' role to a Google Group containing the developersCorrect
   • D Create a local Linux user account on each instance

   Why: OS Login ties SSH access to IAM identities, so removing someone from the Google Group revokes their access everywhere at once. Managing keys in project metadata means the offboarding step is manual and easy to forget on some subset of instances.

4. Domain 2: Plan and configure a cloud solution

   Q4. A new API must be enabled for use within a project. Which command accomplishes this?

   • A gcloud services enable [API_NAME].googleapis.comCorrect
   • B gcloud api activate [API_NAME]
   • C gcloud projects enable-api [API_NAME]
   • D gcloud config set api [API_NAME] enabled

   Why: `gcloud services enable` is the correct verb pairing, and the API name must be the fully-qualified service endpoint ending in .googleapis.com. Forgetting the suffix is a common cause of "service not found" errors in practice as well as in the exam.

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