Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Resource hierarchy and organizational policies · IAM roles within projects · Users and groups in Cloud Identity · Enabling APIs and Google Cloud Observability setup · Quotas, regional availability, and cloud networking setup · Cloud Asset Inventory, Gemini Cloud Assist, and Workforce Identity Federation · Billing accounts, budgets, alerts, and exports

Choosing and deploying compute (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, GPUs/TPUs) · Storage and data products (Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Spanner, Cloud Storage) · VPCs, Cloud NGFW policies, and connectivity (VPN, peering, Interconnect) · Load balancers and Network Service Tiers · Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Config Connector, Helm, Fabric FAST) · AI-assisted planning (Gemini CLI, Gemini Cloud Assist, Application Design Center)

Managing Compute Engine and GKE resources · Cloud Run versions, traffic splitting, and autoscaling · Storage and database operations (lifecycle policies, backups, queries) · Networking operations (subnets, static IPs, Cloud DNS, Cloud NAT) · Monitoring, logging, alerting, and diagnostics (Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Ops Agent)

IAM policies and role types (basic, predefined, custom) · Service accounts and least-privilege IAM · Service account impersonation and short-lived credentials · Service accounts with GKE applications · Workload Identity Federation