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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer: Get Certified 2024 (Udemy.com)

Learn How to Pass the Exam from the author of the Official Certification Guide for Google

Created by: Dan Sullivan

Last updated March 2024

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What you will learn

  • Learn how to pass the Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) exam
  • Use the included practice test to prepare for the real exam
  • Master working with Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, and Kubernetes Engine
  • Use the Google Cloud Console and command line to manage GCP resources
  • Master key networking topics on the exam such as VPCs, VPNs, Load Balancing, and Hybrid Cloud
  • Know how and when to use object, relational, and NoSQL datastores for cloud storage
  • Explore specialized services such as Bigquery, Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL
  • Delve into key exam topics including IAM, load balancing, firewall rules, subnets, and the Resource Hierarchy
  • Review fundamental concepts like IP addressing, CIDR blocks, DNS, and access controls

How it compares

Against the other 848 rated Udemy courses in IT Certifications on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 43% of them
  • Reviews12,149#36 of 849 by number of reviews
  • Length8.4 hourslonger than 51% of them
  • Last updatedMarch 2024earlier than 79% of them

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Course Description


Do you want to earn your Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification? If so, you’ve come to the right place!

        "Thank you Dan for such a useful course. ... Passed my exam in first attempt."

        "Tried other courses earlier. This one is way better!"

Updated for 2023 with new material on compute resources, storage, machine learning, monitoring, logging, and more!

Hi, my name is Dan Sullivan, and as an early adopter of cloud technologies, I’m an experienced cloud architect and systems developer. I’m also the bestselling author of numerous technical books, an experienced in-person trainer, and an online trainer whose courses have been viewed over 1 million times.

Google Cloud  is an increasingly popular public cloud and the demand for certified professionals is growing. In fact, the top-paying certification is one of Google’s cloud certifications—the Professional Cloud Architect. With that said, Google’s Associate Cloud Engineer certification is an ideal starting point for those new to cloud or Google Cloud, and it can be used as a pathway to Professional-level certifications.

I’ve designed this course to help prepare you for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer exam by introducing all of the major Google Cloud services covered on the test, including Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Bigtable, VPCs, VPNs, Cloud Operations Suite, machine learning in BigQuery and more. And to reinforce what you see and hear, you can follow along and work with the cloud console or command line utility to get hands-on experience with Google Cloud.

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Create and configure virtual machine instances in Compute Engine using the Cloud Console and command line

  • Dive into Identity and Access Management (IAM), an important part of the exam

  • Develop decision making skills for choosing among compute, storage, and networking options

  • Familiarize yourself with the structure of the test and how to study for it, including tips on other study resources

  • Improve your system management and DevOps skills by understanding how to monitor applications in the cloud

  • Understand how machine learning and AI are incorporated in Google Cloud services, such as BigQuery

The Google Associate Cloud Engineer exam is two hours in length and contains 50 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions. This course uses demonstrations as well as lectures to ensure you know how to work with Google Cloud and understand its key design and operational concepts. This approach will help you reason through tough exam questions that probe your understanding of Google Cloud’s overall design and recommended best practices.

There is a lot to learn, so let's get started!


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Instructor Details

Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan is a cloud architect, systems developer, and author of the Official Google Cloud Professional Architect Study Guide, the Official Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Study Guide, and the Official Google Cloud Associate Engineer Study Guide.

He is an experienced trainer and his online training courses have been viewed over 1 million times. Dan has extensive experience in multiple fields, including cloud architecture,  data architecture and modeling, machine learning, data science, and streaming analytics.


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Reviews

4.5

12,149 ratings on Udemy

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By Dereje Abebe on 6/9/2025

A wonderful class, but it needs a bit more explanation for the quiz answers. The explanations are very brief and do not provide enough insight into why the wrong answers are incorrect. At times, it even requires you to look for explanations outside of Udemy. However the questions are a good quality and almost all of them are unique to this class.

By Jonathan Pinto de Moraes on 11/12/2024

Dan is an awesome instructor and the level of details that he shares with us makes a great difference in our learning journey. I have just passed this exam yesterday and this course along with Dan's book, were very important for my success!!!

By ZHIWEI LUO on 1/11/2024

Great course. It meets my expectations in general. The topic coverage is sufficient. However, some of the examples could have gone deeper instead of "just stopping here". There are obvious technical issues with some of the video recordings that affect their quality, such as sound back-feed from the mic, inconsistent volume levels, and there was a video whose content did not match the title. In addition, many of the videos were not recorded in 1080p HD, though it was still clear enough to see what was on the screen. I would recommend the course but hopefully, the technical issues of the course can improve soon.

By Anonymized User on 10/20/2023

Good overall, and I did pass the exam. There are some production issues that should be addressed, though. The "58. Introduction to Cloud Run" content is incorrectly an exact repeat of the earlier cloud functions content. "65. Introduction to Cloud Storage" needs audio editing very badly. Also, many of the presentations only use audio from right or left and not both.

By Ángel Abraham Guillermo Mondragón Calder on 5/6/2023

Pass the exam!! Thanks a lot for this course. The way the instructor teaches is great cuz he goes straight to the point, so if you dont have a lot of time to take another courses that has more than 8 hours of video I recommend this one. Sometimes I wished a little more detailed information but it is still a good course to take in 05/2023, it would be fine a quickly updated video about preemtible instances that now are called spot VMs. 100% Recommended!!

By Anonymized User on 6/7/2021

Great course to start with Google cloud platform. Please add more content about choosing instance types (resident type) and real time scenarios like in final test. Thank you very much for your course. it helped me a lot :)

By Jason Araos on 4/3/2021

This is a really really nice cource. I've learned a lot of GCP. Taking notes is a must because you know that this course is just the beginning of your preparation for doing the ACE exam. But again it's a must. And the final exam mock is pretty good. Thank you so much.

By Ravi Vishwakarma on 3/25/2021

Exam strategies and tips are probably the best part of this course. The course mainly covers "How to clear GCP ACE exam?" and it covers this very well. But this course is not for someone looking to learng GCP from scratch as this course covers everything briefly and nothing is covered in-depth. It's a good course if you've already taken some other in-depth courses and just looking to quickly revisit concepts before taking exam.

By Anonymized User on 11/2/2020

This course clears your basic foundational concepts to clear the ACE exam. Once this course is completed you may want to practice a lot on portals like whiz labs, Udemy beta assessments etc., 4 days before my Associate Cloud Engineer exam, I have again gone through the entire course and added few more points to my existing notes which cleared my concepts in depth. I have successfully cleared the GCP ACE exam!

By Gabriel Garoz on 5/10/2020

I'm a passionate about the human brain and I want to improve my own so I really enjoyed this course. I appreciate the effort the instructor has put into the videos to make them fun, entertaining, well explained and of course educational. Thanks a lot!

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