Complete Google ACE study guide — deploying, monitoring, and managing Google Cloud applications and infrastructure.
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101 chapters covering every exam objective. Each chapter includes key concepts, exam tips, common traps, comparison tables, and a 5-question quiz at the end.
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Google Cloud Platform Overview
Objective 1.1 · Cloud Infrastructure
Google Compute Engine
Objective 1.2 · Cloud Infrastructure
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Objective 1.3 · Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Run and App Engine
Objective 1.4 · Cloud Infrastructure
GCP Projects, Folders, and Organizations
Objective 1.1
Compute Engine Machine Types and Families
Objective 1.2
Persistent Disk Types: SSD, Balanced, Standard
Objective 1.2
GCP Resource Hierarchy: Org, Folder, Project
Objective 1.1
Compute Engine Snapshots and Custom Images
Objective 1.2
Instance Templates and Managed Instance Groups
Objective 1.2
Sole-Tenant Nodes for Compliance
Objective 1.2
Preemptible and Spot VMs on GCP
Objective 1.2
Multi-Tenancy Patterns on GCP
Objective 1.1
21 chapters
GCP VPC and Networking
Objective 2.1 · Planning Solutions
GCP Storage Solutions
Objective 2.2 · Planning Solutions
GCP Database Services
Objective 2.3 · Planning Solutions
Cloud Load Balancing Types
Objective 2.1
Cloud CDN and Cloud NAT
Objective 2.1
Cloud Firestore and Datastore
Objective 2.3
Cloud Spanner
Objective 2.3
Cloud Bigtable
Objective 2.3
Cloud SQL Failover Replicas and HA
Objective 2.3
Cloud Storage Classes and Lifecycle Rules
Objective 2.2
Shared VPC for Multi-Project Networking
Objective 2.1
VPC Peering vs Shared VPC
Objective 2.1
Private Google Access and Private Service Access
Objective 2.1
Cloud DNS Private Zones and Forwarding
Objective 2.1
Dedicated Interconnect and Partner Interconnect
Objective 2.1
Cloud Storage Lifecycle Rules
Objective 2.2
Cloud Storage Retention Policies and Locks
Objective 2.2
Filestore for Managed NFS
Objective 2.2
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Objective 2.3
Cloud Memorystore for Redis and Memcached
Objective 2.3
Cloud Spanner Replication and TrueTime
Objective 2.3
23 chapters
Deployment Manager and Terraform on GCP
Objective 3.1 · Deploy Implement
Cloud Build and CI/CD on GCP
Objective 3.2 · Deploy Implement
BigQuery and Pub/Sub
Objective 3.3 · Deploy Implement
Cloud Pub/Sub Patterns
Objective 3.3
Cloud Dataflow for Stream and Batch
Objective 3.3
Cloud Functions (1st and 2nd Gen)
Objective 3.1
Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Tasks
Objective 3.1
App Engine Standard vs Flexible
Objective 3.1
GKE Autopilot vs Standard Mode
Objective 3.1
GKE Node Pools and Cluster Autoscaler
Objective 3.1
Cloud Build Triggers and CI/CD
Objective 3.2
Artifact Registry and Container Management
Objective 3.2
GKE Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
Objective 3.1
Cloud Run Jobs
Objective 3.1
BigQuery Partitioning and Clustering
Objective 3.3
BigQuery Views and Materialized Views
Objective 3.3
Pub/Sub Push vs Pull Subscriptions
Objective 3.3
Cloud Dataproc for Spark and Hadoop
Objective 3.3
Cloud Composer for Workflow Orchestration
Objective 3.3
Terraform on GCP Best Practices
Objective 3.1
Helm Charts on GKE
Objective 3.2
Google Cloud Deploy for CD
Objective 3.2
Skaffold for Local GKE Development
Objective 3.2
16 chapters
Cloud Monitoring and Logging
Objective 4.1 · Ensure Success
GCP Cost Management
Objective 4.2 · Ensure Success
Cloud Monitoring and Uptime Checks
Objective 4.1
Cloud Logging Exports and Log Sinks
Objective 4.1
GCP Billing Accounts, Budgets, and Alerts
Objective 4.2
GCP Quotas and Resource Limits
Objective 4.2
GCP Labels and Resource Tags
Objective 4.2
Network Intelligence Center
Objective 4.1
Packet Mirroring and Traffic Analysis
Objective 4.1
Cloud Profiler for Performance Optimisation
Objective 4.1
Cloud Debugger and Error Reporting
Objective 4.1
Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)
Objective 4.2
Sustained Use Discounts (SUDs)
Objective 4.2
Billing Reports and Cost Tables
Objective 4.2
Cloud Trace for Latency Analysis
Objective 4.1
Billing Data Export to BigQuery
Objective 4.2
28 chapters
GCP IAM and Service Accounts
Objective 5.1 · Security Compliance
GCP Security Services
Objective 5.2 · Security Compliance
GCP IAM Roles: Primitive, Predefined, Custom
Objective 5.1
GCP Service Accounts and Workload Identity
Objective 5.1
VPC Service Controls
Objective 5.2
Cloud Armor WAF and DDoS Protection
Objective 5.2
GCP Organization Policies
Objective 5.1
Confidential Computing on GCP
Objective 5.2
GKE Workload Identity
Objective 5.1
GKE Binary Authorization
Objective 5.2
GKE Private Clusters
Objective 5.2
Cloud Run VPC Connector
Objective 5.2
App Engine Security and IAP
Objective 5.2
Cloud Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
Objective 5.2
Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API
Objective 5.2
Cloud KMS and Customer-Managed Keys
Objective 5.2
Cloud HSM for Hardware Security
Objective 5.2
Secret Manager for Credentials
Objective 5.1
Binary Authorization for Supply Chain Security
Objective 5.2
Cloud Asset Inventory
Objective 5.1
Security Command Center (SCC)
Objective 5.2
Security Command Center Premium Findings
Objective 5.2
Access Transparency and Access Approval
Objective 5.1
Cloud Storage Bucket Security
Objective 5.2
BigQuery Authorized Views for Access Control
Objective 5.1
Service Account Key Management
Objective 5.1
Policy Intelligence and IAM Recommender
Objective 5.1
IAM Audit Logging and Data Access Logs
Objective 5.1
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