Preface

Welcome to Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification and Implementation Guide. This book is designed to help you prepare for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) certification exam and teach you how to implement Google Cloud solutions in real life.

We both took the ACE exam, and we found it to be very hands-on and practical. There were a few theoretical questions, and all of the questions required us to have hands-on experience with Google Cloud. This made the exam very challenging, but it was also very rewarding.

We hope that you find this book helpful in your preparation for the ACE exam. We also hope that you find the knowledge that you learn in this book to be rewarding and useful in your work with Google Cloud.

We also know that you might be at the very beginning of your cloud journey or very experienced with the cloud. Therefore, we start with an overview of the technology and service first and then move on to practical implementation. This should give you confidence and experience with Google Cloud and prepare you well to face the ACE exam.

We hope you will enjoy reading the book as much as we enjoyed writing it for you while exploring and having fun with Google Cloud services.

You can connect with us, as well as other like-minded professionals, on this Slack channel – bit.ly/ace-gcp-book-slack.