The exam
Associate Cloud Engineer validates a candidate's ability to deploy and secure applications, services, and infrastructure, monitor the operations of multiple projects, and maintain enterprise solutions to meet target performance metrics. It covers setting up a cloud solution environment, planning and implementing a cloud solution, ensuring the successful operation of a cloud solution, and configuring access and security.
Who it is for
The target candidate has experience working with public clouds or on-premises solutions and is able to perform common platform-based tasks, supported by AI tooling, to maintain and scale one or more deployed solutions that leverage Google-managed or self-managed services on Google Cloud. Google recommends 6+ months of hands-on experience with Google Cloud before attempting the exam.
What it covers
Your readiness map in the app is organised the same way, so what you see here is exactly what you study against.
What Preppio gives you
Across every domain above, in 5 formats: concept, scenario, ordering, multi-select, matching. Each one explains why the right answer is right and every distractor wrong.
Per domain, whether you are ready, weak, or not started — the same domains and weights as the exam itself.
Your study partner. He tracks where you are weak and drills exactly that, instead of serving you what you already know.
Try one
Answer on the page. The explanation appears when you submit; use Next to move through the formats.
Sample 1 · Concept
Your team needs to run a stateless HTTP API that receives fewer than 50 requests per day, with occasional bursts to a few hundred requests during business events. You want the service to scale to zero when idle to avoid paying for idle capacity. What should you do?
Pick one, then submit.
Study links
FAQ
60 questions in 120 minutes.
70%, a scaled score of 700.
4 domains, weighted as the exam weights them: Setting up a cloud solution environment (20%), Planning and implementing a cloud solution (30%), Ensuring the successful operation of a cloud solution (30%) and Configuring access and security (20%). Your readiness map in the app is organised by the same domains, so what you study against is what the exam tests.
Five formats: concept, scenario, ordering, multi-select and matching. The practice questions use every one of them, and the sample on this page shows one of each.
ACE is on the Single, Dual and All Access plans. You start on the free tier and add it from the plan picker inside the app. Three fundamentals exams (AZ-900, CLF-C02 and CDL) are always free, and the sample on this page is free to try.
Every question is generated from the exam's published objectives, then checked for accuracy, answer key and explanation before it is served. Nothing is copied from any exam, questions rotate by how often they have been seen, and they are retired when the objectives change.
