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4. Tips & Best Practices for
Preparing for the
Associate Cloud Engineer
Exam
Dan Sullivan
June 20, 2020

5. Thank You

6. About me ...
● Author of Google Cloud official study guides
○ Cloud and database architect
○ Data science and machine learning
○ About 6 years of experience with Google Cloud
● I am not
○ Employed by Google
○ A contributor to certification exam development
● Connect or follow me on LinkedIn
○ linkedin.com/in/dansullivanpdx/

7. Agenda
● Overview of Google Cloud Certification Exams
● How to Get Started with Google Cloud
● Study Strategies and Tips
● How to Read and Analyze Questions
● Q & A
● Topic Review
○ Compute Services
○ Storage Services
○ Identity and Access Management (IAM)
○ Essential Services
○ Networking
○ Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing

8. Introduction to Google Cloud Exams

9. Customer
Implementation
Technical
requirements
Business
requirements
Technical
requirements
Customer
Implementation
Professional
Certification
Scope of GCP Certifications
Associate
Cloud Engineer
Professional Level
Certification
Technical
requirements
Business
requirements
Design
Plan
Ensure Feasibility
Optimize
Build
Deploy
Manage
Customer
Implementation
Build
Deploy
Manage
Technical
requirements
Build
Deploy
Manage

10. Exams are not Real Life

11. Exams are not Real Life

12. One Way to Pass, Two Ways to Fail

13. One Way to Pass, Two Ways to Fail
Know Your Stuff

14. One Way to Pass, Two Ways to Fail
Know Your Stuff
Don’t Know Your
Stuff

15. One Way to Pass, Two Ways to Fail
Know Your Stuff
Highly Unlikely
Don’t Know Your
Stuff

16. One Way to Pass, Two Ways to Fail
Know Your Stuff
Highly Unlikely
Don’t Know Your
Know Your Stuff but
Fail

17. How to Get Started

18. $300 Credit & Free Tier cloud.google.com/free

19. Exam Guide cloud.google.com/certification/guides/cloud-engineer

20. Cousera Course
coursera.org/learn/preparing-cloud-associate-cloud-engineer-exam

21. Udemy Course
udemy.com/course/google-certified-associate-cloud-engineer-2019-prep-course/

22. DanSullivanLearning.com

23. Study Strategies and Tips

24. 1. Study Strategy
● Follow Certification Exam Guide
○ High level domains & detailed tasks
○ cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-engineer
● Take Practice Exam
○ Good assessment, actual test is more difficult
● Identify weakest areas
○ We often focus on some, not all domains in our work
○ You will be tested on all domains
● Perform tasks using Cloud Console and Cloud Shell

25. 2. Exam Taking Strategy
● Timed test, know your remaining time
○ 50 multiple choice questions
○ 2 hours
○ Mark questions for review
● Read questions carefully
○ Identify key services and software
○ Identify technical requirements
● Focus on how to choose between likely options or near misses

26. Identity & Access Management
(IAM)
● Understand roles and permissions
● Review primitive roles
● When to use custom roles
● Know types of identities
● VPC
● Subents
● CIDR blocks
● Firewall rules
● DNS
● Hybrid cloud
Networking
3. What You Need to Know

27. Services to Know in Depth
● Compute
○ Compute Engine
○ App Engine
○ Kubernetes Engine
○ Cloud Functions
○ Cloud Run
○ Anthos
● Storage
○ Cloud Storage
○ BigQuery
● Cloud Pub/Sub
● Stackdriver

28. How to choose between ...
● Cloud SQL
● Cloud Spanner
● Cloud Datastore
● Cloud Bigtable
● BiqQuery
● Cloud Storage
When to use ...
● Cloud Dataproc
● Cloud Dataflow
● Dataprep
● Datalab
● Deployment Manager
● Developer Services
○ Cloud Source Repository
○ Container Builder

29. How to Read and Analyze Exam Questions

50. Q & A

51. Thanks!
Q&A
Dan Sullivan
author of the official Google Cloud Study Guides
Cloud Architect and Data Scientist

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