Preparing for Your
Associate Cloud
Engineer Journey
Introduction
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Course agenda
0 Introduction
1 Setting Up a Cloud Solution Environment
2 Planning and Configuring a Cloud Solution
3 Deploying and Implementing a Cloud Solution
4 Ensuring Successful Operation of a Cloud Solution
5 Configuring Access and Security
6 Your Next Steps
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Module 01 What is the role of an Associate Cloud Engineer?
02
agenda Resources to support your certification journey
03 Creating your study plan
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What is the role of an
Associate Cloud Engineer?
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What is the role of an Associate Cloud Engineer?
An Associate Cloud Engineer deploys and secures
applications and infrastructure, monitors operations
of multiple projects, and maintains enterprise solutions
to ensure that they meet target performance metrics.
This individual has experience working with public
clouds and on-premises solutions. They are able to use
Google Cloud Console and the command-line
interface to perform common platform-based tasks to
maintain and scale one or more deployed solutions
that leverage Google-managed or self-managed
services on Google Cloud.
Digitally Transforming
An established national retailer
selling groceries, beauty and health
products as well as clothing and
accessories.
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Migrating applications to Google Cloud
Ecommerce Transportation Management Supply Chain
Cymbal Superstore has an existing web Delivery services is becoming an Cymbal Superstore has decided to
application that provides an interface important aspect of Cymbal migrate their legacy supply chain
for customers to look at and order Superstore’s customer interactions. application to the cloud
products Cymbal Superstore would like to use
Google Services to keep track of truck
location
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Why become Google certified?
Gain industry recognition!
Validate your technical expertise!
Take your career to the next level!
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This is where you
will spend your time
What is the Technical
requirements
Customer
Implementation
difference Associate
Cloud Engineer
Build
Deploy
Manage
between
Associate and Business Technical Customer
requirements requirements Implementation
Professional Professional Level
Certification
Design
Plan
Build
Deploy
Ensure feasibility Manage
certification? Optimize
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Understand the scope of the
exam based on the Associate
Cloud Engineer Exam Guide.
[Link]
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Resources to support
your certification
journey
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Courses and skill badges in the learning path
Courses
1 Day 3 Days 1 Day 2 Days 1 Day
Google Cloud Architecting Getting Started Logging, Getting Started
Fundamentals: with Google with Google Monitoring and with Terraform for
Core Infrastructure Compute Engine Kubernetes Engine Observability in Google Cloud
Google Cloud
Essential Google Cloud Logging and
Infrastructure: Monitoring in Google
Foundation Cloud
Essential Google Cloud Observability in Google
Infrastructure: Core Cloud
Services
Elastic Google Cloud
Infrastructure: Scaling
and Automation
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Courses and skill badges in the learning path
Skill badges
4 Hours 4 Hours 6 Hours 5 Hours
Implement Load Balancing on Set Up an App Dev Develop your Google Cloud Build Infrastructure with
Compute Engine Environment on Google Cloud Network Terraform on Google Cloud
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Sample questions
You have a project using BigQuery. You want to list all
BigQuery jobs for that project. You want to set this project
as the default for the bq command-line tool.
What should you do?
A. Use gcloud config set project to set the default project.
B. Use bq config set project to set the default project.
C. Use gcloud generate config-url to generate a URL to the
Cloud Console to set the default project.
D. Use bq generate config-url to generate a URL to the
Cloud Console to set the default project.
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Product
Documentation
Google supplies official public
documentation for its products
and services.
[Link]
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Creating
your study plan
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Diagnostic
questions:
Identify areas you need
to study and resources
to support you
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Locate
resources:
Take notes in your
workbook on the
resources and
documentation to fill
your gaps
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Use the
workbook:
Plan your study for
each week in the journey
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Let’s start on your
Associate Cloud
Engineer journey.
