Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide

by Dan Sullivan

The Only Official Google Cloud Study Guide

The Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide, provides everything you need to prepare for this important exam and master the skills necessary to land that coveted Google Cloud Engineering certification. Beginning with a pre-book assessment quiz to evaluate what you know before you begin, each chapter features exam objectives and review questions, plus the online learning environment includes additional complete practice tests. Written by Dan Sullivan, a popular and experienced online course author for machine learning, big data, and Cloud topics, Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide is your ace in the hole for deploying and managing Google Cloud Services.

Select the right Google service from the various choices based on the application to be built Compute with Cloud VMs and managing VMs Plan and deploying storage Network and configure access and security Google Cloud Platform is a leading public cloud that provides its users to many of the same software, hardware, and networking infrastructure used to power Google services. Businesses, organizations, and individuals can launch servers in minutes, store petabytes of data, and implement global virtual clouds with the Google Cloud Platform. Certified Associate Cloud Engineers have demonstrated the knowledge and skills needed to deploy and operate infrastructure, services, and networks in the Google Cloud. This exam guide is designed to help you understand the Google Cloud Platform in depth so that you can meet the needs of those operating resources in the Google Cloud.

Genres: Technology

925 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2019

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Reviews

[MarsianMan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could use a re-write and some error correction. It's the only official guide and does a decent job covering the topics.

One thing that drove me nuts is that the chapters are organized in a breadth first manner. This means it keeps switching between products which made it hard to remember the details of each product. A depth first dive on products would teach the products with less confusion. Afterall, each context switch to different product is mentally taxing and unnecessary.

[Carlos Herrera · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good content but lots of errors

It’s a really great book for getting a grasp of the GCP. Take it as a first step towards certification (not as the only source of information).
The book has lots of typing errors, and perhaps others are related to the fast way services are updated.

[Hoàng Hưng · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good enough to get me pass the exam, but
GCP information already out-of-date as the time this review be written.

Just use this book for reference how question would be.

[Robert Catalano · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you’re reading this, it’s too late.

June, 2023: I just took the ACE and passed the exam with this being the main material I used to study. It sufficed in terms of covering the concepts - Barely. Unfortunately, it is extremely out of date at this point. Constant references to StackDriver and shell prompts with “beta” in the command can make trying to replicate the labs in current day GCP confusing. Also, there is no mention of the automatic dynamic cluster in GKE that is the default cluster creation option currently in GCP.

I also don’t appreciate the typos (and there are many), especially the one in the quiz answers where the wrong multiple choice option was listed as the correct answer. Dan, please get an editor my guy. Or at least give it a once-over yourself!

Still giving 3 stars because it helped me pass, but it needs some updating and grammatical and spelling fixes as well.

[David Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book to supplement your learning for the ACE certification but suffers a couple of problems. The book is fairly outdated now, with mention to resources in beta (that are no longer in beta) and services which have had their name changes a while back (umsuch as stackdriver being renaming to monitoring). This should be expected as Cloud moves very quickly but what shouldn't be expected is multiple typos throughout the book (most noticeable in code snippets). For an official Google guide I expect better. As such this is a good book for reinforcing content you have already seen but not sufficient by itself for you to pass your certification exam.
Worth pointing out as well that while the questions in the book are designed to reinforce learning and make sure you grasp key concepts, they are not indicative of the questions in the exam as they are completely different (much wordy and focus more on best practices)

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

As others have mentioned, the book is already a bit out of date as Google has changed some names of their products and have brought certain command line tools and commands out of beta. However, it’s not too bad if you just compare against the official documentation AND the publisher’s official errata page. I did notice a couple wrong answers in one review quiz, which I submitted to the publisher for review.

[Ntombizakhona Mabaso · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an excellent resource for preparing for the Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) exam and building solutions on Google Cloud.

Even recommended by Google Cloud itself, it’s a must-read if you’re planning to take the ACE exam.

Perfect for beginners, it not only helps you get started with Google Cloud Platform but also provides a solid foundation in cloud computing overall. A practical and beginner-friendly guide!

[Francois D’Agostini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book. The list of practice tests are a good exercise to do before starting the real exam. They might not be similar to what you will get but they help you identify the "unknowns unknowns" parts of your learning which let you dig deeper some subjects

The chapters are to the point and do not loose themselves in useless information.

Highly recommended

[Hou · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little bit outdated but definitely the best guide to date

[Abhishek]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...#

[Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Significant contribution to me passing my certification

[Henne · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book covers all of the essential content you need which is helpful, but the typos, especially in technical terms and abbreviations, are really annoying and degrade the learning experience. Was this book proofread in any sense before release? It's disappointing that Google felt it was appropriate to call this an official guide.

[فاروق الفرشيشي · Rating 3 out of 5]

That was a bit exhausting. Some material is deprecated, and there's no newer resource which is a bit frustrating because we're talking about an official certification document here. Stackdriver? Workspace? What are those?

Maybe it's a good book to prepare for the certification but it's not enough.

[Kian.ting · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good prep material for the exam, this is the only official prep material I can find for the exam good read, well written. Would be better if there are 2 mock test in the book. That way after finish reading we could do the mock test.

[Jonathan Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

It introduces a lot of topics and is not overly dry, but do not rely on it to pass the test. Make sure you actually try to perform some real world tasks on the platform.

[Manuel Garcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not giving 5 because it's outdated and because sometimes it's unclear or repetitive, but all in all a good reference point.

[null · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! Help me achieve my ACE without being hurt by disparate sources of truth!