Associate Cloud Engineer exam map

The exam at a glance

Questions: 50-60
Time: 120 min
Sections: 5
Objectives: 75

This map is built from Google's Associate Cloud Engineer exam guide (retrieved 2026-09-22) and from this hive's own contents. Google publishes no exam code, no guide version and no passing score for this certification; "GCP-ACE" is this hive's internal label, not Google's.

The exam, as Google publishes it

Format: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple select questions
Time: 120 minutes
Validity: 3 years
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese
Passing score: not published by Google

Sections and weights

Google attaches an approximate percentage to each section and to nothing below it. The counts are this hive's.

Section	Title	Weight (Google, approx.)	Topics	Objectives	Bank questions	Flashcards	Seats per mock
Unit 1	Setting up a cloud solution environment	~20%	2	11	97	55	11
Unit 2	Planning and configuring a cloud solution	~17.5%	3	7	82	35	9
Unit 3	Deploying and implementing a cloud solution	~25%	6	16	121	80	13
Unit 4	Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution	~20%	6	33	103	165	11
Unit 5	Configuring access and security	~17.5%	2	8	87	40	10

How this hive is organised

A lecture deck for every topic — 19 decks, one per topic in the exam guide, each teaching every objective under it. Every factual claim on a slide is pinned to an exact excerpt from an official Google Cloud page.
490 practice questions, each citing the Google Cloud documentation page its answer comes from, with the supporting quote recorded.
8 blueprint-weighted mock exams of 54 questions, dealt in proportion to the section weights (11/9/13/11/10 seats per section). No question appears in more than one mock.
375 flashcards, one collection per objective, each card traceable to Google's documentation.
A study guide per topic (below): the topic's lecture in reading form.

Names in the exam guide that Google has since changed

The exam guide still uses these names, so expect them on the exam. Google's current documentation uses the second column, and the decks teach both.

The exam guide says	Google's documentation now	Taught in
Google Cloud's operations suite	Google Cloud Observability	Unit 1 Topic 1
Cloud Functions	Cloud Run functions	Unit 2 Topic 1, Unit 3 Topic 3
Persistent Disk	still available; Google now recommends Hyperdisk	Unit 2 Topic 2
availability policy	host maintenance policy	Unit 3 Topic 1
private clusters	private nodes	Unit 3 Topic 2
GKE Enterprise	folded into standard GKE — no separate edition	Unit 3 Topic 2
Container Registry	Artifact Registry — Container Registry was shut down for writes on 18 March 2025	Unit 3 Topic 2
Cloud Run for Anthos	Knative serving	Unit 3 Topic 3
gsutil	gcloud storage — Google calls gsutil legacy	Unit 3 Topic 4
Cloud Foundation Toolkit	Google's Terraform blueprints and modules	Unit 3 Topic 6
log analytics	Observability Analytics	Unit 4 Topic 6
basic roles	Google now calls Owner, Editor and Viewer legacy basic roles	Unit 5 Topic 1