ACE-Associate case studies
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The Associate Cloud Engineer certification is Google Cloud's foundational credential for practitioners who deploy and secure applications, services, and infrastructure, monitor operations across multiple projects, and maintain enterprise solutions against target performance metrics. Google describes the typical candidate as someone with experience on public clouds or on-premises systems who can perform common platform-based tasks, supported by AI tooling, to maintain and scale solutions built on Google-managed or self-managed services. The ACE-Associate case studies are 5 cases and about 1,837 words.
1Shared VPC Onboarding Under a Hard Deadline
Your organization has a host project net-host-prod with a Shared VPC already attached to two service projects. A new analytics team needs its own service project analytics-prod to launch 40 Compute Engine VMs into two subnets of the host VPC.
386 words, about 2 min2Cost Spike on a Batch Pipeline
A nightly batch job runs on a managed instance group of 20 n2-standard-8 VMs, processing files for about 90 minutes starting at 02:00. Last month's bill shows the MIG running 24/7 because the autoscaler min size was left at 20.
370 words, about 2 min3Intermittent 503s Behind a Load Balancer
An HTTP(S) load balancer fronts a regional managed instance group of 6 VMs running a Java service. Users report intermittent 503s during traffic peaks.
334 words, about 2 min4Cross-Project Data Access for a Contractor
A contractor from a partner company needs read access to objects in gs://acme-reports-prod for a 30-day engagement. Their identity is [email protected] in the partner's Google Workspace domain, which is not in your organization.
324 words, about 2 min5Org Policy Blocks a Legitimate Deployment
A team is deploying a new service to project svc-payments-prod under folder prod-payments . The deployment fails with an org policy violation: constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess is enforced to deny all external IPs at the organization node.
423 words, about 2 min