ACE case studies
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The Associate Cloud Engineer credential is Google Cloud's foundational certification for practitioners who deploy and secure applications, services, and infrastructure, monitor operations across multiple projects, and maintain enterprise solutions against performance targets. It suits people with experience in public cloud or on-premises environments who can perform common platform-based tasks, including work supported by AI tooling, to keep one or more deployed solutions running and scaling on Google-managed or self-managed services. The ACE case studies are 5 cases and about 1,883 words.
1Shared VPC for a Regulated Data Team
Your company runs a single GCP organization with folders for Platform, Analytics, and Payments. The Payments team must launch workloads into a network owned by the Platform team, but should not be able to change firewall rules, subnets, or routes.
424 words, about 2 min2Choosing a Compute Platform Under a Hard Deadline
A retail company needs to migrate a Java order service to Google Cloud within 6 weeks. The service currently runs on 8 VMs, handles bursty traffic (5x spikes during sales), and writes to a local PostgreSQL database.
391 words, about 2 min3Cost Spike After an Autoscaler Change
An online ticketing platform runs on a managed instance group with autoscaling. Last month's bill jumped 40%.
360 words, about 2 min4Cross-Project Access for a Contractor
A contractor needs read access to Cloud Storage objects in a single bucket for 3 months. The bucket is in project data-prod , which also contains other buckets holding customer PII.
347 words, about 2 min5Folder Policy Blocking a Legitimate Deployment
An organization enforces an organization policy that disables external IP addresses on Compute Engine instances at the organization node. A new data-science team in the research folder needs to run a batch job that pulls data from a third-party API over the internet.
361 words, about 2 min