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The Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) exam has 50-60 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions in 2 hours, costs USD 125 plus tax, and has no required prerequisites, though 6+ months of hands-on experience is recommended (checked November 2026). See all the exam facts.

About the exam

Associate Cloud Engineer

Associate Cloud Engineer is a Google Cloud certification for people who deploy applications, monitor operations and manage enterprise solutions on Google Cloud (GCP). It is the hands-on, technical entry point to the Google Cloud engineering track, and it suits cloud engineers, developers, administrators and anyone moving into a cloud operations role. The exam guide groups the content into four sections: setting up a cloud solution environment, planning and implementing a cloud solution, ensuring the successful operation of a cloud solution, and configuring access and security. Most questions describe a team's situation and ask which service, setting or command fits, so you need to know what each product is for and how its settings behave, not only the names.

Our questions are original, written from the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer exam guide and Google Cloud product documentation, and each answer is explained. Studying nearby topics? Try the Google Cloud Digital Leader, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect and Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer free practice tests.

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Exam facts

Associate Cloud Engineer: format, time and fee Last checked November 2026

Exam name: Associate Cloud Engineer (Google Cloud certification). No exam code is published.Google Cloud certification page
Questions: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple select questions (standard exam)Google Cloud certification page
Time: 2 hours (standard exam)Google Cloud certification page
Fee: $125 plus tax where applicable (standard exam)Google Cloud certification page
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, PortugueseGoogle Cloud certification page
Delivery: Online-proctored from a remote location, or onsite-proctored at a testing centerGoogle Cloud certification page
Prerequisites: None; 6+ months of hands-on Google Cloud experience is recommendedGoogle Cloud certification page
Validity: 3 years; renewal through Google Skills or a renewal examGoogle Cloud certification page
Sections: Setting up a cloud solution environment; Planning and implementing a cloud solution; Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution; Configuring access and securityExam guide
Multiple-select share: Some items ask for more than one answer; the split between single-answer and multiple-select items is not published.Not published by Google Cloud
Passing score: Not published.Not published by Google Cloud
Results and retakes: Not published on the certification page; see Google Cloud's exam policies.Not published by Google Cloud
Our practice test: Single-answer questions only, with our own question count, pass mark and timer. These are not Google's settings.This site

Every question here has exactly one correct answer. If the real exam also uses multiple-select or other types, the facts above say so. Confirm current details with Google Cloud before you register.

What to focus on for the Associate Cloud Engineer

Studying only from reading. The exam is built around hands-on work, so try the services in a free project or the console, and run the main gcloud commands yourself.
Mixing up look-alike services, such as Cloud Run versus GKE Autopilot, or Bigtable versus Spanner. Learn the access pattern and scale each one is designed for.
Getting access and security wrong. Predefined versus custom roles, service account impersonation versus keys, and where a policy is attached in the resource hierarchy all come up repeatedly.
Skipping operations. Logging, monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting a failing setup (for example a firewall blocking SSH or a health check) are a large share of the exam.
Work through the Cloud Engineer learning path linked from Google Cloud's certification page, and open a free project to practice what you read.
Take this free practice test one section at a time, read every explanation, then retake your weakest section.

Sample Associate Cloud Engineer practice questions

Three questions pulled straight from the bank, with the answer shown. For the timed, no-peeking version, use the quiz above.

Question 1 · Setting up a cloud solution environment

A team installs the Ops Agent on Compute Engine VMs. Where does the agent send the data it collects?

Both to Cloud Trace for end-to-end latency analysis
Both to a Cloud Storage bucket for long-term archiving
Logs to Cloud Storage and metrics to Cloud Trace for analysis
Logs to Cloud Logging and metrics to Cloud Monitoring

Why: The Ops Agent sends logs to Cloud Logging and metrics to Cloud Monitoring. Cloud Storage, Cloud Trace and swapped destinations are not where the agent sends its data.

Source: Cloud Monitoring, Ops Agent installation

Question 2 · Setting up a cloud solution environment

A team enables Cloud Billing export to BigQuery and expects pricing data from before it was enabled. What happens?

Prior pricing data is added after the first invoice cycle
Pricing data is backfilled once an administrator requests it
Pricing data from before export was enabled is missing
Pricing data back to the account's creation is backfilled

Why: Pricing data is not added retroactively, so you won't see pricing data from before you enable export. That is why enabling the export early is recommended.

Source: Cloud Billing, export to BigQuery

Question 3 · Planning and implementing a cloud solution

After installing the gcloud CLI, an engineer runs kubectl against a GKE cluster and authentication fails. Which component must be installed for kubectl to work with GKE?

The OS Config agent, installed on the cluster control plane
The gke-gcloud-auth-plugin, installed alongside the gcloud CLI
The Ops Agent, installed on every node in the cluster
The Cloud SQL Auth Proxy, run next to the engineer's shell

Why: You must install the gke-gcloud-auth-plugin to use kubectl and other clients with GKE. The other agents handle monitoring, database connections and VM patching.

Source: GKE, configure cluster access for kubectl

FAQ

Associate Cloud Engineer questions, answered

How much does the exam cost and how do I register?

Google Cloud lists the fee as $125 plus tax where applicable for the standard exam. Registration and the current price are on the Google Cloud certification page (checked November 2026), so confirm there before you book. Google Cloud certification page.

Is this the real exam?

No. This is a free mock test made of original questions we wrote from Google Cloud's public documentation. It is not the real exam, it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google Cloud, and it cannot promise a pass.

Does the real exam have questions with more than one correct answer?

Yes. Google's certification page says the exam has multiple choice and multiple select questions and does not publish how many of each. Every question here has exactly one correct answer, so the real exam differs in that respect.

Is the timed test the same as the real Associate Cloud Engineer exam?

No. Ours has 50 questions in 120 minutes, all single-answer, with a 70% practice pass mark we chose ourselves. Google Cloud's own format is in the exam facts.

How should I use this Associate Cloud Engineer practice test?

Start with quick practice and read every explanation, including for the answers you got right. Then check Where you stand to find your weakest section, practice it again, and finish with a timed test.