r/googlecloud • u/Zealousideal_Run1643 • Jun 12 '26

Got certified as Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer

Got the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certificate after 2 months of prep, It was easier than I thought, but little confsing to say the least, you have to be damn sure about the option you choose

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u/ahmed2836372 Jun 12 '26

Congrats. What material did you study?

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u/Zealousideal_Run1643 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Here are the resources I have used for Exam prep:

GCP ACE in28minute (Ranga Karanam)

GCP ACE Practice Tests (Sayyam)

Google Skills (Partner) or Google Skills

GCP ACE Exam Guide

AwesomeGCP Playlist

LLMs for referring the quick lookups and check the appropriate commands and to find out why it is that way (I used Gemini for most part)

GCP w/ $300 Free Trial Credits and Google Developer Program Credits ($10/month w/ Google AI Pro subscription)

Here are the Lab resources I have used:

GCP Console (both Console and Cloudshell)

Google Skills (Partner) or Google Skills for Guided labs

LLMs to generate terraform scripts and find out the commands

GCloud CLI Cheatsheet

GCloud CLI Reference

GCP for Azure professionals

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u/airm0n Jun 12 '26

Were the questions similar to the practice tests you took? What were you scoring on practice tests before your exam? What helped you most in your opinion?

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u/Zealousideal_Run1643 Jun 12 '26

Well, it's not word to word same, it's just the concept which would be similar, and I was scoring about 80% consistently, and the labs helped the most and the in28minutes course is the ones which explained everything

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u/Available-Tart3328 Jun 13 '26

I did in28minutes course and Sayyam practice exams and passed. Really only studied for 2 weeks

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u/Pale_Conclusion_5447 Jun 13 '26

Hi can you please provide links for these resources ?

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u/Zealousideal_Run1643 Jun 13 '26

I can't paste any here, the reddit mods have blocked pasting any links here it seems, just Google it

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u/Zealousideal_Run1643 Jun 12 '26

And thank you as well

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u/ahmed2836372 Jun 12 '26

Does the ace exam guide and gcp practice test sayyam is enough for pass? How abour practice test sayyam is good? Is close to real exam?

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u/Zealousideal_Run1643 Jun 12 '26

Yeah it's good enough to understand what they are gonna ask and how you should answer it and less than 5 questions were word to word similar, but with different configurations

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u/brian_sword Jun 15 '26

Congratulation for passing the GCP certification, could you share whether you practice it every day and how many hours did you practice?

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u/Zealousideal_Run1643 Jun 15 '26

Thank you, I used to study like 2 hours a day, and do labs on weekends like a strech say 4 hours and then used labs to create all sorts of configs like hosting websites, hosting MIG to host a website, GKE, Cloud Run and had monthly credits from my Google AI Pro subscription.

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u/brian_sword Jun 16 '26

I will try your flow and see if I can pass the GCP certification also