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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer - Google Cloud Certification

Name: GCP Associate Cloud Engineer - Google Cloud Certification
Rating: 4.6 (37475 reviews)

[2026 Update] GCP ACE - Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Begin your Google Cloud Platform journey!

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Created byin28Minutes Official, Ranga Karanam | GCP Certification - Google Cloud Engineer & Architect

Last updated 6/2026

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What you'll learn

Start your journey to become a Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
Get hands-on with compute, networking, storage, and database services in Google Cloud Platform
Understand how to engineer and deploy secure and robust applications on Google Cloud Platform
Understand the best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the Google Cloud Platform

Course content

46 sections • 384 lectures • 25h 36m total length

Step 01 - Introduction - Google Cloud Platform - GCP - Associate Cloud Engineer3:58
Gain a 10,000-foot view of Google Cloud Platform and the Associate Cloud Engineer cert, highlighting the service landscape and the course’s presentations, demos, and text and video quizzes.
Course Overview - Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification3:54
Get an overview of the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Cover Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, storage, Cloud KMS encryption, IAM, and exam readiness.
DO NOT SKIP - Course Downloads - PDF Presentation0:10
About Your Course Instructor0:24

Step 01 Getting Started with Cloud Fundamentals2:00
Understand why enterprises and startups move from data centers to the cloud and learn the cloud's advantages with step-by-step visuals and real enterprise scenarios.
Step 02 Why Do Enterprises Need Thousands of Servers5:30
Understand why enterprises need thousands of servers, illustrated by in28minutes' browser and server interactions, and how avoiding a single point of failure leads to data center-based, scalable infrastructure.
Step 03 What Are The Challenges With Managing Data Centers8:55
Explore how data centers house thousands of servers with power, cooling, networking, and security, and why high upfront costs push enterprises toward cloud to reduce latency and expand globally.
Step 04 What is the Cloud4:00
Explore how cloud computing turns infrastructure into rentable resources, delivering on-demand access, elasticity, and pay as you go pricing from providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Step 05 What are the Advantages of Cloud8:29
Discover the advantages of cloud computing, including pay-for-use, a capex-to-opex shift, economies of scale, and elasticity, enabling global deployment and increased speed while avoiding undifferentiated heavy lifting.
Step 06 Cloud Key Terminology to Remember4:32
Discover cloud terminology like elasticity, agility, global reach, availability, latency, and cost models from CapEx to opex, pay as you go, economies of scale, and avoiding undifferentiated heavy lifting.
Step 07 Cloud Concepts A Few Scenarios3:29
Explore elastic cloud concepts, pay-as-you-go economics, and rapid agility through real scenarios. Identify high availability, geo distribution, low latency, economies of scale, and avoiding undifferentiated heavy lifting.
Step 08 Google Cloud An Introduction3:01
Explore Google Cloud's private fiber network and its secure data transit. Learn about Google's data and AI leadership and the service catalog across compute, storage, databases, analytics, and machine learning.
Step 09 What is The Best Way To Learn Cloud1:55
Discover a step-by-step path to learning cloud services with a practical gateway: create a cloud account to access global regions, deploy resources, and use free credits for beginners.
Creating GCP - Google Cloud Platform V22:21
Create a Google Cloud account and start a free trial with $300 credit by entering personal and payment details, verifying your mobile number, and following the signup steps on cloud.google.com.
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Section Presentation0:16

Step 01 What is a Region5:22
Explore how regions and availability zones create low latency and high availability by distributing data centers across multiple regions, enabling global deployment with cloud providers.
Step 02 Choosing The Right Region Factors2:18
Assess compliance requirements, data locality laws, latency to users, service availability in the region, and pricing before deploying your application to the right cloud region.
Step 03 Why Use Multiple Regions1:53
Deploy your applications across multiple regions to reduce latency, expand globally, meet data residency requirements, and improve availability and disaster recovery.
Step 04 What is a Zone or Availability Zone2:47
Explore how zones enable high availability within a single region by deploying across Zone A, Zone B, and Zone C in London region. Each zone has independent power and connectivity.
Step 05 Region and Zones A Review with Misconceptions and Scenarios4:57
Understand how regions and zones enable disaster recovery, low latency, and data residency, and when to deploy across multiple zones or regions for high availability.
Step 06 Google Cloud Exploring Regions and Zones1:53
Discover how Google Cloud regions and availability zones are named and organized, and learn to deploy across multiple zones and regions for higher availability.
Section Quiz
About Your Instructor1:53
Meet the instructor for this course, Ranga Karanam, founder of in28minutes, who brings decades of programming with Java, Python, and JavaScript, and cloud certifications on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Section Presentation0:16

Step 01 - Getting Started – What is Virtualization1:35
Step 02 - What is Virtualization4:06
Step 03 - How To Create Virtual Machines in the Cloud3:25
Prepare for the Next Step0:12
Step 04 - Creating Your First VM using Compute Engine [DEMO] 200020100111:04
Step 05 - Getting Started with Compute Engine2:40
Step 06 - Choosing VM Hardware and OS - Machine Family, Machine Type and Imag7:10
Prepare for the Next Step0:51
Step 07 - Compute Engine Hands on - Setting up a HTTP server [DEMO] 200020101112:04
Step 08 - GCE Troubleshooting - Setting up a HTTP server [DEMO] 20002010214:31
Step 09 - Google Compute Engine - Scenarios2:09
Step 10 - IP Addresses - Virtual Machines4:55
Step 11 - IP Addresses - Virtual Machines [DEMO] 20002010316:45
Step 12 - Compute Engine IP Addresses - Scenarios3:44
Step 13 - Bootstrapping with VM Startup Script2:58
Prepare for the Next Steps0:15
Step 14 - Bootstrapping with VM Startup Script [DEMO] 20002010414:14
Step 15 - Reducing Launch Time with VM Custom Image2:45
Step 16 - Reducing Launch Time with VM Custom Image [DEMO] 20002010517:42
Step 17 - Reusable VM Configuration with Instance Templates2:24
Step 18 - Reusable VM Configuration with Instance Templates [DEMO] 20002010615:03
Step 19 - Compute Engine - Launching VM - Scenarios2:27
Step 20 - Google Cloud - Exploring All Services and Set Budget [DEMO] 20002010666:19
Step 21 - Reducing Costs - Compute Engine Virtual Machines2:57
Step 22 - Getting Started with Sustained Use Discounts1:53
Step 23 - Getting Started with Committed Use Discounts1:56
Step 24 - Getting Started with Spot VMs2:42
Step 25 - Exploring Committed Use Discounts and Spot VMs [DEMO] 20002010715:09
Step 26 - Google Compute Engine - Understanding Billing and Costs1:40
Step 27 - Virtual Machines Cost Optimization - Scenarios2:00
Step 28 - Compute Engine - Getting Started with Observability4:21
Step 29 - Exploring Compute Engine Observability [DEMO] 20002010812:17
Step 30 - Exploring Scope of Compute Engine Resources2:52
Step 31 - GCE VMs - What is Internal DNS Name3:21
Step 32 - Licensing Costs for VM OS2:25
Step 33 - Compute Engine Features - Custom Machine Types2:03
Step 34 - What Are Sole tenant Nodes4:49
Step 35 - Compute Engine - How to Enable Live Migration3:26
Step 36 - Cloud Best Practice - Use Labels1:48
Step 37 - Compute Engine - Quick Review2:59
Step 38 - Virtual Machine - Best Practices2:38
Step 39 - Compute Engine Scenarios2:37
Section Quiz 1

Prepare for the Next Steps1:28
Step 01 - Gcloud - Getting Started [CMDLINE] 200039990112:03
Step 02 - Playing with gcloud config set [CMDLINE] 200039991110:41
Step 03 - Gcloud - Managing Multiple Configurations [CMDLINE] 20003999219:38
Step 04 - Understanding gcloud command structure [CMDLINE] 200039993111:02
Step 05 00 - Gcloud - A Few Scenarios [CMDLINE] 20003999412:34
Step 05 01 - Cloud Shell - Key Things to Remember [CMDLINE] 20003999513:26

Requirements

You have an attitude to learn while having fun :)
Zero Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform is expected
Journey to become a Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer is NOT a cake way. You need a lot of patience and dedication!
You would need a valid debit or credit card to create your Google Cloud Platform account

Description

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms. Becoming a Google Cloud (GCP) Certified Associate Cloud Engineer is a perfect approach to begin your Google Cloud journey.

46 sections, 350+ lectures, 25+ hours of amazing content designed for beginners to Google Cloud

Do you need more reasons to enroll in this amazing course on Google Cloud (GCP)?

WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING

5 STARS - I was able to pass the Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification just in 20 days

5 STARS -This is one of the best courses, I studied this course for my Google Cloud Associate Engineer Exam, and Hurray! I Passed. Thank you. This course covers everything related to the exam. All the concepts are explained so well.

5 STARS -Excellent course! The instructor has explained all the important features of GCP which are relevant to the GCP ACE certification. The theory parts are followed by demos and that helps in sticking the concepts to memory.

5 STARS - Passed the exam, thankyou Ranga. The content is amazing and you have taken really good effort to cover all the aspect of the exam. As you said practice with the content is the key to success.

5 STARS - The course is concise yet thorough enough to clear all the concepts and at the end of the chapters, added revision portions helps make sure you remember everything you learned so far. Best course for GCP ACE I've gone across so far.

5 STARS - Excellent Course for GCP Beginners

5 STARS - Easy to understand. It's interactive. Kept me engaged.

5 STARS - Full of fundamental concepts

5 STARS - Great course, I went through other renowned course but this one is best and easy to understand.

5 STARS - I did 40 hours in-person course on GCP and didn't get too much from it, this course is packed with good info and does a great job with pacing and explaining things logically!

Google Cloud certifications help you to validate your expertise with the Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification is an ideal certification to start your cloud journey with Google Cloud. It marks a great stepping stone on the path to achieving Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Developer, and DevOps certifications.

Why should do a Google Cloud Certification?

Here are few results from Google's 2020 Survey:

87% of Google Cloud certified individuals are more confident about their cloud skills
Professional Cloud Architect was the highest paying certification of 2020 (2) and 2019 (3)
More than 1 in 4 of Google Cloud certified individuals took on more responsibility or leadership roles at work

Why should you aim for Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification?

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification is focused on the fundamental skills of deploying, monitoring, and maintaining projects on Google Cloud.
This certification is a good starting point for those new to the cloud and can be used as a path to professional-level certifications.

The Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

Set up a cloud solution environment
Plan and configure a cloud solution
Deploy and implement a cloud solution
Ensure successful operation of a cloud solution
Configure access and security

We have designed this amazing course to help you learn the Compute, Storage, Database, and Networking solutions in Google Cloud (GCP).

Are you ready to get started on the amazing journey to becoming a Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer?

Do you want to join 2 MILLION learners having Amazing Learning Experiences with in28Minutes?

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Who this course is for:

You want to start your Cloud Journey with Google Cloud Platform
You want to become a Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer - Google Cloud Certification

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Course content

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification - Getting Started4 lectures • 8min

Introduction to Cloud and Google Cloud12 lectures • 46min

Google Cloud Regions and Zones8 lectures • 21min

Google Cloud - Managing VMs with Compute Engine42 lectures • 2hr 33min

Google Cloud - Managing VM Groups with Instance Groups4 lectures • 26min

Google Cloud - Going Deeper with Instance Groups3 lectures • 12min

Getting Started with Key Load Balancing Concepts4 lectures • 14min

Getting Started with Cloud Load Balancing3 lectures • 24min

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Getting Started with gcloud [Command Line]7 lectures • 51min

Compute Engine From Command Line5 lectures • 25min

Requirements

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