Google Cloud アソシエイトクラウドエンジニア
ACE
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer（ACE）対策として、Google Cloud上のワークロードをデプロイ・運用・トラブルシュートするシナリオ問題を中心に学習できます。コンピュート、ストレージ、ネットワーク、IAM、運用全体で、セキュアかつ安定した構成判断を重視しています。単なる用語暗記ではなく、適切なサービス選定、手順適用、運用課題の解決力を高める問題セットです。
50–60
120 分
70/ 100
当サービス独自の基準です（主催元は非公開）
680+
対象者
Google Cloud環境を扱うクラウド管理者、プラットフォームエンジニア、DevOps担当者、ジュニア〜ミドル層エンジニアを主対象としています。クラウド基礎から実運用ロールへ移行したい学習者にも適しています。デプロイ、アクセス制御、Day-2運用を担うチームに特に有効です。
前提条件
厳密な前提資格はありませんが、Compute Engine、Cloud Storage、VPC、IAM、Cloud SQL、GKE基礎、Cloud Logging/Monitoring など主要Google Cloudサービスの実務的理解が推奨されます。コンソール/CLI操作、ID・ネットワーク境界、基本的なトラブルシュート思考に慣れていることが重要です。Linux基礎、ネットワーク基礎、インフラ自動化の知識があると準備効率が大きく向上します。
問題形式
言語と認定範囲
公式試験の対応言語
PasslyExam対応言語
資格の認定範囲
グローバルに認定され、多くの国で幅広く活用できます。
出題範囲
クラウドソリューション環境の設定
クラウドソリューションの計画と実装
クラウドソリューションの運用の成功の確保
アクセスとセキュリティの設定
推奨学習プラン
- Week 1: Frame your scope around the current four sections (environment setup 20%, planning and implementing 30%, operations 30%, access and security 20%) and map the boundaries between Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Run functions, Cloud Storage, VPC and IAM.
- Week 2: Planning and implementing is the largest section at 30%. Drill compute selection, storage and data product matching, VPC and Cloud NGFW firewall policies, and load balancer choice with 20–30 practice questions a day, classifying misses into service-selection, IAM design and network-boundary errors.
- Week 3: Operations is also 30%. Work hands-on through snapshots and images, GKE node pools and autoscaling, Cloud Run traffic splitting, backup and restore, Cloud Monitoring alerts and audit log configuration (Admin Activity is always on, Data Access is off by default).
- Week 4: Access and security is 20% — separate IAM role inheritance, custom roles, service account impersonation and short-lived credentials, and Workforce versus Workload Identity Federation. Note that AI tooling such as Gemini Cloud Assist is now exam content.
- Final 5–7 days: Use timed mocks to lock the 2-hour pace and eliminate repeated mistakes such as over-permissive IAM, assuming budget alerts stop spending, assuming VPC peering is transitive, and assuming a subnet range can be shrunk.
問題検証プロセス
実践的な問題を実際に解いて、本番との類似度をご自身で確認してください。
よくある質問 (FAQ)
Q. What changed in the current ACE exam guide?
A. The five sections were consolidated into four. "Planning and configuring" merged with "deploying and implementing" into a single 30% planning-and-implementing section, operations grew from 20% to 30%, and configuring and viewing audit logs moved from access-and-security into monitoring and logging. Product names changed too: Cloud Functions is now Cloud Run functions, and Stackdriver / the Cloud Operations suite is now Google Cloud Observability. App Engine, Cloud Deployment Manager and Cloud Run for Anthos are no longer in scope.
Q. Is ACE beginner-friendly?
A. Yes, but success depends on service-selection reasoning rather than memorizing product names. It is a hands-on exam that asks about gcloud and kubectl commands and real configuration steps, so build practical familiarity with IAM, VPC boundaries and operations tooling.
Q. Are real ACE exam questions available anywhere?
A. No. Google does not release live exam questions, and so-called "real exam dumps" are usually unsourced and written against the retired five-section blueprint, which makes them actively misleading. Our items are original practice questions and mock exams built from the official exam guide and kept current with the revision and the renamed products.
Q. Can I pass without hands-on experience?
A. Yes, with a consistent solving framework: requirements → constraints → candidate services → elimination logic. Building the resources yourself in Cloud Shell closes most of the remaining gap.
Q. What mock score is considered stable?
A. Google does not publish a passing score, so there is no official threshold. As a working guide, if your last 3 mocks stay around 75–80%+ with fewer repeated IAM, network and operations mistakes, you are usually in a strong readiness range.
Q. What causes the most misses?
A. Service-boundary confusion and over-broad IAM permissions are common. Recurring traps include assuming budget alerts stop spending, that VPC peering is transitive, that an inherited role can be revoked lower down, that a subnet range can be shrunk, and that Data Access audit logs are on by default.
Q. 練習問題と本番形式の模擬試験はどう使い分けますか？
A. 練習問題は分野別に解いて誤答解説で弱点を補う学習用、模擬試験はタイマーで本番のように解く仕上げ用です。どちらもオリジナル問題で、AIチューター解説付きです。