Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) Readiness Test

10 questions, balanced across the exam's topics. Answer each one, then submit for your practice readiness estimate and per-topic breakdown. This is a practice estimate — not a prediction or guarantee of your official exam result.

Question 1

A travel booking platform's reservations Cloud Storage lifecycle must move objects to Archive after 1 year but compliance needs 365-day minimums respected. What is correct?

Transition at 30 days to save more Archive has a 365-day minimum: set the lifecycle transition at/after 365 days to avoid early-deletion charges Archive has no minimum Minimums apply only to Nearline

Question 2

A ride-sharing service's trip requests VPC Service Controls perimeter blocks a legitimate Dataflow job reading cross-project data. What is the correct fix?

Use ingress/egress rules on the perimeter for the specific legitimate flow — not disabling the perimeter Disable VPC Service Controls Make the data public Move everything into one project

Question 3

An online education platform's course enrollments GKE cluster autoscaler oscillates (adds/removes nodes repeatedly). Which tuning BEST stabilizes this?

Bigger nodes More node pools Adjust scale-down delays/unneeded-time and utilization thresholds; ensure pod disruption budgets allow graceful drains Disable the autoscaler

Question 4

A manufacturing firm's IoT sensor readings org needs no public IPs. Which control BEST enforces this hierarchy-wide?

Deleting networks Firewall rules Org policy constraint compute.vmExternalIpAccess Team requests

Question 5

A university's student enrollment records Spanner schema uses increasing integer keys and hotspots. What is the BEST fix?

Single-region config UUID/bit-reversed keys to distribute writes Secondary indexes More nodes

Question 6

A manufacturing firm's IoT sensor readings Cloud NAT runs out of ports under heavy egress. Which fix BEST addresses this?

Bigger VMs Disable NAT Add more NAT IPs (expand port allocation) or use multiple NAT gateways Public IPs per VM

Question 7

An insurance firm's policy documents GKE cluster needs guaranteed capacity during a launch event. Which approach BEST provides this?

Smaller nodes Hoping capacity exists Spot VMs Reservations for the node pools (compute reservations) ahead of the event

Question 8

A logistics company needs shipment tracking events to fail over Cloud SQL cross-region within the RTO. Which preparation is MOST important?

Hoping promotion works Diagrams of the replica Rehearsed promotion runbooks with measured lag/RTO plus app-level retry/reconnect logic Bigger replica

Question 9

A regional grocery chain is implementing a system to monitor real-time inventory levels by streaming sales data from checkout counters, aiming to identify low stock situations promptly and requiring session windows and exactly-once aggregates into BigQuery. Which service BEST fits?

Direct subscription Dataproc batch Per-message Cloud Functions Dataflow streaming pipelines

Question 10

A fitness tracking app needs workout uploads private connectivity from on-premises to Google APIs without internet. Which option BEST fits?

Cloud NAT Public internet HA VPN alone without private access config Dedicated Interconnect with private API access (or VPN with Private Google Access)

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