Eight chapters, mapped onto the four ACE exam domains.

The Associate Cloud Engineer exam weights four domains — this course's chapters cover all four, expanded past exam depth into real production judgment.

Setup environment

~20%

Ch 1-2: hierarchy, billing, tooling

Plan & implement

~30%

Ch 4-7: compute, GKE, storage, network

Operate a solution

~30%

Ch 8: monitoring, logging, ops

Access & security

~20%

Ch 3: IAM and identity

1. FundamentalsHierarchy & org policy

2. Billing & toolingCost control, IaC, gcloud

3. IAM & identityRoles, service accounts, WIF

4. Compute EngineMachine types & autoscaling

5. GKE & serverlessAutopilot, Cloud Run

6. Storage & dataBuckets & managed databases

7. NetworkingVPC, firewall, load balancing

8. OperationsMonitoring, logging, tracing

This is course 1 of 6 in the GCP track — DevOps/CI-CD, SRE/Observability, Networking, Security, and Architecture each build directly on this foundation.