About This Flashcard Deck
This flashcard deck contains 10 cards covering key ACE Core Services concepts for the ACE exam. Test your Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer knowledge. Use active recall by attempting to answer each question before revealing the answer.
Question
What is the GCP resource hierarchy?
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Answer
Organization → Folders → Projects → Resources. IAM policies inherit downward.
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All ACE Core Services Flashcards
Q: What is the GCP resource hierarchy?
A: Organization → Folders → Projects → Resources. IAM policies inherit downward.
Q: What is the difference between App Engine Standard and Flexible?
A: Standard: sandboxed runtimes, scales to zero, faster startup. Flexible: runs in Docker containers on Compute Engine VMs, supports any runtime.
Q: What is a managed instance group (MIG)?
A: A group of identical VM instances managed as a single entity. Supports autoscaling, autohealing, load balancing, and rolling updates.
Q: What is a Cloud Storage lifecycle policy?
A: Rules that automatically transition objects between storage classes or delete them based on age, creation date, or storage class conditions.
Q: What command creates a GKE cluster?
A: gcloud container clusters create CLUSTER_NAME --zone ZONE --num-nodes N
Q: What is a service account?
A: A special Google account for applications/services (not humans). Used for server-to-server authentication with IAM roles.
Q: What is Cloud NAT?
A: Managed network address translation that lets instances without external IPs access the internet for outbound traffic.
Q: What is a VPC firewall rule?
A: Stateful rules that allow/deny traffic to/from VM instances. Defined by direction (ingress/egress), priority, target, source/destination, and protocol/port.
Q: What is the default network in GCP?
A: An auto-mode VPC with one subnet per region, pre-configured firewall rules. Not recommended for production — use custom VPCs.
Q: What is Cloud Logging?
A: Centralized log management service. Stores logs from GCP services and custom sources. Supports log sinks (export to BigQuery, Storage, Pub/Sub).
GCP Flashcard Study Approach
Google Cloud exams emphasise service selection and architecture decisions. Use these flashcards to build instant recall of GCP service capabilities, then apply that knowledge to scenario-based practice questions. Pay special attention to cards about managed vs. unmanaged services and serverless options — GCP strongly favours managed and serverless architectures in their exam scenarios.