Google Cloud Skills Boost: Cloud Engineer Learning Path
About this course
Google Cloud Skills Boost is Google's official hands-on training platform for GCP, and the Associate Cloud Engineer learning path is the structured preparation for the ACE certification exam. It covers core GCP services: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, IAM, and networking — through a mix of conceptual modules, hands-on Qwiklabs exercises, and skill badge challenges that give access to real GCP environments.
The ACE exam is the entry-level GCP certification and the first step in GCP's cloud engineering cert path, sitting below the Professional Cloud Architect. For cloud engineers targeting GCP roles, this learning path — combined with the GCP courses from Coursera — provides the most authoritative, hands-on preparation available.
What you'll learn
This course includes
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Requirements
- Basic cloud concepts; prior cloud experience helpful
Who this course is for
- Cloud engineers targeting GCP roles or the ACE certification exam
- AWS/Azure practitioners adding GCP skills
- Anyone who learns best through hands-on labs rather than video lectures