Google Cloud Associate – Cloud Engineer

This Skill Validation Program is designed for professionals who want to formally validate their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) skills and demonstrate real-world readiness for cloud engineering roles. Instead of only learning concepts, participants prove their ability to deploy, manage, secure, and operate GCP solutions using hands-on exercises aligned closely with industry expectations.

This program ensures that learners not only understand GCP services but can apply them in enterprise scenarios, making them fully prepared for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification and for modern cloud-driven job roles.

Cloud Foundations
Understand cloud computing concepts, deployment models, and why enterprises adopt GCP.
Compare on-premise and cloud environments, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models.
GCP Environment Setup & Administration
Create and manage GCP projects, billing accounts, budgets, and alerts.
Use Cloud Console, Cloud Shell, Cloud SDK, and gcloud CLI effectively.
Understand GCP regions, zones, networking basics, and API enablement.
IAM & Security
Implement Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices.
Create service accounts, assign roles, and secure workloads using least-privilege principles.
Manage organizational policies and apply access controls securely.
Core Services in GCP
Work with Compute Engine, Cloud Run, App Engine, and Kubernetes Engine.
Manage networking components including VPC, subnets, firewalls, Cloud DNS, and load balancers.
Understand GCP storage options: Cloud Storage, Persistent Disks, Filestore, and database services.
Deployment & Operations
Deploy scalable virtual machines, containers, and serverless workloads.
Configure monitoring, logging, tracing, and auditing for cloud environments.
Perform backups, snapshots, and set up disaster-resilient architectures.