Google Cloud ACE Operations Guide

Google Cloud ACE operations guide covering monitoring, logging, backups, network ops, and service recovery decisions.

This chapter is about day-two operations. Google Cloud expects ACE candidates to know how to inspect inventory, manage revisions, back up data, adjust networking, and use monitoring and logging to diagnose issues instead of guessing.

Current weight in the exam guide

Google Cloud currently weights Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution at about 20% of the exam.

Work this section in order

Lesson Focus
4.1 VM Ops Learn how to inspect, connect to, snapshot, and image Compute Engine resources.
4.2 GKE Ops Learn the operational controls for live GKE environments.
4.3 Cloud Run Ops Learn how versioned serverless deployments are operated after release.
4.4 Data Ops & Backups Learn how data systems are inspected, queried, backed up, restored, and cost-checked.
4.5 Network Ops Learn routine network operations such as subnet growth and address management.
4.6 Monitoring & Logs Learn how to detect and diagnose production issues from the right signals.

In this section

Revised on Sunday, May 10, 2026