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ACEConfiguring access and securityMedium
An app on a Compute Engine VM in project A must write objects to a Cloud Storage bucket in project B. Security has ruled out long-lived keys. What do you do?
Select one.
One choice only. Your earliest pick was dropped.
Where this question sits in the exam
Configuring access and security is ~20% of the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. Our mocks use the same mix.
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An original item written against the Google Cloud exam guide, last checked 18 September 2026. Not a real exam question.
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Associate Cloud Engineer50–60 questions · 120 min
Accuracy by domain, weighted as the exam weights them · assumed 80% — ours, not Google's
Setup20%74%
Planning30%Furthest behind61%
Operations30%71%
Access and security20%82%
The line on the chart is ours, because Google doesn't publish one for the exams we cover. What you can also see is which section is furthest behind the others.
Three years, then a short exam instead of the whole thing
Google Cloud Foundational and Associate certifications last three years. Renewing isn't the full exam again: the Associate Cloud Engineer renewal is 20 questions in an hour for $75, and you can start 180 days before you expire. There's also a route through designated Google Skills courses, which buys you a year at a time.
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Google revises these guides often — the Associate Cloud Engineer exam changed in June 2026 and picked up a page of Gemini tooling. Every card carries the date we last checked it against the official guide.
Foundational
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Business and strategy rather than engineering. No console work, no gcloud.
Checked 19 Sept 2026
50–60 · 90 minutes
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