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GCP ACE Flashcards
Free flashcards for Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE): flip each card to reveal the definition. Built from the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) glossary as a study aid, these are concept checks, not real exam questions.
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- Project
- The basic container for GCP resources, billing and IAM.
- Organisation
- The top of the resource hierarchy for a company.
- Folder
- Groups projects for shared policy.
- IAM
- Identity and Access Management - who can do what.
- Service account
- A non-human identity used by workloads.
- Compute Engine
- Virtual machines on Google Cloud.
- GKE
- Google Kubernetes Engine - managed Kubernetes.
- Cloud Run
- Runs stateless containers serverlessly.
- App Engine
- Fully managed platform for apps.
- Cloud Functions
- Event-driven serverless functions.
- Cloud Storage
- Object storage with multiple classes.
- Persistent Disk
- Block storage for Compute Engine.
- VPC
- Virtual Private Cloud - your network in GCP.
- Firewall rule
- Controls traffic to and from resources.
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Distributes traffic across instances.
- Cloud SQL
- Managed relational databases.
- BigQuery
- Serverless data warehouse for analytics.
- Cloud Operations
- Monitoring, logging and alerting (formerly Stackdriver).
- gcloud
- The Google Cloud command-line tool.
- Cloud Shell
- A browser-based shell with gcloud preinstalled.
- Region / zone
- A geographic area / an isolated location within it.