Exam coverage map · certsloth

Google’s published ACE guide retains some older names. Cloud Functions is now presented as Cloud Run functions; check current product documentation alongside the exam wording. These notes explain both names.

Published objectives

Objective	Revision topic
1.1 · Projects, hierarchy, APIs and quotas	01 Projects, Organizations, Billing and CLI, 09 IAM, Service Accounts and Data Security
1.2 · Billing and cost visibility	01 Projects, Organizations, Billing and CLI
2.1 · Compute choice	02 Compute Engine and Managed Instance Groups, 03 GKE and Container Operations, 04 Cloud Run, Functions and Event Delivery
2.2 · Storage and database choice	05 Cloud Storage, Transfers and Retention, 06 Databases, Analytics and Data Pipelines
2.3 · Network planning	07 VPCs, Subnets and Private Access, 08 Load Balancing, Hybrid Connectivity and DNS
3.1 · Virtual machines	02 Compute Engine and Managed Instance Groups
3.2 · Kubernetes deployment	03 GKE and Container Operations
3.3 · Serverless deployment	04 Cloud Run, Functions and Event Delivery
3.4 · Data deployment and ingestion	05 Cloud Storage, Transfers and Retention, 06 Databases, Analytics and Data Pipelines
3.5 · Networking deployment	07 VPCs, Subnets and Private Access, 08 Load Balancing, Hybrid Connectivity and DNS
3.6 · Infrastructure as code	10 Observability, IaC and Reliable Operations
4.1 · VM operations	02 Compute Engine and Managed Instance Groups
4.2 · Kubernetes operations	03 GKE and Container Operations
4.3 · Serverless operations	04 Cloud Run, Functions and Event Delivery
4.4 · Data operations	05 Cloud Storage, Transfers and Retention, 06 Databases, Analytics and Data Pipelines
4.5 · Network operations	07 VPCs, Subnets and Private Access, 08 Load Balancing, Hybrid Connectivity and DNS
4.6 · Observability	10 Observability, IaC and Reliable Operations
5.1 · IAM policy	09 IAM, Service Accounts and Data Security
5.2 · Service identities	09 IAM, Service Accounts and Data Security