I passed the Google ACE Exam. The course while it doesn’t provide all the content covered on the exam, it points out all the topics which are required to pass the exam. Before studying for this exam, I had limited GCP experience but extensive AWS experience.
In addition to what is covered in the Acloud.guru course, I found these following topics extremely helpful.
https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/
IAM
https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-account https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service-accounts#compute_engine_default_service_account https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles#primitive_roles https://cloud.google.com/iam/reference/rest/v1/Policy
Compute
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/config/set https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/startupscript https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/#autohealing
Storage
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes
Analytics
https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/ https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-file https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery
App Engine
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/app/deploy https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/deployment-manager/deployments/list https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php/an-overview-of-app-engine#limits
Networking
https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/using-vpc https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/firewalls https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/ https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/ https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/choosing-load-balancer https://cloud.google.com/router/docs/
Kubernetes
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/replicaset/ https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/statefulset https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/pod https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/daemonset https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/container/clusters/create https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/container/clusters/resize https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/explore/explore-intro/ https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/quotas https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/troubleshooting
Billing
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets
DB
https://cloud.google.com/sql/ https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/backup-recovery/restore https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/binary-log.html https://cloud.google.com/db-migration/ https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ https://cloud.google.com/datastore/
Functions
https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/concepts/overview
Stackdriver
https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/ https://cloud.google.com/logging/ https://cloud.google.com/profiler/ https://cloud.google.com/debugger/ https://cloud.google.com/trace/ https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/
Several people in the forums and the Internet have made comments comparing the GCP ACE to AWS. I found that difficult of the exam compares to the AWS Solution Architect Associate combined with the AWS SysOps Associate exam.
Thank you Mattias Anderson for putting together an excellent course on acloud guru.
I am thinking about pursuing the Google Cloud Professional Architect, before diving into some other certifications.