Become a cloud pro with strategic GCP skills. Get hands-on experience, understand "Why GCP?", and prepare with a practice exam. No setup, no cleanup, no hassle.

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Google Cloud Platform will be the next major cloud admin skill in the coming years. Google is increasing its market reach in the cloud provider domain using strategic partnerships and a lot of funding for the customers. So, no doubt that GCP is going to dominate the cloud domain in the coming years.

This course is a headstart to quickly get hands-on with GCP and make yourself comfortable with it. You will start with "Why GCP?" and will go all the way to using its services in different ways. If you are from an AWS background, you will find the course very easy to understand due to similarities between AWS and GCP services.

At the end of the course, you will take a practice exam that will resemble the exam you’ll take when you go to get your Google Cloud Engineer Certification. Good luck!

Cracking the Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

In GCP, every service is available as an API. Some APIs are enabled by default when we create a project. We need to enable the API to use the rest of the services.

You can expect one to two questions based on enabling API and API explorer in the Associate Cloud Engineer certification exam.



Let's start with API Dashboard.

# API dashboard

To open the API dashboard, go to `Main Menu > API & Services > Enable APIs and services`.

Scroll down, and you will see already-enabled APIs. The API dashboard has five sub-menus. We are only interested in the first one, **Enable APIs and services**, for now. The remaining are used for developing Oauth pages for apps built on top of GCP APIs. This is outside the scope of this exam; however, you can explore the options.


## Enable APIs and services

This provides a quick view of the enabled APIs and some usage metrics for the APIs for different periods. The interesting part is that you can try any API without writing a single line of code using **API explorer**. I am highlighting the **API explorer** because it is important to remember.

1. Scroll down and click on **Cloud Storage API.**

2. Under "Tutorials and documentation", click on **Learn more**. This will open a new window.

This lesson provides a brief introduction to GCP service APIs.

Introduction

Creating Projects and IAM

Billing Management

Google Cloud CLI

Compute Service Offerings

Storage

Network Resources

Cost Estimation

Event Driven Services

Monitoring and logging

Miscellaneous Services

GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam

Enabling APIs

API dashboard

Enable APIs and services