Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide

Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide

by Dan Sullivan
Released April 2019
Publisher(s): Sybex
ISBN: 9781119564416

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Book description

The Only Official Google Cloud Study Guide

The Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide, provides everything you need to prepare for this important exam and master the skills necessary to land that coveted Google Cloud Engineering certification. Beginning with a pre-book assessment quiz to evaluate what you know before you begin, each chapter features exam objectives and review questions, plus the online learning environment includes additional complete practice tests. Written by Dan Sullivan, a popular and experienced online course author for machine learning, big data, and Cloud topics, Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide is your ace in the hole for deploying and managing Google Cloud Services. 

•    Select the right Google service from the various choices based on the application to be built

•    Compute with Cloud VMs and managing VMs

•    Plan and deploying storage

•    Network and configure access and security

Google Cloud Platform is a leading public cloud that provides its users to many of the same software, hardware, and networking infrastructure used to power Google services. Businesses, organizations, and individuals can launch servers in minutes, store petabytes of data, and implement global virtual clouds with the Google Cloud Platform. Certified Associate Cloud Engineers have demonstrated the knowledge and skills needed to deploy and operate infrastructure, services, and networks in the Google Cloud. This exam guide is designed to help you understand the Google Cloud Platform in depth so that you can meet the needs of those operating resources in the Google Cloud.  

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. About the Author
  4. Introduction
  5. Assessment Test
  6. Answers to Assessment Test
  7. Chapter 1 Overview of Google Cloud Platform
    1. Types of Cloud Services
    2. Cloud Computing vs. Data Center Computing
    3. Exam Essentials
    4. Review Questions
  8. Chapter 2 Google Cloud Computing Services
    1. Computing Components of Google Cloud Platform
    2. Storage Components of Google Cloud Platform
    3. Networking Components of Google Cloud Platform
    4. Additional Components of Google Cloud Platform
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  9. Chapter 3 Projects, Service Accounts, and Billing
    1. How GCP Organizes Projects and Accounts
    2. Roles and Identities
    3. Service Accounts
    4. Billing
    5. Enabling APIs
    6. Provisioning Stackdriver Workspaces
    7. Exam Essentials
    8. Review Questions
  10. Chapter 4 Introduction to Computing in Google Cloud
    1. Compute Engine
    2. App Engine
    3. Kubernetes Engine
    4. Cloud Functions
    5. Summary
    6. Exam Essentials
    7. Review Questions
  11. Chapter 5 Computing with Compute Engine Virtual Machines
    1. Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines with the Console
    2. Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines with Cloud SDK
    3. Basic Virtual Machine Management
    4. Guidelines for Planning, Deploying, and Managing Virtual Machines
    5. Summary
    6. Exam Essentials
    7. Review Questions
  12. Chapter 6 Managing Virtual Machines
    1. Managing Single Virtual Machine Instances
    2. Introduction to Instance Groups
    3. Guidelines for Managing Virtual Machines
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  13. Chapter 7 Computing with Kubernetes
    1. Introduction to Kubernetes Engine
    2. Deploying Kubernetes Clusters
    3. Deploying Application Pods
    4. Monitoring Kubernetes
    5. Summary
    6. Exam Essentials
    7. Review Questions
  14. Chapter 8 Managing Kubernetes Clusters
    1. Viewing the Status of a Kubernetes Cluster
    2. Adding, Modifying, and Removing Nodes
    3. Adding, Modifying, and Removing Pods
    4. Adding, Modifying, and Removing Services
    5. Viewing the Image Repository and Image Details
    6. Summary
    7. Exam Essentials
    8. Review Questions
  15. Chapter 9 Computing with App Engine
    1. App Engine Components
    2. Deploying an App Engine Application
    3. Scaling App Engine Applications
    4. Splitting Traffic between App Engine Versions
    5. Summary
    6. Exam Essentials
    7. Review Questions
  16. Chapter 10 Computing with Cloud Functions
    1. Introduction to Cloud Functions
    2. Cloud Functions Receiving Events from Cloud Storage
    3. Cloud Functions Receiving Events from Pub/Sub
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  17. Chapter 11 Planning Storage in the Cloud
    1. Types of Storage Systems
    2. Storage Data Models
    3. Choosing a Storage Solution: Guidelines to Consider
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  18. Chapter 12 Deploying Storage in Google Cloud Platform
    1. Deploying and Managing Cloud SQL
    2. Deploying and Managing Datastore
    3. Deploying and Managing BigQuery
    4. Deploying and Managing Cloud Spanner
    5. Deploying and Managing Cloud Pub/Sub
    6. Deploying and Managing Cloud Bigtable
    7. Deploying and Managing Cloud Dataproc
    8. Managing Cloud Storage
    9. Summary
    10. Exam Essentials
    11. Review Questions
  19. Chapter 13 Loading Data into Storage
    1. Loading and Moving Data to Cloud Storage
    2. Importing and Exporting Data
    3. Streaming Data to Cloud Pub/Sub
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  20. Chapter 14 Networking in the Cloud: Virtual Private Clouds and Virtual Private Networks
    1. Creating a Virtual Private Cloud with Subnets
    2. Deploying Compute Engine with a Custom Network
    3. Creating Firewall Rules for a Virtual Private Cloud
    4. Creating a Virtual Private Network
    5. Summary
    6. Exam Essentials
    7. Review Questions
  21. Chapter 15 Networking in the Cloud: DNS, Load Balancing, and IP Addressing
    1. Configuring Cloud DNS
    2. Configuring Load Balancers
    3. Managing IP Addresses
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  22. Chapter 16 Deploying Applications with Cloud Launcher and Deployment Manager
    1. Deploying a Solution Using Cloud Launcher
    2. Deploying an Application Using Deployment Manager
    3. Summary
    4. Exam Essentials
    5. Review Questions
  23. Chapter 17 Configuring Access and Security
    1. Managing Identity and Access Management
    2. Managing Service Accounts
    3. Viewing Audit Logs
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  24. Chapter 18 Monitoring, Logging, and Cost Estimating
    1. Monitoring with Stackdriver
    2. Logging with Stackdriver
    3. Using Cloud Diagnostics
    4. Using the Pricing Calculator
    5. Summary
    6. Exam Essentials
    7. Review Questions
  25. Appendix Answers to Review Questions
    1. Chapter 1: Overview of Google Cloud Platform
    2. Chapter 2: Google Cloud Computing Services
    3. Chapter 3: Projects, Service Accounts, and Billing
    4. Chapter 4: Introduction to Computing in Google Cloud
    5. Chapter 5: Computing with Compute Engine Virtual Machines
    6. Chapter 6: Managing Virtual Machines
    7. Chapter 7: Computing with Kubernetes
    8. Chapter 8: Managing Kubernetes Clusters
    9. Chapter 9: Computing with App Engine
    10. Chapter 10: Computing with Cloud Functions
    11. Chapter 11: Planning Storage in the Cloud
    12. Chapter 12: Deploying Storage in Google Cloud Platform
    13. Chapter 13: Loading Data into Storage
    14. Chapter 14: Networking in the Cloud: Virtual Private Clouds and Virtual Private Networks
    15. Chapter 15: Networking in the Cloud: DNS, Load Balancing, and IP Addressing
    16. Chapter 16: Deploying Applications with Cloud Launcher and Deployment Manager
    17. Chapter 17: Configuring Access and Security
    18. Chapter 18: Monitoring, Logging, and Cost Estimating
  26. Index
  27. Advert
  28. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
  • Author(s): Dan Sullivan
  • Release date: April 2019
  • Publisher(s): Sybex
  • ISBN: 9781119564416