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Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

GCP Professional Cloud Architect Crash Course

Published by Pearson

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Get fully prepared to crush the Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect Exam!

  • Full exam coverage that includes a focus on case studies and mapping solutions to requirements
  • Solution walk-throughs to prepare the learner to think like a cloud architect
  • Sample exam questions to cement the learner’s knowledge on the exam objectives
  • A deeper look at an often-neglected GCP exam area: application development best practices

The Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is one the most sought-after--and top-paying--IT certifications in cloud computing. The certification exam will test your ability to design and plan a cloud solution architecture, design for security and compliance, manage and provision cloud infrastructure, analyze and optimize technical and business processes, and ensure solution and operations reliability.

In this two-day crash course, you will gain an understanding of how to use Google Cloud technologies to architect and design robust solutions that meet technical and business requirements. Through concise lessons that are tailored to the exam objectives, you will gain the knowledge needed to navigate through the types of questions and challenges you will be faced with during the exam. This course will break down complex case studies with pen-and-paper exercises, explore essential system design principles with Google Cloud, and teach you the architectural and application development best practices that you need to know to excel in the exam.

With a thorough coverage of the exam objectives, including architectural diagrams and visual aids, sample exam questions and an in-depth look at the exam case studies, this crash course will cover: designing and implementing network, storage, and computer systems on GCP; designing for security and compliance; designing for observability; analyzing and defining business and technical processes; designing for operations reliability; planning cloud migrations; and managing implementation with deployment best-practices. This will have you ready and confident to take the exam!

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Cloud solution architecture and GCP design concepts
  • How to approach the exam’s case studies.
  • How Google Cloud technologies, tools, and processes can be used to meet diverse business and technical requirements
  • The architectural and application development best practices that Google expects you to know

And you’ll be able to:

  • Design and implement robust Google Cloud solutions for high availability, reliability, security, compliance, and observability.
  • Think like a Cloud Architect and map solutions and technologies to business and technical requirements
  • Plan cloud migrations and apply architectural and application development best practices in various scenarios.

This live event is for you because...

  • You are an IT professional looking to take the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect exam
  • You are a cloud engineer working with Google Cloud wishing to take your career to the next level by pursuing the architect path
  • You are already or expected to be responsible for designing and/or implementing solutions on Google Cloud and wish to get certified
  • You are an AWS or Azure expert and is now looking to get certified in Google Cloud

Prerequisites

  • 6+ months experience working with GCP; or
  • 3+ months experience with GCP if already very experienced with another cloud vendor

Course Set-up:

● Sign up for a free GCP account

● Access the course GitHub Repo

Recommended Preparation:

Recommended Follow-up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Day 1

Segment 1: Intro and overview of GCP exam, what to expect (15min)

Segment 2: Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements (50min)

  • Business use cases and strategies
  • Success measurements
  • Movement of data and external integrations
  • Cost optimization
  • Creating a migration plan
  • Sample exam questions: designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements

Break (5min)

Segment 3: Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements (60min)

  • Designing for high availability and failover
  • Elasticity of cloud resources, quotas and limits
  • Designing for scalability
  • Designing for performance
  • Sample exam questions: designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements

Break (10min)

Segment 4: Designing network, storage, and compute (80min)

  • Integrations with on-premises
  • Multicloud environments
  • Designing VPC networks
  • Choosing appropriate storage types
  • Choosing data processing technologies
  • Choosing compute resources
  • Sample exam questions: designing network, storage, and compute

Q&A and Day 1 wrap-up (20min)

Day 2

Segment 5: Configuring network, storage, and compute (60min)

  • Securing networks
  • Setting up hybrid and multicloud networking
  • Provisioning data storage
  • Configuring data security and access management
  • Configuring data retention and lifecycle management
  • Provisioning compute resources
  • Configuring Kubernetes
  • Sample exam questions: configuring network, storage, and compute

Break (10min)

Segment 6: Designing for observability, security and compliance (50min)

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Resource hierarchy
  • Security controls
  • Securing data at rest and in transit
  • Secrets and certificate management
  • Compliance considerations
  • Cloud Monitoring and Logging
  • Application performance monitoring
  • Sample exam questions: designing for observability, security, and compliance

Break (10min)

Segment 7: Deployment and operational best practices (30min)

  • Interacting with GCP programmatically
  • Application development
  • Automating infrastructure and application deployments
  • Testing and validating deployments
  • API best practices
  • Troubleshooting best practices
  • Alerting and incident response
  • Sample exam questions: deployment and operational best practices

Segment 8: Case studies solutioning (60min)

  • Case Study Breakdown: EHR Healthcare
  • Case Study Breakdown: Helicopter Racing League
  • Case Study Breakdown: TerramEarth
  • Case Study Breakdown: Mountkirk Games

Segment 9: Q&A, course wrap-up, exam tips and next steps (20min)

Your Instructor

  • Victor Dantas

    Victor Dantas has a PhD in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud systems and is currently a Sr. Customer Engineer at Google Cloud. He has professional cloud certifications from Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. With a background ranging from software development and systems engineering to technology consulting, he has accumulated experience in application development, cloud migrations, hybrid cloud infrastructure, cloud solutions architecture, and Agile/DevOps practices working with organizations of all sizes. Victor also writes educational content on cloud computing and is the author of Architecting Google Cloud Solutions (Packt, 2021). Beyond cloud, his interests include AI / Machine Learning and Web 3 technologies.