Exam Prep: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect

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Exam Prep: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect specialization is designed for cloud professionals aiming to master the skills needed to design, develop, and manage secure, scalable, and reliable solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It’s ideal for solution architects, DevOps engineers, system administrators, and technology leaders responsible for cloud architecture and digital transformation. Through a blend of hands-on labs, architecture case studies, and real-world scenarios, this course equips learners with deep technical knowledge across GCP services, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and security. You’ll gain practical experience in: Designing resilient and highly available architectures Managing identity, access, and compliance at scale Optimizing cost and performance trade-offs Supporting hybrid and multi-cloud deployments By the end of this specialization, you’ll be ready to confidently take the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification exam, and more importantly, step into roles that involve cloud strategy, solution architecture, and enterprise cloud delivery.

Syllabus

Course 1: GCP: Compute and Networking
Course 2: GCP: Database and Storage
Course 3: GCP: Operations, Security, and Case Studies

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8 hours 31 minutes
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GCP: Compute and Networking is the first course of Exam Prep: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect Specialization. This course prepares learners to become confident cloud architects by mastering the skills required to design, build, and manage secure and scalable solutions using Google Cloud. Through a combination of practical labs, architectural walkthroughs, and guided demos, learners will gain hands-on experience with core services like Compute Engine, VPC, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, App Engine, and Cloud Functions. You'll learn how to architect resilient systems, manage network configurations, implement load balancing, and monitor infrastructure using real-world scenarios. The course is designed not just to help you pass the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification exam, but to think like an enterprise architect. This course is ideal for: - Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals moving into architecture roles. - System administrators and solution architects aiming to validate their GCP skills. - IT professionals seeking to grow into high-impact cloud design and governance roles. - Anyone who wants to master how to design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions on Google Cloud. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Understand and deploy core GCP compute services. - Design and implement secure virtual networks. - Monitor, scale, and troubleshoot GCP network and compute workloads.
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8 hours 39 minutes
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GCP: Database and Storage is the second course of Exam Prep: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect Specialization. This course offers a comprehensive journey through advanced data, storage, analytics, and reliability services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Cloud SQL, Bigtable, Firestore, Spanner, and BigQuery, providing architectural understanding, real-world analytics use cases, and capacity planning strategies. Learners will explore Cloud Storage, Storage Transfer Service, and Transfer Appliance, focusing on cost optimization and integrations with other cloud services. The course also introduces GCP-native data pipelines using Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Dataproc, and Cloud Dataprep, empowering learners to process and transform data at scale. This course is ideal for: - Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals moving into architecture roles. - System administrators and solution architects aiming to validate their GCP skills. - IT professionals seeking to grow into high-impact cloud design and governance roles. - Anyone who wants to master how to design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions on Google Cloud. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Understand Google Cloud’s Core Managed Databases and Storage Options. - Develop Proficiency in Data Analytics and Visualization Tools. - Implement Scalable Data Processing and Transfer Pipelines.
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8 hours 15 minutes
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GCP: Operations, Security, and Case Studies course is the third course of Exam Prep: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect Specialization. This course provides a comprehensive exploration of Google Cloud's observability, automation, and security services. Beginning with Google Cloud’s Operations Suite, the course focuses on critical services such as Monitoring, Logging, and Cloud Scheduler, offering both theoretical understanding and practical demonstrations for real-world observability use cases. Learners will gain proficiency in Cloud IAM, Cloud Key Management Service (KMS), Identity-Aware Proxy, and Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP), essential tools for managing access control and securing sensitive data. The course extends into infrastructure as code with Cloud Deployment Manager, and introduces event-driven architecture using Cloud Pub/Sub, including its integration with Cloud Functions. This course is ideal for: - Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals moving into architecture roles. - System administrators and solution architects aiming to validate their GCP skills. - IT professionals seeking to grow into high-impact cloud design and governance roles. - Anyone who wants to master how to design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions on Google Cloud. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Implement secure identity and access controls using Cloud IAM, Context-Aware Access, and Cloud KMS. - Design and deploy scalable cloud services like Cloud Deployment Manager, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Functions. - Analyze and apply real-world architecture scenarios and explore case studies such as Mountkirk Games, TerramEarth, and Helicopter Racing League.