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Book Description

Sybex's proven Study Guide format teaches Google Cloud Architect job skills and prepares you for this important new Cloud exam.

The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide is the essential resource for anyone preparing for this highly sought-after, professional-level certification. Clear and accurate chapters cover 100% of exam objectives—helping you gain the knowledge and confidence to succeed on exam day. A pre-book assessment quiz helps you evaluate your skills, while chapter review questions emphasize critical points of learning. Detailed explanations of crucial topics include analyzing and defining technical and business processes, migration planning, and designing storage systems, networks, and compute resources. Written by Dan Sullivan—a well-known author and software architect specializing in analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing—this invaluable study guide includes access to the Sybex interactive online learning environment, which includes complete practice tests, electronic flash cards, a searchable glossary, and more.

Providing services suitable for a wide range of applications, particularly in high-growth areas of analytics and machine learning, Google Cloud is rapidly gaining market share in the cloud computing world. Organizations are seeking certified IT professionals with the ability to deploy and operate infrastructure, services, and networks in the Google Cloud. Take your career to the next level by validating your skills and earning certification.

  • Design and plan cloud solution architecture
  • Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
  • Ensure legal compliance and security standards
  • Understand options for implementing hybrid clouds
  • Develop solutions that meet reliability, business, and technical requirements

The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide is a must-have for IT professionals preparing for certification to deploy and manage Google cloud services.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. About the Technical Editor
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Assessment Test
  7. Answers to Assessment Test
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam
    1. Exam Objectives
    2. Analyzing Business Requirements
    3. Analyzing Technical Requirements
    4. Exam Case Studies
    5. Company Overview
    6. Solution Concept
    7. Existing Technical Environment
    8. Databases:
    9. Compute:
    10. Business Requirements
    11. Technical Requirements
    12. Executive Statement
    13. Company Overview
    14. Solution Concept
    15. Business Requirements
    16. Technical Requirements
    17. Executive Statement
    18. Company Overview
    19. Solution Concept
    20. Existing Technical Environment
    21. Business Requirements
    22. Technical Requirements
    23. Application 1: Data ingest
    24. Compute
    25. Application 2: Reporting
    26. Compute
    27. Data warehouse
    28. Executive Statement
    29. Summary
    30. Exam Essentials
    31. Review Questions
  9. Chapter 2 Designing for Business Requirements
    1. Business Use Cases and Product Strategy
    2. Application Design and Cost Considerations
    3. Systems Integration and Data Management
    4. Compliance and Regulation
    5. Security
    6. Success Measures
    7. Summary
    8. Exam Essentials
    9. Review Questions
  10. Chapter 3 Designing for Technical Requirements
    1. High Availability
    2. Scalability
    3. Summary
    4. Exam Essentials
    5. Review Questions
  11. Chapter 4 Designing Compute Systems
    1. Compute Services and Use Cases
    2. Compute System Provisioning
    3. Additional Design Issues
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  12. Chapter 5 Designing Storage Systems
    1. Overview of Storage Services
    2. Object Storage with Google Cloud Storage
    3. Network-Attached Storage with Google Cloud Filestore
    4. Databases
    5. Data Retention and Lifecycle Management
    6. Networking and Latency
    7. Summary
    8. Exam Essentials
    9. Review Questions
    10. Notes
  13. Chapter 6 Designing Networks
    1. Virtual Private Clouds
    2. Hybrid-Cloud Networking
    3. Load Balancing
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  14. Chapter 7 Designing for Security and Legal Compliance
    1. Identity and Access Management
    2. Data Security
    3. Summary
    4. Exam Essentials
    5. Review Questions
  15. Chapter 8 Designing for Reliability
    1. Improving Reliability with Stackdriver
    2. Release Management
    3. Systems Reliability Engineering
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  16. Chapter 9 Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes
    1. Software Development Lifecycle Plan
    2. Continuous Integration/Continuous Development
    3. Troubleshooting and Post-Mortem Analysis Culture
    4. IT Enterprise Processes
    5. Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
    6. Summary
    7. Exam Essentials
    8. Review Questions
  17. Chapter 10 Analyzing and Defining Business Processes
    1. Stakeholder Management
    2. Change Management
    3. Team Skill Management
    4. Customer Success Management
    5. Cost Management
    6. Summary
    7. Exam Essentials
    8. Review Questions
  18. Chapter 11 Development and Operations
    1. Application Development Methodologies
    2. Technical Debt
    3. API Best Practices
    4. Testing Frameworks
    5. Data and System Migration Tooling
    6. Summary
    7. Exam Essentials
    8. Review Questions
  19. Chapter 12 Migration Planning
    1. Integrating Cloud Services with Existing Systems
    2. Migrating Systems and Data
    3. Licensing Mapping
    4. Network and Management Planning
    5. Summary
    6. Exam Essentials
    7. Review Questions
  20. Appendix Answers to Review Questions
    1. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam
    2. Chapter 2: Designing for Business Requirements
    3. Chapter 3: Designing for Technical Requirements
    4. Chapter 4: Designing Compute Systems
    5. Chapter 5: Designing Storage Systems
    6. Chapter 6: Designing Networks
    7. Chapter 7: Designing for Security and Legal Compliance
    8. Chapter 8: Designing for Reliability
    9. Chapter 9: Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes
    10. Chapter 10: Analyzing and Defining Business Processes
    11. Chapter 11: Development and Operations
    12. Chapter 12: Migration Planning
  21. Index
  22. Advert
  23. End User License Agreement