Google Cloud Certification Study Guides

A Pro study guide on Google Cloud: 186 lessons in 16 parts, 6 hands-on Practical use cases. A Pro plan opens every lesson, practice question and Practical.

What you will learn

• Cloud foundations and architecture - Why organisations move to the cloud, Google Cloud foundations and turning requirements into an architecture. (5 lessons)
• Identity and access - IAM roles and conditions, service accounts, workload identity, workforce identity and the resource hierarchy. (10 lessons)
• Security, encryption and compliance - Protecting data and workloads: Cloud KMS, VPC Service Controls, Security Command Center, secrets and compliance. (22 lessons)
• Security operations - Detection, investigation and response on Google's security operations platform: ingestion, YARA-L rules, cases and playbooks. (12 lessons)
• Compute, containers and serverless - Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, App Engine and functions, and choosing the right way to run code. (6 lessons)
• Storage and databases - Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore and how to choose between them. (14 lessons)
• Networking and connectivity - VPCs, Shared VPC, Cloud VPN, Interconnect, routing, load balancing, DNS, CDN and hybrid design. (13 lessons)
• Data pipelines and analytics - Ingestion, Dataflow, Dataproc, BigQuery, orchestration, transformation and visualisation. (17 lessons)
• Machine learning and Vertex AI - Framing ML problems, features, training, evaluation, serving and monitoring models on Vertex AI. (12 lessons)
• Generative AI and agents - Foundation models, prompts, grounding, tuning, the Agent Development Kit, tools and agent safety. (22 lessons)
• AI strategy and exam approach - Finding and prioritising use cases, adoption and ROI, choosing an approach and how to tackle the exam. (4 lessons)
• DevOps, deployment and infrastructure as code - Terraform, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, testing, deployment strategies and ML pipelines. (7 lessons)
• Monitoring, reliability and incident response - SLIs and SLOs, monitoring, logging, tracing, resilience patterns, backup and disaster recovery. (17 lessons)
• Integration, APIs and migration - Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, workflows, API design and migrating applications, warehouses and databases. (6 lessons)
• Cost and governance - Cost control, quotas, FinOps and capacity management. (11 lessons)
• Google Workspace administration - The Admin console, domains, users and groups, Drive sharing, Calendar and Meet, migration and troubleshooting. (8 lessons)

Hands-on Practical use cases

• Global static website
• Serverless API for a mobile app
• Highly available three-tier web app
• Event-driven order pipeline
• Data lake and analytics
• Company knowledge assistant (RAG)

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