GCP Professional Cloud Architect: Google Cloud Certification

Design & Security | Cloud IAM | Computing | Google Kubernetes Engine | Networking | Storage | Database Services | Management & Monitoring | Automation | Case Studies

16 Modules | 70+ Lessons | 30+ Hands-On Labs | 250+ Exam Qs | CV Prep & Interview Qs | On-Job Support

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M. Shaheer
Author & Multi-Cloud Expert

What Is Google Cloud Platform (GCP)?

Google Cloud is a suite of Cloud Computing services offered by Google that provides various services like compute, storage, networking, and many more that run on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for end-users like Gmail, Google Photos, and YouTube. It enables developers to build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure.

Who Is A Cloud Architect?

A Cloud Architect is responsible for converting the technical requirements of a project into the architecture and design that will guide the final product and also bridge the gap between complex business problems and solutions in the Cloud.

A Cloud architect’s skills are organization-specific in general but some common skill-set includes:

  • Good understanding of networking
  • Knowledge of Operating Systems
  • Knowledge of Data Storage options (Hardware and infrastructure, storage buckets) Soft Skills
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Why and Who Should Learn Google Expert?

According to the Forbes magazine, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect is the highest paying certification of 2019, paying an average salary of $139,529.

Everything is moving towards the cloud these days, and in the IT world, you should not fall behind in adopting new technologies like Google Cloud, as you all know a Google Cloud certificate, has a higher demand in the cloud industry. Google Cloud Architect training is among the most valuable and highly sought-after cloud computing certifications in the world today So, getting the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification will for sure take your career to a whole new level.

A Google Professional Cloud Architect helps organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. With a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud Platform, the cloud architects can design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives.

The Cloud Architect should be proficient in all aspects of enterprise cloud strategy, solution design, and architectural best practices. He/she should also be experienced in software development methodologies and approaches including multi-tiered distributed applications that span hybrid or multi-cloud environments

 

Introducing: Google Cloud Job Oriented Program with Certification

Become expert in Google Cloud Job Oriented Program with Certification by mastering these 12 critical core skills…

Google Cloud Platform
Compute Engine
Virtual Networks
Cloud IAM
Data Storage
Google Kubernetes Engine
App Engine, Functions, Cloud Run
Interconnecting Networks
Load Balancing & Autoscaling
Infrastructure Automation
Security
Maintenance & Monitoring
 
COURSE BREAKDOWN
  • LESSON 1: COURSE OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 1: CLOUD OVERVIEW & CHARACTERISTICS
  • LESSON 2: CLOUD SERVICE MODEL (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS)
  • LESSON 3: CLOUD DEPLOYMENT MODEL (PUBLIC, PRIVATE, HYBRID)
  • LESSON 4: GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM (GCP) INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 5: CREATE GCP ACCOUNT & CONSOLE OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 6: ORGANIZATIONS, FOLDERS, PROJECT, RESOURCES & BILLING
  • LESSON 7: GOOGLE CLOUD ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: REGISTER FOR GOOGLE CLOUD FREE-TRIAL ACCOUNT
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: GOOGLE CLOUD CONSOLE & CLOUD SHELL OVERVIEW AND NAVIGATION
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: SETTING UP PROJECTS, BILLING BUDGETS & ALERTS IN GCP
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  • LESSON 1: COMPUTE ENGINE (VM): TYPES & OPTIONS
  • LESSON 2: VM INSTANCE LIFECYCLE & COMMON OPERATIONS
  • LESSON 3: MACHINE TYPES & COMPUTE OPTIONS (VCPU AND MEMORY) IN COMPUTE ENGINE
  • LESSON 4: IMAGES & SNAPSHOTS
  • LESSON 5: DISK TYPES: LOCAL SSD, PERSISTENT & BALANCED
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE & CONNECT LINUX VM INSTANCES IN GCP
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE AND MANAGE VM USING CLI & CLOUD SHELL
  • LESSON 1: VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD (VPC) & TYPES, SUBNETS
  • LESSON 2: IP ADDRESSES (PUBLIC/PRIVATE), NIC
  • LESSON 3: ROUTES & ROUTE TABLE
  • LESSON 4: FIREWALLS
  • LESSON 5: NETWORK TOPOLOGY OPTIONS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE AUTO MODE & CUSTOM VPC USING CLOUD CONSOLE
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE A CUSTOM MODE VPC NETWORK ON GCP USING CLI
    • LESSON 1: IAM BASIC: AUTHENTICATION, AUTHORIZATION & MFA
    • LESSON 2: ROLES, MEMBERS, SERVICE ACCOUNT, POLICY
    • LESSON 3: RESOURCE HIERARCHY
    • LESSON 4: CLOUD IAM BEST PRACTICES
    • ACTIVITY GUIDE: ADD IAM USER & ASSIGNING VARIOUS ROLES
    • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE SERVICE ACCOUNTS AND ASSIGN ROLES TO SERVICES
  • LESSON 1: GOOGLE CLOUD STORAGE OVERVIEW & STRUCTURE
  • LESSON 2: STORAGE CLASSES, VERSIONING & LIFECYCLE POLICIES
  • LESSON 3: CLOUD SQL FOR DATABASE (MYSQL, POSTGRESQL AND SQL SERVER)
  • LESSON 4: CLOUD SPANNER: FULLY MANAGED RELATIONAL DB
  • LESSON 5: CLOUD DATASTORE
  • LESSON 6: CLOUD BIGTABLE: NOSQL BIG DATA SERVICE
  • LESSON 7: CLOUD TRANSFER SERVICE
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE CLOUD STORAGE BUCKET , UPLOAD OBJECTS & GRANT PUBLIC ACCESS (CONSOLE & CLI)
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE & DELETE LIFECYCLE POLICY FOR A CLOUD STORAGE BUCKET
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE CLOUD SQL
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: PERFORM SIMPLE OPERATIONS IN CLOUD SPANNER
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE & MANAGE CLOUD BIGTABLE INSTANCES
  • LESSON 1: HEALTH CHECK PROBES
  • LESSON 2: MULTI-CONTAINER PATTERNS (AMBASSADOR, ADAPTER, SIDECAR)
  • LESSON 3: JOBS AND CRON JOBS IN KUBERNETES
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: KUBERNETES JOBS – CRONJOB, JOBS & COARSE PARALLEL JOB
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: MULTI-CONTAINER PATTERN – SIDE CAR, SHARED IPC & AMBASSADOR
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: READINESS HEALTH AND LIVENESS HEALTH
  • LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION TO HELM PACKAGE MANAGER
  • LESSON 2: DEPLOYING MICROSERVICES USING HELM
  • LESSON 3: INTRODUCTION TO SERVICE MESH (ISTIO)
  • LESSON 4: CUSTOM RESOURCE DEFINITION (CRD)
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: INSTALLING HELM & DEPLOYING A SIMPLE WEB APPLICATION USING HELM CHART
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CREATE & DEVELOP HELM CHART
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: DEPLOY A BOOK STORE APPLICATION WITH ISTIO AND MONITOR THE TRAFFIC THROUGH KIALI DASHBOARD
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CREATE A SIMPLE KUBERNETES CUSTOM RESOURCE DEFINITION (CRD)
    • LESSON 1: CIS BENCHMARK AND PLATFORM BINARY VERIFICATION
    • LESSON 2: RESTRICTING ACCESS TO KUBERNETES API
    • LESSON 3: KERNAL HARDENING TOOLS (APPARMOR, SECCOMP)
    • LESSON 4: ETCD ENCRYPTION AND CONTAINER RUNTIME SANDBOXES
    • LESSON 5: POD SECURITY POLICIES AND ENCRYPTION USING MTLS
    • LESSON 6: IMPLEMENTING SECURITY WITH OPEN POLICY AGENT (OPA)
    • ACTIVITY GUIDES: POD SECURITY POLICY
    • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CONNECT & RESTRICT ACCESS TO API SERVER
    • ACTIVITY GUIDES: DOWNLOAD & VERIFY KUBERNETES BINARIES WITH API-SERVER BINARIES
    • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CIS KUBERNETES BENCHMARK & SECURING KUBERNETES CLUSTER USING KUBE-BENCH
    • ACTIVITY GUIDES: USE APPARMOR WITH KUBERNETES
    • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CHECK DIFFERENT SERVICES & INVESTIGATE PORTS
    • ACTIVITY GUIDES: RUN SYSDIG & BEHAVIORAL ANALYTICS OF SYSCALL
  • LESSON 1: WHITELISTING REGISTRIES WITH OPA
  • LESSON 2: SCANNING IMAGES FOR VULNERABILITIES
  • LESSON 3: IMAGE POLICIES AND BEHAVIORAL ANALYTICS
  • LESSON 4: SECURING IMAGES AND ENABLING AUDIT LOGS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: INSTALL GVISOR & USE CONTAINERD RUNTIME & CREATE KUBERNETES RUNTIME CLASS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CREATE & ACCESS SECRET & ENCRYPT ETCD
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CONFIGURING SECURITY CONTEXT & CREATE POD SECURITY POLICY
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: INSTALL & USE OPA & OPA GATEKEEPER USE REGO PLAYGROUND
  • LESSON 1: NODE MAINTENANCE
  • LESSON 2: APPLICATION TROUBLESHOOTING
  • LESSON 3: CLUSTER TROUBLESHOOTING
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: CLUSTER NODE MAINTENANCE, DEBUGGING, APPLICATION FAILURE, TROUBLESHOOTING CLUSTER
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: APPLICATION TROUBLESHOOTING IN KUBERNETES
  • LESSON 1: ELASTIC CONTAINER SERVICE
  • LESSON 2: CREATE ECR, INSTALL DOCKER, CREATE IMAGE, AND PUSH IMAGE TO ECR
  • LESSON 3: ELASTIC KUBERNETES ON CLOUD
  • LESSON 4: KUBERNETES OBJECTS OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 5: KUBERNETES NETWORKING OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 6: CREATE EKS CLUSTER
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE ELASTIC KUBERNETES SERVICE (EKS) CLUSTER ON AWS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CONFIGURE KUBERNETES CLUSTER AUTOSCALER (CA) ON EKS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: ADVANCED ROUTING WITH INGRESS- CONTROLLER – EKS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOYING PHP GUESTBOOK WITH REDIS APPLICATION ON EKS CLUSTER
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: DYNAMIC PROVISIONING OF AWS EBS PERSISTENT VOLUMES
  • LESSON 1: AKS MICROSERVICES, VM VS DOCKER, CONTAINER
  • LESSON 2: AKS DOCKER CONTAINER, ARCHITECTURE REGISTRY ACI & ACR
  • LESSON 3: AKS K8S ARCHITECTURE
  • LESSON 4: AKS K8S NETWORKING
  • LESSON 5: AKS K8S STORAGE
  • LESSON 6: AKS K8S SECURITY
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOY AZURE KUBERNETES SERVICE (AKS) CLUSTER, POD, EXPOSE SERVICE, SCALE NODE/PODS & MONITOR LOGS.
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: RUN APPLICATION ON AZURE KUBERNETES SERVICE (AKS) WITH HELM
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: STORAGE VOLUME PERSISTENT VOLUME AND CLAIM (STATIC & DYNAMIC) VOLUMES IN AKS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CONFIGURE GITHUB ACTIONS TO DEPLOY APPLICATIONS ON AKS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOY INGRESS CONTROLLER IN AZURE KUBERNETES SERVICE (AKS)
  • LESSON 1: CONTAINERS OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 2: CONTAINER APPLICATION(MONOLITHIC AND MICROSERVICES)
  • LESSON 3: KUBERNETES OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 4: KUBERNETES CLUSTER OVERVIEW
  • LESSON 5: MASTER-NODE, NODE & PODS
  • LESSON 6: KUBERNETES CLUSTER: REGIONAL & ZONAL
  • LESSON 7: GOOGLE KUBERNETES ENGINE
  • LESSON 8: GKE DEPLOYMENT
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE AND MANAGE GKE CLUSTERS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOYING A CONTAINERIZED APPLICATION TO GKE CLUSTER
  • CV PREPARATION
  • INTERVIEW PREPARATION
  • LINKEDIN PROFILE UPDATE
  • EXPERT TIPS & TRICKS
  • ACTIVITY GUIDES: APPLICATION TROUBLESHOOTING IN KUBERNETES

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