GCP Professional Cloud Architect Certification Training

About Course

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud Architect certification validates advanced skills in designing and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions on GCP. It covers cloud architecture, GCP services, infrastructure design, security, compliance, and business continuity. Aimed at cloud architects and IT professionals, it ensures proficiency in architecting solutions that meet organizational requirements, optimize performance, and adhere to industry best practices. Certification holders can design reliable cloud architectures, implement cost-effective solutions, and leverage GCP’s advanced capabilities to drive business success through scalable and efficient cloud environments, making them valuable assets in cloud strategy and implementation.

Course Content

MODULE 1: OVERVIEW CLOUD & GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM

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

MODULE 2: VIRTUAL MACHINES

MODULE 3: VIRTUAL NETWORKS

MODULE 4: CLOUD IAM

MODULE 5: DATA STORAGE 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

MODULE 6: APP ENGINE, FUNCTIONS, CLOUD RUN

LESSON 1: APP ENGINE: SERVERLESS WEB APPS
LESSON 2: APP ENGINE ENVIRONMENTS: STANDARD VS FLEXIBLE
LESSON 3: CLOUD FUNCTIONS: EVENTS & TRIGGERS
LESSON 4: CLOUD RUN: SERVERLESS CONTAINERS
LESSON 5: GOOGLE CLOUD PUB/SUB
LESSON 6: CI/CD, DEVOPS, CLOUD SOURCE REPOSITORY & JENKINS
ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOY A SIMPLE WEB APPLICATION USING APP ENGINE
ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE & DEPLOY A CLOUD FUNCTION USING GOOGLE CLOUD CONSOLE/CLI
ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOY PRE-BUILT SAMPLE CONTAINER TO CLOUD RUN X

MODULE 7: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

MODULE 8: RESOURCE MONITORING

MODULE 9: INTERCONNECTING NETWORKS

MODULE 10: LOAD BALANCING & AUTOSCALING

ACTIVITY GUIDE: AUTOSCALING IN GCP

MODULE 12 GOOGLE KUBERNETES ENGINE

LESSON 1: MICROSERVICES, CONTAINERS, DOCKER & KUBERNETES
LESSON 2: GCP KUBERNETES ENGINE (GKE), UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KUBERNETES AND GOOGLE KUBERNETES ENGINE (GKE)
LESSON 3: KUBERNETES ARCHITECTURE : CLUSTERS, NODE, NODE POOLS, PODS, SERVICES
LESSON 4: DEPLOY & MANAGE WORKLOADS ON GKE
ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE & MANAGE GKE CLUSTERS
ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOY A SIMPLE WEB SERVER CONTAINERIZED
APPLICATION TO A GKE CLUSTER
ACTIVITY GUIDE: ORCHESTRATING THE CLOUD WITH KUBERNETES

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

MODULE 1: OVERVIEW CLOUD & GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM

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

MODULE 2: VIRTUAL MACHINES

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

MODULE 3: VIRTUAL NETWORKS

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

MODULE 4: CLOUD IAM

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

MODULE 5: DATA STORAGE 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

MODULE 6: APP ENGINE, FUNCTIONS, CLOUD RUN

LESSON 1: APP ENGINE: SERVERLESS WEB APPS

LESSON 2: APP ENGINE ENVIRONMENTS: STANDARD VS FLEXIBLE

LESSON 3: CLOUD FUNCTIONS: EVENTS & TRIGGERS

LESSON 4: CLOUD RUN: SERVERLESS CONTAINERS

LESSON 5: GOOGLE CLOUD PUB/SUB

LESSON 6: CI/CD, DEVOPS, CLOUD SOURCE REPOSITORY & JENKINS

ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOY A SIMPLE WEB APPLICATION USING APP ENGINE

ACTIVITY GUIDE: CREATE & DEPLOY A CLOUD FUNCTION USING GOOGLE CLOUD CONSOLE/CLI

ACTIVITY GUIDE: DEPLOY PRE-BUILT SAMPLE CONTAINER TO CLOUD RUN X

MODULE 7: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

LESSON 1: CLOUD RESOURCE MANAGER OVERVIEW

LESSON 2: QUOTAS, LABELS, NAMES & BILLING

ACTIVITY GUIDE: EXAMINING BILLING DATA WITH BIGQUERY

MODULE 8: RESOURCE MONITORING

LESSON 1: STACKDRIVER: CLOUD MONITORING & LOGGING

LESSON 2: LOGGING, ERROR REPORTING, TRACING, DEBUGGING

LESSON 3: CAPACITY PLANNING AND COST OPTIMIZATION

LESSON 4: DEPLOYMENT, MONITORING AND ALERTING, AND INCIDENT RESPONSE

LESSON 5: MONITORING AND ALERTING

ACTIVITY GUIDE: MONITORING COMPUTE ENGINE INSTANCE WITH RESOURCE MONITORING

MODULE 9: INTERCONNECTING NETWORKS

LESSON 1: VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) & ITS TYPES

LESSON 2: VPC PEERING (PUBLIC & PRIVATE)

LESSON 3: CLOUD DNS , CLOUD INTERCONNECT & CLOUD ROUTER

ACTIVITY GUIDE: VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK

MODULE 10: LOAD BALANCING & AUTOSCALING

LESSON 1: LOAD BALANCING TYPES: INTERNAL, EXTERNAL, GLOBAL & REGIONAL

LESSON 2: HTTPS, NETWORK, SSL & TCP LOAD BALANCERS

LESSON 3: CROSS-REGION AND CONTENT-BASED LOAD BALANCING