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An indispensable guide to the newest version of the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification

The newly revised Second Edition of the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide delivers a proven and effective roadmap to success on the latest Professional Cloud Architect accreditation exam from Google. You'll learn the skills you need to excel on the test and in the field, with coverage of every exam objective and competency, including focus areas of the latest exam such as Kubernetes, Anthos, and multi-cloud architectures. The book explores the design, analysis, development, operations, and migration components of the job, with intuitively organized lessons that align with the real-world job responsibilities of a Google Cloud professional and with the PCA exam topics. Architects need more than the ability to recall facts about cloud services, they need to be able to reason about design decisions. This study guide is unique in how it helps you learn to think like an architect: understand requirements, assess constraints, choose appropriate architecture patterns, and consider the operational characteristics of the systems you design. Review questions and practice exams use scenario-based questions like those on the certification exam to build the test taking skills you will need.

In addition to comprehensive material on compute resources, storage systems, networks, security, legal and regulatory compliance, reliability design, technical and business processes, and more, you'll get:

  • The chance to begin or advance your career as an in-demand Google Cloud IT professional
  • Invaluable opportunities to develop and practice the skills you'll need as a Google Cloud Architect
  • Access to the Sybex online learning center, with chapter review questions, full-length practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms

The ideal resource for anyone preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect certification from Google, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide, 2nd Edition is also a must-read resource for aspiring and practicing cloud professionals seeking to expand or improve their technical skillset and improve their effectiveness in the field.

Author(s): Dan Sullivan
Edition: 2
Publisher: Sybex
Year: 2022

Language: English
Commentary: True PDF
Pages: 368

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Introduction
What Does This Book Cover?
Interactive Online Learning Environment and Test Bank
Additional Resources
Objective Map
Assessment Test
Answers to the Assessment Test
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam
Exam Objectives
Analyzing Business Requirements
Reducing Operational Expenses
Accelerating the Pace of Development
Reporting on Service-Level Objectives
Reducing Time to Recover from an Incident
Improving Compliance with Industry Regulations
Analyzing Technical Requirements
Functional Requirements
Exam Case Studies
EHR Healthcare
Helicopter Racing League
Mountkirk Games
TerramEarth
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 2 Designing Solutions to Meet Business Requirements
Business Use Cases and Product Strategy
EHR Healthcare
Helicopter Racing League
Mountkirk Games Strategy
TerramEarth Strategy
Application Design and Cost Considerations
Managed Services
Reduced Levels of Services
Data Lifecycle Management
Systems Integration and Data Management
Systems Integration Business Requirements
Data Management Business Requirements
Compliance and Regulation
Privacy Regulations
Data Integrity Regulations
Security
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Success Measures
Key Performance Indicators
Return on Investment
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 3 Designing Solutions to Meet Technical Requirements
High Availability
Compute Availability
Storage Availability
Network Availability
Application Availability
Scalability
Scaling Compute Resources
Scaling Storage Resources
Network Design for Scalability
Reliability
Measuring Reliability
Reliability Engineering
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 4 Designing Compute Systems
Compute Services and Use Cases
Compute Engine
App Engine
Cloud Functions
Cloud Run
Kubernetes Engine
Anthos
Overview of Anthos
Anthos Service Mesh
Anthos Multi Cluster Ingress
Anthos Deployment Options
AI and Machine Learning Services
Vertex AI
Cloud TPU
Data Flows and Pipelines
Cloud Pub/Sub Pipelines
Cloud Dataflow Pipelines
Cloud Dataproc
Cloud Workflows
Cloud Data Fusion
Cloud Composer
Compute System Provisioning
Additional Design Issues
Managing State in Distributed Systems
Synchronous and Asynchronous Operations
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 5 Designing Storage Systems
Overview of Storage Services
Object Storage with Google Cloud Storage
Organizing Objects in a Namespace
Cloud Storage FUSE
Storage Tiers
Cloud Storage Use Cases
Network-Attached Storage with Google Cloud Filestore
Cloud Filestore Service Tiers
Cloud Filestore Networking
Cloud Filestore Access Controls
Databases
Relational Database Overview
Cloud SQL
Cloud Spanner
Analytical Database: BigQuery
NoSQL Databases
Caching with Cloud Memorystore
Data Retention and Lifecycle Management
Networking and Latency
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 6 Designing Networks
IP Addressing, Firewall Rules, and Routers
IP Address Structure
Public vs. Private Addressing
Firewall Rules
Cloud Router
Cloud Armor
Virtual Private Clouds
VPC Subnets
Shared VPC
VPC Network Peering
Hybrid-Cloud Networking
Hybrid-Cloud Design Considerations
Hybrid-Cloud Implementation Options
Service-Centric Networking
Private Service Connect for Google APIs
Private Service Connect for Google APIs with Consumer HTTP(S)
Private Google Access
Private Google Access for On-Premises Hosts
Private Service Connect for Published Services
Private Service Access
Serverless VPC Access
Load Balancing
Regional Load Balancing
Global Load Balancing
Additional Network Services
Service Directory
Cloud CDN
Cloud DNS
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 7 Designing for Security and Legal Compliance
Identity and Access Management and Related Access Control Services
Identities and Groups
Resources
Permissions
Roles
Policies
Cloud IAM Conditions
IAM Best Practices
Identity-Aware Proxy
Workload Identity Federation
Organization Constraints
Data Security
Encryption
Key Management
Cloud Storage Data Access
Security Evaluation
Penetration Testing
Auditing
Security Design Principles
Separation of Duties
Least Privilege
Defense in Depth
Major Regulations
HIPAA/HITECH
General Data Protection Regulation
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
ITIL Framework
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 8 Designing for Reliability
Improving Reliability with Cloud Operations Suite
Monitoring with Cloud Monitoring
Alerting with Cloud Monitoring
Logging with Cloud Logging
Open Source Observability Tools
Release Management
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Systems Reliability Engineering
Overload
Cascading Failures
Testing for Reliability
Incident Management and Post-Mortem Analysis
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 9 Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes
Software Development Lifecycle Plan
Analysis
Design
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
Business Drivers to Adopt CI/CD
CI/CD Building Blocks
Troubleshooting and Post-Mortem Analysis Culture
Incident Post-Mortems
Project Post-Mortems
IT Enterprise Processes
Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity Planning
Disaster Recovery
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 10 Analyzing and Defining Business Processes
Stakeholder Management
Interests and Influence
Projects, Programs, and Portfolios
Stages of Stakeholder Management
Change Management
Reasons for Change
Change Management Methodologies
Team Skill Management
Customer Success Management
Cost Optimization/Resource Optimization
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 11 Development and Operations
Application Development Methodologies
Waterfall
Spiral
Agile
Technical Debt
API Best Practices
Resources and Standard Methods
API Security
Testing Frameworks
Testing Framework Models
Automated Testing Tools
Data and System Migration Tooling
Types of Cloud Migrations
Migration Services and Tools
Interacting with Google Cloud Programmatically
Google Cloud SDK
Google Cloud Shell
Cloud Emulators
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Chapter 12 Migration Planning
Integrating Cloud Services with Existing Systems
Migrating Systems and Data to Support a Solution
Planning for Systems Migrations
Planning for Data Migration
Software Licensing Mapping
Network Planning
Virtual Private Clouds
Network Access Controls
Scaling
Connectivity
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
Appendix Answers to the Review Questions
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam
Chapter 2: Designing Solutions to Meet Business Requirements
Chapter 3: Designing Solutions to Meet Technical Requirements
Chapter 4: Designing Compute Systems
Chapter 5: Designing Storage Systems
Chapter 6: Designing Networks
Chapter 7: Designing for Security and Legal Compliance
Chapter 8: Designing for Reliability
Chapter 9: Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes
Chapter 10: Analyzing and Defining Business Processes
Chapter 11: Development and Operations
Chapter 12: Migration Planning
Index
Online Test Bank
EULA