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.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAN SULLIVAN is a software architect specializing in big data, machine learning, and cloud computing. A Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer and Professional Cloud Architect, he is also an instructor with LinkedIn Learning, where he develops courses on data science, machine learning, and data management. His current project involves real-time analysis of application and system monitoring data.
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Includes interactive online learning environment and study tools:
- 2 custom practice exams
- More than 100 electronic flashcards
- Searchable key term glossary
Achieve Certification Success with this Complete Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide
Google's Cloud platform is rapidly increasing market share, and the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification acknowledges your proficiency in all aspects of Google Cloud architecture. Enhance your job prospects by mastering every skill required to achieve this certification. This Sybex Study Guide covers 100 percent of the exam objectives, enabling you to design network, storage, and compute resources; meet all business and technical requirements; design for security and compliance, plan migrations; and much more. The proven Sybex study format, plus the exclusive Sybex online learning platform with practice exams and electronic flashcards, will prepare you for exam success.
Coverage of 100% of all exam objectives in this Study Guide means you'll be ready for:
- Designing for Business and Technical Requirements
- Designing Compute Resources
- Designing Storage Systems
- Designing Networks
- Designing for Security and Compliance
- Designing for Reliability
- Analyzing and Defining Technical and Business Processes
- Optimizing Development and Operations
- Planning Migrations
Interactive learning environment
Take your exam prep to the next level with Sybex's superior interactive online study tools. To access our learning environment, simply visit http://www.wiley.com/go/sybextestprep, register your book to receive your unique PIN, and instantly gain access to:
- Interactive test bank with 2 practice exams. Practice exams help you identify areas where further review is needed. Get more than 90% of the answers correct, and you're ready to take the certification exam. More than 300 questions total!
- More than 100+ electronic flashcards to reinforce learning and last-minute prep before the exam
- Comprehensive glossary in PDF format gives you instant access to the key terms so you are fully prepared
Inhalt
Introduction xxi
Assessment Test xxviii
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam 1
Exam Objectives 2
Analyzing Business Requirements 3
Reducing Operational Expenses 3
Accelerating the Pace of Development 4
Reporting on Service-Level Objectives 4
Reducing Time to Recover from an Incident 5
Improving Compliance with Industry Regulations 6
Analyzing Technical Requirements 7
Functional Requirements 7
Exam Case Studies 10
Summary 18
Exam Essentials 18
Review Questions 20
Chapter 2 Designing for Business Requirements 23
Business Use Cases and Product Strategy 24
Dress4Win Strategy 25
Mountkirk Games Strategy 26
TerramEarth Strategy 27
Application Design and Cost Considerations 28
Managed Services 29
Preemptible Virtual Machines 31
Data Lifecycle Management 32
Systems Integration and Data Management 33
Systems Integration Business Requirements 33
Data Management Business Requirements 35
Compliance and Regulation 36
Privacy Regulations 37
Data Integrity Regulations 38
Security 38
Confidentiality 38
Integrity 39
Availability 39
Success Measures 40
Key Performance Indicators 40
Return on Investment 41
Summary 41
Exam Essentials 42
Review Questions 43
Chapter 3 Designing for Technical Requirements 49
High Availability 50
Compute Availability 52
Storage Availability 54
Network Availability 57
Application Availability 58
Scalability 58
Scaling Compute Resources 59
Scaling Storage Resources 60
Network Design for Scalability 61
Reliability 61
Measuring Reliability 61
Reliability Engineering 62
Summary 62
Exam Essentials 63
Review Questions 64
Chapter 4 Designing Compute Systems 69
Compute Services and Use Cases 70
Compute Engine 71
App Engine 74
Kubernetes Engine 76
Cloud Functions 78
Compute System Provisioning 79
Additional Design Issues 80
Managing State in Distributed Systems 80
Data Flows and Pipelines 82
Monitoring and Alerting 84
Summary 85
Exam Essentials 85
Review Questions 86
Chapter 5 Designing Storage Systems 91
Overview of Storage Services 92
Object Storage with Google Cloud Storage 93
Organizing Objects in a Namespace 93
Cloud Storage FUSE 94
Storage Tiers 94
Cloud Storage Use Cases 95
Network-Attached Storage with Google Cloud Filestore 96
Databases 97
Relational Database Overview 97
Cloud SQL 98
Cloud Spanner 99
Analytics Database: BigQuery 100
NoSQL Databases 101
Caching with Cloud Memorystore 103
Data Retention and Lifecycle Management 104
Networking and Latency 105
Summary 106
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