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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By : Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard
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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By: Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leading cloud service suites and offers solutions for storage, analytics, big data, machine learning, and application development. It features an array of services that can help organizations to get the best out of their infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers a variety of topics specific to Google's Professional Cloud Architect official exam syllabus and guides you in using the right methods for effective use of GCP services. You'll start by exploring GCP, understanding the benefits of becoming a certified architect, and learning how to register for the exam. You'll then delve into the core services that GCP offers such as computing, storage, and security. As you advance, this GCP book will help you get up to speed with methods to scale and automate your cloud infrastructure and delve into containers and services. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover security best practices and even gain insights into designing applications with GCP services and monitoring your infrastructure as a GCP architect. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in all the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect exam and use GCP services effectively.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to GCP
5
Section 2: Managing, Designing, and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
15
Section 3: Designing for Security and Compliance
17
Section 4: Managing Implementation
19
Section 5: Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
21
Section 6: Exam Focus

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the storage options available to us, looking at which ones were most appropriate for common requirements. We also learned about Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore, and Cloud SQL.

With Google Cloud Storage, we looked at use cases, storage classes, and some main features of the service. We also covered some considerations to bear in mind when transferring data. It's clear that Cloud Storage offers a lot of flexibility, but when we need to store more structured data, we need to look at alternatives.

With Cloud Datastore, we learned that this service is a NoSQL database and is ideal for your situation should your application rely on highly available and structured data. Also, Cloud Datastore can scale from zero up to terabytes of data with ease and is ideal for ACID transactions. We also learned that it offers eventual or strong consistency...