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Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification Guide - Second Edition

By : Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard
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Book Image

Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification Guide - Second Edition

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By: Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the industry leaders thanks to its array of services that can be leveraged by organizations to bring the best out of their infrastructure. This book is a comprehensive guide for learning methods to effectively utilize GCP services and help you become acquainted with the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect certification exam. Following the Professional Cloud Architect's official exam syllabus, you'll first be introduced to the GCP. The book then covers the core services that GCP offers, such as computing and storage, and takes you through effective methods of scaling and automating your cloud infrastructure. As you progress through the chapters, you'll get to grips with containers and services and discover best practices related to the design and process. This revised second edition features new topics such as Cloud Run, Anthos, Data Fusion, Composer, and Data Catalog. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge required to take and pass the Google Cloud Certification – Professional Cloud Architect exam and become an expert in GCP services.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to GCP
5
Section 2: Manage, Design, and Plan a Cloud Solution Architecture
14
Chapter 12: Exploring Storage and Database Options in GCP – Part 2
17
Section 3: Secure, Manage and Monitor a Google Cloud Solution
21
Section 4: Exam Focus

Deployment options

You will notice that there are some options we left as default. Let's look at these in a bit more detail to make sure we understand all of the settings required to create a Compute Engine instance.

Region

Regions are geographical locations that are made up of three or more zones. We need to select a region where we can run our VM. The requirements may be related to where most traffic is expected. As we have mentioned, some regions are more expensive than others:

Figure 4.15 – Regions

Make sure the selected region makes sense based on your requirements.

Zone

Make sure you select a zone that suits your requirements. Consider network latency and select a region or zone close to your point of service:

Figure 4.16 – Zones

All zones in a region are connected through a high-bandwidth and low-latency network – usually below 5 minutes for a round trip between each zone.

Boot disk

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