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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
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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

Learning models

Now that we have a basic understanding of ML and how to train a model, let's have a look at three types of ML learning. These are as follows:

  • Supervised learning
  • Unsupervised learning
  • Semi-supervised ML

The preceding three types of ML are defined as follows:

  • Supervised learning: Supervised learning is the most common model. It is used when the training data and validation data is labeled. What the model does is learn how to set a label for input data. It does this based on what it has learned from some labeled training data. We can further classify supervised learning into the following categories:
    • Classification: This occurs when the output data is a category, for example, apple, pear, or orange.
    • Regression: This occurs when the output data is a value, such as cost and temperature.
  • Unsupervised learning: Unsupervised learning is used when the training...