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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to GCP
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Section 2: Managing, Designing, and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
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Section 3: Designing for Security and Compliance
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Section 4: Managing Implementation
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Section 5: Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
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Section 6: Exam Focus

Google Cloud Management Options

This chapter describes how to utilize the various management options available so that you can administer your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services in an easier way. In the previous chapters, we touched on the command-line tools that are available so that we can manage Google services. We can now go into more detail about these tools, which includes gcloud, cbt, bq, and gsutil.

Exam tips: It's vital that you know about the most efficient command-line tool for managing a particular service. Review and understand each command-line tool in the chapter and ensure that you can quickly map this to a GCP service. For example, if we are asked to create a new storage bucket using a command-line tool, we should know instantly that we need to use gsutil.

We also recommend that you take a deeper look at the gsutil command lines and understand them so...