Google Cloud certified professional Cloud Architect : study guide

An indispensable guide to the newest version of the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification The newly revised Second Edition of the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide delivers a proven and effective roadmap to success on the latest Professional Cloud Architect accreditation exam from Google. You'll learn the skills you need to excel on the test and in the field, with coverage of every exam objective and competency, including focus areas of the latest exam such as Kubernetes, Anthos, and multi-cloud architectures. The book explores the design, analysis, development, operations, and migration components of the job, with intuitively organized lessons that align with the real-world job responsibilities of a Google Cloud professional and with the PCA exam topics. Architects need more than the ability to recall facts about cloud services, they need to be able to reason about design decisions. This study guide is unique in how it helps you learn to think like an architect: understand requirements, assess constraints, choose appropriate architecture patterns, and consider the operational characteristics of the systems you design. Review questions and practice exams use scenario-based questions like those on the certification exam to build the test taking skills you will need. In addition to comprehensive material on compute resources, storage systems, networks, security, legal and regulatory compliance, reliability design, technical and business processes, and more, you'll get: The chance to begin or advance your career as an in-demand Google Cloud IT professional Invaluable opportunities to develop and practice the skills you'll need as a Google Cloud Architect Access to the Sybex online learning center, with chapter review questions, full-length practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms The ideal resource for anyone preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect certification from Google, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide, 2nd Edition is also a must-read resource for aspiring and practicing cloud professionals seeking to expand or improve their technical skillset and improve their effectiveness in the field. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents at a Glance Contents Introduction What Does This Book Cover? Interactive Online Learning Environment and Test Bank Additional Resources Objective Map Assessment Test Answers to the Assessment Test Chapter 1 Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam Exam Objectives Analyzing Business Requirements Reducing Operational Expenses Accelerating the Pace of Development Reporting on Service-Level Objectives Reducing Time to Recover from an Incident Improving Compliance with Industry Regulations Analyzing Technical Requirements Functional Requirements Exam Case Studies EHR Healthcare Helicopter Racing League Mountkirk Games TerramEarth Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 2 Designing Solutions to Meet Business Requirements Business Use Cases and Product Strategy EHR Healthcare Helicopter Racing League Mountkirk Games Strategy TerramEarth Strategy Application Design and Cost Considerations Managed Services Reduced Levels of Services Data Lifecycle Management Systems Integration and Data Management Systems Integration Business Requirements Data Management Business Requirements Compliance and Regulation Privacy Regulations Data Integrity Regulations Security Confidentiality Integrity Availability Success Measures Key Performance Indicators Return on Investment Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 3 Designing Solutions to Meet Technical Requirements High Availability Compute Availability Storage Availability Network Availability Application Availability Scalability Scaling Compute Resources Scaling Storage Resources Network Design for Scalability Reliability Measuring Reliability Reliability Engineering Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 4 Designing Compute Systems Compute Services and Use Cases Compute Engine App Engine Cloud Functions Cloud Run Kubernetes Engine Anthos Overview of Anthos Anthos Service Mesh Anthos Multi Cluster Ingress Anthos Deployment Options AI and Machine Learning Services Vertex AI Cloud TPU Data Flows and Pipelines Cloud Pub/Sub Pipelines Cloud Dataflow Pipelines Cloud Dataproc Cloud Workflows Cloud Data Fusion Cloud Composer Compute System Provisioning Additional Design Issues Managing State in Distributed Systems Synchronous and Asynchronous Operations Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 5 Designing Storage Systems Overview of Storage Services Object Storage with Google Cloud Storage Organizing Objects in a Namespace Cloud Storage FUSE Storage Tiers Cloud Storage Use Cases Network-Attached Storage with Google Cloud Filestore Cloud Filestore Service Tiers Cloud Filestore Networking Cloud Filestore Access Controls Databases Relational Database Overview Cloud SQL Cloud Spanner Analytical Database: BigQuery NoSQL Databases Caching with Cloud Memorystore Data Retention and Lifecycle Management Networking and Latency Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 6 Designing Networks IP Addressing, Firewall Rules, and Routers IP Address Structure Public vs. Private Addressing Firewall Rules Cloud Router Cloud Armor Virtual Private Clouds VPC Subnets Shared VPC VPC Network Peering Hybrid-Cloud Networking Hybrid-Cloud Design Considerations Hybrid-Cloud Implementation Options Service-Centric Networking Private Service Connect for Google APIs Private Service Connect for Google APIs with Consumer HTTP(S) Private Google Access Private Google Access for On-Premises Hosts Private Service Connect for Published Services Private Service Access Serverless VPC Access Load Balancing Regional Load Balancing Global Load Balancing Additional Network Services Service Directory Cloud CDN Cloud DNS Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 7 Designing for Security and Legal Compliance Identity and Access Management and Related Access Control Services Identities and Groups Resources Permissions Roles Policies Cloud IAM Conditions IAM Best Practices Identity-Aware Proxy Workload Identity Federation Organization Constraints Data Security Encryption Key Management Cloud Storage Data Access Security Evaluation Penetration Testing Auditing Security Design Principles Separation of Duties Least Privilege Defense in Depth Major Regulations HIPAA/HITECH General Data Protection Regulation Sarbanes-Oxley Act Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ITIL Framework Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 8 Designing for Reliability Improving Reliability with Cloud Operations Suite Monitoring with Cloud Monitoring Alerting with Cloud Monitoring Logging with Cloud Logging Open Source Observability Tools Release Management Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Systems Reliability Engineering Overload Cascading Failures Testing for Reliability Incident Management and Post-Mortem Analysis Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 9 Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes Software Development Lifecycle Plan Analysis Design Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Business Drivers to Adopt CI/CD CI/CD Building Blocks Troubleshooting and Post-Mortem Analysis Culture Incident Post-Mortems Project Post-Mortems IT Enterprise Processes Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Planning Disaster Recovery Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 10 Analyzing and Defining Business Processes Stakeholder Management Interests and Influence Projects, Programs, and Portfolios Stages of Stakeholder Management Change Management Reasons for Change Change Management Methodologies Team Skill Management Customer Success Management Cost Optimization/Resource Optimization Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 11 Development and Operations Application Development Methodologies Waterfall Spiral Agile Technical Debt API Best Practices Resources and Standard Methods API Security Testing Frameworks Testing Framework Models Automated Testing Tools Data and System Migration Tooling Types of Cloud Migrations Migration Services and Tools Interacting with Google Cloud Programmatically Google Cloud SDK Google Cloud Shell Cloud Emulators Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Chapter 12 Migration Planning Integrating Cloud Services with Existing Systems Migrating Systems and Data to Support a Solution Planning for Systems Migrations Planning for Data Migration Software Licensing Mapping Network Planning Virtual Private Clouds Network Access Controls Scaling Connectivity Summary Exam Essentials Review Questions Appendix Answers to the Review Questions Chapter 1: Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam Chapter 2: Designing Solutions to Meet Business Requirements Chapter 3: Designing Solutions to Meet Technical Requirements Chapter 4: Designing Compute Systems Chapter 5: Designing Storage Systems Chapter 6: Designing Networks Chapter 7: Designing for Security and Legal Compliance Chapter 8: Designing for Reliability Chapter 9: Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes Chapter 10: Analyzing and Defining Business Processes Chapter 11: Development and Operations Chapter 12: Migration Planning Index Online Test 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