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This program provides the skills you need to advance your career in cloud architecture and provides a pathway to earn the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. 

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Difficulty Level: INTERMEDIATE
 
Estimated Learning Time: 5 Months - Approximately 3 hours of study a week
Cloud technology

Skills You Will Gain

Google Compute Engine

Google App Engine (GAE)

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud Computing

Virtual Machine

Network Architecture

Debugging

Cloud Storage

Data Store

Load Balancing

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Autoscaling

About this Professional Certificate

This program provides the skills you need to advance your career in cloud architecture and provides a pathway to earn the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. You'll deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services, and you'll gain real world experience through hands-on Qwiklabs projects that you can share with potential employers.

You'll also have the opportunity to practice key job skills, including case analysis, identifying technical watchpoints, and developing proposed solutions. Test your basic abilities with Activity Tracking Challenge Labs. For learners looking to get certified, this program will provide sample questions similar to those on the exam, including solutions and practice exam quizzes that simulate the exam-taking experience.

Upon successful completion of this program, you will earn a certificate of completion to share with your professional network and potential employers. If you'd like to earn your Google Cloud certification, you will need to register for and pass the certification exam. Please note that this program helps equip you with the skills you need to take the certification exam, but the certification and certification fee is not included in the cost of this training program.

What you will learn

  • Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud architect role
  • Prepare for the Professional Cloud Architect certification
  • Learn about the infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud Platform
  • Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.

 

Courses in this Professional Certificate

Course

 

1

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

This course introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.


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2

Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation

This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.


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3

Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.


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4

Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation

This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.


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5

Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process

This course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud using proven design patterns. It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in either of those courses. Through a combination of presentations, design activities, and hands-on labs, participants learn to define and balance business and technical requirements to design Google Cloud deployments that are highly reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective.


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6

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations

In this course, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations," you get a review of the layout and principles of Google Cloud, followed by an introduction to creating and managing software containers and an introduction to the architecture of Kubernetes.


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7

Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey

This course helps learners create a study plan for the PCA (Professional Cloud Architect) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.