Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification and Implementation Guide: Master the deployment, management, and monitoring of Google Cloud solutions

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1:Overview of Google Cloud Platform and Associate Cloud Engineer Certification
Chapter 1: Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Essentials
	What you will learn
	Exam registration
		Account creation
		Onsite exam
		Online exam
		Retake policy
		Available languages
	Certification tips
	Additional certification resources
	Summary
Chapter 2: Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals
	Why Google Cloud Platform?
		Google 1 billion users experience
		The history of Google Cloud
		Google Cloud today
		What makes Google Cloud different?
	Choosing the right cloud solution
		On-premises
		Infrastructure as a service
		Platform as a service
		Software as a service
	An overview of the core services offered by Google Cloud
		Storage services
		Networking services
		Security and identity services
		AI and ML services
	Management interfaces and command-line tools
		Google Cloud console
		Cloud Shell
		The gcloud CLI
		Cloud APIs
		Config Connector
		Google Cloud Deployment Manager
		Terraform
		Service Catalog
		Mobile applications
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Part 2:Configuring and Implementing Google Cloud
Chapter 3: Planning and Managing GCP Resources
	Planning Google Cloud resources
		Google Cloud setup checklist
		Google Cloud’s best practices
		Google Cloud blueprints
		Planning compute resources
		Planning database resources
		Planning data storage options
		Conclusion
	Billing and budgets
		Free trial
		Google Cloud Free Tier
		Billing
	API management
		Enabling an API
	Quota management
		Quota increase
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 4: Implementing Compute Solutions – Google Compute Engine
	Computing options
	GCE
		GCE machine families
		Creating GCE
		GCE management
		GCE storage
		The GCE network
		MIGs
		Cloud logging and monitoring agents
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 5: Implementing Compute Solutions – Google Kubernetes Engine (Part 1)
	GKE
	Traditional versus virtualized versus container deployment
		Traditional deployment
		Virtualized deployment
		Container deployment
	GKE architecture
		Kubernetes components
		Google Kubernetes components
		Storage in GKE
		GKE Standard
		GKE Autopilot
	GKE management interfaces
		Cloud Console
		Cloud Shell
		Cloud SDK
		kubectl
		Cluster management access configuration
	GKE Standard deployment
		Cloud Console
		Command line
	GKE Autopilot deployment
		Cloud Console
		Command line
	Working with applications
		Artifact Registry
		Deploying applications
		Deployment
		ReplicaSet
		StatefulSets
		DaemonSet
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 6: Implementing Compute Solutions – Google Kubernetes Engine (Part 2)
	Cluster operations
		Viewing cluster resources
		Adding clusters
		Modifying clusters
		Removing clusters
	Node pool operations
		Viewing node pools
		Adding node pools
		Modifying node pools
		Deleting node pools
	Pod management
		Pod lifecycle
		Pod deployment
		Viewing Pods
		Adding Pods
		Modifying Pods
		Removing Pods
	Service management
		Types of services
		Viewing services
		Adding services
		Modifying services
		Removing services
	GKE logging and monitoring
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 7: Implementing Compute Solutions – Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Infrastructure as Code
	Cloud Run
		Cloud Run architecture
		Cloud Run application deployment
		Cloud Run application revisions
		Cloud Run traffic management
		Cloud Run Traffic autoscaling
	Cloud Functions
		Cloud Functions overview
		Events and triggers
		Cloud Functions versions
		Google Cloud Functions example
	Infrastructure as Code
		Config Connector in Google Kubernetes Engine
		Terraform
		Cloud Foundation Toolkit
	Marketplace solutions
		Marketplace solution deployment
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 8: Configuring and Implementing Data Storage Solutions
	Google’s object storage – Cloud Storage
		Location types
		Storage classes
		Data lifecycle
		Working with buckets and objects
		Creating a bucket in practice
	Block storage – local and persistent disks
	File storage – Cloud Filestore
		Creating a file share in practice
	Databases
		Relational databases
		Non-relational databases (NoSQL)
		Warehouse and analytics – BigQuery
		In-memory datastore – Memorystore
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 9: Configuring and Implementing Networking Components
	Virtual Private Cloud
		Networking for Compute Engine VMs
		Shared VPCs
		VPC network peering
	Hybrid networking
		Cloud Router
		High availability VPN
		Interconnect
	Securing cloud networks with firewall rules
	Cloud DNS
		Creating a zone in practice
		DNS forwarding for hybrid environments
	Network load balancing
		Global external HTTP(S) load balancer
		Global external TCP/SSL proxies
		External network TCP/UDP load balancers
		Internal TCP/UDP load balancing
		Selecting a load balancer
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Part 3:Data Analytics, Security, Operations, and Cost Estimation in Google Cloud
Chapter 10: Data Processing Services in Google Cloud
	Data processing services overview
		Pub/Sub
		Dataproc
		Dataflow
	Initializing and loading data into data products
		Pub/Sub and Dataflow
		Dataproc
		Using Google Cloud APIs
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Estimating Costs in GCP
	Cloud Monitoring
		Creating Cloud Monitoring alerts based on resource metrics
		Creating and ingesting Cloud Monitoring custom metrics
		Custom metrics ingestion
	Cloud Logging
		Viewing and filtering logs in Cloud Logging
		Viewing specific log message details in Cloud Logging
		Configuring log routers
		Configuring log sinks to export logs to external systems
	Diagnostics
		Using cloud diagnostics to research an application issue
		Viewing Google Cloud status
	Estimating costs with the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Chapter 12: Implementing Identity and Security in Google Cloud
	Creating a Cloud Identity
		Users and groups
	Identity and Access Management (IAM)
		Building a resource hierarchy
		IAM roles
		IAM policies
		Organization policies
	Managing service accounts
		Creating and granting permissions
		Attaching service accounts to resources
		Impersonating a service account
		Short-lived service account credentials
	Using Cloud Audit Logs
	Summary
	Questions
	Answers
Mock Test 1
	Questions
	Answers
Mock Test 2
	Questions
	Answers
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