Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

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 Bank
EULA