Professional Cloud Architect

Prepares you to pass the Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.

Course Overview

Free sample questions

  • Free practice questions intro
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GCP Fundamentals

  • Accessing GCP - Console, SDK, and APIs
  • Google Cloud SDK and gcloud
  • Cloud Shell
  • GCP Resource Hierarchy - Intro
  • Project Name, ID, and Number
  • Governance and Compliance with Org Policies
  • Org Level Roles
  • Quiz: GCP Fundamentals

Cloud Billing

  • Cloud Billing - Intro
  • Cloud Billing - Exports
  • Cloud Billing - Resource Labels
  • Cloud Billing - Billing Account Access
  • Quiz: Cloud Billing

Identity and Access Management

  • Cloud IAM - Intro
  • Cloud IAM - Understanding Service Accounts
  • Cloud IAM - Service Account Key Management
  • Cloud IAM - Permissions and Roles
  • Cloud IAM - Role Type Details
  • Cloud IAM - Principle of Least Privilege
  • Cloud IAM - Least Privilege via Environment Separation
  • Cloud IAM - Groups
  • Cloud IAM - IAM Conditions
  • Cloud IAM - Federated Authentication
  • Cloud IAM - gcloud commands
  • Quiz: Cloud IAM

Cloud Observability Suite

  • Cloud Logging - Intro
  • Cloud Logging - Exports and Sinks
  • Quiz: Cloud Logging
  • Cloud Monitoring - Intro
  • Cloud Monitoring - Uptime Checks
  • Cloud Monitoring - Mapping Business Objectives to Technical Metrics
  • Quiz: Cloud Monitoring
  • Cloud Trace
  • Quiz: Cloud Trace

Compute Engine

  • Compute Services - The Spectrum of Abstraction
  • Compute Engine - Intro
  • Compute Engine - VM Location
  • Compute Engine - Machine Type
  • Compute Engine - Network Settings
  • Compute Engine - Preemptibility
  • Compute Engine - Ops Agent
  • Compute Engine - Delete Protection
  • Compute Engine - On-Host Maintenance
  • Compute Engine - Boot Disk
  • Compute Engine - Additional Storage
  • Choosing a Filestore service tier
  • Cloud Storage FUSE
  • Compute Engine - Service Account Assignment
  • Compute Engine - Multi-NIC Configuration
  • Compute Engine - Backup Methods
  • Compute Engine - Connecting to VMs
  • Quiz: Compute Engine #1
  • Compute Engine - Managed Instance Groups (MIGs)
  • Compute Engine - MIG Autohealing and Automatic Restart
  • Compte Engine - MIG Location
  • Compute Engine - Update Policies with MIGs
  • Compute Engine - Load Balancing with MIGs
  • Quiz: Compute Engine #2
  • Compute Engine - Active-Standby Model
  • Compute Engine - Patch
  • Compute Engine - Migrating VMs
  • Compute Engine - Disaster Recovery Strategies
  • Compute Engine - Troubleshooting Strategies
  • Compute Engine - Cloud Recommender
  • Compute Engine - Shutdown Scripts
  • Compute Engine - Sole-Tenant Nodes
  • Compute Engine - Predefined Roles
  • Quiz: Compute Engine #3

Google Kubernetes Engine

  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - Intro
  • GKE - Core Kubernetes Concepts
  • GKE - Command Line Tools
  • GKE - Dockerfiles
  • GKE - Autoscaling
  • GKE - Overprovisioned pods use case
  • Quiz: GKE #1
  • GKE - Kubernetes Services to Route Network Traffic
  • GKE - Container Security Best Practices
  • GKE - Cluster Security
  • GKE - Liveness and Readiness Probes
  • GKE - Load Balancing
  • GKE - Versioning and Testing
  • GKE - PCI DSS
  • GKE - Specialized Workloads
  • GKE - Observability
  • GKE - Managed Service for Prometheus
  • GKE - Service Meshes
  • GKE - GKE Enterprise and Anthos Clusters
  • GKE - Traffic Splitting with Knative Serving
  • GKE - Config Connector
  • Quiz: GKE #2

Cloud Run

  • Cloud Run - Intro
  • Cloud Run - Autoscaling & Cold Starts
  • Cloud Run - Stateless Containers
  • Cloud Run - Network Endpoint Groups
  • Cloud Run - High Availability Architecture
  • Cloud Run - Ingress control and load balancer integration
  • Cloud Run - Traffic Splitting
  • Quiz: Cloud Run

Container Registry & Artifact Registry

  • Container/Artifact Registry - Intro
  • Container/Artifact Registry - Typical Deployment Pipeline
  • Container/Artifact Registry - Vulnerability Scanning
  • Container/Artifact Registry - Tagging
  • Quiz: Container Registry & Artifact Registry

App Engine

  • App Engine - Intro
  • App Engine - Standard vs. Flexible
  • App Engine - Version Management and Traffic Splitting
  • App Engine - Dependency Management
  • App Engine - Memcache
  • App Engine - State Management
  • Quiz: App Engine

Cloud Functions

  • Cloud Functions - Intro
  • Cloud Functions - Types of Triggers
  • Cloud Functions - Rollbacks
  • Cloud Functions - Securely Connecting Functions
  • Quiz: Cloud Functions

CI/CD

  • Cloud Build - Intro
  • Cloud Build - Triggers
  • Cloud Build - YAML and Substitutions
  • Cloud Deploy
  • Test Layering with CI/CD Pipelines
  • Quiz: CI/CD

Cloud Deployment Manager

  • Cloud Deployment Manager - Intro to IaC
  • Cloud Deployment Manager - Intro
  • Cloud Deployment Manager - Migration Use Case
  • Cloud Deployment Manager - Potential Challenges
  • Quiz: Cloud Deployment Manager

Cloud VPC

  • Cloud VPC - Intro
  • Cloud VPC - IP addresses
  • Cloud VPC - Subnet creation tips
  • Cloud VPC - IP range overlap
  • Cloud VPC - Connecting to other networks
  • Cloud VPC - Project isolation techniques
  • Cloud VPC - Private Google Access
  • Cloud VPC - Serverless VPC Access
  • Cloud VPC - Direct VPC Egress
  • Cloud VPC - Predefined roles
  • Quiz: Cloud VPC

Cloud VPN

  • Cloud VPN - Intro
  • Cloud VPN - Resolving overlapping networks
  • Cloud VPN - Gateway types
  • Cloud VPN - Multi-region configurations
  • Quiz: Cloud VPN

Cloud Interconnect

  • Cloud Interconnect - Intro
  • Cloud Interconnect - Dedicated Interconnect Use Cases
  • Cloud Interconnect - Avoiding IP Overlap
  • Cloud Interconnect - Colocation Facilities (Dedicated Interconnect)
  • Cloud Interconnect - High Availability Use Cases
  • Quiz: Cloud Interconnect

Cloud Load Balancing

  • Cloud Load Balancing - Intro
  • Cloud Load Balancing - OSI Layers
  • Cloud Load Balancing - Regional vs. Global Load Balancers
  • Cloud Load Balancing - Unified Front-End and Path-Based Routing
  • Cloud Load Balancing - Health Checks
  • Cloud Load Balancing - Session Affinity
  • Cloud Load Balancing - IoT use case
  • Cloud Load Balancing - Network Endpoint Groups
  • Quiz: Cloud Load Balancing

Cloud NAT (Network Address Translation)

  • Cloud NAT
  • Quiz: Cloud NAT

Cloud Firewall

  • Cloud Firewall - Intro
  • Cloud Firewall - Tags and Dynamic Traffic Control
  • Quiz: Cloud Firewall

Cloud Storage

  • Cloud Storage - Intro
  • Cloud Storage - Bucket Setup
  • Cloud Storage - Data Imports
  • Cloud Storage - Data Management Features
  • Quiz: Cloud Storage #1
  • Cloud Storage - Preventing Hotspotting
  • Cloud Storage - Integration with Cloud CDN
  • Cloud Storage - Signed URLs
  • Cloud Storage - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
  • Cloud Storage - Hosting Static Websites
  • Cloud Storage - Encryption
  • Cloud Storage - Predefined Roles
  • Quiz: Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Storage Basics (Lab Instructions)

BigQuery

  • BigQuery - Intro
  • BigQuery - Views
  • BigQuery - Partitions
  • BigQuery - Schema Flexibility
  • BigQuery - External Tables and Federated Queries
  • BigQuery - Normalization and Denormalization
  • Quiz: BigQuery #1
  • BigQuery - Encryption
  • BigQuery - Referential Integrity
  • BigQuery - Admin Console
  • BigQuery - Compute and Storage Costs
  • BigQuery - Identity and Access Management
  • BigQuery - Column and Row Level Security
  • Quiz: B
  • igQuery #2
  • BigQuery Basics (Lab Instructions)

Bigtable

  • Bigtable - Intro
  • Bigtable - Use Cases
  • Bigtable - Schema
  • Bigtable - Schema design example use case
  • Bigtable - Hotspotting and Row Key Design
  • Quiz: Bigtable

Cloud SQL

  • Cloud SQL - Intro
  • Cloud SQL - Migrating and Importing Data
  • Cloud SQL - Storage
  • Cloud SQL - Tiers and Machine Types
  • Cloud SQL - Backup Strategies
  • Cloud SQL - Availability and Failover
  • Cloud SQL - Replication Lag
  • Cloud SQL - Auth Proxy
  • Quiz: Cloud SQL

AlloyDB

  • AlloyDB

Firebase & Firestore

  • Firebase and Firestore - Intro
  • Firestore - Use Cases
  • Firestore - Managing Indexes
  • Firestore - Deterministic Encryption
  • Firestore - Efficient Data Retrieval
  • Firestore - Predefined Roles
  • Quiz: Firestore

Memorystore

  • Memorystore - Intro
  • Memorystore - Memcached and Redis
  • Quiz: Memorystore

Cloud Spanner

  • Cloud Spanner
  • Quiz: Cloud Spanner

Cloud Pub/Sub

  • Pub/Sub - Intro
  • Pub/Sub - Other Message Buffers
  • Pub/Sub - Publishers, Subscribers, Topics, Subscriptions
  • Pub/Sub - Publisher-side Batching
  • Pub/Sub - Subscription Types
  • Pub/Sub - Message Handling
  • Pub/Sub - Delivery Semantics
  • Pub/Sub - Common Architectures
  • Quiz: Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Pub/Sub Basics (Lab Instructions)
  • Pub/Sub: Push Subscriptions and Webhooks (lab instructions)

Cloud Dataflow

  • Dataflow - Intro
  • Dataflow - Windowing
  • Dataflow - Optimizing Stream Processing with Watermarks and Triggers
  • Dataflow - Out-of-Order Data
  • Dataflow - Integration with other services
  • Quiz: Dataflow

Cloud Dataproc

  • Dataproc - Intro
  • Dataproc - Cluster Setup
  • Dataproc - Multi-Regional Configuration
  • Dataproc - Performance Optimization
  • Dataproc vs. Dataflow
  • Quiz: Dataproc

Dataprep

  • Dataprep
  • Quiz: Dataprep

Cloud CDN

  • Cloud CDN - Intro
  • Cloud CDN - Use Cases
  • Cloud CDN - Cache Optimization
  • Quiz: Cloud CDN

Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)

  • Cloud KMS - Intro
  • Cloud KMS - CMEKs and CSEKs
  • Cloud KMS - HSM protection vs Software Protection
  • Quiz: Cloud KMS

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API

  • DLP API - Intro
  • DLP API - Data Protection Methods
  • DLP API - Integration with GCP services
  • Quiz: DLP API

Cloud Armor

  • Cloud Armor - Intro
  • Cloud Armor - CDN Use Case
  • Quiz: Cloud Armor

Cloud Secret Manager

  • Secret Manager
  • Quiz: Secret Manager

Security Command Center

  • Security Command Center
  • Model Armor
  • Quiz: Security Command Center

Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)

  • Cloud IAP
  • Quiz: Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy

Cloud Endpoints

  • Cloud Endpoints
  • Quiz: Cloud Endpoints

GCP's Pretrained AI APIs

  • GCP's Pre-trained AI APIs
  • Quiz: Pre-Trained APIs on GCP

Vertex AI

  • Vertex AI - Intro
  • Vertex AI Managed Datasets
  • Preventing Data Exfiltration from Vertex AI Workflow
  • Vertex AI Feature Store
  • Measuring Latency with Feature Store
  • Vertex AI - Colab Enterprise
  • Vertex AI Workbench
  • Vertex AI Custom Training Jobs
  • Vertex AI - AutoML
  • Custom Training vs AutoML vs Pretrained APIs
  • Vertex AI Experiments
  • Vertex AI Model Registry
  • Vertex AI Model Medatata
  • Vertex AI - Deployment Modes
  • Vertex AI - Endpoints
  • Vertex AI - custom prediction routine deployment from Model Garden
  • Vertex AI Endpoints for Modularizing Model Usage
  • Vertex AI - Batch Prediction
  • Overview of ML Pipelines
  • Vertex AI Pipelines - Pipeline DAGs
  • Vertex AI - Model Monitoring
  • Vertex AI Model Monitoring - Detection Types
  • Vertex AI Model Monitoring: Sampling Rate and Frequency
  • Vertex AI Model Monitoring - Baseline Data
  • Vertex AI Model Monitoring - Multiple Models
  • Vertex Explainable AI

AI Hardware and AI Hypercomputer

  • AI Hardware and AI Hypercomputer

Gemini Cloud Assist

  • Gemini Cloud Assist

NotebookLM

  • NotebookLM

Gemini Enterprise

  • Gemini Enterprise

Cloud Scheduler

  • Cloud Scheduler
  • Quiz: Cloud Scheduler

RPO and RTO

  • RPO and RTO

Backup and DR Service

  • Backup and DR Service

Migration concepts

  • Migration Center
  • Mapping dependencies
  • Shared VPC and phased migration
  • Migrate to Virtual Machines

Application Integration

  • Application Integration - Intro
  • Application Integration - example use case

Chrome Enterprise

  • Chrome Enterprise

GCP Service Emulators

  • GCP Service Emulators

SOC Certification

  • SOC Certification

Planned Additions

  • Additional concepts

Realistic Practice Exams

  • Note about practice exams
  • Note about new questions
  • Practice Exam 1
  • Practice Exam 2
  • Practice Exam 3
  • Practice Exam 4
  • Practice Exam 5
  • Practice Exam 6
  • Practice Exam 7

Exam Simulator

  • Exam Simulator (2 hours, 50 random questions)

Wrap-Up & Reward

  • Course feedback (4 short questions)
  • 10% discount on future membership renewals
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Hi, I’m Ben — a Google Cloud expert with over seven years of hands-on experience. I’ve helped thousands of professionals pass their GCP certifications on the first try, and I’d love to help you do the same.

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