Course Introduction

• Message from Ben
• Course Introduction
• Join the GCP Study Hub Community

GCP Fundamentals

• On-prem vs Cloud
• Cloud Services
• Management Levels in GCP
• Regions and Zones
• Main Approaches to Accessing GCP
• Google Cloud SDK
• gcloud
• Quiz: GCP Fundamentals

GCP Governance

• GCP Resource Hierarchy
• Org Policies
• Cloud IAM - Intro
• Cloud IAM - Service Accounts
• Cloud IAM - Permissions and Roles
• Cloud IAM - Principle of Least Privilege
• Quiz: GCP Governance

Cloud Observability Suite

• Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud Logging
• Other Cloud Observability Services
• Quiz: Cloud Observability Suite

Foundational Database Concepts

• Databases
• Structured, Unstructured and Semi-structured data
• OLTP vs OLAP
• Relational vs Non-relational
• Scaling
• Throughput and Latency
• Availability
• Disaster Recovery
• ACID Compliance
• Batch vs Streaming
• Quiz: Foundational Database Concepts

Storage Services Overview

• Storage Services Overview
• Instance/Cluster Terminology Confusion
• Quiz: Storage Services Overview

Data Movement Services

• Database Migration Service
• Pub/Sub
• Dataflow
• Managed Service for Apache Spark
• Data Fusion
• Datastream
• Quiz: Data Movement Services

Cloud SQL

• Intro to Cloud SQL
• Cloud SQL - Provisioning and Resource Allocation
• Cloud SQL - High Availability
• Cloud SQL - Read Replicas
• Cloud SQL - Read Pools
• Cloud SQL - External Server Replication
• Cloud SQL - Clones
• Cloud SQL - Backups and Exports
• Cloud SQL - PITR
• Quiz: Cloud SQL #1
• Cloud SQL - Data Cache
• Cloud SQL - Observability
• Cloud SQL - Migration
• Cloud SQL - Networking
• Cloud SQL - Maintenance
• Cloud SQL - Vector Search
• Quiz: Cloud SQL #2

AlloyDB

• Intro to AlloyDB
• AlloyDB - Provisioning and Resource Allocation
• AlloyDB - Cross-region replication
• AlloyDB - Backups
• AlloyDB - Columnar Engine
• Quiz: AlloyDB #1
• AlloyDB - Query Insights
• AlloyDB - Migration
• AlloyDB - Auth Proxy
• AlloyDB - Language Connectors
• AlloyDB - Granting SELECT Permissions
• AlloyDB Omni
• Quiz: AlloyDB #2

Spanner

• Intro to Spanner
• Spanner - Instances
• Spanner - Resource Allocation
• Spanner - Leader Regions
• Quiz: Spanner #1
• Spanner - Primary Keys
• Spanner - Interleaved Tables
• Spanner - Indexes
• Spanner - Read Types
• Spanner - Data Boost
• Spanner - Vector Search
• Quiz: Spanner #2

Bigtable

• Intro to Bigtable
• Bigtable - Provisioning and Resource Allocation
• Bigtable - Importing Data
• Bigtable - Schema and Row Key Design
• Bigtable - App Profiles and Routing
• Bigtable - Managing Old Data
• Quiz: Bigtable

BigQuery

• Intro to BigQuery
• BigQuery - Importing Data
• BigQuery - Views
• BigQuery - Federated Queries
• BigQuery ML
• Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg
• BigQuery - Identity and Access Management
• Quiz: BigQuery

Cloud Memorystore

• Intro to Memorystore
• Memorystore - Key Eviction
• Memorystore - Backups for Disaster Recovery
• Quiz: Memorystore

Firestore and Firebase

• Intro to Firestore
• Firestore - Datastore Mode
• Firestore - Scheduled Exports
• Firebase
• Quiz: Firestore and Firebase

Cloud Storage

• Intro to Cloud Storage
• Cloud Storage - Data Transfer Options
• Quiz: Cloud Storage

Networking

• Intro to VPC
• Cloud VPC - IP Addresses
• Cloud VPC - Connecting to other networks
• Cloud VPC - Project Isolation Techniques
• Serverless VPC Access
• Private Service Access, Private Service Connect and Private Google Access
• Cloud NAT
• Cloud Firewall
• Quiz: Networking

Secret and Key Management

• Cloud KMS
• Secret Manager
• Quiz: Secret and Key Management

Compute Services

• Spectrum of Abstraction
• Compute Engine
• Google Kubernetes Engine
• App Engine
• Cloud Run and Cloud Run Functions
• Quiz: Compute Services

Additional Services

• Cloud Scheduler
• Managed Service for Apache Airflow
• Cloud Recommender
• Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
• Quiz: Additional Services

Realistic Practice Exams

• Free Preview Practice Questions (10 questions)
• Practice Exam 1 (50 questions)
• Practice Exam 2 (50 questions)
• Practice Exam 3 (50 questions)
• Practice Exam 4 (50 questions)
• Practice Exam 5 (50 questions)
• Exam Simulator (2 hours, 50 random questions)

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