Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Journey

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Google Cloud Certified PCA Journey

• PCA Exam Guide
• Cloud Architect Learning Path
• Time Planning & Tracking
• Infrastructure as Code for Quests

Week 0 (17/5-23/5)

• 1 A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs (45mins)
  • Cloud console
    • IAM Role Permission
    • API Design Guide
    • Google API Explorer, Quest
  • gcloud CLI, Reference, Quest
    • Regions and Zones
    • VPC and Private Service Access
    • VPC Peering Sample
• 2 Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey (1day)
  • Module 0: Introduction to the Professional Cloud Architect Certification
  • Module 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
  • Module 2: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
  • Module 3: Designing for Security and Compliance
  • Module 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes
  • Module 5: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
  • Module 6: Case Study Preparation and Your Next Steps
• 3 Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (1day)
  • Module 0: Course Introduction
  • Module 1: Introducing Google Cloud
  • Module 2: Resources and Access in the Cloud
  • Module 3: Virtual Machines and Networks in the Cloud
  • Module 4: Storage in the Cloud
  • Module 5: Containers in the Cloud
  • Module 6: Applications in the Cloud
  • Module 7: Developing and Deploying in the Cloud
  • Module 8: Logging and Monitoring in the Cloud
  • Module 9: Course Summary

Week 1 (Plan:24/5-30/5, Action:24/5-14/6)

• 4 Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation (2days)
  • Architecting with Compute Engine
  • Introduction with Google Cloud
    • Cloud Console and Cloud Shell
    • Infrastructure preview
    • Projects demo
  • Virtual Networking
    • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
      • Google Infrastructure
    • Regions / Zones
      • Google data centers, data protection and high availability
      • Available Regions/Zones
    • Projects
      • billing associated objects and services
      • contains up to 15 networks (can require additional quota)
      • networks can share or peer with other projects
    • Networks
      • no IP address range
      • global, spans all available regions
      • contains subnetworks
      • 3 options: default, auto mode, custom mode
    • SubnetWorks
      • regional scale, crossing zones
      • subnet to devide/segregate environment
      • IP .0 and .1 reserved for the network and gateway, and the end 2 IPs for broadcasting
      • expandable without re-creating instances, but not shrinkable
      • No IP range overlap between subnets
    • IP addresses
      • internal, external, range
      • Mapping IP addresses
    • Routes and Firewall rules
    • Pricing
    • Common Network designs
    • Lab: VPC Networking
    • Lab: Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
  • Virtual Machine
    • Compute Engine
      • VM lifecycle: Provisioning -> Staging -> Running -> Stopping -> Terminated
      • gcloud: reset/stop/restart/delete, os: reboot/shutdown
      • Preemption: 30 seconds automatically shutdown
    • vCPU & Memory
      • 1 vCPU == 1 hyperthreading
      • max 224 vCPU + 100 GB/sec (N2D machine type)
    • Images
      • Linux SSH
      • Windows RDP
    • Disks
      • HDD or SSD, max 257TB
      • local SSD, physically attachedd to VM, max 375GB * 24 = 9TB, data NOT survice after a VM stop or terminate.
      • Cloud Storage
    • Networks
      • VPC IP addresses (internal/external)
      • VM access: Linux SSH or Windows RDP
      • Load Balancers
    • Common Actions
      • Metadata: Boot (startup script) -> Run -> Maintenance -> Shutdown (shutdown script)
      • cli free, to see information about unused and used memory and swap space on your custom VM
      • cli sudo dmidecode -t 17, to see details about the RAM installed on your VM
      • cli nproc, to verify the number of processors
      • clie lscpu, to see details about the CPUs installed on your VM
• 10 (Quest) Create and Manage Cloud Resources (5hrs)
• 11 (Quest) Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud (4hrs)

Week 2 (Plan:31/5-6/6, Action:14/6- )

• 5 Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services (2days)
  • - Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • - Identity and Access Management
    • - Organization
    • - Roles
    • - Members
    • - Service Accounts
    • - Best Practice
  • - Data Storage Services
    • - Cloud Storage
    • - Cloud Storage Features
    • - Choosing a storage class
    • - Filestore
    • - Cloud SQL
    • - Cloud Spanner
    • - Firestore
    • - Cloud Bigtable
    • - Memorystore
  • - Resource Management
    • - Resource Manager
    • - Quotas
    • - Labels
    • - Billing
  • - Resource Monitoring
    • - Stackdriver Overview
    • - Monitoring
    • - Logging
    • - Error Reporting
    • - Tracing
    • - Profiling
• 12 (Quest) Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud (6hrs)

Week 3 (Plan:7/6-13/6)

• 6 Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation (2days)
  • - Interconnecting Networks
  • - Load Balancing and Autoscaling
  • - Infrastructure Automation
  • - Managed Services
• 14 (Quest) Deploy and Manage Cloud Environments with Google Cloud (8hrs)

Week 4 (Plan:14/6-20/6)

• 8 Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine (5days)
• 15 (Quest) Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine (1day)
• 9 Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud (3days)

Week 5 (Plan:21/6-27/6)

• 7 Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process (4days)

Week 6 (Plan:28/6-4/7)

• 13 (Quest) Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform (6hrs)

Week 7 (Plan:5/7-11/7)

• 16 (Quest) Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage (7hrs)

Week 8 (Plan:12/7-18/7)