Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study - Guide

Informationen zum Autor ABOUT THE AUTHORDAN SULLIVAN is a software architect specializing in big data, machine learning, and cloud computing. A Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer and Professional Cloud Architect, he is also an instructor with LinkedIn Learning, where he develops courses on data science, machine learning, and data management. His current project involves real-time analysis of application and system monitoring data. Klappentext Sybex's proven Study Guide format teaches Google Cloud Architect job skills and prepares you for this important new Cloud exam.The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide is the essential resource for anyone preparing for this highly sought-after, professional-level certification. Clear and accurate chapters cover 100% of exam objectives--helping you gain the knowledge and confidence to succeed on exam day. A pre-book assessment quiz helps you evaluate your skills, while chapter review questions emphasize critical points of learning. Detailed explanations of crucial topics include analyzing and defining technical and business processes, migration planning, and designing storage systems, networks, and compute resources. Written by Dan Sullivan--a well-known author and software architect specializing in analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing--this invaluable study guide includes access to the Sybex interactive online learning environment, which includes complete practice tests, electronic flash cards, a searchable glossary, and more.Providing services suitable for a wide range of applications, particularly in high-growth areas of analytics and machine learning, Google Cloud is rapidly gaining market share in the cloud computing world. Organizations are seeking certified IT professionals with the ability to deploy and operate infrastructure, services, and networks in the Google Cloud. Take your career to the next level by validating your skills and earning certification.* Design and plan cloud solution architecture* Manage and provision cloud infrastructure* Ensure legal compliance and security standards* Understand options for implementing hybrid clouds* Develop solutions that meet reliability, business, and technical requirementsThe Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide is a must-have for IT professionals preparing for certification to deploy and manage Google cloud services. Zusammenfassung Sybex's proven Study Guide format teaches Google Cloud Architect job skills and prepares you for this important new Cloud exam.The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide is the essential resource for anyone preparing for this highly sought-after! professional-level certification. Clear and accurate chapters cover 100% of exam objectives--helping you gain the knowledge and confidence to succeed on exam day. A pre-book assessment quiz helps you evaluate your skills! while chapter review questions emphasize critical points of learning. Detailed explanations of crucial topics include analyzing and defining technical and business processes! migration planning! and designing storage systems! networks! and compute resources. Written by Dan Sullivan--a well-known author and software architect specializing in analytics! machine learning! and cloud computing--this invaluable study guide includes access to the Sybex interactive online learning environment! which includes complete practice tests! electronic flash cards! a searchable glossary! and more.Providing services suitable for a wide range of applications! particularly in high-growth areas of analytics and machine learning! Google Cloud is rapidly gaining market share in the cloud computing world. Organizations are seeking certified IT professionals with the ability to deploy and operate infrastructure! services! and networks in the Google Cloud. Take your career to the next level by validating your skills and earn...

List of contents

Introduction xxiAssessment Test xxviiiChapter 1 Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam 1Exam Objectives 2Analyzing Business Requirements 3Reducing Operational Expenses 3Accelerating the Pace of Development 4Reporting on Service-Level Objectives 4Reducing Time to Recover from an Incident 5Improving Compliance with Industry Regulations 6Analyzing Technical Requirements 7Functional Requirements 7Exam Case Studies 10Summary 18Exam Essentials 18Review Questions 20Chapter 2 Designing for Business Requirements 23Business Use Cases and Product Strategy 24Dress4Win Strategy 25Mountkirk Games Strategy 26TerramEarth Strategy 27Application Design and Cost Considerations 28Managed Services 29Preemptible Virtual Machines 31Data Lifecycle Management 32Systems Integration and Data Management 33Systems Integration Business Requirements 33Data Management Business Requirements 35Compliance and Regulation 36Privacy Regulations 37Data Integrity Regulations 38Security 38Confidentiality 38Integrity 39Availability 39Success Measures 40Key Performance Indicators 40Return on Investment 41Summary 41Exam Essentials 42Review Questions 43Chapter 3 Designing for Technical Requirements 49High Availability 50Compute Availability 52Storage Availability 54Network Availability 57Application Availability 58Scalability 58Scaling Compute Resources 59Scaling Storage Resources 60Network Design for Scalability 61Reliability 61Measuring Reliability 61Reliability Engineering 62Summary 62Exam Essentials 63Review Questions 64Chapter 4 Designing Compute Systems 69Compute Services and Use Cases 70Compute Engine 71App Engine 74Kubernetes Engine 76Cloud Functions 78Compute System Provisioning 79Additional Design Issues 80Managing State in Distributed Systems 80Data Flows and Pipelines 82Monitoring and Alerting 84Summary 85Exam Essentials 85Review Questions 86Chapter 5 Designing Storage Systems 91Overview of Storage Services 92Object Storage with Google Cloud Storage 93Organizing Objects in a Namespace 93Cloud Storage FUSE 94Storage Tiers 94Cloud Storage Use Cases 95Network-Attached Storage with Google Cloud Filestore 96Databases 97Relational Database Overview 97Cloud SQL 98Cloud Spanner 99Analytics Database: BigQuery 100NoSQL Databases 101Caching with Cloud Memorystore 103Data Retention and Lifecycle Management 104Networking and Latency 105Summary 106Exam Essentials 106Review Questions 109Chapter 6 Designing Networks 113Virtual Private Clouds 114VPC Subnets 114Shared VPC 115VPC Network Peering 115Firewall Rules 115IP Addressing and CIDR Blocks 116Hybrid-Cloud Networking 117Hybrid-Cloud Design Considerations 117Hybrid-Cloud Implementation Options 118Load Balancing 120Regional Load Balancing 120Global Load Balancing 121Summary 122Exam Essentials 122Review Questions 124Chapter 7 Designing for Security and Legal Compliance 127Identity and Access Management 128Identities and Groups 128Resources 129Permissions 130Roles 130Policies 132IAM Best Practices 133Data Security 134Encryption 134Key Management 136Security Evaluation 137Security Design Principles 139Major Regulations 141ITIL Framework 143Summary 144Exam Essentials 144Review Questions 147Chapter 8 Designing for Reliability 151Improving Reliability with Stackdriver 152Monitoring with Stackdriver 153Alerting with Stackdriver 156Logging with Stackdriver 156Release Management 157Continuous Deployment 158Continuous Integration 162Systems Reliability Engineering 162Overload 162Cascading Failures 165Testing for Reliability 166Incident Management and Post-Mortem Analysis 167Summary 168Exam Essentials 168Review Questions 170Chapter 9 Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes 173Software Development Lifecycle Plan 174Analysis 174Design 176Continuous Integration/Continuous Development 179Troubleshooting and Post-Mortem Analysis Culture 180Incident Post-Mortems 180Project Post-Mortems 182IT Enterprise Processes 182Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery 184Business Continuity Planning 184Disaster Recovery 185Summary 186Exam Essentials 186Review Questions 188Chapter 10 Analyzing and Defining Business Processes 193Stakeholder Management 194Interests and Influence 194Projects, Programs, and Portfolios 195Stages of Stakeholder Management 196Change Management 197Reasons for Change 197Change Management Methodologies 198Team Skill Management 199Customer Success Management 199Cost Management 200Summary 201Exam Essentials 202Review Questions 203Chapter 11 Development and Operations 207Application Development Methodologies 208Waterfall 208Spiral 209Agile 210Technical Debt 211API Best Practices 212Resources and Standard Methods 212API Security 213Testing Frameworks 215Testing Framework Models 215Automated Testing Tools 216Data and System Migration Tooling 217Types of Cloud Migrations 217Migration Services and Tools 217GCP SDK Components 219Summary 219Exam Essentials 220Review Questions 222Chapter 12 Migration Planning 227Integrating Cloud Services with Existing Systems 228Migrating Systems and Data 229Planning for Systems Migrations 229Planning for Data Migration 231Licensing Mapping 232Network and Management Planning 233Virtual Private Clouds 234Network Access Controls 235Scaling 235Connectivity 235Summary 236Exam Essentials 236Review Questions 238Appendix Answers to Review Questions 241Chapter 1: Introduction to the Google Professional Cloud Architect Exam 242Chapter 2: Designing for Business Requirements 244Chapter 3: Designing for Technical Requirements 247Chapter 4: Designing Compute Systems 249Chapter 5: Designing Storage Systems 252Chapter 6: Designing Networks 254Chapter 7: Designing for Security and Legal Compliance 255Chapter 8: Designing for Reliability 257Chapter 9: Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes 259Chapter 10: Analyzing and Defining Business Processes 261Chapter 11: Development and Operations 262Chapter 12: Migration Planning 264Index 267

Product details

• Authors: Dan Sullivan
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781119602446
• ISBN: 978-1-119-60244-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Prüfungsvorbereitung, test prep, Misc (other) certifications, Sonstige Zertifizierungen, Google Professional Cloud Architect