Google Cloud Certified Professional - Architect - Bootcamp

Become a Google Certified Professional or Associate and show the world that you can design, develop, manage and administer application infrastructure and data solutions on Google Cloud technology. The Google Certified designation means you've demonstrated the necessary skills to leverage Google Cloud technology in a way that transforms businesses and meaningfully impacts the people and customers they serve

A Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect enables organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. Through an understanding of cloud architecture and Google technology, this individual designs, develops, and manages robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives. The Cloud Architect should be proficient in all aspects of solution development including implementation details, developing prototypes, and architectural best practices. The Cloud Architect should also be experienced in microservices and multi-tiered distributed applications which span multi-cloud or hybrid environments

A Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect enables organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. Through an understanding of cloud architecture and Google technology, this individual designs, develops, and manages robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives. The Cloud Architect should be proficient in all aspects of enterprise cloud strategy, solution design, and architectural best practices. The Cloud Architect should also be experienced in software development methodologies and approaches including multi-tiered distributed applications which span multi-cloud or hybrid environments. 

The course slides are available in a pdf download

How to sign up for a GCP Free Tier account.  

Lets introduce you to Google Cloud Platform and some distinguishing facts that you should know for the Exam. 

Google Cloud Platform services are available in locations across North America, Europe, and Asia. These locations are divided into regions and zones. You can choose where to locate your applications to meet your latency, availability and durability requirements.

Regions are independent geographic areas that consist of zones. Locations within regions tend to have round-trip network latencies of under 5ms on the 95th percentile.

A zone is a deployment area for Cloud Platform resources within a region. Zones should be considered a single failure domain within a region. In order to deploy fault-tolerant applications with high availability, you should deploy your applications across multiple zones in a region to help protect against unexpected failures.

To protect against the loss of an entire region due to natural disaster, you should have a disaster recovery plan and know how to bring up your application in the unlikely event that your primary region is lost.

A project organizes all your Google Cloud Platform resources. A project consists of a set of users; a set of APIs; and billing, authentication, and monitoring settings for those APIs. So, for example, all of your Google Cloud Storage buckets and objects, along with user permissions for accessing them, reside in a project. You can have one project, or you can create multiple projects and use them to organize your Google Cloud Platform resources, including your Google Cloud Storage data, into logical groups.

Demo on how to create a basic VM instance in GCP via the console. 

Build modern web and mobile applications on an open cloud platform: bring your own language runtimes, frameworks, and third party libraries. Google App Engine is a fully managed platform that completely abstracts away infrastructure so you focus only on code. Go from zero to planet-scale and see why some of today’s most successful companies power their applications on App Engine.

Google Kubenetes Engine is a managed environment for deploying containerized applications. It brings our latest innovations in developer productivity, resource efficiency, automated operations, and open source flexibility to accelerate your time to market.

Google has been running production workloads in containers for over 15 years, and we build the best of what we learn into Kubernetes, the industry-leading open source container orchestrator which powers Kubenetes Engine

Test you knowledge about Containers in GCP

Cloud Functions is a lightweight, event-based, asynchronous compute solution that

allows you to create small, single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events
without the need to manage a server or a runtime environment.

Test you knowledge about Virtual Networking in GCP

Google Cloud Interconnect allows Cloud platform customers to connect to Google via enterprise-grade connections with higher availability and/or lower latency than their existing Internet connections. Connections are offered by Carrier Interconnect service provider partners, and may offer higher SLAs than standard Internet connections. Google also supports direct connections to its network through direct peering. Customers who cannot meet Google at its peering locations, or do not meet peering requirements, may benefit from Carrier Interconnect. 

Gsuite can extend capabilities to GCP and enable on premises capabilites such as AD to integrate

A Project facilitates organization of services and objects and also use this method of segmentation for billing and accounting.

Each Google Cloud Platform project has:

•A project name, which you provide.

•A project ID, which you can provide or GCP can provide for you.(It is your App ID)

•A project number, which GCP provides.

Stackdriver Demo.  

Different applications and workloads require different storage and database solutions. We offer a full suite of industry-leading storage services that are price performant and meet your needs for structured, unstructured, transactional, and relational data. This page helps you identify the solutions that fit your scenarios, whether they are mobile applications, hosting commercial software, data pipelines, or storing backups.