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Title Page Copyright and Credits

Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Dedication About Packt

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Foreword Contributors

About the authors About the reviewers Packt is searching for authors like you

Preface

Who this book is for What this book covers To get the most out of this book

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Code in Action

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Section 1: Introduction to GCP GCP Cloud Architect Professional

The benefits of being a certified architect Registering for the exam What to expect from the exam Some tips Summary Further reading

Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform

Introducing the cloud Understanding GCP

GCP differentiators GCP locations Resource manager

Organizations Folders Projects Resources scope

Global resources Regional resources Zonal resources

Managing projects Granting permissions Billing

Managing billing accounts Assigning a project to a billing account Exporting billing Budgets and alerts Billing account roles

Summary Further reading

Google Cloud Platform Core Services

Computing and hosting services Storage services Networking services Big data services ML services Identity services Summary Further reading

Section 2: Managing, Designing, and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture Working with Google Compute Engine

Code in Action Deploying our first GCE instance Deployment options

Instance templates and instance groups

Setting the location Port name mapping

Autoscaling Autohealing Quotas and limits IAM roles Pricing Summary Further reading

Managing Kubernetes Clusters with Google Kubernetes Engine

An introduction to microservices Containers Docker Kubernetes

Kubernetes architecture

The master node Worker nodes

Kubernetes objects

Pods Replica sets Deployments Namespaces Services

Types of services

Google Kubernetes Engine

Node pools Container-Optimized OS Storage GKE cluster management Creating a GKE cluster

Advanced configuration Networking Security Stackdriver Additional features Deploying our first application Cluster second-day operations

Upgrading the cluster Auto-upgrades Auto-repair Resizing the cluster Autoscaling a cluster Rotating the master IP

IAM Kubernetes role-based access control Container Registry Cloud Build Quotas and limits Pricing

Summary Further reading

Exploring Google App Engine as a Compute Option

Code in Action App Engine components Choosing the right location Working with App Engine Environment types

App Engine Standard environment Flexible environment

Deploying an App Engine application Versions Splitting traffic Migrating traffic Firewall rules Settings

Custom domain SSL certificates

Scaling Cron jobs Memcache IAM Quotas and limits Pricing Summary Further reading

Running Serverless Functions with Google Cloud Functions

Main Cloud Functions characteristics Use cases

Application backends Real-time data processing systems Smart applications

Runtime environments Types of Cloud Functions

HTTP functions Background functions

Events Triggers Other considerations

Cloud SQL connectivity Connecting to internal resources in a VPC network Environmental variables Cold start Local emulator

Deploying Cloud Functions

Deploying Cloud Functions with the Google Cloud Console Deploying functions with the gcloud command

Triggers

IAM Quotas and limits Pricing Cloud Run Summary Further reading

Networking Options in GCP

Exploring GCP networking Understanding Virtual Private Cloud

Connectivity Cost VPC Flow Logs Cross-VPC connectivity

Shared VPC VPC peering

Choosing between shared VPC and VPC peering

Load balancing

Global versus regional load balancing External versus internal Proxy versus load balancer Load balancer types Comparison Choosing the right load balancer

NAT

NAT gateway Cloud NAT

Hybrid connectivity

VPN Interconnects Peering Choosing the right connectivity method

DNS

DNS resolution Cloud DNS DNSSEC

Firewall rules

Default rules Implied rules Always allowed traffic rules Always denied rules User-defined rules Firewall logging

Private access Summary Further reading

Exploring Storage Options in GCP - Part 1

Code in Action Choosing the right storage option

Data consistency

Understanding Cloud Storage

Storage classes Data consistency Cloud Storage FUSE Creating and using a bucket Versioning and lifecycle management

Versioning Lifecycle management

Transferring data

Cloud Storage Transfer Service Google Transfer Appliance

Understanding IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Understanding Cloud Datastore

Data consistency Creating and using Cloud Datastore Datastore versus Firestore IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Understanding Cloud SQL

Data consistency Creating and managing Cloud SQL Read Replicas Failover Replica Backup and recovery Migrating data Instance cloning IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Summary Further reading

Exploring Storage Options in GCP - Part 2

Cloud Spanner

Instances configuration Node count Replication TrueTime Data consistency Creating a Cloud Spanner instance IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Bigtable

Bigtable configuration

Instances Clusters Nodes Schema Replication Application profiles

Data consistency Creating a Bigtable instance and table IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Summary Further reading

Analyzing Big Data Options

End-to-end big data solution Cloud Pub/Sub

Creating a topic and subscription IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Cloud Dataflow

IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

BigQuery

BigQuery features

Datasets Tables

Using BigQuery

Importing and exporting data Storage

IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Dataproc

Architecture IAM Quotas and limits

Cloud IoT Core

IAM Quotas and limits Pricing

Additional considerations Summary Further reading

Putting Machine Learning to Work

An introduction to AI and ML The seven steps of ML

Gathering and preparing the data Choosing a model Training Evaluation Hyperparameter tuning Prediction

Learning models GCP ML options TensorFlow Cloud ML Engine

Using ML Engine Interacting with ML Engine ML Engine scale tiers Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) Submitting a training job Deploying the model Predictions

Submitting predictions

Pretrained ML models

The Cloud Speech-to-Text API The Cloud Text-To-Speech API The Cloud Translation API The Cloud Natural Language API The Cloud Vision API The Google Cloud Video Intelligence API

Dialogflow AutoML Summary Further reading

Section 3: Designing for Security and Compliance Security and Compliance

Code in Action Introduction to security Cloud Identity Resource Manager Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Service accounts Cloud Storage access management

Firewall rules and load balancers Cloud Security Scanner Monitoring and logging Encryption

Data encryption keys versus key encryption keys CMEKs versus CSEKs

Industry regulations

PCI compliance Shared responsibility model Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Penetration testing in GCP

Additional security services

Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) Security Command Center (SCC) Forseti Cloud Armor

Summary Further reading

Section 4: Managing Implementation Google Cloud Management Options

Code in Action Using APIs Google Cloud Shell The GCP SDK

gcloud gsutil bq cbt

Cloud Deployment Manager Pricing Calculator Additional things to consider Summary Further reading

Section 5: Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability Monitoring Your Infrastructure

Technical requirements Introduction to Stackdriver

Cost

Configuring Stackdriver Stackdriver Monitoring

Groups Dashboards Alerting policies Uptime checks Monitoring agents

Stackdriver Logging

Logs Viewer Basic log filtering Advanced filtering Exporting logs Logging agent Log-based metrics Cloud audit logs ACTIVITY Retention

APM

Trace Debugger Profiler

Error Reporting Summary Further reading

Section 6: Exam Focus Case Studies

Understanding how to approach exam case studies What are they looking for in the case studies?

Company overview Solution concept Business requirements Technical requirements Executive summary Forming a solution

The analytics platform The backend platform

Summary of Mountkirk

Additional case studies

TerramEarth

Analysis

Dress4Win

Analysis

Summary Further reading

Test Your Knowledge

Mock test 1 Mock test 2

Assessments

Answers to Mock Test 1 Answers to Mock Test 2

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