This course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components like networks, systems, and application services. You will also learn how to deploy practical solutions such as hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
1 Introduction to Google Cloud
- List the different ways of interacting with Google Cloud
- Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
- Create Cloud Storage buckets
- Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
- Lab: Console and Cloud Shell
- Lab: Infrastructure Preview
- Module quiz
2 Virtual Networks
- List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
- Explore VPC Networking
- Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
- Lab: VPC Networking
- Lab: Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
- Module quiz
3 Virtual Machines
- Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines
- Describe the disk options for virtual machines
- Explain VM pricing and discounts
- Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
- Lab: Creating Virtual Machines
- Lab: Working with Virtual Machines
- Module quiz
4 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Describe the IAM resource hierarchy
- Explain the different types of IAM roles
- Recall the different types of IAM members
- Implement access control for resources using IAM
- Lab: Cloud IAM
- Module quiz
5 Storage and Database Services
- Differentiate between Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore and Cloud Bigtable
- Choose a data storage service based on your requirements
- Implement data storage services
- Lab: Cloud Storage
- Lab: Implementing Cloud SQL
- Module quiz
6 Resource Management
- Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy
- Recognize how quotas protect Google Cloud customers
- Organize resources using labels
- Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud
- Examine billing data with BigQuery
- Lab: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery
- Module quiz
7 Resource Monitoring
- Describe the services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging
- Create charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Cloud Monitoring
- Identify and fix errors using Cloud Debugger
- Lab: Resource Monitoring
- Lab: Error Reporting and Debugging
- Module quiz
8 Interconnecting Networks
- Recall the Google Cloud interconnect and peering services available to connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
- Determine which Google Cloud interconnect or peering service to use in specific circumstances
- Create and configure Google Cloud HA VPN
- Recall when to use Shared VPC and when to use VPC Network Peering
- Lab: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
- Module quiz
9 Load Balancing and Autoscaling
- Recall the various load balancing services
- Determine which Google Cloud load balancer to use in specific circumstances
- Describe autoscaling behavior
- Configure load balancers and autoscaling
- Lab: ILT Configure an HTTP Load Balancer with Autoscaling
- Lab: Configuring an Internal Load Balancer
- Module quiz
10 Infrastructure Automation
- Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Terraform
- Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace
- Lab: Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform
- Module quiz
11 Managed Services
- Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud
- Module quiz