Google Cloud (GCP) Professional Cloud Architect

Welcome to the GCP Professional Architect Course.

This video gives you the Introduction to the course and talks about the structure of lectures and labs. I encourage you to take the 3 day challenge to finish the course based on the schedule provided in the last slide.

The course structure has been broken into following sections:

1. Introduction

2. Cloud Architect Certification & Resources

3. The Basics & GCP console tour

4. Certification Case Study

5. Google Cloud Core Services (Network, Storage, Compute, Databases, Big Data, AI, Security & Operations)

6. Architecture landscape

7. Reference Architecture

8. Case Study - Solution

9. Certification Refresher & Test

10. GCP Advanced Knowledgebase

This video describes the certification exam guide and GCP resources available at your fingertip:

1. Design and Plan a cloud solution architecture

2. Manage & Provision a solution infrastructure

3. Design for security and compliance

4. Analyse and optimise technical and business processes

5. Managing implementation

6. Ensuring Solution and Operations reliability

This lecture describes the GCP basic structure and network primer of GCP network products.

This lecture provides a descriptive tour of GCP services, common practices and cloud shell.

This lecture provides introduction of 100+ GCP Products and services from personas and data lifecycle perspectives.

During the exam for the Cloud Architect Certification, some of the questions may refer you to a case study that describes a fictitious business and solution concept to provide additional context to exam questions.

• EHR Healthcare - https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/master_case_study_ehr_healthcare.pdf

EHR Healthcare is a leading provider of electronic health record software to the medical industry. EHR Healthcare provides their software as a service to multi-national medical offices, hospitals, and insurance providers.

• Helicopter Racing League- https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/master_case_study_helicopter_racing_league.pdf

Helicopter Racing League (HRL) is a global sports league for competitive helicopter racing. Each year HRL holds the world championship and several regional league competitions where teams compete to earn a spot in the world championship. HRL offers a paid service to stream the races all over the world with live telemetry and predictions throughout each race.

• TerramEarth - https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/master_case_study_terramearth.pdf

TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries.. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. There are 2 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation currently, and they see 20% yearly growth. Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive.

• Mountkirk Games - https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/master_case_study_mountkirk_games.pdf

Mountkirk Games makes online, session-based, multiplayer games for mobile platforms. They have recently started expanding to other platforms after successfully migrating their on-premises environments to Google Cloud. Mountkirk Games is building a new multiplayer game that they expect to be very popular.

This lecture gives architectural introduction and comparative landscape of the following computing services.

• Compute Engine

• App Engine

• Kubernetes Engine

• Cloud Functions

• Cloud Run

This lectures covers following networking products:

• Virtual Private Cloud

  • Region, Zones, Subnet, Firewall Rules

  • VPC Peering

  • Shared VPC

  • Cloud NAT

• Load Balancing

  • Global Load Balancer (HTTP(s) Load Balancer, SSL Proxy, TCP Proxy)

  • Regional Load Balancer (Network TCP/UDP, Internal TCP/UDP)

This lecture explains the concepts and uses cases behind following storage solutions:

• Cloud Storage

• Block Storage

  • Persistent Disk

  • Local SSD

• Filestore

• Data Transfer

  • Transfer Service | Cloud

  • Transfer Service | On-premise

  • Transfer Appliances

  • BigQuery Data Transfer Service

This lecture explain databases services and different types of databases and it's use cases:

• Cloud Spanner

• Cloud SQL

This lecture explain databases services and different types of databases and it's use cases:

• Bigtable

• Firestore

• Firestore Realtime Database

• Memorystore

This lecture explains the Big data services and it's use cases:

• Composer

• Dataproc

• Pub/Sub

• Dataflow

• BigQuery

• Looker

• Data Fusion

• Dataprep

• Data Catalog

This lecture explores AI services and it's use cases:

• Vertex AI (AI Platform)

• Natural Language

• Speech-to-text

• Text-to-Speech

• Vision AI

• Cloud Translation

• Document AI

• Video Intelligence

This lecture explores Architecture Design based on business requirements and technical requirements. The architecture design in the context of business strategy, planning, development and operations lays a strong foundation for functional and non-functional requirements. The business process and technical process govern the architecture guiding principles.

Summary of Google Cloud services that can be used to manage data throughout its entire lifecycle, from initial acquisition to final visualization. The data lifecycle has four steps.

• Ingest:

• Store:

• Process and analyse

• Explore and visualize

This 1 hr crash course is ideal for:

- refresher before the professional architect exam.

- starting a journey to GCP

- comparative study material for AWS and Azure professional.