Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Cert Prep
6h 44mIntermediate2025-01-22
Authors
Pearson
Victor Dantas
Course details
Whether you’re preparing to take the Associate Cloud Engineer certificate exam or are just interested in deepening your knowledge of Google Cloud technologies, this course is designed to equip you with the essential skills you need to know to pass the exam but also to excel as a Google Cloud engineer. Join author and tech trainer Victor Dantas as he guides you through how to use Google Cloud services to deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions like a pro. Throughout the course, Victor covers the exam objectives with hands-on demos and sample exam questions to test your know-how and help you prepare to tackle the official exam.
Learning objectives
Set up cloud projects and accounts, manage billing configuration, and install and configure the command-line interface.
Plan and estimate Google Cloud product use, and plan and configure compute resources, data storage options, and network resources.
Deploy and implement virtual machines and compute platforms to databases and network resources.
Manage compute, data, networking, monitoring, and logging resources.
Secure access to Google Cloud resources, manage identity and access management, and manage service accounts.
Learning objectives
Set up cloud projects and accounts, manage billing configuration, and install and configure the command-line interface.
Plan and estimate Google Cloud product use, and plan and configure compute resources, data storage options, and network resources.
Deploy and implement virtual machines and compute platforms to databases and network resources.
Manage compute, data, networking, monitoring, and logging resources.
Secure access to Google Cloud resources, manage identity and access management, and manage service accounts.
Skills covered
Google CloudCloud DevelopmentGoogleSoftware Development ToolsCloud PlatformsCert PrepCloud ComputingSoftware Development
Concepts
Introduction
- Google Cloud Platform associate cloud engineer - Introduction
Exam Overview
- Module 1 - Associate cloud engineer certification overview introduction
- Learning objectives
- About this certification exam
- Exam guide
Setting Up Cloud Projects and Accounts
- Module 2 - Setting up a cloud solution environment introduction
- Learning objectives
- Creating a resource hierarchy
- Applying organizational policies to the resource hierarchy
- Granting members IAM roles within a project
- Managing users and groups in cloud identity - Manually and automated
- Enabling APIs within projects
- Provisioning and setting up products in Google Cloud s operations suite
- Questions breakdown
Managing Billing Configuration
- Learning objectives
- Creating one or more billing accounts
- Linking projects to a billing account
- Establishing billing budgets and alerts
- Setting up billing exports
- Questions breakdown
Installing and Configuring the Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Learning objectives
- Installing the cloud SDK
- Setting default configurations
- Questions breakdown
Planning and Estimating Google Cloud Product Use
- Module 3 - Planning and configuring a cloud solution introduction
- Learning objectives
- Using the pricing calculator
- Questions breakdown
Planning and Configuring Compute Resources
- Learning objectives
- Selecting appropriate compute choices
- Using preemptible VMs and custom machine types
- Questions breakdown
Planning and Configuring Data Storage Options
- Learning objectives
- Selecting an appropriate database choice
- Choosing storage options
- Questions breakdown
Planning and Configuring Network Resources
- Learning objectives
- Differentiating load balancing options
- Identifying resource locations for availability
- Configuring cloud DNS
- Questions breakdown
Deploying and Implementing Compute Engine Resources
- Module 4 - Deploying and implementing a cloud solution introduction
- Learning objectives
- Launching a compute instance using the console and gcloud
- Creating an autoscaled, managed instance group using an instance template
- Generating and uploading a custom SSH key for instances
- Installing and configuring the cloud monitoring and logging agent
- Assessing compute quotas and requesting increases
- Questions breakdown
Deploying and Implementing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Resources
- Learning objectives
- Installing and configuring the CLI for Kubernetes (kubectl)
- Deploying a GKE cluster with different configurations
- Deploying a containerized application to GKE
- Configuring GKE monitoring and logging
- Questions breakdown
Deploying and Implementing Cloud Run and Cloud Functions Resources
- Learning objectives
- Deploying an application and updating configurations
- Deploying an application that receives Google Cloud events
- Questions breakdown
Deploying and Implementing Data Solutions
- Learning objectives
- Initializing data systems with products
- Loading data
- Questions breakdown
Deploying and Implementing Networking Resources
- Learning objectives
- Creating a VPC with subnets
- Launching a Compute Engine instance with custom network configuration
- Creating ingress and egress firewall rules for a VPC
- Creating a VPN between a Google VPC and an external network
- Creating a load balancer to distribute application network traffic
- Questions breakdown
Deploying a Solution Using Cloud Marketplace
- Learning objectives
- Browsing the cloud marketplace catalog
- Deploying a cloud marketplace solution
- Questions breakdown
Implementing Resources via Infrastructure as Code
- Learning objectives
- Building infrastructure via Cloud Foundation Toolkit templates
- Installing and configuring Config Connector in GKE
- Questions breakdown
Managing Compute Engine Resources
- Module 5 - Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution introduction
- Learning objectives
- Managing a single VM instance
- Remotely connecting to the instance
- Attaching a GPU to a new instance and installing necessary dependencies
- Viewing current running VM inventory
- Working with snapshots
- Working with images
- Working with instance groups
- Working with management interfaces
- Questions breakdown
Managing Google Kubernetes Engine Resources
- Learning objectives
- Viewing current running cluster inventory
- Browsing Docker images and viewing their details in the artifact registry
- Working with node pools
- Working with pods
- Working with services
- Working with stateful applications
- Managing horizontal and vertical autoscaling configurations
- Working with management interfaces
- Questions breakdown
Managing Cloud Run Resources
- Learning objectives
- Adjusting application traffic-splitting parameters
- Setting scaling parameters for autoscaling instances
- Determining whether to run Cloud Run (fully managed) or Cloud Run for Anthos
- Questions breakdown
Managing Storage and Database Solutions
- Learning objectives
- Managing and securing objects in and between cloud storage buckets
- Setting object life cycle management policies for cloud storage buckets
- Executing queries to retrieve data from data instances
- Estimating costs of data storage resources
- Backing up and restoring database instances
- Reviewing job status in Dataproc, Dataflow, or BigQuery
- Questions breakdown
Managing Networking Resources
- Learning objectives
- Adding a subnet to an existing VPC
- Expanding a subnet to have more IP addresses
- Reserving static external or internal IP addresses
- Working with Cloud DNS, Cloud NAT, load balancers, and firewall rules
- Questions breakdown
Monitoring and Logging
- Learning objectives
- Creating cloud monitoring alerts based on resource metrics
- Creating and ingesting cloud monitoring custom metrics
- Configuring log sinks to export logs to external systems
- Configuring log routers
- Viewing and filtering logs in Cloud Logging
- Viewing specific log message details in Cloud Logging
- Using cloud diagnostics to research an application issue
- Viewing Google Cloud status
- Questions breakdown
Managing Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Module 6 - Configuring access and security introduction
- Learning objectives
- Viewing IAM policies
- Creating IAM policies
- Managing the various role types and defining custom IAM roles
- Viewing audit logs
- Questions breakdown
Managing Service Accounts
- Learning objectives
- Creating service accounts
- Using service accounts in IAM policies with minimum permissions
- Assigning service accounts to resources
- Managing IAM of a service account
- Managing service account impersonation
- Creating and managing short-lived service account credentials
- Questions breakdown
Conclusion
- Google Cloud Platform associate cloud engineer - Summary