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Cracking the Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

Become a cloud pro with strategic GCP skills. Get hands-on experience, understand "Why GCP?", and prepare with a practice exam. No setup, no cleanup, no hassle.

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Google Cloud Platform will be the next major cloud admin skill in the coming years. Google is increasing its market reach in the cloud provider domain using strategic partnerships and a lot of funding for the customers. So, no doubt that GCP is going to dominate the cloud domain in the coming years. This course is a headstart to quickly get hands-on with GCP and make yourself comfortable with it. You will start with "Why GCP?" and will go all the way to using its services in different ways. If you are from an AWS background, you will find the course very easy to understand due to similarities between AWS and GCP services. At the end of the course, you will take a practice exam that will resemble the exam you’ll take when you go to get your Google Cloud Engineer Certification. Good luck!

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

This course will prepare you to achieve Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification.

You can use the Google Cloud platform for project development using GUI and CLI.

This course is one of the prerequisites for Google Cloud Architect certification preparation.

This course will prepare you to achieve Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification.

Content

53 Lessons5 Quizzes1 Assessment

Introduction

8 Lessons

Learn how to use Google Cloud fundamentals, networking, advantages, and getting started essentials.

Course Objective

Cloud Computing Inception

Cloud Fundamentals: Service Categories

Cloud Fundamentals: Virtualization

Characteristics and Types of Clouds

Networking Fundamentals

Why Google Cloud Platform?

Getting Started with GCP

Creating Projects and IAM

8 Lessons

Grasp project creation, IAM roles, API management, and monitoring in Google Cloud.

Resource Structure and Inheritance

Creating Projects: Hands On

IAM Roles and Permissions

IAM Members and Policies

IAM: Hands-On

Enabling APIs

Stackdriver Workspaces (Cloud Operations)

Quiz

Billing Management

5 Lessons

Work your way through managing billing in GCP with accounts, linking projects, budgets, alerts, and exports.

Creating Billing Accounts

Linking Projects to a Billing Account

Budgets and Alerts

Setting up Billing Exports: BigQuery

Quiz

Google Cloud CLI

2 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Google Cloud CLI installation, configuration, command organization, and effective usage.

Installing and Configuring GCP SDK

Cloud SDK In Action

Compute Service Offerings

10 Lessons

Take a look at GCP's compute services, their selection, custom/preemptive VMs, VMs, instance groups, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and App Engine.

How to Select a Compute Service?

Preemptive VMs and Custom VMs

Creating Compute Engine VMs

Connecting to VM Instance

Creating Compute Instance Group

Google Kubernetes Engine

Introduction to Cloud Run

Creating Google App Engine

Decision Chart

Quiz

Storage

9 Lessons

Investigate storage services and databases in GCP, including Cloud Storage, Bigtable, and BigQuery.

Network Resources

4 Lessons

Approach Google Cloud VPCs, load balancing, and DNS to manage network resources.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Choosing the Right Load Balancer

Cloud DNS

Quiz

Cost Estimation

1 Lessons

Get familiar with cost planning and estimation using the GCP pricing calculator.

Cost Planning and Estimation Using Pricing Calculator

Event Driven Services

2 Lessons

Unpack the core of event-driven services with Cloud Functions and Cloud PubSub.

Cloud Functions

Cloud PubSub

10.

Monitoring and logging

2 Lessons

Go hands-on with monitoring and logging using Google Cloud's comprehensive Cloud Operations services.

Cloud Operations - Logging

Cloud Operations - Other Services

11.

Miscellaneous Services

2 Lessons

Enhance your skills in deploying and managing services with Google Cloud tools.

Deployment Manager

Deploying WordPress Using Cloud Marketplace

GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam

Assessment

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Course Author:

Venky A.

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