Description

Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer

5+ Hours of Video Instruction

Get ready to take on the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer exam through examples and sample exam questions.

Whether youre preparing to take the Associate Cloud Engineer certificate exam or are just interested in deepening your knowledge of Google Cloud technologies, the Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer video course will teach you all you need to know to pass the exam but also to equip you with the fundamental skills to excel as a Google Cloud engineer. Author and trainer Victor Dantas takes you through the vast landscape of Google Cloud services and how to use those services to deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions on GCP.

Throughout the video course, Victor has covered every objective in the exam by breaking them down and distilling the most important concepts you need to know with the uses of examples and visuals that will help you internalize difficult and abstract concepts. Each module also includes demos and sample exam questions, which will test your knowledge in precisely the same way the Associate Cloud Engineer exam will on test day. Even if youre not taking the exam, these questions will help you develop your Google Cloud skills as an engineer. By the end of the course, you will understand the key technical concepts and be prepared to take on the ACE exam.

Topics covered include:

Associate Cloud Engineer Certification overview provides you with an overview of the exam and the exam objectives as well as some of the practical details you need to know for taking the exam. By the end of this module, you should have a good understanding of what to expect on the exam.
Setting up a cloud solution covers environment foundational tasks that a cloud engineer needs to perform. That includes setting up cloud projects and accounts, managing billing configuration, and installing and configuring the command line interface.
Planning and configuring a cloud solution is a deeper dive into the platform, including planning and estimating Google Cloud product use, planning and configuring compute resources, planning and configuring data storage options, and planning and configuring network resources.
Deploying and implementing a cloud solution covers the common hands-on tasks that a cloud engineer performs when working with Google Cloud solutions. From deploying and implementing virtual machines and compute platforms, to databases, to network resources, to doing infrastructure as code
Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution dives into how to operate and maintain existing solutions. This covers how to manage compute, data, and networking resources, and also monitoring and logging, two crucial products for successful operations.
Configuring access and security focuses on securing access to Google Cloud resources and managing Identity and Access Management then on to Managing service accounts.

Skill Level:

Beginner-Intermediate

Learn How To:

Set up a cloud solution environment
Plan and configure a cloud solution
Deploy and implement a cloud solution
Ensure successful operation of a cloud solution
Configure access and security

Who Should Take This Course:

IT Professionals looking to take the Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer exam.
IT professionals with 6+ months of experience using Google Cloud.
Cloud engineers without experience with Google Cloud but experienced in other cloud platforms (public or private) may also take this course.

Table of Contents
Module 1: Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Overview

Lesson 1: Exam Overview

1.1 About this certification exam

1.2 Exam guide

Module 2: Setting up a cloud solution environment

Lesson 2: Setting up cloud projects and accounts

2.1 Creating a resource hierarchy

2.2 Applying organizational policies to the resource hierarchy

2.3 Granting members IAM roles within a project

2.4 Managing users and groups in Cloud Identity (manually and automated)

2.5 Enabling APIs within projects

2.6 Provisioning and setting up products in Google Clouds operations suite

2.7 Questions breakdown

Lesson 3: Managing billing configuration

3.1 Creating one or more billing accounts

3.2 Linking projects to a billing account

3.3 Establishing billing budgets and alerts

3.4 Setting up billing exports

3.5 Questions breakdown

Lesson 4: Installing and configuring the command line interface (CLI)

4.1 Installing the Cloud SDK

4.2 Setting default configurations

4.3 Questions breakdown

Module 3: Planning and configuring a cloud solution

Lesson 5: Planning and estimating Google Cloud product use

5.1 Using the Pricing Calculator

5.2 Questions breakdown

Lesson 6: Planning and configuring compute resources

6.1 Selecting appropriate compute choices

6.2 Using preemptible VMs and custom machine types

6.3 Questions breakdown

Lesson 7: Planning and configuring data storage options

7.1 Selecting an appropriate database choice

7.2 Choosing storage options

7.3 Questions breakdown

Lesson 8: Planning and configuring network resources

8.1 Differentiating load balancing options

8.2 Identifying resource locations for availability

8.3 Configuring Cloud DNS

8.4 Questions breakdown

Module 4: Deploying and implementing a cloud solution

Lesson 9: Deploying and implementing Compute Engine resources

9.1 Launching a compute instance using the console and gcloud

9.2 Creating an autoscaled managed instance group using an instance template

9.3 Generating/uploading a custom SSH key for instances

9.4 Installing and configuring the Cloud Monitoring and Logging Agent

9.5 Assessing compute quotas and requesting increases

9.6 Questions breakdown

Lesson 10: Deploying and implementing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) resources

10.1 Installing and configuring the CLI for Kubernetes (kubectl)

10.2 Deploying a GKE cluster with different configurations

10.3 Deploying a containerized application to GKE

10.4 Configuring GKE monitoring and logging

10.5 Questions breakdown

Lesson 11: Deploying and implementing Cloud Run and Cloud Functions resources

11.1 Deploying an application and updating configurations

11.2 Deploying an application that receives Google Cloud events

11.3 Questions breakdown

Lesson 12: Deploying and implementing data solutions

12.1 Initializing data systems with products

12.2 Loading data

12.3 Questions breakdown

Lesson 13: Deploying and implementing networking resources

13.1 Creating a VPC with subnets

13.2 Launching a Compute Engine instance with custom network configuration

13.3 Creating ingress and egress firewall rules for a VPC

13.4 Creating a VPN between a Google VPC and an external network

13.5 Creating a load balancer to distribute application network traffic

13.6 Questions breakdown

Lesson 14: Deploying a solution using Cloud Marketplace

14.1 Browsing the Cloud Marketplace catalog

14.2 Deploying a Cloud Marketplace solution

14.3 Questions breakdown

Lesson 15: Implementing resources via infrastructure as code

15.1 Building infrastructure via Cloud Foundation Toolkit templates

15.2 Installing and configuring Config Connector in GKE

15.3 Questions breakdown

Module 5: Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution

Lesson 16: Managing Compute Engine resources

16.1 Managing a single VM instance

16.2 Remotely connecting to the instance

16.3 Attaching a GPU to a new instance and installing necessary dependencies

16.4 Viewing current running VM inventory

16.5 Working with snapshots

16.6 Working with images

16.7 Working with instance groups

16.8 Working with management interfaces

16.9 Questions breakdown

Lesson 17: Managing Google Kubernetes Engine resources

17.1 Viewing current running cluster inventory

17.2 Browsing Docker images and viewing their details in the Artifact Registry

17.3 Working with node pools

17.4 Working with pods

17.5Working with services

17.6 Working with stateful applications

17.7 Managing Horizontal and Vertical autoscaling configurations

17.8 Working with management interfaces

17.9 Questions breakdown

Lesson 18: Managing Cloud Run resources

18.1 Adjusting application traffic-splitting parameters

18.2 Setting scaling parameters for autoscaling instances

18.3 Determining whether to run Cloud Run (fully managed) or Cloud Run for Anthos

18.4 Questions breakdown

Lesson 19: Managing storage and database solutions

19.1 Managing and securing objects in and between Cloud Storage buckets

19.2 Setting object life cycle management policies for Cloud Storage buckets

19.3 Executing queries to retrieve data from data instances

19.4 Estimating costs of data storage resources

19.5 Backing up and restoring database instances

19.6 Reviewing job status in Dataproc, Dataflow, or BigQuery

19.7 Questions breakdown

Lesson 20: Managing networking resources

20.1 Adding a subnet to an existing VPC

20.2 Expanding a subnet to have more IP addresses

20.3 Reserving static external or internal IP addresses

20.4 Working with CloudDNS, CloudNAT, Load Balancers and firewall rules

20.5 Questions breakdown

Lesson 21: Monitoring and logging

21.1 Creating Cloud Monitoring alerts based on resource metrics

21.2 Creating and ingesting Cloud Monitoring custom metrics

21.3 Configuring log sinks to export logs to external systems

21.4 Configuring log routers

21.5 Viewing and filtering logs in Cloud Logging

21.6 Viewing specific log message details in Cloud Logging

21.7 Using cloud diagnostics to research an application issue

21.8 Viewing Google Cloud status

21.9 Questions breakdown

Module 6: Configuring access and security

Lesson 22: Managing Identity and Access Management (IAM)

22.1 Viewing IAM policies

22.2 Creating IAM policies

22.3 Managing the various role types and defining custom IAM roles

22.4 Viewing audit logs

22.5 Questions breakdown

Lesson 23: Managing service accounts

23.1 Creating service accounts

23.2 Using service accounts in IAM policies with minimum permissions

23.3 Assigning service accounts to resources

23.4 Managing IAM of a service account

23.5 Managing service account impersonation

23.6 Creating and managing short-lived service account credentials

23.7 Questions breakdown