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Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Google Cloud Architect Professional
Exam Code: Professional-Cloud-Architect
Certifications: Google Cloud Certified Certification
Actual Exam Duration: 120 minutes
Exam Registration Price: $200
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Google Professional-Cloud-Architect Exam Objectives :

Section Objectives
1. Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture    1.1 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements. Considerations include:
        Business use cases and product strategy
        Cost optimization
        Supporting the application design
        Integration with external systems
        Movement of data
        Design decision trade-offs
        Build, buy, modify, or deprecate
        Success measurements (e.g., key performance indicators [KPI], return on investment [ROI], metrics)
        Compliance and observability

    1.2 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements. Considerations include:
        High availability and failover design
        Elasticity of cloud resources with respect to quotas and limits
        Scalability to meet growth requirements
        Performance and latency

    1.3 Designing network, storage, and compute resources. Considerations include:
        Integration with on-premises/multi-cloud environments
        Cloud-native networking (VPC, peering, firewalls, container networking)
        Choosing data processing technologies
        Choosing appropriate storage types (e.g., object, file, databases)
        Choosing compute resources (e.g., preemptible, custom machine type, specialized workload)
        Mapping compute needs to platform products

    1.4 Creating a migration plan (i.e., documents and architectural diagrams). Considerations include:
        Integrating solutions with existing systems
        Migrating systems and data to support the solution
        Software license mapping
        Network planning
        Testing and proofs of concept
        Dependency management planning

    1.5 Envisioning future solution improvements. Considerations include:
        Cloud and technology improvements
        Evolution of business needs
        Evangelism and advocacy

 
2. Managing and provisioning a solution infrastructure     2.1 Configuring network topologies. Considerations include:
        Extending to on-premises environments (hybrid networking)
        Extending to a multi-cloud environment that may include Google Cloud to Google Cloud communication
        Security protection (e.g. intrusion protection, access control, firewalls)

    2.2 Configuring individual storage systems. Considerations include:
        Data storage allocation
        Data processing/compute provisioning
        Security and access management
        Network configuration for data transfer and latency
        Data retention and data life cycle management
        Data growth planning

    2.3 Configuring compute systems. Considerations include:
        Compute resource provisioning
        Compute volatility configuration (preemptible vs. standard)
        Network configuration for compute resources (Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, serverless networking)
        Infrastructure orchestration, resource configuration, and patch management
        Container orchestration
3. Designing for security and compliance     3.1 Designing for security. Considerations include:
        Identity and access management (IAM)
        Resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects)
        Data security (key management, encryption, secret management)
        Separation of duties (SoD)
        Security controls (e.g., auditing, VPC Service Controls, context aware access, organization policy)
        Managing customer-managed encryption keys with Cloud Key Management Service
        Remote access

    3.2 Designing for compliance. Considerations include:
        Legislation (e.g., health record privacy, children’s privacy, data privacy, and ownership)
        Commercial (e.g., sensitive data such as credit card information handling, personally identifiable information [PII])
        Industry certifications (e.g., SOC 2)
        Audits (including logs)
4. Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes     4.1 Analyzing and defining technical processes. Considerations include:
        Software development life cycle (SDLC)
        Continuous integration / continuous deployment
        Troubleshooting / root cause analysis best practices
        Testing and validation of software and infrastructure
        Service catalog and provisioning
        Business continuity and disaster recovery

    4.2 Analyzing and defining business processes. Considerations include:
        Stakeholder management (e.g. influencing and facilitation)
        Change management
        Team assessment / skills readiness
        Decision-making processes
        Customer success management
        Cost optimization / resource optimization (capex / opex)

    4.3 Developing procedures to ensure reliability of solutions in production (e.g., chaos engineering, penetration testing)
5. Managing implementation     5.1 Advising development/operation team(s) to ensure successful deployment of the solution. Considerations include:
        Application development
        API best practices
        Testing frameworks (load/unit/integration)
        Data and system migration and management tooling

    5.2 Interacting with Google Cloud programmatically. Considerations include:
        Google Cloud Shell
        Google Cloud SDK (gcloud, gsutil and bq)
        Cloud Emulators (e.g. Cloud Bigtable, Datastore, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Firestore)
6. Ensuring solution and operations reliability     6.1 Monitoring/logging/profiling/alerting solution

    6.2 Deployment and release management

    6.3 Assisting with the support of deployed solutions

    6.4 Evaluating quality control measures
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