google-cloud-study-notes.md

⚡ Google Cloud Architect Certification

• Notes on Google Cloud Architect Certification.

Basics, Identity & Access Management

• IAM roles (Least privilege principle). For example, testing user knowledge on billing account roles, storage access roles, compute engine role, etc.
• How to list and describe the roles using CLI
• How to filter the roles and members using GCP console

App Engine

• How to deploy applications on App Engine using CLI.

• Use cases on App Engine Versions functionality

• How to split the traffic between multiple versions in the App Engine.

• App Engine

• Connect to Cloud SQL from App Engine in Google Cloud

Virtual Private Clouds (Networking)

• How to configure firewalls and use cases
• Shared VPC
• VPC peering vs VPN vs Interconnect
• Types of load balancers and use cases
• VSPARKZ | GCP Load Balancing | GCP Layer 7 Load Balancer | Google Cloud HTTP Load Balancer DEMO

Projects

• How to create projects
• Linking projects with the billing accounts
• How to list and describe the existing configurations
• How to create and manage projects via CLI

Billing Accounts

• Required roles to create and manage the billing accounts
• Understanding the relation between Billing accounts & Projects & Organizations

Compute Engine

• The understanding of market place use cases (Ex: If the user wants to deploy functional software packages without having to manually configure the software or Virtual Machine instances)

• Auto-scaling types (Selecting best scaling type based on the given scenario)

• When to use External IP address (Static external vs Ephemeral external IP)

• Importance of metadata and labels

• High availability (Spreading the resources across the Global vs Regional)

• Understanding Managed and Unmanaged instance groups.

• Compute Engine

Cloud Storage (Object-based)

• When to use different storage classes available in GCP (Ex: Multi-regional vs Regional vs Nearline vs Coldline)

• Changing or conversion of storage classes. (Ex: Multi-regional to Nearline, Multi-regional to Coldline, etc)

• Automatic deletion of objects and Objects transfer between the different storage classes using lifecycle policies

• How Google stores massive amounts of data — BigTable

• Cloud Bigtable

• Platform Overview - Data & Storage (Google Cloud Essentials) includes many useful links

Kubernetes Engine

• The deployment process of a docker file

• How to create a docker file and understanding of container registry

• Autoscaling in Kubernetes

• Working of cluster nodes and services

• Google Kubernetes Engine

• Introduction to Using Google Kubernetes Engine; Explain Like I’m Five! (Part I)

• Kubernetes on GKE : Series Intro

Databases

• Relational databases: SQL vs Spanner

• When to use BigQuery and Cloud Bigtable

• Cloud SQL for SQL Server SQL Server

Loading Data Into Storage

Bigdata Tools

• Difference between Dataproc vs Dataperp
• Questions based on Pub/Sub use cases and integration with other services
• Data Analytics tools use cases

Image-based Questions: 2 Questions

Provided the sample company cloud architecture diagram with blanks and asked to fill the blanks with suitable GCP services as per requirement demand

Stackdriver

• Importance of Stackdriver in the Google cloud and how it works. Monitors GCP and AWS resources.
• Creating and configuring workspaces
• How to add projects from different GCP accounts to single Stackdriver account via GCP console

Abbreviations

• CIDR: Classless inter-domain routing - a set of Internet protocol (IP) standards that is used to create unique identifiers for networks and individual devices.