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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53 Lessons

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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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This course includes

1 Assessment

16 Playgrounds

5 Quizzes

This course includes

1 Assessment

16 Playgrounds

5 Quizzes

Course Overview

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...Show More

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.

What You'll Learn

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

Course Content

Introduction

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

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

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

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

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.

Cost Estimation

1 Lesson

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

Event Driven Services

2 Lessons

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

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Monitoring and logging

2 Lessons

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

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Miscellaneous Services

2 Lessons

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

GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam

Assessment

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