Google Cloud Platform Architect – Training & Certification

OVERVIEW
Building Strategic Influence in Matrix Organizations

The Google Cloud Platform, or GCP is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google. It offers management tools and modular cloud services like computing, data storage, data analytics, machine learning, etc. across IaaS, PaaS as well as serverless computing environments. With Google Cloud Platform, one can run their apps whenever and wherever they need them, make smarter, informed decisions, increase efficiency, and power their workloads on a net carbon-neutral cloud.

The Google Cloud Platform Architect has been ranked as one of the top paying IT certifications. Cognixia’s GCP Architect Training will help you advance your career in cloud architecture and help you prepare thoroughly to earn the official industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Certification. A Professional Cloud Architect can help organizations leverage the Google Cloud Platform and use their understanding of GCP to design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why you shouldn't miss this course

By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.

01Overview of cloud computing
02Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
03Designing, planning, managing, and provisioning cloud solution architecture on GCP
04Developing and deploying cloud-based, scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise applications using microservices architecture on GCP
05Hybrid and multi-cloud computing
06Google App Engine and Apigee Edge
07Google Cloud Platform for Big Data and Machine Learning
08Principal architects
09Cloud architects
10Cloud data architects
11Cloud functions technical architects
12Cloud solutions architects
13database architects
14Infrastructure designers
15User experience designers & architects

PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience

CURRICULUM
Structured for
Strategic Application
  • Fundamentals of GCP
  • What is cloud computing?
  • How did we get here?
  • Every company is a data company
  • GCP computing architectures
  • The Google network
  • GCP regions and zones
  • Environmental responsibility
  • Customer-friendly pricing offered by Google
  • Open APIs
  • Why choose the Google Cloud Platform
  • Multi-layered security approach
  • Budgets and billing
  • The Google Cloud Platform resource hierarchy
  • Identity Access Management (IAM)
  • IAM roles
  • Interacting with the Google Cloud Platform
  • The Cloud marketplace (formerly Cloud Launcher)
  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network
  • Compute engine
  • Important VCP capabilities
  • Demonstration: Getting started with the Compute Engine
  • Introduction to the Google Cloud Platform storage options
  • Cloud storage
  • Cloud storage interactions
  • Google Cloud Bigtable
  • Google Cloud SQL and Google Cloud Spanner
  • Google Cloud Datastore
  • Storage options
  • Demonstration: Getting started with cloud storage and cloud SQL
  • Containers, Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes engine
  • Introduction to Kubernetes and GKE
  • Introduction to hybrid and multi-cloud computing (Anthos)
  • Lab introduction: Getting started with the Kubernetes engine
  • Introduction to the app engine
  • Standard environment in the Google app engine
  • Flexible environment in the Google app engine
  • Google cloud endpoints and Apigee Edge
  • Demonstration: Getting started with the App engine
  • Development in the cloud
  • Deployment: Infrastructure-as-code
  • Monitoring: Proactive instrumentation
  • Demonstration: Getting started with the Deployment manager and Stackdriver
  • Introduction to big data and machine learning
  • Google Cloud Big Data Platform
  • Cloud Dataflow
  • BigQuery
  • Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Datalab
  • Google Cloud Machine Learning Platform
  • Machine learning APIs
  • Demonstration: Getting started with BigQuery

Implement, Deploy, Migrate and Maintain Applications in the Cloud

RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first,
hands-on learning model

Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)

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The on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet giving users the freedom to access technology services like computing power, storage, databases, etc. without having to purchase, own, or maintain physical data centers and servers is called as cloud computing.

The Google Cloud Platform, or GCP is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google. It offers management tools and modular cloud services like computing, data storage, data analytics, machine learning, etc. across IaaS, PaaS as well as serverless computing environments. With Google Cloud Platform, one can run their apps whenever and wherever they need them, make smarter, informed decisions, increase efficiency, and power their workloads on a net carbon-neutral cloud.

The Google Cloud Platform lets you use Google’s core infrastructure, data analytics, and machine learning and offers top-notch security features. GCP is committed to open-source and is built on future-proof infrastructure. It also captures important data and offers insightful analytics. With GCP, you can grow from a prototype to production without breaking your head about the capacity, reliability, or performance capabilities of your cloud platform. Moreover, GCP is the cleanest cloud in the industry as a net carbon-neutral cloud, adding to your sustainability ventures.

This GCP online course introduces the participants to cloud computing and discusses the range of services & features offered by the Google Cloud Platform. The GCP training talks about GCP compute services, GCP storage services, and Google VPC networking capabilities. This GCP Architect training will help you prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Architect certification exam.

This online instructor-led GCP Architect training course covers:

  • Overview of cloud computing
  • Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
  • Designing, planning, managing, and provisioning cloud solution architecture on GCP
  • Developing and deploying cloud-based, scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise applications using microservices architecture on GCP
  • Hybrid and multi-cloud computing
  • Google App Engine and Apigee Edge
  • Google Cloud Platform for Big Data and Machine Learning

Yes, once all the sessions of the GCP course are completed, you will be evaluated based on multiple parameters like your attendance in the sessions, your scores in the multiple-choice questions-based online assessment, etc. Based on your overall performance, you will receive a course completion certificate from Cognixia.

An internet speed of minimum 2 Mbps is essential to smoothly attend the live sessions of the GCP Architect training.

When you enroll for this online GCP course, you get lifetime access to our Learning Management System (LMS) which would be your one-stop destination to access class recordings, presentations, sample codes, projects, and lots of other learning material related to this GCP training. Even if you miss a session, a recording of that session, as well as all the other sessions would be available on the LMS that you can access anytime, anywhere.

For any queries you may have during this GCP Architect online training, you can reach out to our technical support team and they will guide you accordingly.

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