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Professional Cloud Architect
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Cloud Load Balancing

Professional Cloud Architect

Design, plan, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available solutions on Google Cloud, and track your readiness for the Professional Cloud Architect exam Domain by Domain.

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Google Cloud service

Cloud Load Balancing

Topic in 21 exam domains

Also called: Cloud Load Balancer, Compute Engine load balancing, external Layer 7 Cloud Load Balancing, Google Cloud Load Balancer, Google Cloud load balancing, Google Load Balancer, Layer 7 external Cloud Load Balancing, Load Balancing

A fully distributed, software-defined managed service that distributes traffic across Google Cloud infrastructure.

Where this appears on the exam

21 objectives in 4 of 6 domains

Domain 1
Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
~25% of exam
Domain 2
Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure
~17.5% of exam
Domain 4
Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes
~15% of exam
1. 4.1Analyzing and defining technical processes
  - Testing and validation of software and infrastructure
  - Disaster recovery
2. 4.2Analyzing and defining business processes
  - Change management
  - Business continuity
Domain 5
Managing implementation
~12.5% of exam
1. 5.1Advising development and operation teams to ensure the successful deployment of the solution
  - Testing frameworks (load/unit/integration)

Related topics

IngressConcept Identity-Aware ProxyService Google Cloud ArmorService GKEService external Application Load BalancerService

Cloud Load BalancingService

Compute EngineService App EngineService global external Application Load BalancerService Cloud RunService Cloud Service MeshService Cloud CDNService ApigeeService managed instance groupFeature Cloud MonitoringService Cloud LoggingService Cloud Audit LogsService Google Kubernetes EngineService App Engine flexible environmentFeature

Points to what builds on itWorks with or alternative to

Cloud Load Balancing works with Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Load Balancing works with Google Cloud Armor
Cloud CDN works with Cloud Load Balancing
App Engine flexible environment works with Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Load Balancing works with Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Load Balancing works with managed instance group
Apigee works with Cloud Load Balancing
App Engine works with Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Load Balancing works with Cloud Logging
Cloud Load Balancing works with Cloud Run
Cloud Load Balancing is an alternative to Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Load Balancing works with GKE
Cloud Load Balancing works with Identity-Aware Proxy
Cloud Load Balancing is an alternative to Ingress
Identity-Aware Proxy secures Cloud Load Balancing
Ingress configures Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud CDN works with external Application Load Balancer
Cloud CDN works with global external Application Load Balancer
external Application Load Balancer works with Google Cloud Armor
Cloud Logging works with GKE
Cloud Logging works with Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Monitoring works with Cloud Service Mesh
Cloud Monitoring works with GKE
Cloud Run works with Cloud Service Mesh
external Application Load Balancer works with Identity-Aware Proxy
Identity-Aware Proxy secures Cloud Run
Cloud Run is an alternative to GKE
App Engine is an alternative to Cloud Run
Identity-Aware Proxy secures Compute Engine
Cloud Service Mesh depends on GKE
Cloud Service Mesh works with GKE
Cloud Service Mesh works with Google Kubernetes Engine
Cloud Service Mesh works with Identity-Aware Proxy
Google Cloud Armor secures global external Application Load Balancer
Identity-Aware Proxy secures App Engine
Cloud CDN works with Google Cloud Armor
Cloud Logging works with Compute Engine
Cloud Monitoring works with global external Application Load Balancer
Cloud Run works with external Application Load Balancer
Cloud Run works with global external Application Load Balancer
Cloud Run works with Identity-Aware Proxy
Cloud Service Mesh works with Compute Engine
Compute Engine works with Identity-Aware Proxy
Apigee works with Compute Engine
App Engine works with Cloud Logging
App Engine works with Cloud Monitoring
App Engine works with Compute Engine
App Engine works with Identity-Aware Proxy
App Engine flexible environment is part of App Engine
App Engine flexible environment depends on Compute Engine
Cloud Audit Logs works with Identity-Aware Proxy
Cloud CDN works with Cloud Run
Cloud CDN depends on external Application Load Balancer
Cloud Logging works with Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Logging works with Cloud Run
Cloud Logging works with global external Application Load Balancer
Cloud Logging works with Google Kubernetes Engine
Cloud Monitoring works with Cloud Run
Cloud Monitoring works with Compute Engine
Cloud Run works with GKE

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