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Professional Cloud Architect
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Compute Engine

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

Compute Engine

Topic in 39 exam domains

Also called: Compute Engine VMs, GCE, Google Cloud Compute, Google Cloud Compute Engine, Google Compute Engine, GoogleCompute Engine

Google Cloud's infrastructure service that provides virtual machine instances hosting migrated workloads.

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39 objectives in 6 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 3
Designing for security and compliance
~17.5% of exam
1. 3.1Designing for security
2. 3.2Designing for compliance
  - Audits (including logs)
Domain 4
Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes
~15% of exam
1. 4.1Analyzing and defining technical processes
2. 4.2Analyzing and defining business processes
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)
  - Data and system migration and management tooling
2. 5.2Interacting with Google Cloud programmatically
  - Google Cloud SDKs (e.g., gcloud, gsutil, and bq)
  - Google API client libraries
Domain 6
Ensuring solution and operations excellence
~12.5% of exam
1. 6.2Familiarity with Google Cloud Observability solutions
  - Profiling and benchmarking

Related topics

Application Default CredentialsFeature service accountConcept Identity-Aware ProxyService Backup and DRService Identity and Access ManagementService Secret ManagerService Cloud StorageService Cloud MonitoringService BigQueryService Cloud RunService

Compute EngineService

Managed Service for Apache AirflowService Cloud SQLService GKEService Persistent DiskService AlloyDB OmniService managed instance groupsFeature Google Kubernetes EngineService BatchService

Points to what builds on itWorks with or alternative to

Application Default Credentials works with Compute Engine
Cloud SQL works with Compute Engine
Persistent Disk is part of Compute Engine
Application Default Credentials secures Compute Engine
Compute Engine is an alternative to GKE
Compute Engine works with service account
managed instance groups is part of Compute Engine
AlloyDB Omni works with Compute Engine
Compute Engine works with Secret Manager
Cloud SQL depends on Compute Engine
Identity-Aware Proxy secures Compute Engine
AlloyDB Omni depends on Compute Engine
Backup and DR works with Compute Engine
Batch depends on Compute Engine
Cloud Storage works with Compute Engine
Compute Engine is an alternative to Google Kubernetes Engine
Compute Engine works with Identity-Aware Proxy
Compute Engine works with Persistent Disk
GKE depends on Compute Engine
Backup and DR secures Compute Engine
Batch works with Compute Engine
Cloud Monitoring works with Compute Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine depends on Compute Engine
Identity and Access Management secures Compute Engine
Application Default Credentials configures Compute Engine
BigQuery works with Compute Engine
Cloud Run works with Compute Engine
Cloud Run is an alternative to Compute Engine
Compute Engine works with GKE
Compute Engine works with Google Kubernetes Engine
Compute Engine depends on service account
Application Default Credentials works with Cloud Storage
Application Default Credentials secures BigQuery
BigQuery depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials works with BigQuery
Application Default Credentials works with Secret Manager
Cloud Run depends on service account
BigQuery works with Cloud SQL
Cloud Run works with Cloud SQL
Application Default Credentials secures Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud SQL works with Cloud Storage
AlloyDB Omni works with Cloud Storage
AlloyDB Omni works with Secret Manager
Cloud Run works with Secret Manager
Managed Service for Apache Airflow works with Secret Manager
AlloyDB Omni depends on service account
Secret Manager depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud Monitoring depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud Monitoring works with Cloud SQL
Cloud Monitoring works with GKE
Cloud SQL works with Identity and Access Management
Identity-Aware Proxy secures Cloud Run
AlloyDB Omni works with GKE
Batch depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud Run depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud Run is an alternative to GKE
GKE works with Secret Manager
AlloyDB Omni depends on Secret Manager
Cloud SQL works with Secret Manager

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