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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

Spanner

Topic in 22 exam domains

Also called: managed Spanner, managed version of Spanner, Spanner production service

Google Cloud's fully managed relational database service.

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22 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
  - Decision-making processes
  - 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)
2. 5.2Interacting with Google Cloud programmatically
  - Cloud Emulators (e.g., Bigtable, Spanner, Pub/Sub, and Firestore)

Related topics

Application Default CredentialsFeature Identity and Access ManagementService DataflowService Cloud MonitoringService Pub/SubService

SpannerService

FirestoreService Sensitive Data ProtectionService WorkflowsService EventarcService GKE AutopilotFeature Google Cloud StorageService Cloud Key Management ServiceService Cloud Run functionsService Spanner OmniService backupConcept customer-managed encryption keysFeature BigQueryService Cloud StorageService

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Application Default Credentials secures Spanner
Application Default Credentials works with Spanner
Spanner depends on Application Default Credentials
BigQuery works with Spanner
Dataflow works with Spanner
Cloud Monitoring works with Spanner
Cloud Run functions works with Spanner
customer-managed encryption keys works with Spanner
GKE Autopilot works with Spanner
Google Cloud Storage works with Spanner
Identity and Access Management secures Spanner
backup is part of Spanner
Spanner is an alternative to Spanner Omni
Cloud Key Management Service depends on Spanner
Cloud Key Management Service works with Spanner
Cloud Key Management Service secures Spanner
Cloud Storage works with Spanner
customer-managed encryption keys secures Spanner
Spanner depends on Identity and Access Management
Spanner Omni is part of Spanner
Firestore depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials works with Cloud Storage
Sensitive Data Protection depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials secures BigQuery
customer-managed encryption keys depends on Cloud Key Management Service
BigQuery depends on Application Default Credentials
BigQuery works with Sensitive Data Protection
Dataflow depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials works with Firestore
Application Default Credentials works with Pub/Sub
BigQuery is an alternative to Cloud Storage
BigQuery works with Cloud Storage
Application Default Credentials works with BigQuery
Application Default Credentials secures Pub/Sub
Pub/Sub depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials secures Sensitive Data Protection
BigQuery works with Dataflow
Application Default Credentials works with Dataflow
Application Default Credentials secures Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials works with Google Cloud Storage
BigQuery works with Cloud Monitoring
Dataflow works with Pub/Sub
Application Default Credentials works with Cloud Run functions
Cloud Key Management Service works with customer-managed encryption keys
Cloud Run functions depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials works with Sensitive Data Protection
BigQuery is an alternative to Google Cloud Storage
BigQuery is an alternative to Pub/Sub
Cloud Run functions works with Cloud Storage
BigQuery works with Cloud Run functions
BigQuery works with Google Cloud Storage
Cloud Monitoring depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud Run functions works with Pub/Sub
Cloud Storage works with Dataflow
customer-managed encryption keys secures Cloud Storage
Application Default Credentials works with Workflows
BigQuery works with Pub/Sub
Cloud Run functions depends on Pub/Sub
customer-managed encryption keys secures BigQuery

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