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Build, test, deploy, and integrate cloud-native applications on Google Cloud, and track your readiness for the Professional Cloud Developer exam across every Domain.

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Google Cloud service

Compute Engine

Topic in 14 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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9 objectives in 4 of 4 domains

Domain 1
Designing highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native applications
~32% of exam
Domain 2
Building and testing applications
~23% of exam
1. 2.1Setting up your development environment
2. 2.2Building
Domain 3
Configuring cloud-native applications for deployment
~24% of exam
1. 3.2Deploying containers to GKE
Domain 4
Integrating applications with Google Cloud services
~21% of exam
1. 4.2Consuming Google Cloud APIs
2. 4.3Troubleshooting and observability
  - Instrumenting code to facilitate troubleshooting using metrics, logs, and traces in Google Cloud Observability
  - Identifying and resolving issues using Google Cloud Observability

Related topics

Identity and Access ManagementService Application Default CredentialsFeature service accountConcept Identity-Aware ProxyService Secret ManagerService

Compute EngineService

Cloud MonitoringService Cloud StorageService Cloud RunService Cloud BuildService App EngineService Ops AgentFeature Cloud SQL Auth ProxyFeature GKEService Persistent DiskService managed instance groupsFeature Google Kubernetes EngineService BatchService Cloud SQLService

Points to what builds on itWorks with or alternative to

Application Default Credentials works with Compute Engine
Compute Engine works with Ops Agent
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
Compute Engine works with Secret Manager
Cloud SQL depends on Compute Engine
Identity-Aware Proxy secures Compute Engine
Cloud SQL Auth Proxy 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
App Engine works with 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
Cloud Build works with Compute Engine
Cloud Build is an alternative to Compute Engine
Cloud Run works with Compute Engine
Cloud Run is an alternative to Compute Engine
Cloud SQL Auth Proxy depends on Compute Engine
Compute Engine works with GKE
Compute Engine works with Google Kubernetes Engine
Compute Engine depends on service account
Ops Agent depends on Compute Engine
Application Default Credentials works with Cloud Storage
Cloud SQL works with Cloud SQL Auth Proxy
Application Default Credentials works with Secret Manager
Cloud Run depends on service account
Cloud Run works with Cloud SQL
Cloud Monitoring works with Ops Agent
Application Default Credentials secures Cloud Storage
Cloud SQL Auth Proxy secures Cloud SQL
Cloud Storage depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud SQL works with Cloud Storage
Cloud Run works with Secret Manager
App Engine works with Cloud SQL
Cloud Build works with Secret Manager
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
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
Cloud SQL works with Secret Manager
Identity and Access Management secures Secret Manager
Application Default Credentials works with Cloud Run
Application Default Credentials works with Identity and Access Management

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